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QNAP TS-419P Turbo NAS is the 4-bay, 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA HDD network-attached storage server with iSCSI applications dedicated to SMB, SOHO and home users. As a storage centre for mass data backup, management and sharing, the TS-419P Turbo NAS supports excellent hardware design, outstanding performance, high system reliability, and numerous powerful software applications. The low-powered TS-419P Turbo NAS adopts Marvell 1.2 GHz CPU and 512MB DDRII RAM and is able to maintain superior performance in an intensive data access environment. The NAS supports four hot-swappable SATA hard drives, two Gigabit LAN ports for multi-IP settings, failover, and load-balancing, four USB ports and two eSATA ports for external storage backup, and is also equipped with an LCD panel for convenient system status checking. The TS-419P Turbo NAS supports cross-platform services across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX. Enhanced industry-leading features are also provided, e.g. EXT3 and EXT4 file systems, built-in iSCSI target service (max 8 iSCSI targets), virtual disk drive (VDD) by built-in iSCSI initiator for storage expansion, RAID 0/ 1/ 5/ 6/ 5+spare, single and JBOD disk configurations, online RAID capacity expansion, online RAID level migration, RAID recovery, policy-based IP blocking, instant SMS alert notification, schedule power on/ off, and 4 IP cameras (optional purchase) for network surveillance.
This review is from : QNAP 4-Bay Desktop Network Attached Storage TS-419P
Works great - Make sure you get the right disks . I'll keep this short & to the point:
Time of ownership: ~8 months.
Documentation is good - there's a quick start guide that gets you going reasonably quickly. It's geared towards PC users, but I was able to suss out the steps for OS-X. There are a lot of steps though, be sure to follow the QSG carefully.
The hardware itself is decent, I had some issues with fitment (sliding drive trays in and out), but once I got the hang of it, things went fine. It's reasonably quiet, though since it's a NAS, it's in my basement.
The software is excellent for a NAS neophyte, easy to use, full featured. You have the option of desktop client or web-based administration. Having a bit of system administration experience helps with the more advanced management (folder permissions, etc). But the basic elements are easy enough for a low/mid-level computer user to set up (and if you're buying this, you're probably not a complete n00b anyway). There are some nice advanced features such as SNMP support and the ability to gain shell access and install your own software (there's a decent plugin community).
So far, it's been flawless in performance (aside from the caveat below), excellent throughput and I've had no issues with it in my mixed Mac/PC/iPhone/network-enabled DVD environment. The few limitations I've run into are mainly on the client site (the media player client in my LG Blu-Ray player isn't quite ready for prime time).
QNAP Support has been excellent - they've gotten back to me in short order with my issues and their support forums are active and helpful.
They do release firmware updates from time to time with new features and new disk support.
Now for the issue - The QNAP appliance is not compatible with all SATA drives. They have a hardware compatibility list on their website, and it's not entirely accurate. I found out the hard way that Western Digital "Green" drives are not compatible, even though they're listed. With the WD drives, I experienced frequent lockups and had troubles even initializing the drives in the first place. Some research on the QNAP forums would have highlighted this before I'd made the purchase. I replaced the WD drives with the forum-recommended Hitachi drives and had no troubles at all from then on.
Since this was pretty much an RTFM issue, I'm not going to ding the product - So far, it's been outstanding. I can easily see myself buying another one when this one fills up.
Works great - Make sure you get the right disks . I'll keep this short & to the point:
Time of ownership: ~8 months.
Documentation is good - there's a quick start guide that gets you going reasonably quickly. It's geared towards PC users, but I was able to suss out the steps for OS-X. There are a lot of steps though, be sure to follow the QSG carefully.
The hardware itself is decent, I had some issues with fitment (sliding drive trays in and out), but once I got the hang of it, things went fine. It's reasonably quiet, though since it's a NAS, it's in my basement.
