http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/ Engadget Comments for QNAP unveils stately 6-bay TS-639 Pro Turbo NAS device http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 10th 2009 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 10th 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 11th 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822107019
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more like $1200?]]>Jan 10th 2009 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 11th 2009 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/
I spent a premium for the ReadyNAS NV , and it failed often and spectacularly. 18 months in, and it's completely dead. 1200 _might_ be worth it, depending on the warranty. It's not really the cost of the RAID, but rather the value of your data.]]>Jan 10th 2009 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 10th 2009 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/
It impossible to find a ReadyNas box for under 500 with no drives. Would pick up more, for the right price. ]]>Jan 12th 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 10th 2009 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 11th 2009 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 11th 2009 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 11th 2009 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 11th 2009 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/
I personally believe you are better off just getting a SATA controller card or cards with the number of ports you need. Then run OpenFiler or FreeNAS to take care of all the low level work for you. They both have user friendly interfaces to setup and configure the system. Even with paying for the system and cases, you will have a NAS system just as good, if not better than any NAS system out there now. It will be hotswapable, support all the network portocols you need, iSCSI and much more and will cost you less than one of the prebuilt systems.]]>Jan 11th 2009 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/
Media streaming?]]>Jan 10th 2009 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 10th 2009 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/This is something aimed to a small-medium businness company not to home users to download porn and stream divx films.]]>Jan 11th 2009 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/But seriously, still my favourite website. Home page. I check it like 4 times a day.]]>Jan 11th 2009 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/
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http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=109

It's the 8 bay version of this 6 bay Pro NAS - the TS-809 Pro

Here's an image:

http://www.qnap.com/images/products/NAS/TS809Pro/feature02.jpg]]>Jan 11th 2009 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/
It backs up my data, has an auto-downloader (http, ftp, bittorrent), and streams media to my 360. Perfect.

The only complaint I have about the qnap is the low-rent UI. It gets the job done, but don't expect Apple-like levels of refinement.]]>Jan 11th 2009 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/
this 6 bay one looks pretty sweet as well.]]>Jan 11th 2009 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 11th 2009 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 11th 2009 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/now thats just Ridoculous.

Sold]]>Jan 11th 2009 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 11th 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/Jan 11th 2009 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/
In regards to building your own box for less, this is true it is easily done, however most users in today's computing environment do not have the where withal to purchase all the hardware, build it out, and configure the services they need / want with ease. In fact most users would probably end up going with some form of a windows license because they don't understand how to configure a Linux based platform.]]>Jan 11th 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/
http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=10144&start=0&hilit=809

http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=10219&p=47088&hilit=809#p47088

I think the 8-bay QNAP TS-809 is the high-performance unit to look out for (competing with the 6-bay Netgear ReadyNAS Pro in price and performance). Whereas my GUESS is that the 6-bay QNAP TS-639 (and 4-bay TS-439, and future TS-x39 models with different number of bays) use an Intel *Atom* CPU for lower-power consumption.

The low-power models could be an answer to customer complaints like the following from one of the above threads:

"The TS-509 uses 70W all the time. Synology DS508 uses 27W (standby) and 54W full access."


P.S. QNAP comments on TS-x39:

- "TS-x39 (... low-power CPU, starting from 1GB DRAM, performance slightly below the TS-509)"

- "Neither the TS-439 (even if one DD slot less) nor the TS-639 (even if one HDD slot more) will be a direct replacement for the TS-509."


QNAP comments on TS-809:

- "TS-809 (8 bay, dual CORE CPU, stating from 2GB DRAM)"

- "The TS-809 models ... are designed to a much higher performance level - and to a different price tag."

- "Depending on the number of servers to migrate to ESX and iSCSI and the performance expectations, the [TS-809] is what you might take into consideration aside the TS-509."]]>Jan 11th 2009 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/
http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=11&pid=82&set_language=english


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Second, this is not just a small business product. My wife and I both shoot SLR's, we have an HD Video Camera, have thousands of MP3's, and a ton of DVD's ripped to disk. I have 3TB of storage right now and I could easily see myself needing 10TB's in the next 2 - 3 years. The fact that his thing supports iSCSI and Thin Provisioning is sick. If you don't know what thin provisioning is, it basically lets you allocate a smaller portion of storage for a volume but present it as larger to the disk. This way, if you don't need it up front then you don't have to blow it, but if you do need it you can actually scale the true space allocation up as needed without having to jack with the partition.

If Dell will make a SOHO version of their EqualLogic array for $2000 - $3000 I would buy it in a heart beat! But, I guess this product will have to do for now....]]>Jan 12th 2009 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/qnap-unveils-stately-6-bay-ts-639-pro-turbo-nas-device/]]>Jan 12th 2009 1:13PM