QNAP TS879-Pro 8-Bay NAS Review




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In general a NAS box is just an external hard drive caddy that is attached to your network rather than by USB or even Firewire. Because of this we can find a whole host of other features and utilities bundled into them giving them the leading edge over the other options available on the market.

Specs

1.Hardware Spec

CPU Dual Core Intel® Core™ i3-2120 Processor 3.3 GHz
DRAM 2 GB DDR3 RAM
Flash Memory 512MB DOM
Hard Drive 8 x 3.5” or 2.5” SATA 6Gb/s, SATA 3Gb/s hard drive or SSD
NOTE:

  1. The standard system is shipped without hard drives.
Hard Drive Tray 8 x hot-swappable and lockable tray
LAN Port 2 x Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet port (Optional dual-port 10 Gb and 1 Gb network card are supported)
NOTE:

  1. For the information of network card installation, please refer to chapter 6 in the Turbo NAS Hardware Manual.
LED Indicators Status, LAN, USB, eSATA, 10 GbE, hard drives
USB 2x USB 3.0 port (front: 1; rear: 1)
4x USB 2.0 port (rear)Support USB printer, pen drive, USB hub, and USB UPS etc.
eSATA 2 (rear)
Buttons System: Power button, USB One Touch Backup Button, and reset button
LCD Panel Mono-LCD display with backlight,
Enter and Select buttons for configuration
Alarm Buzzer System warning
Form Factor Tower
Dimensions 217.5(H) x 327(W) x 321.2(D) mm
8.56(H) x 12.8(W) x 12.65(D) inch
Weight Net weight: 8.39 kg/18.48 lb
Gross weight: 13.98 kg/30.79 lb
Sound Level (dB) Stand by: 25.87 dB
In operation: 27.4 dB
(with 8 x 1TB HDD installed)
Power Consumption (W) Sleep mode: 39W
In Operation: 101W
(with 8 x 1TB HDD installed)
Temperature 0~40˚C
Relative Humidity 0~90%
Power Supply Input: 100-240V AC, 50/60Hz, Output: 350W
Secure Design K-lock security slot for theft prevention
Expansion Slot 1 (for network or storage expansion)
VGA Reserved for system maintenance
Fan 2 x quiet cooling fan (12 cm, 12V DC)


2. Software Spec

Operating System

  • Embedded Linux

Supported Clients

  • Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7/8 (32/64-bit), Windows Server 2003/2008 R2
  • Apple Mac OS X
  • Linux & UNIX

Supported Browsers

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9
  • Mozilla Firefox 8, 9, 10
  • Apple Safari 4, 5
  • Google Chrome

Multilingual Support

  • Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

File System

  • Internal Hard Drive: EXT3, EXT4
  • External Hard Drive: EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, FAT32, HFS+

Networking

  • TCP/IP (IPv4 & IPv6: Dual Stack)
  • Multiple Gigabit NICs with Jumbo Frame
    • Failover
    • Multi-IP Settings
    • Port Trunking/NIC Teaming (Modes: Balance-rr, Active Backup, Balance XOR, Broadcast, IEEE 802.3ad/Link Aggregation, Balance-tlb and Balance-alb)
  • Service Binding based on Network Interfaces
  • Virtual LAN (VLAN)
  • DHCP Client, DHCP Server
  • Protocols: CIFS/SMB, AFP (v3.3), NFS(v3), FTP, FTPS, SFTP, TFTP, HTTP(S), Telnet, SSH, iSCSI, SNMP, SMTP, and SMSC
  • UPnP & Bonjour Discovery
  • USB Wi-Fi Adapter Support

Backup Solution

  • Real-time Remote Replication (RTRR)
    • Works as Both RTRR Server & Client with Bandwidth Control
    • Real-time & Scheduled Backup
    • Encryption, Compression, File Filter, and Transfer Rate Limitation
  • Block-level Remote Replication
    • Works as Both Rsync Server & Client with Bandwidth Control
    • Encrypted Replication between QNAP NAS Servers
  • Desktop Backup by QNAP NetBak Replicator for Windows
  • Apple Time Machine Support with Backup Management
  • Data Backup to Multiple External Storage Devices
  • Data Backup to Cloud Storage (Amazon S3, ElephantDrive, and Symform)

Security

  • IP Filter and Policy-based Automatic IP Blocking
  • Network Access Protection with Auto-blocking: SSH, Telnet, HTTP(S), FTP, CIFS/SMB, AFP
  • Encrypted Access: HTTPS, FTP with SSL/TLS (Explicit), SSH/SFTP (admin only), Encrypted Remote Replication between QNAP NAS Servers (Rsync over SSH)
  • CIFS Host Access Control for Shared Folders
  • Antivirus Protection
  • FIPS 140-2 Validated AES 256-bit Volume-based Data Encryption*
  • AES 256-bit External Drive Encryption*
  • Importable SSL Certificate
  • Instant Alert via Email, SMS, Instant Messaging (Windows Live Messenger), and Buzzer

Disk Management

  • Single Disk, JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 5, 5 + Hot Spare, 6, 6 + Hot Spare, 10, 10 + Hot Spare
  • Online RAID Capacity Expansion & Online RAID Level Migration
  • Bad Block Scan & Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T.
  • Global Hot Spare Drive (4-bay NAS and above)
  • RAID Recovery
  • Bitmap Support
iSCSI (IP SAN)

  • iSCSI Target
    • Multi-LUNs per Target
    • Up to 256 Targets/LUNs Combined
    • Supports LUN Mapping & Masking
    • Online LUN Capacity Expansion
    • Supports SPC-3 Persistent Reservation
    • Supports MPIO & MC/S
  • iSCSI LUN Backup, One-time Snapshot, and Restore
  • iSCSI Connection and Management by QNAP Finder (Windows)
  • Virtual Disk Drive (via iSCSI Initiator)
    • Stack Chaining Master
    • Max No. of Virtual Disk Drives: 8

Server Virtualization & Clustering

  • Supports VMware vSphere
  • Supports Citrix XenServer
  • Supports Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V & Failover Clustering

Power Management

  • Wake on LAN
  • Internal Hard Drive Standby Mode
  • Scheduled Power on/off (Max 15 Settings)
  • Automatic Power on after Power Recovery
  • USB and Network UPS Support with SNMP Management

Access Right Management

  • Max No. of Users: 4,096
  • Max No. of User Groups: 512
  • Max No. of Network Shares: 512
  • Batch Users Creation
  • Import/Export Users
  • User Quota Management
  • Subfolder Permissions Support for CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP and Web File Manager

Domain Authentication Integration

  • Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
  • LDAP Server
  • LDAP Client
  • Domain Users Login via CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP, and Web File Manager

MyCloudNAS Service

  • Private Cloud Storage and Sharing
  • Free Host Name Registration (DDNS)
  • Auto Router Configuration (via UPnP)
  • MyCloudNAS Connect for Easy Connection (Windows utility)

Storage Plug & Play

  • Windows Software: QNAP Finder
  • Create and Map Shared Folders
  • Create and Connect to iSCSI Target/LUN

Web Administration

  • AJAX-based User Interface
  • Smart Fan Control
  • Dynamic DNS (DDNS)
  • SNMP (v2 & v3)
  • Resource Monitor
  • Network Recycle Bin for File Deletion via CIFS/SMB and AFP
  • Comprehensive Logs (Events & Connection)
  • Syslog Client
  • Firmware Live Update
  • System Settings Backup and Restore
  • Restore to Factory Default

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