TS-869L

High-performance 8-bay NAS server for Home & SOHO

Review

TS-869L

Features

QNAP

2013-07-22

Brand of the year 2013 - PC-WELT (Germany) (2013/7/22)

1st place: Brand of the Year, 2013, Home/SOHO NAS Category 1st place: Brand of the Year, 2013, SMB NAS Category 1st place: Technology-winning, 2013, Home/SOHO NAS Category 1st place: Technology Winner, 2013, SMB NAS Category

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QTS 4.0

2013-05-09

Review of QTS 4.0 - Techstation (Italy) (2013/5/9)

‘’QNAP has done a very good job updating the old GUI and greatly increased the use of the Consumer NAS for the users.’’

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QNAP

2013-07-22

Brand of the year 2013 - PC-WELT (Germany) (2013/7/22)

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QTS 4.0

2013-05-09

Review of QTS 4.0 - Techstation (Italy) (2013/5/9)

‘’QNAP has done a very good job updating the old GUI and greatly increased the use of the Consumer NAS for the users.’’

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Turn your living room into a home theater

With the HD Station, you can connect a HDTV to the TS-869L via HDMI™ to enjoy high-definition multimedia content stored on your TS-869L , surf the web, and watch YouTube videos. Paired with the Qremote app or Official XBMC Remote app, your iPhone or Android devices can turn into a remote control for the HD Station. With being DLNA compliant, you can view photos, play videos, and listen to music on the TS-869L on any DLNA devices, such as HDTV sets, video game consoles and Hi-Fi systems. Building an amazing home multimedia center is easy with the TS-869L.

Photo albums on the cloud

The TS-869L acts as your photo vault for you to back up your favorite photos. The Photo Station makes photo sharing simple, and you can designate your own access right controls. Simply upload your photos to the TS-869L to create and organize your photo albums through a web browser, and share with your family and friends through social networking sites such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest. With the Qfile mobile app in your iOS® or Android™ devices you can instantly upload photos on your mobile devices to the TS-869L.

Learn more: Photo Station

Build your home music library and enjoy music anywhere

The Music Station helps categorize your music collection, and displays album covers to easily organize your personal playlists. Through the music station web player, you can enjoy your music anytime, anywhere with a few clicks. Thousands of local and global online Internet radio programs are also built-into the Music Station for you to enjoy.

Learn more: Music Station

Dropbox-like file sync across devices

Is Dropbox not enough to satisfy your storage needs? With Qsync, your TS-869L is turned into a safe data center for file synchronization. Every file uploaded to the TS-869L will be made available for all linked devices including computers, laptops and mobile devices. Qsync is especially useful for frequent travelers as it ensures the most up-to-date files are accessible on all linked devices. Qsync provides multiple ways of file synchronization and group file sharing, greatly enhancing the flexibility of team projects and collaboration.

Learn more: Qsync

A private cloud without constraints

In contrast to the limited storage space and security concerns of public cloud services, the TS-869L is advantageous for establishing a secure and large-capacity private cloud. myQNAPcloud service allows remote access to the TS-869L from anywhere. You can easily get access to the TS-869L, instantly share multimedia contents and check the system status via the Internet whether you are on the bus or in a coffee shop.

Learn more: myQNAPcloud

24/7 download center

The TS-869L is a perfect download center for high speed BT, Magnet, PT (Private Trackers), eMule, FTP, and HTTP downloads. After the download tasks are set ready, you can turn off the computer, and the TS-869L will download as many HD videos as you want. With the QGet utility you can manage your download tasks on multiple NAS devices remotely on the local network or the Internet.

Learn more: Download Station

Easy system setup on start.qnap.com

The TS-869L provides system installation without using a CD. Simply visit the setup portal start.qnap.com ,and follow the setup guide to complete the system setup and download the utilities you want. For beginners, the TS-869L features an "Auto Setup" option to provide an easy way to set up the TS-869L with recommended settings. All settings can be flexibly changed at a later time after the installation.

Access, sync and share on your mobile devices

The TS-869L is your private cloud storage that virtually enlarges the capacity of your smart mobile devices. Qfile allows you to access, upload, download, manage, and share stored files easily as if you are carrying tons of files in your pocket. The Qfile app for iOS also allows users to browse videos and photos stored on the TS-869L and play on the TV via AirPlay. Qmanager lets you monitor and manage the TS-869L remotely and efficiently without turning on a PC.

Learn more: Qfile、 Qmanager

A surveillance solution with 24/7 security

The Surveillance Station turns the TS-869L into a professional surveillance solution with the user-friendly management interface, a wide range of compatible IP camera models, and expandable IP camera channel licenses. It also supports real-time monitoring, recording & playback with a wide range of customizable settings, and with the Vmobile app on your iOS® or Android™ devices you can manage the monitoring of cameras anytime, anywhere, for total surveillance of your monitored environment.

