Rackmount NAS units introduced in recent days have been mostly based on the powerful Intel processors, but there is a market demand amongst small workgroups and SMBs for low power NAS devices in that form factor. In order to serve this market, QNAP is launching the TS-421U and TS-420U, both of which are based on the tried and tested Marvell 6282 CPU. The 420U runs the CPU at 1.6 GHz, while the 421U cranks it up to 2.0 GHz. Both units have four hot-swappable bays in a 1U rackmount form factor. There are two GbE ports, two USB 3.0 ports, two eSATA ports and a single USB 2.0 port in front. The PSU is built-in. Internally, the units sport 1 GB of DDR3 DRAM (double...

QNAP Introduces Atom-based 12-bay TS-1269U-RP Rackmount NAS

QNAP's flagship NAS lineup, the TS-ECx79U-RP, checks all the boxes for a high performance enterprise NAS in a rackmount form factor for high end SMBs. These include quad GbE...

9 by Ganesh T S on 3/4/2013

QNAP Introduces XBMC App for TS-x69 Pro / L Series NAS Units

The Atom D2700 series CPUs have proved quite popular in the SMB / SOHO NAS market. We saw vendors introduce models with HDMI outputs as early as December 2011...

7 by Ganesh T S on 2/7/2013

QNAP Unveils TS-x70U-RP NAS Line Up and Turbo NAS 3.8.1

QNAP is one of the NAS vendors known for providing affordable 10 GbE ready solutions, and they are continuing the trend with the TS-x70 series. At CES 2013, they...

2 by Ganesh T S on 1/10/2013

QNAP's JTB-400: A BYOD 4-bay Thunderbolt Enclosure

Ahh, finally what I've been asking for: a 4-bay Thunderbolt enclosure that allows you to bring your own disks. I'm reserving excitement until I see just how much QNAP's...

23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/7/2012

QNAP at CES : SMB Lineup Refresh and a 200TB+ SAS Storage Rack

QNAP is one of the more popular vendors in the SMB NAS space along with Synology. At CES, QNAP had a booth with samples of selected lineup members. The 1...

4 by Ganesh T S on 1/12/2012

QNAP TS-659 Pro II Review

The SMB (Small to Medium Businesses) and Corporate NAS market is a highly competitive one. Over the last one year, we have been expanding our coverage of this market...

69 by Ganesh T S on 9/19/2011

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