Hands On: QNAP TS-219P Turbo NAS

Thu, Nov 19, 2009

  |  Jim Clark
Manufacturer: QNAP Model: TS-219P
Price: $399 (Newegg)
£300.11 (Amazon.co.uk)
Website: QNAP

QNAP is a young company in an established field of NAS devices.  Even though the company is only 5 years old, I found the TS-219P build quality to be excellent and feature set to be extensive.

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Today, I am taking a look at what the Network Attached Storage, or NAS, world has to offer.  When QNAP offered to send me one of their NAS storage units for a review, I became quite excited about being able to take a look at the features and benefits of such a device.

As the title suggests, the QNAP TS-219P Turbo NAS is the subject of today’s review.

As a primer, you might want to read my unboxing post before you continue reading this review.

The Company

Who is QNAP?

Mission

QNAP Systems Inc. is the “Quality Network Appliance Provider” and we pledged to become the world’s leading Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Network Video Recorder (NVR) solution provider.

Company

QNAP Systems, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 2004 and is dedicated to bringing world class NAS storage, professional NVR video surveillance, and network video players to consumer, small/medium business, and entry level enterprise market segments. QNAP leverages not only hardware design but also a growing core competency in software engineering that is precisely focused on bringing to market products that offer the highest available performance coupled with outstanding reliability, scalability, and ease of installation and use. QNAP is a multi-national company with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, and subsidiary offices in China and the United States.

Core competence

The core of QNAP’s development comes from a group of designers and engineers with extensive research experience and education in the IT and electronics industry. By listening to and sharing with our customers on a daily basis, we enable our core innovation and development to be customer driven.

Products

We apply strict manufacturing standards to ensure the lowest defect rates. Our manufacturing facilities are ISO 9000 certified and our products come with UL, FCC and CE seals. As a responsible and leading edge company, QNAP is actively working on its designs to reduce its environmental impact by meeting and exceeding the regulations of various countries. Regarding this topic, all QNAP products are 100% RoHS compliant. Additionally, we thrive to reduce energy consumption whenever possible. By all means, QNAP wants to provide the highest quality products to protect your most valuable data.

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Jim Clark - who has written 245 posts on We Got Served – Windows Home Server & Your Digital Home.

Hello. I’m from the heartland of U.S. Lots of corn and beans, although Iowa is a lot more than just farmland. It also has a few computer enthusiasts (no, not me!). I’ve been around PC’s since I got my 1st PC XT aloooong time ago. WGS is one of the first sites I found centered around WHS. And the best. Every once in awhile, I do get away from the KB and enjoy time with and my wife and our 4 kids. And I do have a day job.

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4 Responses to “Hands On: QNAP TS-219P Turbo NAS”

  1. @jerwood Says:

    Would love to see some file transfer benchmarks and comparisons with the WHS machines. I'm on the fence about what kind of home server to get

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  2. Jim_Clark Says:

    hmm. I will have to check out disk benchmark programs for Linux. Regarding file transfer benchies (over a network), I do not read much into those simply because there are far too many variables to do apples to apples comparisons.

    Unless one can help me "see the light" in how to do a good benchie… :)

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  3. QNAPIvan Says:

    Nice review. For the performance you can refer to the link:
    http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Samba_FTP_Performance_T...

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