QNAP Adds 2-bay Atom-based NAS (TS-239)

[hmurchison]

Originally Posted by beq

On an unrelated note, it's also unfortunate that the top-of-the-line 8-bay TS-809/TS-809U Turbo NASes do not have any eSATA ports, whereas the 2/4/6-bay Atom NASes each have 2 eSATA ports (and even the old 5-bay TS-509 has 1 eSATA port). QNAP says it's because the chipset used only supports 8 SATA drives total.

That's correct. The common port counts for eSATA are 4/8/16

Though at the TS-809 level it makes sense to go with another chassis if you need more than the 16TB today IMO.

[christian]

Hi all,

Originally Posted by stephenju

What is the OS running on this NAS? Linux?

Linux version 2.6.24 (root@NasX86-3) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Wed Apr 8 02:43:53 CST 2009

thats running on the 239.

Christian

[moofoo]

Hi

This is my first post here but I have been following this site for a while.

I just bought a TS-239 to replace my old Lacie 500 GB single drive NAS. Just wanted to mention how happy I am with it and also that I am running the beta version"3.1.0 build 0529T" (Ajax GUI..) and that it's working like a charm.

Here's how happy I am:

Old Lacie disk:

ftp> put athf_s01e01.avi
...
367071232 bytes sent in 00:39 (8.94 MB/s)

Qnap TS-239:

ftp> put athf_s01e01.avi
...
367071232 bytes sent in 00:05 (69.67 MB/s)

That's without any tweaking and just a normal RAID 1 with two WD Green Power 1TB disks.

/ Kristian

[whoisnader]

Hi There;

I went from a very unimpressive Buffalo Terastation Pro to the QNAP TS-239 Pro and I cannot say enough about this product.

The build quality was also a pleasant surprise as I just expected some plastic fantastic box but got a very solid metal compact unit.

The performance (15Mb/s) at first didn't really blow me away as I couldn't get the numbers that were being shown on this site. However, once I disabled the network throttling that is built into windows, the speed shot right up to 60Mb/s.

Buffalo's products don't even come close to the QNAPs as far as quality and that includes the OS. I mean these guys even give you telnet access unlike the out of touch guys at buffalo (where you had to hack the firmware). Telnet is a must to move files from the Qdownload to the Multimedia directory instantly.

I highly recommend QNAP and the only complaint I have is that the FAN doesn't spin down to a stop when it is not being used and the HDD have spun down, otherwise, perfect product.

[rpm8200]

Originally Posted by whoisnader

... However, once I disabled the network throttling that is built into windows, the speed shot right up to 60Mb/s. ...

What exactly do you mean by this? Would be interesting if you'd drop some info here (if you did something else than enabling Jumboframes?).

[PowerMAC]

Originally Posted by rpm8200

What exactly do you mean by this? Would be interesting if you'd drop some info here (if you did something else than enabling Jumboframes?).

I think he means the Bandwidth Throttling issue in Windows. See here: http://www.astahost.com/info.php/inc...20_t12273.html

[rpm8200]

Thank you for your reply! Unfortunatly the link is broken (database error). Tried to google your mentioned keywords but am not sure if I found what you thought about. Can you verify your link please?

[PowerMAC]

checked it, link works fine here ...

[rpm8200]

Well, did not work on first try, now it works for me, too. Thanks!