Product: QNAP TS-119 Turbo NAS
Manufacturer: QNAP
MSRP: $299.99     Find Lowest Price @ PriceGrabber
Author: Nick
Date: July 15, 2009

While being a fairly new company, QNAP has quickly established a reputation in the industry for quality NAS products. While most of their NAS solutions tend to be for use in businesses, they also have several products geared towards the home user. Today we will be talking a look at the QNAP TS-119 Turbo, which is one such product.

Specifications/Features

• Superior performance with abundant business features – Adopting Marvell 1.2 GHz CPU and large-sized 512MB DDRII RAM, the Turbo NAS maintains superior performance even when there is intensive access to the network services of the server simultaneously. The TS-119 also supports cross-platform service across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX. Enhanced industry-leading features are also provided, e.g. built-in iSCSI target service, unauthorized policy-based IP blocking, instant SMS alert, schedule power on/ off, and two IP cameras for network surveillance.

• Maximize the enjoyment of your home multimedia center - The built-in UPnP/ DLNA media server (with TwonkyMedia enabled) of the Turbo NAS supports a wide range of DLNA media players such as Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming consoles and works well with NFS-supported High-Definition (HD) DMA for HD video streaming. By installing DLNA/ UPnP application on your iPhone or iPod touch, you can access the Turbo NAS on the local network and play the multimedia contents, e.g. videos, music, and photos on the server. In addition, the high-speed PC-less Download Station with the unique QGet utility enables you to manage the BT/ FTP/ HTTP download tasks remotely over the local network or the Internet. The TS-119 is the ideal multimedia and storage solution to enhance your home entertainment experience.

• No fan design

• QNAP Backup Software – The backup software, NetBak Replicator, is provided for the NAS users to perform real-time synchronization or schedule backup from multiple PCs to the NAS.

• 3rd Party Backup Software Ready – The NAS works well with other backup software, e.g. Acronis True Image, CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup, EMC Retrospect, Symantec Backup Exec, and LaCie Silverkeeper.

• Encrypted Remote Replication – The data on the NAS can be backed up to or from another Turbo NAS over the network securely.

• One Touch USB Auto Copy - The one touch button can be configured to trigger instant data backup from the external USB device to the NAS or the other way around (applies to the USB device connected to the front USB port of the NAS only).

• Sharing Files across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX

• Web File Manager - The NAS provides Web File Manager for you to easily download, upload, and manage the files on the server by web browser.

• Ease of User and Share Folder Management - The NAS supports batch creation of users and share folders to save the time and effort of the server manager in account and folder creation. For the security of a Windows network environment, server managers can hide or show network share folders.

• Hard Disk Standby – You can configure the hard disks to enter standby mode if there is no disk access within the specified period.

• Schedule Power on/ off – The flexible schedule power on/off feature is now provided on the NAS for IT administrators to manage the NAS server’s up time according to the working hours. You can set the time for automatic system power on, power off, or restart on any days of the week.

• Secure data storage, access, and sharing

• Write-only access on FTP server – The third party partners are allowed to upload data to the NAS but not able to read or edit the data on FTP server.

Packaging and Contents

Included with the TS-119 is a power adapter, an ethernet cable, two removable feet, a set of screws, two CDs (one with the installation software and another with the firmware, as well as a Quick Install guide.

Setup

The TS-119 does not include a hard drive so the user must supply their own hard drive. This allows one to easily customize the amount of storage capacity, up to 2TB and the ability to have higher capacity NAS for less money than similar capacity all inclusive NAS solutions cost.

Installation of the hard drive is even simpler than installing a hard drive into a computer. The enclosure slides apart revealing the innards. All you have to do is slide the hard drive into the SATA and power connectors, screw it down, and slide the enclosure back together.

Unlike the traditional USB, FireWire, or eSATA external hard drive, setup of a NAS is typically not plug-and-play. This can be a major sticking point of a NAS for the less technologically inclined. However, I found the initial setup of the QNAP TS-119 to be fairly straight forward using Qfinder, which is located on the included CD. Qfinder will take the user though every step of the setup, including mapping the drives. Granted upon completion of the setup, a lot of features will be set on the default setting, which I found well suited for the casual computer user. However, for those that like to tweak everything, the web administration interface is very well organized and allows the user to tweak almost every aspect of the NAS operation.

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After completing the initial setup, I would highly recommend setting up user accounts on the TS-119 that mirror (same user name and password) those of the Windows user accounts that will be accessing files on the NAS. While it is not a problem if the only folder the user will be accessing on the TS-119 is the Public folder, I found that I was unable to transfer files to any of the other folders via Windows Explorer until I created the user account on the TS-119.

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Tags: enclosure, NAS, QNAP, Storage, TS-119, Turbo