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Tim S · 24th Sep 2008, 08:18

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...ii-turbo-nas/1

Are you looking for a stylish, two disk network storage device that offers RAID support, P2P, HTTP and FTP download managers, DLNA and Gigabit Ethernet. Is it worth spending the fancy cash on QNAP's flashy TS-209 II Turbo NAS? We dived in to find out.

karx11erx · 24th Sep 2008, 09:10

That will be the first piece of hardware I'm gonna purchase after a new gfx card. Absolutely convincing. Superfast, external RAID, no dependencies on the hardware in your PC, very good price - a must have for me.

Da_Rude_Baboon · 24th Sep 2008, 10:40

Save yourself £140 and get the IcyBox NAS4220. Bit should really get one from Scan and do a review as i think it would compare extremely well to the Qnap and it costs under £100.

airchie · 24th Sep 2008, 12:19

"so data redundancy can only be achieved with RAID 1 but then you lose half your total capacity and achieve no extra performance.". Doesn't RAID1 give some performance advantages in reads?
Not that it matters with the low transfer rates from the appliance anyway...

mrb_no1 · 24th Sep 2008, 15:00

you guys gunna do the drobo that you mentioned in the first article on these qnap alternative as i checked out their site and the product looks easier to use, and nicer imo

samkiller42 · 24th Sep 2008, 15:29

ooo, shiney, but how does this or any other NAS stack upto the HP Media Smart Servers?

Sam

mclean007 · 24th Sep 2008, 16:31

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Originally Posted by airchie

"so data redundancy can only be achieved with RAID 1 but then you lose half your total capacity and achieve no extra performance.". Doesn't RAID1 give some performance advantages in reads?

Yes - good RAID1 implementations will read from whichever drive can provide the data first, either because the drive is not busy servicing other I/O requests or because its read head is closer to the requested data at the time. Not much of a performance boost, but some.

airchie · 24th Sep 2008, 17:53

I thought good ones could do concurrent reads too?
So split read requests between the drives.
Almost like having your main memory in dual-channel config?

Jasio · 24th Sep 2008, 22:26

Hmmm, rather overpriced NAS especially for 2 drives. The Promise Technologies SmartStor NS4300N is a better deal since they can be found for a bit more money than the QNAP II but offer better performance (and reliability over the Drobo).

Wolfe · 25th Sep 2008, 06:14

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Unless you're a digital hoarder who has more porn media than you can shake a DVD collection at, two terabytes (or more in the future) is plenty for most people as a bit of communal storage.

Seeing as I have 4 TB of HD space right now, I'm not sure If I should feel complimented or Insulted....

Valver · 25th Sep 2008, 10:53

Bit tech might also want to consider the Synology line of NASes. Also very feature rich in what they provide through software, and like the Qnaps - available in a variety of disk sized models. I've got an older one-disk "Diskstation 106j" and its superb. Their software updates have applied to the full line of models, so the even the cheapest models got the great new Ajax interface a while back. i was VERY happy.

Cupboard · 26th Sep 2008, 19:23

Can you plug a USB wifi dongle into the back to allow it to connect wirelessly?

Bindibadgi · 26th Sep 2008, 22:06

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Originally Posted by Wolfe

Seeing as I have 4 TB of HD space right now, I'm not sure If I should feel complimented or Insulted....

Seriously, what do you hoard?

I can't fill a terabyte of stuff I want to watch and listen to, everything else gets deleted or written to disk.

Cupboard - I don't think so, there's no specific space for it unlike the Thecus N2100 which does support it.

24th Sep 2008, 08:18	#1
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24th Sep 2008, 10:40	#3
Da_Rude_Baboon Ultramodder Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Aberdeen Posts: 1,386	Save yourself £140 and get the IcyBox NAS4220. Bit should really get one from Scan and do a review as i think it would compare extremely well to the Qnap and it costs under £100.

25th Sep 2008, 10:53	#11
Valver What's a Dremel? Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9	Bit tech might also want to consider the Synology line of NASes. Also very feature rich in what they provide through software, and like the Qnaps - available in a variety of disk sized models. I've got an older one-disk "Diskstation 106j" and its superb. Their software updates have applied to the full line of models, so the even the cheapest models got the great new Ajax interface a while back. i was VERY happy.

26th Sep 2008, 19:23	#12
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