subject: The Ts-459 Pro 4-bay (nas) Server [print this page] With spectacular growth of digital data (emails, documents and databases) modern businesses are facing challenges. In order to provide reliable, scalable storage, centralized network backup and easy file sharing, IT managers are turning to networked storage. QNAPs new business series TS-459 pro NAS Server offers reasonably high performance storage for SMB, Corporate, and entry level Enterprise customers.
TS-459 Pro 4-bay NAS Server designed to provide a reasonable and easy-to-manage solution with iSCSI service for virtualized and clustered environment. It also offers flexible business applications to maximize the data center efficiency.
The Turbo NAS delivers exceptional performance and maintains high reliability for multiple concurrent applications and intensive data transfer with guaranteed low power consumption with Incorporation of the next-generation Intel Atom D510 1.66GHz Dual-Core processor and 1GB DDRII RAM.
The TS-459 Pro is certified 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 NAS supports file sharing across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX platforms with 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 all included features of a QNAP NAS server.
The unique "Virtual Disk Drive" adds elasticity to increase 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.
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. The NAS offers RAID 0, 1, 5, 5+hot spare, 6, single, and JBOD disk configurations. It supports hot-swap design that a failed member drive of a RAID configuration (RAID 1 or above only) can be replaced by hot swapping without turning off the server.
The NAS offers full backup solution for data protection, including cloud-based storage backup, third party software backup, one-touch-copy backup and QNAP exclusive Windows-based utility NetBak Replicator. The users can select different backup modes for superfluous data backup.