Learn more: Surveillance Station

Install apps on demand to extend NAS functionality

The QNAP App Center provides a wide range of apps developed by QNAP and third-party developers, including tools for backup/sync, business, content management, communications, download, entertainment, and much more. The App Center is a centralized location for installing, managing, and updating apps on demand. In addition, QNAP's development platform embraces the open-source spirit to enable developers to create their own apps, adding potentially limitless opportunities for the TS-869L.

Learn more: App Center

Reliable RAID protection

The TS-869L supports comprehensive RAID configuration and hot-swapping to allow hard drive replacement without system interruption. QNAP’s advanced RAID recovery technology also helps if any healthy drives are removed from a degraded RAID volume by mistake. The system can be recovered to degraded mode by reinserting the wrongly removed hard drives so the data can still be accessible.

Learn more: RAID recovery

Well-rounded backup solutions to secure data

QNAP Netbak Replicator supports real-time and scheduled data backup on Windows including Outlook email archiving. Apple Time Machine is also supported to provide Mac OS X users with an effortless solution to back up data to the TS-869L. A wide range of third-party backup software such as Acronis True Image and Symantec Backup Exec are also supported.

Learn more: NetBak Replicator , Time Machine backup, Third-party backup software compatibility

Increase data capacity with flexible storage expansion options

The TS-869L supports large storage capacities; fulfilling business needs to store large amounts of data. It also supports comprehensive RAID management, online RAID capacity expansion, and flexible RAID migration to safely store important data therefore reducing the risks of data loss. With reliable data protection, the TS-869L is perfect for cross-platform data sharing.

Learn more: Online RAID expansion, RAID level migration

Excellent performance for multimedia entertainment

The TS-869L is an 8-bay model for home and small offices. Featuring a powerful Intel® Atom™ 2.13 GHz Dual Core Processor, the TS-869L delivers excellent performance in file storage, multimedia applications and serving concurrent tasks at the same time. The TS-869L provides 2 X USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports which enable speedy data backup to external storage devices.

Exceptional Performance: Up to 222 MB/sec Read & 222 MB/sec Write

Test environment:
Client PC: Windows 7 Professional 64bit, Intel Core i7-2600, 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM, Seagate ST31000524AS HDD, Intel® Gigabit CT, ZyXEL GS-2024 switch

IO Meter Configuration: Transfer 8GB file with 64K sequential read & write and 8 worker settings
NAS: RAID5 volume with Samsung HD103SJ fully loaded, MTU 1500 with link aggregation

Flexible & diverse, yet simple.

Supporting SATA 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s hard drives and various 3.5”/2.5” hard drives and SSDs, the TS-869L provides users with high flexibility in selecting hard drives. The various inbuilt I/O ports help accommodate different peripherals, including external storage devices and printers. Meanwhile, the TS-869L allows file sharing and storage on different operating systems, such as Windows, Mac, Linux and UNIX. The simplified system setup process and the friendly-designed graphical user interface enable anyone to easily build up a business private cloud even without IT expertise. The TS-869L has flexible and diverse features, but is simple to use.

Learn more: Compatibility list , Cross-platform file sharing

Eco-friendly design

The TS-869L features green technology that assists in saving electricity. The smart fan can automatically adjust its speed based on system use while the hard disk standby mode sets the hard disks to enter standby mode if there is no disk access within the specified period. These features and more lower energy consumption and expand the lifespan of your system and hard disks. You can also flexibly set up automatic system power on, off, or reset the TS-869L.

Learn more: Hard disk standby, Scheduled power on/off or reset, Smart fan, Wake on LAN

NAS management can be just that easy.

The TS-869L provides comprehensive system tools to increase management efficiency.

Instant Alert Notifications

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

Wake on LAN

With the SMTP and SMS settings on the Turbo NAS, system administrators will get notifications from SMS or emails when any error occurs.

Administrators can flexibly set up the time of turning on/off for the Turbo NAS, maximum 15 sets of schedules are allowed for turning on, off, or rebooting.

Scheduled Power on/off

S.M.A.R.T. & Advanced Hard Drive Health Scan (HHS)

Comprehensive Event Logs

Additional features for home offices

The TS-869L supports various business applications as an all-in-one Turbo NAS with cost-efficiency.

FTP Server

Web Server

RADIUS
Server

The Turbo NAS supports FTP server to share large size files, coming with user-defined settings including bandwidth limitation, number of connections, and write-only permission.

The Turbo NAS supports VPN server which provides an easy way for IT administrators to build up a secure private network and allows the staff to log on from outside the office and access business resources securely such as files and Internet connections.