QNAP TS-209 Pro is a very well machined NAS box with sleek and firm body. It uses thick metal for the overall impressive look and the installation procedure of two 3,5" harddrives is fast and without any trouble. Thanks to the diagnostic LED we always see what is happening and also thanks to them we will immediately know, when is the HDD capacity almost filled. Next, there are three USB ports and with their help we may further expand the overall capacity or make use of the embedded Print Server.

QNAP TS-109 should not be called network storage. It is a very efficient home server. Honestly speaking I cannot think of any function this device does not have as a multimedia home server or a small office server (SOHO).
Advantages:
+ well-developed, advanced solution for a reasonable price
+ lots of integrated software, no problems with cooperation between software applications
+ a good quality case, the server is virtually noiseless as it has no ventilators
+ free software updates.

QNAP TS-409 Pro is High quality network storage with 1Gb connection and RAID 5 safety. Network storage is the best solution for Home site where you have more PC. Qnap offers whole product line of storages and QNAP TS-409 Pro presents the best of them. You can have Qnap in living room becuase Fan cooler is very quiet and elegant. Extremly plentiful equipment covers all functions that you will need. You can find web server function with MySQL and CMS systém Joomla inside. TS-409 Pro version is ideal for small companies and becomes with Active directory service ( for Microsoft sites) and NFS support.

Ups :

• Raid migration. This one is really great for people who cannot afford to buy the box + all the 4 disks the same day, and this may be my favourite feature.
• One of the most feature-packed on the market.
• clear UI, well explained with a very usefull online help (well, icons still could be more explicit).
• SMB & FTP Read performance.
• Very efficient cooling.
• SMART monitoring functions.
• Bittorent seeding options !
• USB copy function.
• Twonkyvision is cool for customizing the way audio files are displayed and organised.

With the QNAP TS-409 Turbo NAS, available as slightly cheaper Standard or as the tested Pro version with support of NFS and Active Directory, QNAP brings a Desktop NAS device with 4 SATA slots to the market at a very attractive price. Compared to the already tested devices from Netgear, Synology and Zyxel, QNAP can convince in every aspect: It's barely more expensive than the previous "best purchase" by Synology while at the same time just as compact and as well built as the "best in test" by Netgear. Also regarding performance it's on par with the previous "best performance" device by Zyxel. Regarding functions the devices are all very similar but the TS-409 offers features like flexible RAID configuration, expanding and migration that's not usual in every Desktop NAS.

To store, back up, manage, and share digital assets and outputs appropriately have become increasingly essential. However, it is a challenging job for most small business and SOHO users due to the lack of resources and professional IT staff. Now, QNAP TS-409 Pro Turbo Station offers the most ideal solution to fulfill all these needs."

QNAP offers 3 lines of All-in-one NAS servers in this moment. For 1 , 2 and 4 hard drives. TS109 is for one hard drive and it is designated for home users and small office. It used 500MHz CPU and 128 MB memory. It means performance is very good. TS 109 is very quiet because there is no FAN. You can find many functions here. You can share multimedia files, you can download files from internet without PC. Setup is very friendly via web interface. You can use RAID mirroring via USB 2.0 or eSATA connector. If you see all possibilities you can find that TS109 can replace small PC server. Price and power saving are great superiority.

The affordable QNAP TS-409 Pro Turbo Station NAS is a venerable Swiss Army Knife of features that few NAS appliances in its class can match and can just about do it all, from File, Print, and Multimedia to FTP Backup and Web Server. Supports Windows, Mac and Linux. Quick and easy installation via QNAP Finder utility. Built in iTunes, TwonkyMedia, Joomla! and MySQL/PHP support. Fast and elegantly simple browser-based administrator. Multimedia and Download Stations for sharing and managing digital media, HTTP, FTP and Bit Torrent Downloads. One-touch copy backup button to USB storage to different destination folders...