The software is excellent for a NAS neophyte, easy to use, full featured. You have the option of desktop client or web-based administration. Having a bit of system administration experience helps with the more advanced management (folder permissions, etc). But the basic elements are easy enough for a low/mid-level computer user to set up (and if you're buying this, you're probably not a complete n00b anyway). There are some nice advanced features such as SNMP support and the ability to gain shell access and install your own software (there's a decent plugin community).
So far, it's been flawless in performance (aside from the caveat below), excellent throughput and I've had no issues with it in my mixed Mac/PC/iPhone/network-enabled DVD environment. The few limitations I've run into are mainly on the client site (the media player client in my LG Blu-Ray player isn't quite ready for prime time).
QNAP Support has been excellent - they've gotten back to me in short order with my issues and their support forums are active and helpful.
They do release firmware updates from time to time with new features and new disk support.
Now for the issue - The QNAP appliance is not compatible with all SATA drives. They have a hardware compatibility list on their website, and it's not entirely accurate. I found out the hard way that Western Digital "Green" drives are not compatible, even though they're listed. With the WD drives, I experienced frequent lockups and had troubles even initializing the drives in the first place. Some research on the QNAP forums would have highlighted this before I'd made the purchase. I replaced the WD drives with the forum-recommended Hitachi drives and had no troubles at all from then on.
Since this was pretty much an RTFM issue, I'm not going to ding the product - So far, it's been outstanding. I can easily see myself buying another one when this one fills up.
QNAP 4-Bay Desktop Network Attached Storage TS-419P Reviews
Amazing product for the pricepoint . If you need serious storage, take a long look this NAS. I was using a RAID 5 array in my server. I had it running with a hot spare and it had preserved my data very well over the last 5 years. Then one day I lost the MBR and poof! - all gone. No hard drives failed so not even a RAID 6 config would have worked; they were just bereft of data. Possible to recover? Probably, but really expensive. I had backed up the critical files to an external smaller USB drive, but lost lots of data that was less critical - yes the stupid does burn. Obviously, a RAID 5 setup does you no good if it fails in total, unless you have a lesser (less costly) but equal sized storage system. Also, it was a lot slower than this NAS.
So now my new plan is 8TB of storage on this baby with (4) 2TB external drives to back it all up - RAID 1 the hard way. It would have been nice to have two of these with 16TB total backing each other up but that was out of my budget. It's quite fast and easy to setup. Admin is straightforward and all web-based. One of the features I really like is scheduled shutdown and power up. Not so much to save electricity which is low-end compared to a desktop system, but to save wear and tear on the gear. There are a pile of great features but I will not replicate them here. If you are geeky enough to buy one of these for home, then you can find your way to the QNAP website <grin>.
Minor Cons:
You can't carve out logical storage and break up a physical 2TB drive into two 1TB logical drives.
After auto power up, the external USB drive plugged into the NAS (which does not turn off) does not rejoin the NAS device list. You have to power cycle the USB drive while the NAS is running. The eSATA drives do not have this issue.
Amazing product for the pricepoint . If you need serious storage, take a long look this NAS. I was using a RAID 5 array in my server. I had it running with a hot spare and it had preserved my data very well over the last 5 years. Then one day I lost the MBR and poof! - all gone. No hard drives failed so not even a RAID 6 config would have worked; they were just bereft of data. Possible to recover? Probably, but really expensive. I had backed up the critical files to an external smaller USB drive, but lost lots of data that was less critical - yes the stupid does burn. Obviously, a RAID 5 setup does you no good if it fails in total, unless you have a lesser (less costly) but equal sized storage system. Also, it was a lot slower than this NAS.
So now my new plan is 8TB of storage on this baby with (4) 2TB external drives to back it all up - RAID 1 the hard way. It would have been nice to have two of these with 16TB total backing each other up but that was out of my budget. It's quite fast and easy to setup. Admin is straightforward and all web-based. One of the features I really like is scheduled shutdown and power up. Not so much to save electricity which is low-end compared to a desktop system, but to save wear and tear on the gear. There are a pile of great features but I will not replicate them here. If you are geeky enough to buy one of these for home, then you can find your way to the QNAP website <grin>.
