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QNAP delivers BitTorrent-lovin' TS-109 Pro II and TS-209 Pro II NAS drives
QNAP's TS-109 / TS-209 NAS drives weren't anything to sneeze at, but the company's looking to improve overall responsiveness and speed up BitTorrent download performance with a pair of successors. The one-bay TS-109 Pro II and two-bay TS-209 Pro II both include a potent 500MHz Marvell processor and 256MB of DDR2 RAM, which is double the memory stuffed within the prior iterations. You'll also find a new and improved BT engine that promises "the [same] level of P2P download speed as PC-based BT downloads," built-in Joomla! CMS 1.5.1, scheduled backup / logging applications, DivX-friendly TwonkyMedia v4.4.4 and support for DLNA / NFS / SMB multimedia sharing. Sorry, no pricing deets to share at the moment.
QNAP intros well-spec'd TS-209 NAS server
Following up on the firm's TS-109, the all new two-bay, hot-swappable TS-209 NAS server ratchets things up a notch for SMB and SOHO. QNAP's latest Pro Turbo Station hopes to catch the eye of the almighty suits, and packs a fairly potent 500MHz processor, gigabit Ethernet port, and 128MB of DDR2 RAM within to "significantly boost file sharing speed." Moreover, ingrained server features such as automatic syncing / backup, SSH remote login, and cross-platform sharing for Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX machines are included, and the device can be equipped with up to 2TB of storage in a RAID 1 mirroring array. Look for this one to land next month for a currently undisclosed price.[Thanks, Ivan H.]
