QNAP Systems has announced the first 2.5″ SATA HDD, 4-bay, Intel Atom-based SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS dedicated to SME users. Designed with Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz CPU, 1GB DDRII memory, and DOM (Disk on Module) architecture, the SS-439 Pro is a power-saving 2.5″ 4-bay NAS that supports RAID 5/ RAID 6 for secure data protection.
The NAS supports four 2.5" SATA hard drives, which are featured with stability, low power consumption, low vibration, and longer life expectancy. Moreover, the SS-439 Pro supports 3 USB 2.0 ports and 2 eSATA ports for storage capacity expansion and backup destination, and advanced features such as built-in iSCSI target service (max 8 iSCSI devices) with Thin Provisioning, Online RAID Capacity Expansion, Online RAID Level Migration, AES 256-bit volume-based encryption, Wake on LAN, automatic policy-based IP blocking, instant SMS and e-mail alert, BT and eMule download, schedule power on and power off, 2 Giga LAN ports, 4 IP cameras for network surveillance, etc.
“The SS-439 Pro is a compact, power-saving server, which is ideal to work for long hours in the office. When four low power 2.5” hard drives are installed, the power consumption of the NAS is only 18W, which is almost the same as an energy-saving light bulb. It is an environment-friendly storage solution that also saves the electricity expense of users," says Jerry Deng, product manager from QNAP.
The SS-439 Pro is a server of diversified features, e.g. network server, FTP server, Web server with built-in phpMyAdmin, Joomla, MySQL/SQLite, editable php.ini, printer server etc. The exclusive QPKG software expansion feature and the Surveillance Station (network surveillance) are also provided.