When it comes to a cool feature packed Network Attached Storage device you'll be hard pressed to find anything more versatile than the TS-409 Pro Turbo NAS. It comes with a whole laundry list of features specific to the task of serving up files but also for serving up other things like multimedia content, dynamic database content and even downloading over BitTorrent. QNAP has also included the ability to turn this NAS appliance into an application server with the inclusion of PHP4 and MySQL. This means you can run a variety of web applications including Joomla! (which is included) phpBB (a free web forum) or any other custom PHP apps that are installable over the web.

Qnap TS-109 is a versatile device, so universal that calling it "NAS" is unfair. Somebody may write that Qnap could be quicker. That is obviously true but this argument is always valid for every device. It so happens that among 1 HDD devices, Qnap belongs to the fastest on the market.

We really liked the QNAP TS-109 Pro Turbo Station. It deserves attention, engineers made great job and TS-109 Pro Turbo Station has some unchallenged advantages: a lot of features and abilities, many settings, good  acoustic properties and minimal heating level. We also mark its flexibility, media server and download server.
QNAP TS-109 Pro Turbo Station can be recommended to the target audience it's made for - to the SOHO segment.

QNAP QBack-25S has great software embedded in SATA edition.It's an empty case but full of ideas to backup your data. Compact, this case is especially interesting because of its softwares and its capacity to backup and encodes your data.

The QNAP TS-409 Pro NAS packs a lot of professional features into a compact little unit.If you're in the market for an NAS appliance, then the QNAP TS-409 Pro is one of the better ones you can get. It has a ton of features and RAID migration capability, sips electricity, and is relatively maintenance-free once configured.

I think the QNAP TS-209 Pro definitely has the potential to replace a lot of small business server systems out there in the market, as many businesses use very little of their server's capabilities, and only use it for file/print sharing, and given the TS-209 will consume just under 30W of power when it's in full operation, it's a much greener choice than a server system that consumes hundreds of watts and barely gets used.

Rich feature set of QNAP TS-109 Pro, stylish design, well-thought cooling system without fan, minimal noise, defined only by acoustic parameters of hard drive - so it is briefly possible to characterize this system. The system of QNAP TS-109 Pro will be very interesting, if home or business user needs for the distributed network data storage don't exceed a terabyte, or if meaningful of expansion capacity up to 2 Tb by means of external USB/eSATA stores. Unconditional advantages of system are the productive LAN interface, convenient and intuitive user interface, a lot of embedded features, for example, the bit.torrent client, UPS support, work with multimedia devices Apple iPod, Sony PS3, Microsoft xbox360.

Aside from acting as a basic NAS appliance, the TS-209 Pro also has a lot of functions that you'd normally associate with a dedicated server appliance. Backup is an obvious utility, with simple Windows backup software provided, but beyond that, the TS-209 Pro also offers FTP, Web, MySQL, Print, UPnP, iTunes and Photo server functions. Whether you're installing it in a small business, or just as a home backup server, there's bound to be something that the TS-209 Pro can do for you.

QNAP TS-209 Pro can be used in RAID 0 or 1 mode; hot-swappable drives in the event of a RAID 1 array failing; Web, FTP, printer and media server. If you're looking for a fully-featured NAS device for the home or the office, this one can't be passed over. It's pricey, but you're paying for plenty of functionality that's ready to go once you install a couple of hard disks.

QNAP's TS-209 Pro offers a compelling mix of server functionality and straight-up NAS backup options.Its additional functionality, which covers everything from PS3/Xbox 360 media streaming through to dedicated web serving do place it nicely ahead of the BYOD pack.

QNAP TS-209 Pro's internal network HDD can be individually configured with JBOD in RAID0 or RAID1, It has also great transfer rates with peaks at 28MB/s (writing mode) for heavy files. It is the fastest NAs of all the one we tested. It miss nothing and is a great investment even if you dont want to use all of its many functions.

To compare with QNAP TS-109 and HP Mediasmart Server, these two models have similar functions.
QNAP TS-109 is much less expensive than its competitor.
For this reason , we think QNAP TS-109 is a better choice than HP Mediasmart Server.
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