QNAP Systems, a provider of NAS servers, has extended its Business Series Turbo NAS servers product family, with the unveling of the 2-drive TS-259 Pro+, the 4-drive TS-459 Pro+, the 5- drive TS-559 Pro+, and the 6-drive TS-659 Pro+ with up to 12TB of online storage (using 2TB hard drives).
The new Business Series Turbo NAS Pro+ models incorporate new dual-core Intel Atom processor D525 with 1.8GHz clock speed and 1GB RAM, which can achieve up to 116MB/s transfer rates (FTP/Samba reads) while maintaining guaranteed low power consumption.
The VMware and Citrix ready and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V clusters compliant models have iSCSI support for fully virtualised server clustering and virtualised environments including support for MC/S, MPIO, SPC-3, and thin provisioning, and have in built data security with volume-level AES 256-bit encryption.
The new Turbo NAS Pro+ models include support for 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard drives housed in lockable, hot-swappable drive carriers, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 5+ hot spare, and 6+ hot spare (5-drive and higher models) with online RAID capacity expansion, online RAID level migration, and RAID recovery.
The company said that the Turbo NAS Pro+ series comes with new V3.3 of the QNAP NAS management software embedded as firmware.
