Manufacturer: QNAP Price: $ 1200 US Author: Steve Date: 08/23/2011

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Today we are checking out the QNAP TS-659 Pro II, a 6-bay NAS device capable of supporting up to 18TB of storage along with many other noteworthy features such as USB 3.0 support. Aimed at business class users, this first class desktop NAS device is designed to deliver the very best features and performance... In recent years, QNAP has emerged as one of the biggest names in the network-attached storage business and for good reason: they offer one of the largest and most impressive NAS product lines. The company's offerings start at $150 US (TS-110-US) and can go for more than $1,000 US catering to home, SMB and corporate needs. Early this year their line-up grew even more diverse with the addition of QNAP's new TS-x12 range, which includes single (TS-112 $170 US), dual (TS-212 $200 US) and quad-bay (TS-412 $430 US) iterations designed to deliver well-rounded performance, low power levels and a wealth of applications for home networks. They then went on to release the new TS-x59 Pro II series, which comprised of the 4-bay TS-459 Pro II, the 5-bay TS-559 Pro II, and the 6-bay TS-659 Pro II. This new series utilizes the powerful yet energy-efficient dual-core Intel Atom D525 1.8GHz processor along with 1GB of DDR3 memory (expandable to 3GB). In addition to powerful processors, the new models are the first in the industry to support SATA 6Gb/s hard drives. Also new is USB 3.0 support, ensuring internal and external hard drives deliver the highest performance possible. Given that these are business class NAS devices, pricing starts at $970 US for the TS-459 Pro II, while the slightly larger TS-559 Pro II costs $1110 US. However the TS-659 Pro II which we have our hands on costs a cool $1350 US and can support up to 18TB of networked storage. Since announcing the TS-659 Pro II back on March 29th 2011, QNAP has made a few noteworthy changes. Firstly they have extended the warranty period from just 1-year to 2-years, which is important as they are now matching the Synology 2-year warranty period. The other important change has been to the QNAP NAS Management Software. Whereas the TS-x59 Pro II series initially shipped with version 3.4, the latest v3.5 is now available. The latest v.35 offers several new security enhancements. For example there is a new antivirus feature which allows the administrator to scan the NAS manually or on a recurring schedule, and this is something we will look at in greater detail shortly.

Table of Contents >>> Introduction <<< QNAP TS-659 Pro II NAS Inside the TS-659 Pro II The QNAP v3.5 User Interface Installation & Setup Process Test System & Power Consumption Benchmarks: File Download Performance Benchmarks: File Upload Performance Benchmarks: File Copy Performance Benchmarks: CrystalDiskMark 3.0 Benchmarks: Atto Disk Benchmark Benchmarks: Intel NAS Performance Toolkit Conclusion Next Page ->

Koots

Posted on: 08/25/2011 05:22 AM I bought one of these a few months ago, its a fantastic product. I filled mine with 2TB drives and the performance is great!

Bluescreendeath

Posted on: 08/25/2011 12:19 PM Nice review. You should check out the new Core i3 models they look insane.

tom	Posted on: 01/21/2012 01:30 PM What about noise during idle and read-write-access? I've read that the QNAP TS-459 Pro II NAS is pianissimo compared to Synology 4-bay products.