QNAP's SS-839 Pro Tubo NAS keeps it real with 8 bays and 4TB RAID storage
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted June 22nd 2009 4:23PM
posted June 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.
Just like you can't have your shitty, close-minded opinion without sharing it with people who don't care, right?
Pretty much.
So 500Gb 2.5" drives at $130 a pop times 8 is $1,040 gets you 3.9 Tb of space. For the same price you can get 1.5Tb drives, which would get you about 12Tb of space. Yea, this is a good idea.
I think they are just trying to follow the trend that servers have been taking with 2.5 SAS drivers. In the home, I don't think the space difference is critical, and it doesn't really pay off. However I can tell you in crammed server rooms and data centers where real estate is at a premium, companies are willing to pay.
Servers aren't the only ones going to 2.5". So are some full blown SAN products.
Yea, but how many people do you know with a san in their basement?
too expensive
Why? This product makes no sense.
It uses 2.5" drives, 8 of them.
You can fit one 3.5" drive in the space of two 2.5" drives.
If this device had 4x3.5" instead of 8x2.5", it could hold 8TB instead of 4TB.
Also, 500GB notebook drives are very expensive. Compare (NewEgg US):
8x500GB 2.5 (4TB)": $90x8 = $720
4x1TB 3.5" (4TB): $75x4 = $300
4x1.5TB 3.5" (6TB): $130x4 = $520
4x2TB 3.5" (8TB): $240x4= $960
In what way do arrays of 2.5" drives make sense? They cost almost 3x as much, and don't save space in density.
Looks to me as if the 2.5" form factor was used to allow for SSD drives now and in the future. Expensive, hell yes. Quiet and cool. Hell yes.
8x SSDs
256GB, no redudancy needed. Pure speed.
Yo Homey!!
I need more HD on the down low DAWWWWWWG! 'Cause we all know the more HD space we have the more street cred you get! In the ghetto its all about network storage!
Network storage and clear face is where its at! I gotta go get my proactive on!
Jothie:
By my own volition and at the urging of my peers, I have been elected to inform you that you are an idiot. Please die.
fail
Oh, QNAP!
Black people talk like that?
@ CBXweb
Only in movies and MTV.
4 tb thats not enough for my porn ughh i mean tax files
lol Nas will seek royalties if he catches up to this.
Boxy sexy techy
I didn't get the NAS picture above until I read one comment above. Just shows my hatred for Hip Hop and anything mainstream in the United States.
Intel Atom in a NAS? That's overkill (I think)!
Would love to have one though. :)
Intel Atom overkill? Er, um, not if you want to use the NAS for anything besides low volume access. And especially if it is a software RAID.
I bet Nas studio has these Qnap NAS drives in place, or something very simlair to keep the beats safe, you would be surprise what these rap/hip hop studios have in place for hardware, they make us little guys pathetic when it comes to audio studio gear. But cool picture.
This is for the drives from his "...laptops with a hundred gigabytes and ninja bikes...." he rapped about in New World from Nastradamus.