QNAP TS-459U-RP Turbo NAS Review

hardnrg - July 22, 2010
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Specifications:

Hardware:

CPU	Intel® Atom™ Processor D510 1.66GHz (Dual-Core)
DRAM	1GB DDRII RAM
Flash Memory	512MB DOM
HDD	2.5/ 3.5" SATA I/II HDD x4 (The system is shipped without HDD)
HDD Tray	4 x Hot-swappable and lockable tray
LAN Port	2 x Gigabit (Intel 82574) RJ-45 Ethernet port
LED Indicators	Status, LAN, USB, HDD 1, HDD 2, HDD 3, HDD 4
USB	5 x USB 2.0 port (Front: 1; Back: 4) Support USB printer, pen drive, USB hub, and USB UPS etc.
eSATA	2 x eSATA port (Back)
Buttons	System: Power button, USB One-Touch-Backup Button, Reset button
Alarm Buzzer	System warning
Form Factor	1U rackmount
Dimensions	44(H) x 439(W) x 499(D) mm 1.73(H) x 16.97(W) x 19.65(D) inch
Weight	Net weight: 7.63 kg/ 16.82 lb Gross weight: 12.1 kg/ 26.68 lb
Power Consumption (W)	Sleep mode: 40W In Operation: 62W Power-off (in WOL mode): 3W (with 4 x 500GB HDD installed)
Temperature	0~40°C
Humidity	0~95% R.H.
Power Supply	Input: 100-240 Vac~, 50-60Hz, 2A, Output: 150W
VGA	Reserved VGA interface for maintenance
Fan	3 x cooling fan (4 cm, 12V DC; internal )

Software:

Operating System	Embedded Linux
Supported Operating System	Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista (32-/ 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-/ 64-bit), Server 2003/ 2008 Apple Mac OS X Linux & Unix
File System	Internal HDD: EXT3, EXT4 External HDD: EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, FAT32
Networking	TCP/IP (IPv4 & IPv6: Dual Stack) Dual Gigabit NICs with Jumbo Frame Multi-IP Setting, Port Trunking/ NIC Teaming (Modes: Balance-rr, Active Backup, Balance XOR, Broadcast, IEEE 802.3ad/ Link Aggregation, Balance-tld and Balance-ltd) DHCP Client, DHCP Server Protocols: CIFS/ SMB, AFP(3.1), NFS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet, SSH, iSCSI and SNMP Network Service Discovery (UPnP, Bonjour)
Network File Sharing	CIFS/ SMB (plus DFS support), AFP, NFS, FTP, WebDAV
Backup Solution	USB One Touch Backup (Import/ Export) Apple Time Machine Support Block-level Remote Replication - Works as both an Rsync Server & Client - Supports Encrypted Replication between QNAP NAS Servers
QNAP NAS servers	Data Backup to External Storage Device Data Backup to Cloud Storage (Amazon S3) Security IP Filter Network Access Protection with Auto-blocking HTTPS Connection FTP with SSL/ TLS (explicit) Encrypted Remote Replication (Rsync over SSH) Importable SSL Certificate Instant Alert E-mail and SMS
Disk Management	Single Disk, JBOD, RAID 0/ 1/ 5/ 6/ 5+hot spare Online RAID Capacity Expansion Online RAID Level Migration HDD S.M.A.R.T. Bad Block Scan RAID Recovery Bitmap Support
iSCSI	Max. iSCSI Target: 256 * Multi-LUNs per Target Supports LUN Mapping & LUN Masking Supports SPC-3 Persistent Reservation Supports MPIO Supports MC/S
Disk Expansion	Virtual Disk Drive (via iSCSI Initiator) - Max. Virtual Disk Drives: 8 - Stack Chaining Master
Server Virtualization & Clustering	Supports VMware vSphere (ESX/ ESXi 4.0 and above) Supports Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V & Failover Clustering
Power Management	Wake on LAN Scheduled Power on/ off (max. 15 settings) Automatic Power on after Power Recovery
Access Right Management	Max. User Accounts: 4,096 Max. Groups: 512 Max. Share Folders: 512 Batch Creating Users Import User List User Quota Management
Web Administration	AJAX-based User Interface HTTP/ HTTPS Connections Alert Notification (Email & SMS) Smart Fan Control DDNS SNMP (v2 & v3) UPS Support with SNMP Management (USB) Resource Monitor Network Recycle Bin for CIFS/ SMB and AFP Comprehensive Logs (Events & Connections) Real-time Online User List Syslog Client Backup and Restore System Settings
QPKG	Web Application - Joomla - phpMyAdmin - WordPress - AjaXplorer P2P Application - MLDonkey (eMule) - SABnzbd+ Server Application - SSOTS (Squeezebox Server) - Tomcat - Asterisk - XDove (Mail Server) Miscellaneous - Optware IPKG - Python - Java Runtime Environment - And more
Supported Web Browsers	Internet Explorer 7 & 8 or Later Firefox 3 or Later Safari 3 & 4 or Later Google Chrome
Multilingual Support	Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

* The maximum number of concurrent connections to the iSCSI targets supported by the NAS varies depending on your network infrastructure and the application performance. Too many concurrent connections may slow down the performance of the NAS.

Features:

File Server

File Sharing across Windows, Mac OS and Linux/ Unix Platforms
Protocols: CIFS/ SMB, AFP(3.1), NFS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS
QNAP Web File Manager

FTP Server

FTP over SSL/ TLS (explicit)
Max. Concurrent Connections: 256
FXP Supported
Passive FTP Port Range Control
FTP Bandwidth & Connection Control
Unicode Support

Web Server

HTTP/ HTTPS Connections
Supports WebDAV Connection
Importable SSL Certificate

Database Server

Built-in MySQL Server
Web-based Management via phpMyAdmin (QPKG)

Backup Server

Remote Replication Server (over Rsync)
Apple Time Machine Support
QNAP Client Backup Application: NetBak
3rd Party Backup Software Support: Acronis True Image, CA Brightstor, ARCserve Backup, EMC Retrospect, Symantec Backup Exec, LaCie Silverkeeper

Printer Server

Network Printer Sharing (max: 3, USB)

iTunes Server

Audio and Video Sharing
Smart Playlist for iTunes Client (Windows & Mac OS)

UPnP Media Server

Built-in TwonkyMedia Server (DLNA 1.5 Certified)
Real-time & Background Photo Transcoding
Supports UPnP/ DLNA Media Players
- Game Console: PlayStation 3, PSP and Xbox 360
- Digital Media Adapter/ Player
- Mobile Device (e.g. iPhone/ iPod Touch with UPnP/ DLNA app)
Supported Formats
- Video: ASF, FLV, F1V, F4V, MP4
- Audio: MP3, WAV
- Picture: BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG

Download Station

PC-less BitTorrent/ FTP/ HTTP Download (Up to 500 tasks)
BitTorrent Download
- Supports TCP/ UDP Tracker Protocol
- Scheduled Download
- Configurable Port Range
- Bandwidth Control
- UPnP NAT Port Forwarding
HTTP/ FTP Download
- Configurable Saving Directory
- Bulk Download with Wildcard Setting
- RapidShare Download Support
QNAP Download Management Software: QGet
- For Both Windows & Mac OS
- Control the Download Tasks on Multiple QNAP NAS over LAN or WAN