subject: Nas Drives-for Todays Standard Increasing Needs And Standard Technology [print this page] 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 QNAP TS-459 Pro NAS server uses the energy-efficient 1.66GHz Intel Atom D512 processor with 1GB of DDR2 system memory to enable VMware Ready iSCSI for virtualization deployments. Dual Gigabit Ethernet network interfaces allow failover safety, while four SATA drives deliver basic-disk or RAID configurations. The device has four USB ports on the back panel, and a fifth at the front, accompanied by a one-touch copy button that can be configured to back up to or from external hard drives. Two eSATA ports allow for faster transfers from external storage, though the NAS device only supports ext3, ext4, NTFS and FAT32 file systems; hard drives with the HFS+ file system used by Mac OS X are not currently supported.
There are two Gigabit Ethernet ports on the back of the Qnap TS-459 Pro Turbo NAS device which support failover and load balancing. This means that both ports can balance network traffic over a single IP address; if one port fails, the other will simply continue operating as normal.
The most interesting aspect of the Qnap TS-459 Pro Turbo NAS device is what lies at its heart: an Intel Atom D510 CPU. Clocked at 1.66GHZ, the D510 is one of the first dual-core Atom processors, as well as the first built for low-power desktops rather than netbooks. Because of this, it provides better performance than older Atom processors while retaining relatively low power consumption. Qnap has teamed this CPU with 1GB of DDR2 memory; a potent combination for a NAS device.
Incorporating the next-generation Intel Atom D510 1.66GHz Dual-Core processor and 1GB DDRII RAM, the Turbo NAS delivers exceptional performance and maintains high reliability for multiple concurrent applications and intensive data transfer with guaranteed low power consumption.
