TS-870 Pro

8-bay home & SOHO NAS for personal cloud and multimedia experience

Review

TS-870 Pro

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TS-870 Pro

2014-02-28

TS-870 Pro Review - E.D.i (France) (2014/02/28)

“Ideal for SMB with high storage needs, this 8-bay NAS by QNAP has the advantage of a wide range of features thanks to its compatibility with QTS 4.1.”

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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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TS-870 Pro

2014-02-28

TS-870 Pro Review - E.D.i (France) (2014/02/28)

“Ideal for SMB with high storage needs, this 8-bay NAS by QNAP has the advantage of a wide range of features thanks to its compatibility with QTS 4.1.”

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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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The TS-870 Pro, featuring advanced QTS operating system, performs as an easy-to-use yet powerful NAS for data backup, file synchronization, remote access and home entertainment. The TS-870 Pro has an excellent hardware design with a powerful Dual-Core 3.3 GHz processor that facilitates high definition media transcoding and the 5.1 channel surround sound with the HD Station via HDMI™ connection. Building a high-quality home theater is absolutely easy with the TS-870 Pro.

Centralized management for data and file backup
5.1 channel surround sound support with HD Station via HDMI™
File synchronization across computers, tablets and smart phones
Archive, manage, enjoy and share photo, music and video collections
24/7 home and SOHO surveillance center

QTS - Simple and efficient

Thanks to QTS’s intuitive user interface, system operations of the TS-870 Pro are smooth and handy. Its intelligent desktop allows you to find the desired functions quickly, create desktop shortcuts or group shortcuts, monitor important system information on a real-time basis, and open multiple application windows to run multiple tasks concurrently, bringing greater operating efficiency.

Learn more: QTS

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

Dual-Core 3.3 GHz processor delivering high performance

Equipped with powerful Dual-Core Intel® Core™ i3 3.3 GHz processor and 2GB DDR3 RAM, the TS-870 Pro is designed as a home NAS with high quality hardware to provide the performance to deliver extremely smooth media transcoding capabilities. You can also use the TS-870 Pro as a home multimedia hub to fully enjoy your photo, music and videos.

*Tested in QNAP lab. Figures could vary by environments.

Test environment:
PC: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU, 16GB DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 professional 64-bit, Dual-port Intel X520-SR2 10GbE Server Adapter, IOMeter sequential read and write. NAS: Intel 510 SSDs, Intel X-520-DA2 + 802.3ad trunking mode, RAID 5.

5.1 channel surround sound support with HD Station via HDMI™

QNAP HD Station integrates the powerful Kodi media player and web browser. With HDMI™ connectivity, you can connect the TS-870 Pro to a HDTV to enjoy all your rich multimedia content on the big screen. The splendid user interface and the support for 5.1 channel surround sound audio passthrough*, coupled with the powerful media transcoding capability of the TS-870 Pro, brings smooth playback of Full HD videos providing a quality home theater experience**. You can also turn your mobile devices into remote controls by installing the Qremote app or use MCE remote controls via the built-in IR receiver of the TS-870 Pro.

Learn more: HD Station

Supports DLNA and AirPlay for media streaming

You can use DLNA-compatible devices such as Smart TVs, Sony® PlayStation™, Microsoft® Xbox 360® and media players to watch HD quality videos stored on the TS-870 Pro. You can also use the Qfile app on an iOS device to browse videos and photos stored on the TS-870 Pro and play on the TV via Apple TV®. By installing the Media Streaming add-on app from the QTS App Center, you can stream your media content directly on a TV via Apple TV or Chromecast™ from File Station, Photo Station, Music Station or Video Station.

Photo albums on the cloud

The TS-870 Pro 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-870 Pro 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. Your mobile devices are useful too, with the Qfile mobile app in your iOSR or Android? devices you can instantly upload photos to the TS-870 Pro.

