QNAP's NAS lineup sacrifices another bay, creates TS-110

For many, four bays is a bit excessive. Two bays? Nice and cozy. One bay? Maybe a bit too snug for some, but QNAP is hoping its mono-bay TS-110 will be just right for others. It features the same 800MHz Marvell processor and 256MB of DDR2 RAM on the TS-410 and TS-210, with the discretely vanilla styling of the latter but at roughly half the girth. It keeps the same DLNA, FTP, file serving, and MySQL support of the other two, all configured through a fancy AJAXy web interface. No word on price yet, but we'll find out soon enough as it's set to ship by the end of the month. Meanwhile, we eagerly await the TS-010 announcement, which should rely entirely on theoretical storage.

QNAP TS-110 NAS

[aubreyq Posted Oct 19th 2009 8:44AM]

When it comes to NAS, it's RAID or bust for me. Pass on the mono-bay.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 19th 2009 8:50AM]

ditto

[UnixSystemsEngineer Posted Oct 19th 2009 9:39AM]

yep. guess this is for those who want their backups to be more complicated than their NAS.

[wossy Posted Oct 19th 2009 10:09AM]

I agree, i read about the 110 here over the weekend http://www.digitalera.co.uk/news/?p=345 but i soon thought knowing my luck i would lose everything when the drive fails.
went for 210 instead

[Altairantares Posted Oct 19th 2009 10:24AM]

It's nice for people who need a NAS but are too cheap or just don't have the need for anything huge spacewise.

[gp Posted Oct 19th 2009 12:11PM]

I advise you read this: "Smart SOHOs Don't Do RAID" (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30060/230/).

It makes some valid points against RAID - for small/home businesses of course, which are the target of this device.

[KAL326 Posted Oct 19th 2009 3:35PM]

The mono bay doesn't make a lot of sense given the cost/level of hardware board in case. Its not like they are saving a lot in materials which could be passed on to the consumer as a lower priced product. So you have a dual bay or single bay product with pretty similar price points which probably aren't much lower than the 4 bay TS-410 again because of the same logic board in a smaller case. I find it strange that there is no pricing listed for the TS-210 or the TS-110, while the TS-410 is priced at $449.

[Jf Posted Oct 19th 2009 8:53AM]

I use the TS-101, which is great. It has a USB and eSATA port on the back, which I use to create a mirrored copy about once a week. I'm not accessing it enough to warrant RAID support, just need a weekly image or so. The best part of the TS-101 is that it's fanless, which makes it perfect to sit under my TV and serve up media. It appears that the TS-110, while more powerful (mySQL support is a nice addition) requires the fan.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 19th 2009 8:59AM]

This is not for work, and it isn't for home...no torrent? This thing better be fairly cheap for a media server.

[Zhuzhu Posted Oct 19th 2009 10:10AM]

Tim (reply to private email):

Great, but you killed my well-deserved dig at Gizmodo. There's no shame in leaving the comment up (at least, not for something so common & minor :-). Giz has many problems, but they don't censor stuff that might embarrass the poster. I regularly call out their bloggers for their ignorance of basic science, but it's all still there for the world to see.

[TimStevens Posted Oct 19th 2009 10:15AM]

@Zhuzhu

It was deleted because the typo you mentioned in the post (it's -> its) was fixed, and in the past when such inconsequential typos were fixed but the comment pointing them out is left other commenters came along and called the original commenter an idiot/blind/etc. for pointing out a now non-existent typo. Things tend to go downhill from there. So, there you go, that's why it was deleted, but that's why I e-mailed you to let you know the typo was fixed so you wouldn't think anything shady was going on.

Still, though, you apparently do, and regardless, the censorship accusation is a wee bit extreme...

[Zhuzhu Posted Oct 19th 2009 10:29AM]

Perhaps the word "censor" feels more extreme than I intended--sorry. Next time I'll use a more neutral term.

In any case, I was hoping the comment would be left in place as a reminder to others to avoid this increasingly-common error. You could have simply made a public reply of "Fixed" to avoid any confusion.

Speaking of confusion, why is there no "Reply" button in replies to comments? I'm forced to "reply" to myself rather than to you.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 19th 2009 10:03AM]

TS-010?
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[(Unverified) Posted Oct 19th 2009 11:18AM]

people buying this over the Synology DS-109 are stupid.

[CannedCorn Posted Oct 19th 2009 11:20AM]

What is the best dual bay consumer NAS device out there right now?

QNAP, ReadyNAS, or Synology DiskStation? I want to get one but I want to know what you guys think is the best. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Right now I'm leaning towards the diskless ReadyNas, but does netgear suck? Why is the Synology one so expensive? Is QNAP the decided leader in this space? Please let me know. Thanks in advance.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 19th 2009 4:17PM]

Dlink anyone ?
DNS-323