TS-879 Pro

Ultra-high performance 8-bay NAS server for high-end SMBs

Review

TS-879 Pro

Features

Ultra high performance

The TS-879 Pro is designed to provide IP SAN/NAS unified storage for large-scale business organizations that demand uncompromising high performance. Featuring a powerful Intel® Core™ i3-2120 dual Core Processor, 2GB DDR3 RAM (expandable to 2GB), and the capacity to hold up to 8 hard drives, the TS-879 Pro 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-879 Pro 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-879 Pro 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-879 Pro and desktop computers

Learn more: 10GbE solution

Comprehensive virtualization support

The TS-879 Pro 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-879 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 & MC/S, LUN snapshot

High Efficiency with Multiple LAN support

The TS-879 Pro 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-879 Pro serves as a business-ready system, providing 24/7 continuous operation and services. The dual OS embedded on the DOM architecture in the TS-879 Pro 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-879 Pro also features a redundant power supply to ensure maximum system uptime.

Learn more: Smart fan

High reliability

The TS-879 Pro 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-879 Pro 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-879 Pro 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-879 Pro 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-879 Pro is turned into a safe data center for file synchronization. Every file uploaded to the TS-879 Pro 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-879 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

Disaster recovery solutions bring peace of mind

The TS-879 Pro 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-879 Pro 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-879 Pro 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-879 Pro features an "Auto Setup" option to provide an easy way to set up the TS-879 Pro 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-879 Pro 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-879 Pro 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-879 Pro 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-879 Pro 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-879 Pro has flexible and diverse features, but is simple to use.

Learn more: Compatibility list, Cross-platform file sharing

Informative LCD display

The TS-879 Pro is equipped with an LCD display panel that provides quick system information making system management even easier.

NAS management can be just that easy.

The TS-879 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 SMB-ready features

The TS-879 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.