Modern SMB, corporate, and entry-level enterprises face the challenge of the exploding growth of digital data storage needs, including documents, emails, and applications. To satisfy these storage demands and additional needs including centralized network backup, cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, UNIX) file sharing, printer sharing, FTP download services, even video surveillance recording; QNAP has created the Business Series of Turbo NAS servers which are an IT administrator’s dream. Never before has a single network device been capable of fulfilling as many business application needs, including the most comprehensive IP SAN solution as QNAP’s Turbo NAS lineup of NAS servers.
The QNAP TS-659 Pro II Turbo NAS is the enterprise-class network-attached storage designed with next-generation technology like 6Gb/s (SATA III) hard drives support, delivering blasting fast data transfer speeds. The TS-659 Pro II houses up to six hot-swappable 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drives for up to 18TB of networked storage (based on 3TB drives). The TS-659 Pro II incorporates the Intel Atom D525 1.8GHz dual core processor, capable of delivering ultra high performance, reliability, and lower power consumption during intensive data transfers. The TS-659 Pro II features 1GB of high performance DDRIII RAM, which can be upgraded to 3GB by simply adding a 2GB RAM in the additional RAM slot.
The TS-659 Pro II NAS supports super high-speed USB 3.0 ports, eSATA ports, and dual Gigabit network interfaces with load-balancing and failover support. Also standard is single disk,RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 6, 10+hot spare, 5+hot spare, or 6+hot spare with online RAID capacity expansion and online RAID level migration for maximum data redundancy.
Is your network fully virtualized? The TS-659 Pro II is an efficient and powerful business storage center with advanced iSCSI services, cross-platform data sharing, and all-in-one server applications. With VMware Ready and Citrix Ready certification, and proven compatibility with Microsoft Hyper-V environment, the NAS is an ideal shared storage solution for virtualized and clustered environments.