QNAP rolls out 2.5-inch, Atom-based SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS
By Donald Melanson 
posted May 20th 2009 3:06PM
posted May 20th 2009 3:06PM
QNAP's already stuffed an Atom processor into a few of its NAS devices, but it looks like the company is still only just getting started, and it's now rolled out yet another model in the form of the SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS. Like the similarly designated TS-439, this one will accommodate four SATA drives of your choice, although the SS-439 opts for 2.5-inch drives to keep the NAS even more compact. Otherwise, you can expect to get 1GB of DDRII memory in addition to that Atom N270 processor, along with support for RAID 0/1/5/6/5+hot spare configurations, three USB ports, two eSATA ports, and all the usual security measures you'd expect from a small business / SOHO-minded NAS. No word on pricing just yet, but it looks like this one should be rolling out to retailers right away.
not bad
Depending on price, looks like we got ourselves a winner here.
another slow day at engadget...
Just because this might not interest you doesn't mean it's a slow day at engadget. They report gadget stuff. This qualifies as a gadget.
Kthxbye.
i knoez. im just not interested in one. so its a slow day for me. no transformers USB sticks or anything exciting today.
If it mirrors and lets you hot swap, then it's pretty exciting to me.
I am liking this, what's the largest you can go with 2.5in drives, 500GB?
Yeah, just got mine from the egg for about $50 after a $20 rebate. 7200 rpm too!
depends how much your willing to spend :)
Current max for your average consumer is 500GB for a laptop drive
Although there are 1TB 2.5" SSD's I believe, with higher capacity coming
But itll cost you a pretty penny
i could be wrong though
I've wasted a pretty penny on devices like this in past, but if the penis mightier works. I'll order a dozen!
Wait.. what?
I have a QNAP TS-439, and I like it so far. However my biggest gripe would be the terrible web interface they provide. QNAP needs to hire some decent visual and user interface designers.
Have you tried the 3.0 beta? I have, less useless, going in the right direction. Otherwise you could just roll your own linux. :)
I have the TS-809 pro and I'm quite satisfied with the webUI. The power supply fan sounds like a 747 though.
SOHO? I feel like I just stepped out of a time-warp to 1998.
These NAS´es.. I don´t get it.
The costs cwould be three times the price of a homebrewed setup.
In return, you usually get slow performance, limited influence of hardware configuration,
I guess that most of the units, without discs, consume 30+W?
Add 10W pr. disc and you might reach 70W idle.
Compare this to a setup with supercheap AMD dual 3800mhz, Asus HTPC motherboard, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, 4 (used) 7200 rpm discs (with room for several more), energy efficient PSU, 2 quality and silent fans (Volt modded), some casing and as a bonus, all the connectivity one could dream off.
Then throw your homebrew in the closed or basement and get 100% silent and efficient network performance.
62W idle - and the price?
Below $300,-
Sure, my thoughts are similar to what have been said by others a million times before - and therefore, please enlight me with the reasons for buying a NAS anyway (?)
Some people are too stupid to homebrew their own linux box to do this kind of thing. The markup is mostly the "easy to use" UI.
I've been building home brews using FreeNAS and OpenFiler for years but just bought a QNAP 809 for several reasons.
1) Peace of mind - I can't explain, it just feels better
2) Minimalistic - It's hard build a smaller, more energy efficient 8 bay NAS (The one I got was 8 bay)
3) Drive health checks - FreeNAS weakness
4) Bad drive LED indicators - Pulling the wrong drive on a degraded array is disastrous
I'm sure there are others but these are the ones that came to mind.
Grownups recognize the value of their time.
Hmmm, might be worthy of my money...
Hot-swappability? Hardware RAID 6?
I have a few qnap devices and love them. This one however i can do w/o i just do not see or like the idea of a 2.5" drive used for a nas.
as for the question of why not do it yourself, for a home setup for a geek that is fine. However the QNAP IMHO is made for a quite different market. they are for that small office that doesn't need a huge excessively costly nas setup, but needs some type of nas, or a home office or studio. THE DIY route is ok, but honestly i do not trust IT people coming into any office setup saying yeah we need to go this DIY route and in 3 months when you can't find me to do work for you any more the support on it is less than zero. also the qnap's are rock solid and have some amazing features on them.
I agree totally. plus, my time is more valuable. I need more than 1-2TB of storage too.
I'm setting up a 2x1TB system with a $149 atom system for my gf to have a NAS at her house.
2 rsync'd drives and a monthly rsynced external.
then she can't dump me cause I'm her IT person.
I bought a ts-109 pro II and it was probably the worst IT purchase I have made in my 13 year career.
Slow network, slow performance (12 hours to copy out 110gigs to the esata attached hd), crap support (hello this is qnap, just let us log into your medical companies records backup system and let us try and fix it. uhm, that would be illegal for me to let you do that. Sorry no can help.).
Will this take the Velociraptors I wonder, as they are 12mm and not 9.5.
can it play crysis?
SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY, DOUCHEBAG
Looks like aspartame is a little bitter. hehe
It looks like a B movie monster.
"Oh, no! The Paper Shredder is alive and going to kill us all! ACKKKKKK"
nice.
it'll cost $699 (MSRP), hopefully already fully stuffed
source: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30825/76/
I have the QNAP 639 and got it to replace what I thought was an imminent catastrophic failure of a drobo and also 1.5TB seagate drives. With all the seagates I've had fail (7 of my 8 failed drives this year were seagates) and also trying test/stress the QNAP, I completely broke it and had to start over from scratch. the Dobo on the other hand never failed and was EXTREMELY hard to get it to actually lose any data.
Now, I have everything running fine (crosses fingers) and I'm working on a dual-site back up system between the drobo and the QNAP. The QNAP web-interface isn't all that bad. My one little issue is that if you are using smb and sftp and rsync, the processor pegs. smb takes 50%, and rsync takes 50%.