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QNAP 8-Bay iSCSI NAS, SATA, Dual-LAN Intel Pineview D525 1.8GHz CPU, 1GB RAM
This review is from : QNAP 8-Bay iSCSI Hotswapped SATA Dual-LAN Network Attached Storage TS-859-PRO+-US
Excellent for mass storage . Before doing any homework on this NAS, I found the price to be pretty high for a dual core Atom "box".
I did however find out pretty quickly that this NAS box has some very nice features build in; anything from a fully web-based user interface (with a very nice selection of add-ons), to RAID 6, dual Gigabit LAN (which can be used at the ame time for extra bandwidth or fallback), etc.
Having had boxes like Kuro, Thecus, etc before, at first I was weary about how flexible all this was and how stable it would be.
After a week I can say that it's been a very positive experience, and I haven't even tried all features yet (like surveillance camera recording, etc).
It was definitely worth the money.
The remote access is great, I can access (through the webinterface) my NAS to download or upload files.
The NAS also supports service like mycloud and DynDNS for easier remote access.
I used 8 3Tb drive Western Digital 3 TB SATA II Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD30EZRSDTL and did put them in RAID 6. RAID 6 allows the system to have 2 disks down and the system will still be completely accessible. (versus RAID 5 were only one disk can be down).
Initially the firmware version (3.3.x) had to be upgraded to a version that can handle 16Tb+ volumes (3.4.x). But to be able to do so, it seems a disk needs to be installed.
In retrospect I'd say either take an old small SATA disk (if you have one) or only one of the disks you plan to use. If you use all 8 disks right away then building the array or formatting the disks can take quite a while.
Not to mention; if you're like me and want to install 8 3Tb disks then you cannot even make a volume.
Once a simple and small volume has been created, go to the QNap website and get the latest firmware.
Optionally (I ended up doing just that) you can use a beta version (in my case 3.5.0) which can be found on the Qnap forum.
I currently use the NAS for storing my DVD's (so I can access them anywhere), my music, my pictures (I do a lot of photography), scanned documents (bills, letters, etc), my projects (source code of programs I wrote, drawings and designs), and for easy access to my tools when I'm on the road.
If there would be anything that I'd change;
- add USB 3.0 (since the amount of data that I had to initially copy took for ever over USB 2.0),
- a more powerful multicore CPU so I could run a virtual machine on it.
- support for USB webcams for surveillance recording (currently it relies on IP camera's)
If you can afford it and are looking for a stable and very large storage devices, then I can highly recommend this one.
Excellent for mass storage . Before doing any homework on this NAS, I found the price to be pretty high for a dual core Atom "box".
I did however find out pretty quickly that this NAS box has some very nice features build in; anything from a fully web-based user interface (with a very nice selection of add-ons), to RAID 6, dual Gigabit LAN (which can be used at the ame time for extra bandwidth or fallback), etc.
Having had boxes like Kuro, Thecus, etc before, at first I was weary about how flexible all this was and how stable it would be.
After a week I can say that it's been a very positive experience, and I haven't even tried all features yet (like surveillance camera recording, etc).
It was definitely worth the money.
The remote access is great, I can access (through the webinterface) my NAS to download or upload files.
The NAS also supports service like mycloud and DynDNS for easier remote access.
I used 8 3Tb drive Western Digital 3 TB SATA II Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD30EZRSDTL and did put them in RAID 6. RAID 6 allows the system to have 2 disks down and the system will still be completely accessible. (versus RAID 5 were only one disk can be down).
Initially the firmware version (3.3.x) had to be upgraded to a version that can handle 16Tb+ volumes (3.4.x). But to be able to do so, it seems a disk needs to be installed.
In retrospect I'd say either take an old small SATA disk (if you have one) or only one of the disks you plan to use. If you use all 8 disks right away then building the array or formatting the disks can take quite a while.
Not to mention; if you're like me and want to install 8 3Tb disks then you cannot even make a volume.
Once a simple and small volume has been created, go to the QNap website and get the latest firmware.
Optionally (I ended up doing just that) you can use a beta version (in my case 3.5.0) which can be found on the Qnap forum.
I currently use the NAS for storing my DVD's (so I can access them anywhere), my music, my pictures (I do a lot of photography), scanned documents (bills, letters, etc), my projects (source code of programs I wrote, drawings and designs), and for easy access to my tools when I'm on the road.
If there would be anything that I'd change;
- add USB 3.0 (since the amount of data that I had to initially copy took for ever over USB 2.0),
- a more powerful multicore CPU so I could run a virtual machine on it.
- support for USB webcams for surveillance recording (currently it relies on IP camera's)
If you can afford it and are looking for a stable and very large storage devices, then I can highly recommend this one.
Great-Easy-Fast setup . I have 2 of these, they are easy to setup. I do off site replication and it works great. Love them.
Feature QNAP 8-Bay iSCSI Hotswapped SATA Dual-LAN Network Attached Storage TS-859-PRO+-US
- CPU Intel? Atom? Processor D525 1.8GHz (Dual-Core)
- DRAM 1GB RAM
- Flash Memory 512MB DOM
- HDD 2.5/ 3.5" SATA x8
- HDD Tray 8 x Hot-swappable and lockable tray
- LAN Port 2 x Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet port
- LED Indicators Status, LAN, USB, eSATA, Power, HDD 1, HDD 2, HDD 3, HDD 4, HDD 5, HDD 6, HDD 7, HDD 8
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Product Details
EAN : 0885022001774UPC : 885022001774
MPN : TS-859 PRO +
Brand : Qnap
Weight : 19 pounds
Height : 12 inches
Length : 17 inches
Width : 16 inches
Binding : Personal Computers
Hardware Platform : Unknown
Manufacturer : QNAP
Model : TS-859 PRO+-US
Operating System : Unknown
Publisher : QNAP
SKU : 4644289
Studio : QNAP
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