Modern business faces the challenge of dramatic growth of digital data, such as documents, emails, applications and so on. To deploy the IT environment with a reliable, affordable and expandable storage center to securely store, share, and back up the digital assets has become an important task for the server managers of the SMB and entry-level enterprise nowadays.
The TS-659 Pro is the powerful 6-bay network attached storage (NAS) server, which is designed to provide a cost-efficient and easy-to-use solution with iSCSI service for virtualized and clustered environment. The Turbo NAS also offers versatile business applications to optimize the usage of as a data storage center in the business environment.
Incorporating the next-generation Intel Atom® D510 1.66GHz Dual-Core processor and 1GB DDRII RAM, the Turbo NAS delivers exceptional performance and maintains high reliability for multiple concurrent applications and intensive data transfer with guaranteed low power consumption.
The Most Affordable and Flexible Virtualization Solution The Turbo NAS is certified as compatible with VMware® vSphere4 (ESX 4.0 and above) virtualization platform. The NAS can be utilized as the networked shared storage of VMware virtualization environments and Windows cluster servers. Comparing with traditional SAN (Storage Area Network), the Turbo NAS is a competitive alternative with much lower setup and maintenance costs in an IP SAN.
The Feature-rich and Integrated Applications for Business The NAS supports file sharing across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX platforms. Versatile business applications such as file server, FTP server, printer server, web server, and Windows AD support are provided. The dominant features, such as WebDAV, Share Folder Aggregation (also known as DFS), IPv6 and IPv4 dual-stack, Wake on LAN, schedule power on/ off, HDD S.M.A.R.T, comprehensive log systems, and policy-based unauthorized IP blocking are also available.
New iSCSI for Virtualization Deployments The Turbo NAS provides flexible and secure storage server deployment with the following enhanced iSCSI features:
Flexible multiple LUNs management The NAS supports multiple LUNs (Logical Unit Numbers) and iSCSI targets. The LUNs can be flexibly mapped to, unmapped from, and switched among different iSCSI targets.
Secure IP SAN environment deployment Designed with CHAP authentication and LUN masking, the advanced ACL (Access Control List) offers you the capability to block unauthorized access from the initiators.
Designed for virtualized and clustered environments Comparing with the high cost Fibre Channel SAN, the Turbo NAS is an affordable system that can be deployed as a storage center for virtualized and clustered server environments, such as VMware and Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster.
iSCSI feature
QNAP NAS
Other NAS
VMware Ready® certified iSCSI array
SPC-3 for clustered environment deployment
MC/S for failover, load balancing and performance gain
Virtual Disk Drive (VDD) adds flexibility to storage expansion along with ease of management The unique "Virtual Disk Drive" adds flexibility to expand the capacity of NAS. By using the built-in iSCSI initiator, the NAS can connect to other iSCSI targets on the network and turn them into virtual disks, which become multiple single volumes on the NAS. Up to 8 virtual disks can be stacked. The NAS serves as the storage stack chaining master. The user only needs to connect to this single entry (QNAP NAS) and is able to reach and use all the iSCSI LUN on the network.
Superior Performance and Eco-friendly Design The NAS delivers superior performance and high reliability for critical business applications. It is optimized to achieve low noise and low power consumption for environment protection.
NetBench
Testing benchmark program: ZD NetBench version 7.0.3
Client PCs (20 Total): Intel Celeron 1.6GHz CPU, 1GB DDRII 667, Atheros AR8121 GbE Chip, Windows XP SP1
SAMBA/ FTP Access
FTP/SAMBA Testing Environment: Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8300 2.50GHz/ 4GB DDRII RAM, WD640AAKS 640GB, Windows 7 Enterprise 32 Bits,Intel PRO 1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter 82571
FTP/SAMBA Testing Method: Connect the TS-659 Pro and PC to switch, upload/download 5GB File without Jumbo Frame, FTP Tool: File Zilla
Power Consumption (with 6 hard drives installed)
Abundant Business Features The Turbo NAS provides diversified server applications in the business environment.