Minor Cons:
You can't carve out logical storage and break up a physical 2TB drive into two 1TB logical drives.
After auto power up, the external USB drive plugged into the NAS (which does not turn off) does not rejoin the NAS device list. You have to power cycle the USB drive while the NAS is running. The eSATA drives do not have this issue.
QNAP 4-Bay Desktop Network Attached Storage TS-419P Opinions
Reliable Friendly Effective . Overall I am pleased with this NAS. It is smaller then I expected from the photos (not a bad thing) and is well built. The latches on the drive bays could have been a bit more solid, the locks are really just there to prevent accidental drive removal, but will do little to no good against forced entry.
QNAP's web administration software is very handy and pretty much all configuration can be done via this interface with the option of manual command line tweaking if you are into that sort of thing. QNAP supplies a QPKG utility to install new applications, one of which is IPKG which can open the door to a lot of other optware packages. This is an ARM processor model, so any third party code would have to be cross-compiled, but I'm happy with what came stock.
This model is CPU bound for performance. Using 3 Seagate 2TB 5900 rpm green drives in raid-5 took about 17 hours to initialize. I suggest using efficient drives over performance models due to the limitations of the NAS not even coming close to saturating these lower performance drives. My main use is SMB/AFP shares where I consistently get about 45MB/s read and 25-30MB/s writes over gigabit which is quite acceptable. During heavy writes, the CPU is pegged so it shows the limitations of this model (I can't imagine using the slower CPU in the lower models).
To keep the review short, I'm pleased with its reliability and features so far. QNAP is continually developing the firmware and I have had no problems with errors or downtime to date.
Reliable Friendly Effective . Overall I am pleased with this NAS. It is smaller then I expected from the photos (not a bad thing) and is well built. The latches on the drive bays could have been a bit more solid, the locks are really just there to prevent accidental drive removal, but will do little to no good against forced entry.
QNAP's web administration software is very handy and pretty much all configuration can be done via this interface with the option of manual command line tweaking if you are into that sort of thing. QNAP supplies a QPKG utility to install new applications, one of which is IPKG which can open the door to a lot of other optware packages. This is an ARM processor model, so any third party code would have to be cross-compiled, but I'm happy with what came stock.
This model is CPU bound for performance. Using 3 Seagate 2TB 5900 rpm green drives in raid-5 took about 17 hours to initialize. I suggest using efficient drives over performance models due to the limitations of the NAS not even coming close to saturating these lower performance drives. My main use is SMB/AFP shares where I consistently get about 45MB/s read and 25-30MB/s writes over gigabit which is quite acceptable. During heavy writes, the CPU is pegged so it shows the limitations of this model (I can't imagine using the slower CPU in the lower models).
To keep the review short, I'm pleased with its reliability and features so far. QNAP is continually developing the firmware and I have had no problems with errors or downtime to date.
Amazing Gem . Honestly I'm not even sure why QNAP hasn't utterly trounced it's competition if it's products are all like this one. VERY reasonably priced, extremely full-featured, easy to set up, fantastic performance, just an all around winner. Drobo, Buffalo, Netgear - all are either shoddy quality or way overpriced or both compared to this unit. Buy this now - you will not regret it.
