Qnap Debuts 12-Drive Rackmount Turbo NAS

QNAP Systems, Inc. announced its first 12-drive 2U rack-mountable Turbo NAS models with up to 36TB storage capacity: the TS-EC1279U-RP and TS-1279U-RP, powered by Quad-core Intel Xeon CPU and Dual-core Intel Core i3 CPU respectively.

           TS-EC1279U-RP

Both models are backed by a 3-year warranty, feature optional 10GbE networking and can achieve data throughput of over 1,000MB/sec and 100,000 IOPS using 10GbE, delivering performance suitable for high-end SMB and data center environments demanding efficient and large capacity storage solutions.

The new models can simultaneously provide storage solutions for IP-SAN (iSCSI) and NAS implementations. "Being VMware Ready, Citrix XenServer Ready, and Windows Hyper-V compliant, the new series is ideal for providing network shared storage for virtual server environments," said David Tsao, product manager of QNAP. "Redundant power supplies are provided on both new models to ensure continuous system up-time. The TS-EC1279U-RP with ECC RAM further enhances system reliability."

The new series supports RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 6, 5+ hot spare, 6+ hot spare, 10+ hot spare, single disk, JBOD, and the Global Hot Spare allowing a spare drive to flexibly replace a failed drive on any RAID volume on the NAS for automatic RAID data rebuilding. The capacity of the units also provide an solution for network-wide backups, file sharing in mixed Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX environments, private cloud storage, and applications such as high definition video editing.

By upgrading to QNAP’s latest NAS firmware V3.5, which is available at QNAP’s official website, the new series will be able to be added to an LDAP server and allow:

• access for LDAP domain users;
• scan the server and delete or quarantine files infected by viruses, malware, Trojans, and other malicious threats; and
• support syslog serve to collect, parse, analyze, and store system messages from various servers or network devices.

"Today’s business environment requires network attached storage solutions that provide efficient data access. Intel Xeon processors enable energy-efficient and high-performance solutions with integrated data protection features such as ECC memory," said David Tuhy, General Manager, Intel Data Center Group Storage. "Intel technology powers a broad range of innovative solutions, including the Intel Core i3 processor family for entry-level data storage."

Key Specs of New Models

• TS-EC1279U-RP – 12-drive 2U rackmount unit, Quad-core Intel Xeon Processor E3-1225 (3.1 GHz), 4GB DDR3 ECC RAM, redundant power supply, 2X expansion slots for storage expansion and network expansion, 4X Gigabit LAN ports;
• TS-1279U-RP – 12-drive 2U rackmount unit, Dual-core Intel Core i3-2120 Processor (3.3 GHz), 2GB DDR3 RAM, redundant power supply, 2X expansion slots for storage expansion and network expansion, 2X Gigabit LAN ports.

TS-EC1279U-RP and TS-1279U-RP are shipping.