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QNAP TS879-Pro 8-Bay NAS Review

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: 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: 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