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QNAP TS-219P NAS Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Conclusion
When it comes to a cool feature packed Network Attached Storage device you'll be hard pressed to find anything more versatile than the QNAP TS-219P NAS. It comes with a whole laundry list of features specific to the task of serving up files but also for serving up other things like web applications, multimedia content, dynamic database content and even downloading files over BitTorrent.
In terms of hardware the QNAP TS-219P is very well equipped with a low power Marvell 1.2Ghz processor, 512megs of DDR2 memory and 16Megs of Flash. The NAS supports 2x 3.5" or 2.5" hard drives with the supporting RAID configurations of JBOD, 0 and 1. You can also expand your storage options by using the new iSCSI feature
QNAP has also included the ability to turn this NAS appliance into an application server. Applications vary from simple things like downloading BitTorrent files so complex things like serving up dynamic content from Joomla! and MySQL. Some of the other applications include a Surveillance Station, iTunes Service, and UPnP Media Server to name a few.
In terms of hardware the QNAP TS-219P is very well equipped with a low power Marvell 1.2Ghz processor, 512megs of DDR2 memory and 16Megs of Flash. The NAS supports 2x 3.5" or 2.5" hard drives with the supporting RAID configurations of JBOD, 0 and 1. You can also expand your storage options by using the new iSCSI feature
QNAP has also included the ability to turn this NAS appliance into an application server. Applications vary from simple things like downloading BitTorrent files so complex things like serving up dynamic content from Joomla! and MySQL. Some of the other applications include a Surveillance Station, iTunes Service, and UPnP Media Server to name a few.
Good Things
Powerful 1.2Ghz processor
512MB DDR2 RAM
Gigabit Ethernet
2 Hot-Swap SATA drive support
Fancy new web interface
Surveillance station
iSCSI for storage expansion
lockable Hot-Swap trays
512MB DDR2 RAM
Gigabit Ethernet
2 Hot-Swap SATA drive support
Fancy new web interface
Surveillance station
iSCSI for storage expansion
lockable Hot-Swap trays
Bad Things
None that we can think of
Ninjalane Rating
We would like to thank QNAP for helping to make this review possible.