Powerful feature rich NAS with steep learning curve . I upgraded from previous fan-less QNAP models (TS-109 II, TS-119) to the TS-419P. The 419P was my first introduction to data redundancy/RAID arrays, and I can say that while it did come with a bit of a learning curve, I have completely grown into relying on this product. The 419P is an outdated model and has been replaced with newer versions (check out [...]). I've been impressed with the firmware updates - not necessarily a sign that the products are buggy, but rather QNAP invests in supporting their hardware, and won't leave you behind the same way Western Digital does with their obsolete products (WD TV Live anyone?) Granted, QNAP products are no where near as plug and play-friendly as other mainstream solutions like WD, Seagate, and Synology NAS solutions. In order to appreciate QNAP, you have to enjoy tinkering with the box and adjusting settings. It does not hurt to know how to navigate Unix command line or telnet to remotely administer the box. If any of this sounds intimidating to you, you would most likely benefit finding a mass market-friendly NAS solution from Best Buy so you can save yourself some headache. But for those willing to learn, customize and experiment, the QNAP products (particularly the TS-419P) deliver way more value and advanced features than any other NAS on the market.
24/7 reliable Linux NAS server . I purchased this baby on July 18, 2010 & since then, I have no problem with updating firmware & stuff:
Pros:
-High quality chassis (even feels a little heavy without HDDs cuz of all metal this thing was made of)
-High quality components, Prosessor (Marvel), RAID controller (I don't recall its manufacturer's name), excellent 2 Ethernet connectors & a very rock solid (PSU/power brick) that's survived many power surges & power offs
-3TB HDDs compatible
- and more
Cons:
- Doesn't wipe my @$$ in the bathroom
Oh, one more thing: don't let some other stupid reviews stop you from googling about stuff you're interested in
Finally, if you're into one of these. I extremely recommend the newer models for you. just go to QNAP dot COM & dig more for details & other things those NASes are capable of
Pros:
-High quality chassis (even feels a little heavy without HDDs cuz of all metal this thing was made of)
-High quality components, Prosessor (Marvel), RAID controller (I don't recall its manufacturer's name), excellent 2 Ethernet connectors & a very rock solid (PSU/power brick) that's survived many power surges & power offs
-3TB HDDs compatible
- and more
Cons:
- Doesn't wipe my @$$ in the bathroom
Oh, one more thing: don't let some other stupid reviews stop you from googling about stuff you're interested in
Finally, if you're into one of these. I extremely recommend the newer models for you. just go to QNAP dot COM & dig more for details & other things those NASes are capable of
Cons Review
DO NOT BUY FROM QNAP . DO NOT BUY FROM QNAP!!
This is a terrible product. It shipped to me with dated firmware which I promptly updated. The updated firmware has known bugs which after several unsuccessful attempts to get support from QNAP resulted in rolling back to the dated firmware it shipped with. ...which also had known bugs, just different ones... This thing is garbage - spotty operation, unreliable and combine that with almost no documentation and you'll spend hours on their forums trying to figure out how to configure the thing not to have numerous internal conflicts.
Make your like easy and DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT or any other from QNAP.
This is a terrible product. It shipped to me with dated firmware which I promptly updated. The updated firmware has known bugs which after several unsuccessful attempts to get support from QNAP resulted in rolling back to the dated firmware it shipped with. ...which also had known bugs, just different ones... This thing is garbage - spotty operation, unreliable and combine that with almost no documentation and you'll spend hours on their forums trying to figure out how to configure the thing not to have numerous internal conflicts.
Make your like easy and DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT or any other from QNAP.
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Feature QNAP 4-Bay Desktop Network Attached Storage TS-419P
- Dual Gigabit LAN Deployment
- Advanced RAID Management with Hot-swap Design
- Built-in iSCSI Target Service
- Cross-platform Data Sharing and Storage Centre
- Complete Backup Solution
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Product Details
EAN : 4712511120646UPC : 885022000593
MPN : 4712511120646
Brand : Qnap
Color : black
Weight : 11 pounds
Height : 10 inches
Length : 13 inches
Width : 12 inches
Binding : Personal Computers
Format : CD
Hardware Platform : Pc
Manufacturer : NU Technology Inc.
Model : TS-419P
Operating System : Windows
Platform : Windows
Publisher : NU Technology Inc.
SKU : D-1227999000
Studio : NU Technology Inc.
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