QNAP's SS-839 Pro Tubo NAS keeps it real with 8 bays and 4TB RAID storage
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Jun 22nd 2009 4:23PM
posted Jun 22nd 2009 4:23PM
It looks like QNAP's insane desire to present the market with bigger and better network storage continues unabated. The SS-839 Pro Turbo NAS is being billed as the world's smallest 8-bay Intel Atom NAS, featuring a 1.6GHz N270 processor, 2GB memory, up to eight 2.5-inch hard drives or solid state disks, up to 4TB storage capacity, 2 eSATA and 5 USB ports. Power consumption with eight hard drives installed is about 34W. Software features include the usual: thin provisioning, online RAID capacity expansion and level migration, AES 256-bit volume-based encryption, Wake on LAN, SMS and email alerts, network surveillance via IP cameras, and the like. So, what are you waiting for? Hit that read link for the full, unexpurgated story.
External Hard Drives are Dead!
......did you really just say that?
Qnap holdin it down, yo.
@ Artic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_Hop_Is_Dead
..........Well not I just look stupid. My bad Fernando
Fernando 1, Me 0
Don't feel bad, Penguin boy. The reference was a bit on the obscure side as evidenced by said comment's disappearing act.
@band
You mean the nerd/geek factor that have no knowledge of hip hop?
"This External Hard Drive is Dead!" may have been a little better......no?
Yup.
Although the black roses do kind of give it away. Hey, don't hate on me, I didn't low rank it!
@ Ryan
no.
In the nerd/geek factor's defense, Nas hasn't put out anything worth listening to/knowing about in over a decade.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/24/seagate-unveils-6tb-blackarmor-nas/
why would people downvote fernando :|
@ yode
They voted Fernando down because they didn't realize that one of Nas' most popular songs is titled "Hip Hop is dead".
Fernando cleverly made the statement in reference to hard drives, though he mistakenly thought that all the 16 year olds here who's only reference to anything remotely hip hop is lil' wayne or even worse Kanye fish dicks West could possibly grasp what he was saying.
Fernando, for the record, I voted you up.
All of you other kids who voted him down, go listen to this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qff6mcw3T-E and back the fuck off.
porkchop, the other white troll. Love that you think you're so hard, yet you are arguing on the internet. troll.
Don't worry Fernando. I think i got banned from that other blog Giz you know what because i dont' have enough nerd cred. I think i somehow offended someone about legos, the stupidity of arguing about apple vs anything, and probably some other senseless act that outed me as not being nerdy.
Sorry. Not my fault. I'm good at sports. I do ok with women. I've always been hip-hop. I just happen to like shiny electronic shit. Why must you persecute me? Nerd Cred is Dead.
Picture win.
It's so FTW it's not even funny.
It made me lol.
Kick Ass Picture!!
if NAS sees this he's gonna be pissed.
hahahahahaha this is why i read engagdet and not other sites
Seriously. I don't even understand what this post is talking about but I just had to comment on the picture.
"Esco"
It was funny the FIRST time they put that pic up on a NAS article.
After the 14th time it gets a little hackneyed.
-jp
NAS is like...
+++ LOL
This gets funnier every time they do it. Kinda like the "mime" theme for anything french. Classic Engadget.
That photo is badass...really cool if hip hop artists started to sponsor tech stuff with photos like this on the packaging.
If hip-hop artist started to advertise tech stuff, i would slowly cry myself to sleep every night, that or shoot my self square between the eyes.
@D taktics
I'm with you there, I'm against all celebrity endorsement
Tub-O NAS! Now with a 44 oz coke and fries?
@ManOfFewWords
I'm an idiot? Well if you say so...whatever gets you off as you type trollage comments thru your keyboard.
8 bays and only 4TB of storage ??? what's the point of having 8bays when between 2 and 4 would give you the same result.
oups just realised 2.5" disks ^^
Because its in a RAID
Redundancy.
I don't know about you, but I rather pay for an extra hard drive or two to have better protection of my data, especially since HDD manufactures seem to be going through a rough patch right now with higher failure rates. With RAID 5 you can sustain a 1 disk failure and with RAID 6 you can sustain a 2 disk failure with out losing any data.
Though, you should never count on just redundancy to protect critical data, you need to back up also!
@James
You don't lose that much to RAID. You are probably thinking about RAID 1, which is mirroring. That involves 2 drives (bays). Anything higher than that, and you effectively get N-1. So 8 drives would get you 7 drives worth of redundant storage with RAID 5.
:facepalm:
what is the idea to put a tuRbo nas with a 2.5" hdd configuration, 3.5"hdd are cheap and quicker.
Yeah, I thought that was kind of a bad move too.
2.5" are more compact (if space is an issue) and draw less power. Many servers today come with 2.5" drives for those reasons. Unfortunately 2.5" have been less reliable than 3.5 in my experience.
Yo, they call me NaS, i'm not your legal type of fella
Moet drinkin, marajuana smokin' street dwella.
Who's always on the corna, rollin up bless
When i dress, it's never nuttin less than guess.
Caught me walkin with a bop and my hat turned back
Love committin sins and my friends sell crack.
This n**** raps with a razor keep it under my tongue
The school drop out, never liked that s*** from day one.
Cause life aint s*** but stress, fake n***** and crab stunts,
So I guzzle my hennesy while pullin on mad blunts.
Represent, represent
I thought you were going to be really clever and witty by changing the lingo to gadget lyrics. Alas I am left reeling with perpetual disappointment.
:(
Mad props to Engadget for using this pic!!
The NAS photoshops will never get old.
I'm just posting that when I saw this pic in Reader I actually LOLed. Give the person who photoshoped this a pat on the back and a quarter to buy a gumball.
When is an affordable 10 TB solution going to present itself? I'm so sick of dealing with multiple external drives, all with their own power cords and firewire / USB cords. It's a rat's nest from hell.
I'll have to see the price on the QNAP before considering it.
Picked up an Acer Easystore H340 for $460 Canadian, and it included two 1TB drives (the extra drive was an Acer promo ended at end of May). Other than only having 1 eSATA port and using four 3.5" drives as opposed to eight 2.5" on the QNAP, it's the same processor and memory.
If QNAP can keep the cost more reasonable (the Atom might help there) it could be a good option, especially if you don't need/want WIndows Home Server.
too bad not pre-loaded with entire NaS discog.
You'd just have to format it when you get it if they did that. You can't have crap without rap.