QNAP launches TS-119 and TS-219 Turbo NAS
- Monday, April 6, 2009, 9:01
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Taiwan-based network attached storage ( NAS ) and surveillance products provider, QNAP Systems has launched two new NAS devices, which are dubbed as the world’s first one-bay and two-bay solutions to provide iSCSI functionality for home, SOHO and SMB users.
Branded as TS-119 Turbo NAS and TS-219 Turbo NAS, the QNAP NAS units are incredible with fahionalbe shiny black design. They are powered by a 1.2GHz Marvell processor and 512MB of DDR2 memory. The new models ensure tremendous performance, high features and stability. Using them, the customers can easily develop an IP-SAN (storage area network) for data backup or storage capacity expansion on their home or office networks.
Regardless of one or two bays, both the TS-119 and TS-219 offers high quality NAS functionality like support for iSCSI, online RAID expansion, online RAID level migration on the TS-219, network surveillance, media server, mail server and obviously download sever.
As their reviews, the TS-119 Turbo NAS and TS-219 Turbo NAS are compatible with Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) target service upto 8 iSCI devices, Online RAID Capacity Expansion and Online RAID Level Migration (2-bay model only) and automatic policy-based IP blocking. The NAS solutions also feature instant SMS alert notification, schedule power on and off, 2 IP cameras for network surveillance, UPnP/ DLNA media server, mail server, high-speed BT/FTP/HTTP and eMule download amongst others.
Explaining the new products, Laurent Cheng, Product Manager at QNAP described, “The new generation TS-119 and TS-219 Turbo NAS are the most affordable NAS servers with iSCSI application for personal and business users. The built-in iSCSI target feature allows the users to create an IP-SAN (storage area network) for data backup or storage capacity expansion on the home or office network. The Turbo NAS is also ideal multimedia storage solution for home users”.
The NAS devices can operate on Windows, Mac, Linux and UNIX.

