Cross-platform File Sharing
Centralized data storage across multiple platforms
QNAP NAS improves file sharing and teamwork efficiency by allowing users to access and share files on both internal and external networks, and supports user access controls to protect important data, providing an all-in-one solution for data storage, sharing and management.
Challenges in storing, sharing and managing data
Your colleagues, clients and working partners may use different operating systems such as Windows®, Mac®, Linux® and UNIX®. So how do you streamline the intricate process of sharing and accessing data? For the majority of small and medium businesses, they hope employees can handle the privilege settings for their projects without the assistance of IT professionals. Most importantly, data loss caused by unpredictable disk failure could make businesses suffer from disastrous loss.
QNAP NAS, the best data storage center
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Huge capacity
Built with 1 to 30 bays, tower to rackmount form factors, and intended for businesses to workgroups to home users; QNAP have a comprehensive selection of NAS solutions to meet a wide range of user requirements.
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Cross-platform File Sharing
QNAP NAS supports SMB/CIFS, AFP, WebDAV, and NFS protocols, allowing you to quickly transfer and share files across computers with different operating systems without compatibility constraints.
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Easy-to-use NAS OS
QNAP’s intelligent QTS/QuTS hero operating system features an intuitive user interface that simplifies system management and settings so that even users with little IT expertise can use it. The multitasking, multi-window design further increases your productivity.
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User access controls
Administrators can create shared folders, user groups, and users on the QNAP NAS with specified read and write access. To save effort on account creation and management, domain user accounts and passwords can be imported to QNAP NAS easily by joining the NAS to Microsoft Azure AD DS, Windows AD® or LDAP domain.
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RAID data protection
QNAP NAS supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60, Z1, Z2, Z3 and hot spare configurations such as 5+ hotspare, 6+ hotspare and 10+ hotspare to protect the system from possible data loss caused by hard disk drive failure.
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High-speed data transfer
QNAP NAS delivers excellent performance with high-speed network transmission, reducing the waiting time of file upload and download. With 1/2.5/5/10Gbps support available, many models also offer multiple LAN ports that are capable of load balancing and fault tolerance to maintain the high availability of the system and data.
Manage and share your data with File Station
All files a glance
Besides reading files on local NAS and USB storage, File Station supports accessing files from a wider range of external devices, including mobile phones, optical disc drives, and more. You can easily browse and manage files from multiple sources in one place and centralize them to the QNAP NAS.
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Directly access files on mobile devices
Simply connect your mobile device to your NAS using a USB cable to start storing, managing, and sharing your mobile data in File Station.
Note: This function requires QTS 4.3.4 (or later) or QuTS hero h4.5.0 (or later).
Remote mounting and cloud services
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Mounting a remote NAS
Directly mount shared folders from a remote NAS on a local NAS using CIFS/SMB, FTP or WebDAV for easier file access and management.
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Integration with cloud services
Directly browse and transfer files between your NAS and public cloud services, including Alibaba Cloud, Amazon® S3, Microsoft® Azure, Backblaze®, Box®, Dropbox®, Google™ Cloud, Google Drive™, Microsoft® OneDrive®, Microsoft® OneDrive® for Business and more.
Learn More: Migrate to the Cloud with QNAP
Instant online preview
File Station combines various tools and integrates the “Media Viewer” media browser for instant and easy file preview.
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You can directly open and modify Microsoft Office documents stored on the QNAP NAS with Microsoft Office Online. Downloading Word documents, Excel worksheets, and PowerPoint presentations from your NAS to PC for editing is now a distant past!
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On-the-fly transcoding* allows you to watch a video while it is being converted in real time. You can set specific folders to automatic transcode video content so any video added to these folders will be automatically converted to the specified video format.
*Only for NAS models that support real-time online file transcoding.
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View a wide range of images and play back photos as a slide show.
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Play music from a wide range of formats instantly.
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Open your emails (.eml) backed up via QmailAgent, and directly reply, forward, or compose a new message.
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View all of the snapshot versions and browse their content.
Flexible ways to share
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Share NAS space
NAS administrators can allocate space to other NAS users, and specify a storage quota in File Station.
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Share files
Send download links through email, social media, or create a share link for files or folders and copy & paste it where you need it. By enabling "Allow file upload to this folder", your friends can use the share link to upload files to your NAS.