QNAP busts out Core 2 Duo-equipped TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS
By Darren Murph 
posted February 14th 2009 4:21AM
posted February 14th 2009 4:21AM
posted February 14th 2009 4:21AM
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"up to 16TB, or .98 million copies of Friday the 13th, when 2GB HDDs are widely available"
2TB*, fixed that for ya.
Anywho, that's a hardcore NAS.
I was going to say the same thing, but since you already did, I guess I'll also note that they must mean a low-res DivX/XviD encoding of Friday the 13th? Because if they are talking about a 720p H.264 (using x264 with high-profile settings) encoding, assuming a resultant file size of around 4GB, then you're talking, at best, around 4,000 copies.
Still, not bad.
8 drives and Core 2 Duo + 2GB DDR2 do sound quite impressive I guess. But I'd like to know what kind of power loss protection it has. Or, at least they should slap a sticker saying "buy a big UPS with this, or you'll suffer" on the front.
As far as NAS goes, I'd prefer to build one on my own.
Yeah, maybe I'm doing the math wrong, but isn't 16TB divided by 1 million 16 MB? What compression are you using that you can fit a 90 minute movie in 16 MB?
AMD would be so much better, far better bandwidth on lower end chips due to IMC.
I'll take six.
Virtually RAIDed together to make the Voltron of the NAS world. Hmm is there such a thing as RAIDed NAS? I know you can do this on servers relatively easily.
Bought
Starting around 2100 dollars with 3 TB of storage.
I wonder if you can replace the OS with something a bit more... Cat like... maybe even a snow bound cat :)
Seriously though... I really wish Apple would come out with a home server with serious storage capability and media hub-ness. This little unit and its two siblings seems rather tight. Its a real duke-out now with the ReadyNAS Pro.
You could probably run Apache Tomcat on it if you tried :P
Yeah, the ReadyNAS Pro has had dual core processing power from the get go! but this new QNAP offers 8 drive slots where the ReadyNAS Pro only offers 6. It might make people take a second look at this QNAP.
This thing is specced the same as my computer! Will it run crysis?
Arr, forgot to check spelling, 2GB HDD's? i believe you meant 2TB
Holly titscoops. I want that!
Well it's pretty awesome, and I was quite keen on getting a TS-439 Pro for home to stream music, and keep backups etc, but £539.99 without any disks? It's a bit on the pricey side, I'd like to see some more affordable NAS with similar feature sets.
"up to 16TB, or .98 million copies of Friday the 13th, when 2GB HDDs are widely available"
you mean 2TB HDDs
Oh My God, They just keep addin more bays and addin to the price tag. Nobody ever gonna be able to afford this, but its really nice
Man, I can't wait for those 2gb HDDs... When are they coming out? 1995?
"read / write rates of 126MB/s and 111Mb/s"
Am I wrong or should both of those figures be in MB/s? Otherwise 126MB/s vs 111Mb/s is a pretty hefty difference, no?
It is supposed to be "126MB/s and 111 MB/s". If you read the press release on QNAP's website, that's what they have. Engadget just messed it up.
With that much space, at that write time, you'd have to have that thing writing the drive nonstop for something like 4 months straight to fill up the drive, if i'm not mistaken!
You'd be mistaken.
Quote "(up to 16TB, or .98 million copies of Friday the 13th, when 2GB HDDs are widely available)."
Fixed "(up to 16TB, or .98 million copies of Friday the 13th, when 2TB HDDs are widely available)."
Think they missed the GB to TB translation. With 16GB of storage you could fit say, 8 copies of Friday the 13th and some music :)
Oh, if only I had a practical application for this at home.
guys help me out. it costs very little to simply build a pc in a case that has 8 bays, and hook it up to your network. my $49 case will do so. so what am I missing? is it faster? is it really necessary to be able to replace the hd from the front? if so, aren't you only saving about 2 minutes once every year or so? it can't be quieter, if you just need a storage pc you could easily make it fanless, or having one very quiet fan.
i tend to agree with you here, i personally could not justify spending that much unless someone can give me a very compelling reason.
Jed, you are absolutely right. It's possible to build a 12-bay NAS with 12x 1.5TB hard drives for about $2300. This includes a high-end raid card with 2GB of cache, an additional 2GB of system memory, an Athlon64 processor, integrated gigabit, an Asus psu to power it all, and a full-tower ATX case to hold the drives.
Pre-built NAS boxes are insanely overpriced IMO.
WFT do u on this box when the raid conf dies, and all you get is a flashing cursor _
All 16TB of your imortant pr0n GONE!
*insert squished frogger sound effect here* for each file u lost....
oh the pain... the pain of it all...!!!
Oh, man, how many people are still going to post "it's not 2GB, it's 2TB"?
costs more than a night with aubrey oday...your mom would be cheaper