Ultra high performance

The TS-1279U-RP is designed to provide IP SAN/NAS unified storage for large-scale business organizations that demand uncompromising high performance. Featuring a powerful Intel® Core™ i3-3220 Dual Core Processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM (expandable to 32GB), and the capacity to hold up to 12 hard drives, the TS-1279U-RP greatly enhances efficiency of CPU-consuming tasks, powering large amount of concurrent tasks, and meeting the stringent requirements of data-hungry applications.

Flexible 10GbE network expansion

The 10GbE-ready TS-1279U-RP includes 2 in-built Gigabit Ethernet ports, which can be expanded with additional 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports, or 2 10Gigabit Ethernet ports and delivers excellence performance with 1,000 MB/s throughput and 100,000 IOPS, improving the efficiency of virtualization applications via both NFS and iSCSI protocols. Coupled with the support for large storage capacity, the TS-1279U-RP is a perfect choice for applications demanding high storage space and transmission speed such as data centers storing big data and for studios editing 4K/HD videos on-the-fly without transferring the videos between the TS-1279U-RP and desktop computers

Learn more: 10GbE solution

Qsirch – A smarter, faster way to search

Quickly and easily find documents, photos, videos, and music with Qsirch, QNAP’s new built-in NAS search application lets you find what you need by real-time, natural search. Simply type in as much as you know about what you are trying to find, including bits of the file name or even words/phrases in the document, and Qsirch will display a list of matches, complete with thumbnails, as you type. Qsirch even remembers your search history so you can quickly navigate to files you’ve previously searched for. Qsirch is a huge productivity boost – it greatly reduces the amount of time spent looking for files on the NAS so you can focus on other tasks.

Note: 2GB RAM (4GB or more RAM is recommended for optimum performance) and QTS 4.1 or newer firmware is required.

Learn more: Qsirch

Comprehensive virtualization support

The TS-1279U-RP is VMware® Ready™, Citrix® Ready™, compatible with Microsoft® Hyper-V™ certification and Windows Server 2012, and supports advanced functions including SPC-3, MPIO and MC/S, enabling flexible deployment and management for virtualization needs. The TS-1279U-RP supports VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX to increase performance by offloading ESXi server loading, and supports QNAP vSphere Client plug-in and QNAP SMI-S provider to provide enhanced operational efficiency in managing virtualization applications.

Learn more: VMware® Ready™, Citrix® /Ready™, SPC-3, MPIO & MC/S, LUN snapshot

High Efficiency with Multiple LAN support

The TS-1279U-RP supports multiple port-trunking modes, enabling IT administrators to set up link aggregation to increase total data transmission capability. Failover is also supported to ensure continuous system operations. The supported port-trunking modes include: Balance-rr (Round-Robin), Active Backup, Balance XOR, Broadcast, IEEE 802.3ad, Balance-tlb (Adaptive Transmit Load Balancing) and Balance-alb (Adaptive Load Balancing).

Learn more: Network setting

High stability. Built to last.

The TS-1279U-RP serves as a business-ready system, providing 24/7 continuous operation and services. The dual OS embedded on the DOM architecture in the TS-1279U-RP ensures that the system boots up and operates stably. The expertly-designed smart fan delivers great system heat dissipation with minimum vibration, and is easily replaceable without system interruption. The TS-1279U-RP also features a redundant power supply to ensure maximum system uptime.

Learn more: Smart fan

High reliability

The TS-1279U-RP 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. The Global Hot Spare function also enables the global hot-spare drive to automatically replace a failed drive in a RAID volume, preventing data from being lost.

Learn more: RAID recovery, Global Hot Spare

Large capacity for cross-platform sharing

The TS-1279U-RP 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-1279U-RP is perfect for cross-platform data sharing. The support of Windows AD and LDAP Directory Service saves a great amount of time for account management and authentication. Users can use their Windows AD or LDAP server accounts and passwords to log into the Turbo NAS. The TS-1279U-RP can also serve as an LDAP server.

Learn more: RAID management, online RAID expansion, RAID level migration, Windows AD, LDAP Directory Service

Dropbox-like file sync across devices

Is Dropbox not enough to satisfy your storage needs? With Qsync, your TS-1279U-RP is turned into a safe data center for file synchronization. Every file uploaded to the TS-1279U-RP 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

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-1279U-RP. 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

Disaster recovery solutions bring peace of mind

The TS-1279U-RP offers various data recovery options. RTRR (Real-Time Remote Replication) supports real time or scheduled data backup to remote Turbo NAS or FTP servers and synchronizes files to remote folders from local folders with better backup efficiency and reduced backup time. The TS-1279U-RP also supports rsync protocol to back up data to remote servers on a scheduled basis. Data can also be backed up to and restored from a range of cloud storage services, including Amazon® S3, ElephantDrive®, Dropbox® and Google Cloud Storage.

Learn more: RTRR, rsync, Cloud storage backup

Easy system setup

The TS-1279U-RP 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-1279U-RP features an "Auto Setup" option to provide an easy way to set up the TS-1279U-RP with recommended settings. All settings can be flexibly changed at a later time after the installation.

High security

In an open network environment, business data may be exposed in a potential hack. The TS-1279U-RP provides numerous security options, such as encrypted access, IP blocking, and other protective features. IT administrators can also control the access rights of each user to different folders, preventing unauthorized access to important files. The TS-1279U-RP is validated with military-grade FIPS 140-2 AES 256-bit encryption, preventing unauthorized users to access data even if the hard drives or entire system were stolen.

Learn more: Encrypted access, IP blocking, Hard drive encryption, Antivirus, Windows ACL

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-1279U-RP 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-1279U-RP 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-1279U-RP has flexible and diverse features, but is simple to use.

Learn more: Compatibility list, Cross-platform file sharing

NAS management can be just that easy.

The TS-1279U-RP 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 SMB-ready features

The TS-1279U-RP 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.