The TS-459 Pro is the powerful 4-bay network attached storage (NAS ) server
, which is designed to provide an affordable and easy-to-management solution with iSCSI service for virtualized and clustered environment. The TS-459 Pro also offers versatile business applications to maximize the efficiency of the data center in the business environment.
The TS-459 Pro has double the RAM, 1GB of DDRII compared to 512MB of DDRII. The TS-459 Pro has ability to plug a VGA monitor and a USB keyboard into the back and log in like its a Linux computer.
This particular model can hold up to four hard drives and features an Intel Dual Core Atom D150 processor running at 1.66Ghz and its got 1 gig of DDR2 ram as well. It is truly a feature rich and powerful NAS box, you can do most anything with it from running a web server and FTP to sharing multi-media on your network, it can even be used in conjunction with IP cameras for a surveillance system. The TS-459 can also utilize QPackages that allow you to install all sorts of apps like Wordpress, Joomla and many other things for a variety of uses making it much more than just a vanilla NAS box.
One interesting thing about the TS-459 is that there is no power brick style power supply, it just plugs straight into the NAS box for power.
The dual core processor of QNAP TS-459 Pro Turbo NAS not only improves the speed of the unit but it should allow the entire system to run more efficiently and quickly.