The QNAP TS-459 Pro II Turbo NAS is the industry's true business-class network-attached storage designed with next-generation technology like 6Gb/s (SATA III) hard drives support, delivering blazing fast data transfer rates. The NAS houses up to four hot-swappable 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drives for up to 12TB of networked storage (based on 3TB hard drives). The TS-459 Pro II incorporates the Intel® Atom™ D525 1.8GHz dual core processor, capable of delivering ultra high performance, reliability, and lower power consumption during intensive data transfers. The TS-459 Pro II features 1GB of high performance DDRIII RAM, which can be upgraded to 3GB by simply adding a 2GB RAM in the additional RAM slot.

The TS-459 Pro II NAS supports super high-speed USB 3.0 ports, eSATA ports, and dual Gigabit network interfaces with load-balancing and failover support. Also standard is single disk, RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 6 or 5+hot spare with online RAID capacity expansion and online RAID level migration for maximum data redundancy.

Working in a virtualized environment? The TS-459 Pro II is an efficient and powerful business storage center with advanced iSCSI services, cross-platform data sharing, and all-in-one server applications. With VMware® Ready™ and Citrix® Ready™ certification, and proven compatibility with Microsoft Hyper-V environment, the NAS is an ideal shared storage solution for virtualized and clustered environments.

The Most Affordable and Flexible Virtualization Solution
The TS-459 Pro II Turbo NAS is certified as compatible with VMware® vSphere4 (ESX 4.0 and above) and Citrix® XenServer virtualization platforms, and is also compliant with Windows 2008 Failover Cluster. The TS-459 Pro II supports NAS and iSCSI applications to provide a low-cost, highly flexible, and efficient IP SAN solution for business.

Feature-rich and Integrated Applications for Business
The Turbo NAS supports file sharing across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX. Versatile business applications such as file server, FTP server, printer server, web server, and Windows AD (Active Directory) support are provided. The dominant features, such as WebDAV, Shared Folder Aggregation (also known as DFS), IPv6 and IPv4 dual-stack, Wake on LAN, scheduled power on/off, hard disk S.M.A.R.T., comprehensive log systems, and policy-based unauthorized IP blocking are all included.

New iSCSI/ IP SAN for Virtualization Deployments
The Turbo NAS supports the following iSCSI features for flexible and secure storage server deployment:

• NAS + iSCSI/ IP SAN storage solution
  The Turbo NAS can serve as a NAS (network-attached storage) for file sharing and an iSCSI storage concurrently.


• Flexible multiple LUNs management
  The NAS supports multiple LUNs (Logical Unit Numbers) and iSCSI targets. The LUNs can be flexibly mapped to, unmapped from, and switched among different iSCSI targets.


• Secure IP SAN environment deployment
  Designed with CHAP authentication and LUN masking, the advanced ACL (Access Control List) offers you the capability to block the access from unauthorized initiators.


• Designed for virtualized and clustered environments
  With VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster support, the Turbo NAS is an affordable storage center for virtualized and clustered server environments.