QNAP
The network-attached storage (NAS) market had a break-out decade in the 2010s, with a large number of vendors trying to get a slice of the pie. Brands such as EMC / Lenovo and Thecus have fallen by the wayside, and even established storage vendors like Seagate decided to drop out of the market. QNAP and Synology have held firm in the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) NAS market meant for home users, prosumers, SOHO, and SMB installations. ASUSTOR (backed by ASUS) has also been regularly releasing NAS units since their first product appeared in late 2012. TerraMaster released their first NAS around the same time, but opted to focus more on the direct-attached storage segment throughout the 2010s. The brand has shown renewed interest in the...
QNAP at CES: A M.2 SSD NAS, Dual-Xeon ZFS NAS and More
At CES 2016, QNAP showed off what they had been introducing into the APAC market over the last three months. CES was used to make the North American market...
10 by Ganesh T S on 1/10/2016
QNAP TS-451+ SOHO NAS Review
QNAP is one of the leading vendors in the COTS NAS (commercial off-the-shelf network attached storage) space. They have a wide variety of hardware platforms to choose from, ranging...
34 by Ganesh T S on 10/29/2015
QNAP's TVS-871T - A 10G NAS with Thunderbolt 2
QNAP operates in SMB / SME NAS space and differentiates itself by providing consumers with plenty of choices when it comes to the hardware platform. Over the last year...
2 by Ganesh T S on 9/22/2015
QNAP Launches TVS-x71U Haswell-based Rackmount NAS Units
At CES, QNAP had the TVS-x71 series of NAS models in the tower form factor. Bay counts ranged from 4 to 8. Users had a choice of four different...
2 by Ganesh T S on 1/21/2015
QNAP Releases Haswell-based TVS-x71 and Cortex-A15-based TS-x31+ NAS Lineups
QNAP took the SMB / SOHO NAS market segment by storm with a host of CES announcements. The release of the AMD G-series SoC-based TVS-x63 was undoubtedly QNAP's major...
6 by Ganesh T S on 1/14/2015
AMD Enters NAS Market with QNAP's 10G-Ready TVS-x63
QNAP's CES suite was quite busy when we visited them last week. Considering the number of product and feature announcements that were made, it wasn't a surprise at all...
21 by Ganesh T S on 1/11/2015
QNAP TS-853 Pro 8-bay Intel Bay Trail SMB NAS Review
QNAP has focused on Intel's Bay Trail platform for this generation of NAS units (compared to Synology's efforts with Intel Rangeley). While the choice made sense for the prosumer-targeted...
58 by Ganesh T S on 12/29/2014
Recovering Data from a Failed Synology NAS
It was bound to happen. After 4+ years of running multiple NAS units 24x7, I finally ended up with a bricked NAS. Did I lose data? Were my recovery...
55 by Ganesh T S on 8/22/2014
NAS Units as VM Hosts: QNAP's Virtualization Station Explored
Virtualization has been around since the 1960s, but it has emerged as a hot topic over the last decade or so. Despite the rising popularity, its applications have been...
40 by Ganesh T S on 8/18/2014
QNAP Launches x53 Pro Bay Trail NAS for SMBs
The launch of the QNAP TS-x51 series was covered in great detail. QNAP took the lead over other NAS manufacturers in opting for the 22 nm Atom SoCs. While...
18 by Ganesh T S on 8/10/2014
QNAP TS-451 Bay Trail NAS Performance Review
The launch of the QNAP TS-x51 series was covered in detail last month. Its introduction has revitalized the premium NAS market for SOHO and power users by providing a...
57 by Ganesh T S on 7/28/2014
QNAP TS-x51 NAS Series: Intel Quick Sync Gets its Killer App
At Computex 2014, we visited QNAP and came away with a lot of information (some of which had already been demonstrated at CES). After Computex, QNAP got in touch...
51 by Ganesh T S on 6/22/2014
Computex 2014: QNAP Shows HS-251 Silent NAS And More
Continuing with NAS coverage from Computes, QNAP had a few new products to show, including the new HS-251 silent NAS. However, I spent most of my time looking at...
11 by Kristian Vättö on 6/13/2014
QNAP at CES: Fanless NAS, mSATA SSD Caching, Home Automation and More...
I have been making it a point to visit all the dedicated NAS manufacturers at CES over the last four shows. Invariably, their presence was on the show floor...
7 by Ganesh T S on 1/12/2014
QNAP Launches 10 GbE-Capable TS-x70 Tower Series Turbo NAS
10 GbE capability in off-the-shelf NAS units have most remained in the realm of rackmount models. Today, QNAP is introducing the TS-x70 series desktop pedestal models with this capability...
19 by Ganesh T S on 10/11/2013
QNAP Launches SAS-Enabled Turbo NAS Units, Updates QTS 4.0 OS
QNAP is on a roll lately, with the launch of five new business-class Turbo NAS models supporting both SAS and SATA drives. These models are all rackmounts. While the...
0 by Ganesh T S on 10/3/2013
QNAP Launches TS-x70 Pro Series with Core i3-3220
QNAP had a number of interesting announcements at Computex, and one that grabbed my attention right away was the new TS-x70 Pro series. Available in 4-bay, 6-bay and 8-bay...
9 by Ganesh T S on 6/7/2013
QNAP Lauches Marvell-based TS-x20 / x21 Series with Revamped QTS 4.0 OS
QNAP's entry level NAS models received an upgrade recently with the launch of the TS-x20 and TS-x21 series. Both of therm are based on Marvell CPUs (and the lack...
8 by Ganesh T S on 5/2/2013
QNAP's TS-EC1279U-RP 12-bay Flagship Rackmount NAS Review
Our enterprise NAS reviews have focused on Atom-based desktop form factor systems till now. These units have enough performance for a moderately sized workgroup and lack some of the...
23 by Ganesh T S on 4/29/2013
QNAP Launches Marvell-based 4-bay Rackmount NAS Units
Rackmount NAS units introduced in recent days have been mostly based on the powerful Intel processors, but there is a market demand amongst small workgroups and SMBs for low...
7 by Ganesh T S on 3/23/2013
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