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

24/7 download center

The TS-870 Pro 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-870 Pro 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

Dropbox-like file synchronization across computers and mobile devices

With Qsync, your TS-870 Pro is turned into a safe data center for file synchronization. Any file uploaded to the TS-870 Pro will be made available for all linked devices, such as computers, laptops and mobile devices. Qsync is especially useful for frequent travelers in managing files and ensuring that different devices have the most up-to-date files. 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. The USB port on the front panel of the TS-870 Pro features a one-touch-copy function for you to instantly back up data on external drives to the TS-870 Pro with just one click, or back up data on the TS-870 Pro to the external drives alternatively. Apple Time Machine is also supported to provide Mac OS X users with an effortless solution to back up data to the TS-870 Pro. 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

Access, use, sync and enjoy with your tablets and smartphones

The TS-870 Pro 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. Besides, Qfile mobile app on an iOS device allows users to browse videos and photos stored on the TS-870 Pro and play on the TV via Apple TV. Qmanager lets you monitor and manage the TS-870 Pro remotely and efficiently without turning on a PC, while Qmusic allows you to listen to rich music collections on the TS-870 Pro anytime and anywhere, and download to enjoy offline.

Learn more: Qfile, Qmanager, Qmusic

Comprehensive surveillance solution providing 24/7 security

The TS-870 Pro‘s Surveillance Station offers a professional surveillance solution with the user-friendly NVR (network video recorder) management interface, a wide range of over 2,700 compatible IP camera models, and expandable IP camera channel licenses. It supports real-time monitoring, video and audio recording and playback with a wide range of customizable settings. You can also install the Vmobile app on your iOS® or Android™ devices to manage the monitoring of cameras anytime, anywhere, for total surveillance of your monitored environment.

Learn more: Surveillance Station

Flexible 10GbE network expansion

The 10GbE-reay TS-870 Pro includes two inbuilt Gigabit Ethernet ports, which can be expanded with additional two Gigabit Ethernet ports or two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, and delivers lightening data throughput. Coupled with the support for large storage capacity, the TS-870 Pro is perfect for data centers to storage big data and excel in fast data transmission, and for editing large size videos on-the-fly without transferring the videos between the TS-870 Pro and desktop computers.

Learn more: 10 GbE solution

Install-on-demand apps to extend NAS functionality

The TS-870 Pro has a built-in App Center that provides various install-on-demand apps developed by QNAP and third-party developers, including tools for backup/sync, business, content management, communications, download, entertainment, and much more. It is also a centralized location for managing & updating installed apps. 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-870 Pro.

Learn more: App Center

Storage for comprehensive virtualization applications

The TS-870 Pro is VMware® Ready™, Citrix® Ready™, compatible with Microsoft® Hyper-V™ certification and Windows Server 2012, enabling flexible deployment and management for virtualization needs. The TS-870 Pro 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 and MC/S, LUN snapshot

Economical storage expansion with scale-up solution

The TS-870 Pro offers a high performance yet affordable storage solution to fulfill the needs of small/home offices in archiving rapidly growing data & large files. The TS-870 Pro supports online capacity expansion by connecting a QNAP expansion enclosure. With the QNAP scale-up solution, the raw storage capacity can be expanded on demand, making the TS-870 Pro an ideal file center with large storage capacity for personal video collections.

The maximum raw storage capacity available by connecting a QNAP expansion enclosure:

Turbo NAS Model	QNAP Expansion Enclosure	Max. No. of Expansion Enclosure	Total HDD No. (NAS + Enclosure)	Max. Raw Capacity (TB)#
TS-870 Pro	REXP-1600U-RP	2	40	240
	REXP-1600U-RP	1	24	144
	REXP-1200U-RP	2	32	192
	REXP-1200U-RP	1	20	120
	REXP-1000 Pro	2	28	168
	REXP-1000 Pro	1	18	108

#The maximum capacity is calculated by using 6TB HDDs.

Learn more: QNAP expansion enclosures

NAS management can be just that easy.

The TS-870 Pro 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-870 Pro 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.