http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/ Engadget Comments for QNAP gets serious with Turbo NAS line, packing Pineview, iSCSI, and VMWare certification http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/Jan 4th 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/
I own two TS-639's - and I can't say enough great things about them! Especially for mixed environments and great Mac/Linux support.]]>Jan 4th 2010 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/
I took a chance early last year and bought a QNAP TS-639. I was comparing it to the Netgear ReadyNAS line and the QNAP won because it was a few hundred dollars cheaper, but still built like a tank.

At the time of purchase the Netgear had a prettier UI, but after trying out the demo on their site I discovered it was very klutzy and used java all over the place.

Then a few months down the road QNAP sent out an updated UI that is leaps and bounds over their old interface. It's much prettier to look at it.

That aside, I really enjoy the device because it just works with my Mac, Windows, and Linux machines. They're constantly adding new features (the Apple Time Machine support got added to our devices as well, so its not like you have to run out and upgrade to this new one just to get that, which is awesome).

Also the support and user community is above average as well, sometimes a slight language barrier but very knowledgeable and quick to respond.

As of this writing my device has 3x1TB WD Black drives inside of it in RAID5 and has been running for 153 days happily.

I access it via my PS3, Xbox 360, and Mac Mini (using Plex as a front end) for streaming audio and video. My iTunes library also lives on the device. My Mac mini does bittorrent and the files are automatically saved to the Qnap as well.

- D]]>Jan 4th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/
... i wonder if i can install debian on that thing to perform as a small server ?!?!?]]>Jan 4th 2010 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/Jan 4th 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/Jan 4th 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/
i there anything that i get over and above my Thecus N7700 (apart from an extra drive) - http://blog.collins.net.pr/2008/10/thecus-n7700.html

which is now over a year old (and cheaper to boot?)]]>Jan 4th 2010 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/Jan 4th 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/Almost certainly just means they'll provide support if your VMware setup has problems using this for storage. Lots of the trick VMware stuff such as hot migration (cutting a running VM over to another piece of physical hardware with no more than a lost ping or two) rely on shared iSCSI storage.

Sounds like it will already work, they're just getting certification for it to be 'official'.]]>Jan 4th 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/I think you have your answer, but I would still be hesitant about VMware/Hyper-V performance. I wasn't aware that the D510 had hardware virtualization support. It seems weird that they would advertise virtualization capabilities on anything without Intel VT or AMD-V.]]>Jan 4th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/Jan 4th 2010 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/Jan 4th 2010 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://lime-technology.com/ tons of great info on the wiki and forums. What really sold me on it wasn't the mix and match disks, or true incremental expansion, but was the idea that if you loose multiple disks you don't loose all your data like you would in Raid5, I also really liked that the data disks can be directly accessed if you have to, unlike Raid5 where if you have a hardware failure like a controller going bad your stuck until you can get replacement parts.]]>Jan 4th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/Jan 4th 2010 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/Jan 4th 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/qnap-gets-serious-with-turbo-nas-line-packing-pineview-iscsi/
Is the line shrinking or are the devices shrinking? I'm assuming you're referring to the devices based on the rest of the article but this wording confused me for a minute.]]>Jan 4th 2010 5:02PM