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QNAP 24-Bay 2U 2.5" SAS SATA-Enabled

User Manual for QNAP 24-Bay 2U 2.5" SAS SATA-Enabled Unified Storage Enclosure

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Product description

High Performance
• The enclosure supports SAS 6 Gb/s hard drives driving over 3,000 MB/s throughput and 400,000 IOPS*. Featuring the Quad Core Intel Xeon 3.4 GHz Processor and 8GB DDR3 ECC RAM, it enhances efficiency of CPU-consuming tasks and serves more concurrent tasks at the same time. ¹

  Please Note:

  *Tested in QNAP lab. Figures could vary by environments. close

QTS User Interface
• With QTS's intuitive user interface, system operations of the enclosure are smooth and handy. Its intelligent desktop allows you to find the desired functions quickly, create desktop shortcuts or group shortcuts, monitor important system information on a real-time basis, and open multiple application windows to run multiple tasks concurrently, bringing better working efficiency.

SSD Cache Acceleration
• The enclosure supports SSD caching which can boost IOPS performance of storage volumes. It is suitable for improving overall workflow of IOPS demanding applications, such as virtualization.

10GbE Ready
• It offers four built-in Gigabit Ethernet ports and supports 10 Gigabit high speed network by installing a 10GbE network adapter. The 10GbE-ready enclosure delivers lightning data throughput. Coupled with the support for a large storage capacity, it is suitable for data centers to store big data and Excel in fast data transmission, and for editing large size videos on-the-go, without transferring the videos between the enclosure and desktop computers.

Seamless Capacity Expansion
• The enclosure supports online capacity expansion by cascading multiple RAID expansion enclosures to meet the needs of growing business data. With the QNAP scale-up solution, raw storage capacity can be gradually expanded up to 664TB. It is especially useful for large data applications, such as video surveillance, data archiving, and TV broadcast storage, and more.

QNAP Flexible Volume
• QNAP flexible volume provides a more secure and flexible way to store the NAS data. This next generation volume offers powerful features such as storage pooling with multiple RAID group protection, thin provisioned volume with space reclaim, block-level iSCSI LUN, and online capacity expansion. The QTS Storage Manager neatly presents tools and options for managing system storage, which simplifies the process of NAS capacity expansion and QNAP RAID expansion enclosure management.

Cross-Platform File Sharing, Centralized Data Storage
• The enclosure supports SMB/CIFS, NFS, and AFP protocols for file sharing across Windows, Mac, Linux/UNIX networks. Data, logs, and ISO image of CDs and DVDs can be centrally stored in the NAS and protected by integrated anti-virus solution. The Windows AD and LDAP services enable system administrators to configure user permissions by using existing Windows AD server, LDAP server or NAS build-in LDAP service.

Well-Rounded Backup Solutions to Secure Data
• It offers well-rounded backup solutions as a reliable backup center. QNAP NetBak Replicator supports scheduled and real-time data backup on Windows OS. Mac Time Machine is also supported to provide the Mac OS X users with an effortless solution to back up data to the enclosure.

Disaster Recovery Solutions
• The enclosure offers various data recovery options. RTRR (Real-Time Remote Replication) supports real time or scheduled data backup to a remote Turbo NAS or FTP server and synchronizes files to a remote folder from a local folder with better backup efficiency and reduced backup time. It also supports rsync protocol to backup data to another remote server on scheduling basis. Besides, data can be backed up to cloud storage, such as Amazon S3, ElephantDrive, Symform, Dropbox, and Google Drive, and restored to the enclosure anytime.

Comprehensive Security Options
• In the open network environment, business data might be exposed in potential hack. The enclosure provides numerous security options, such as encrypted access, IP blocking, and so on. Besides, IT administrators can control the access rights of each user to different folders, preventing unauthorized access to important files. The enclosure is validated with military level FIPS 140-2 AES 256-bit encryption, preventing the sensitive business data from unauthorized access and breach, even if the hard disk drives or the entire system were stolen.

Storage for Comprehensive Virtualization Applications
• This enclosure is VMware Ready, Citrix Ready, compatible with Microsoft Hyper-V certification and Windows Server 2012, benefiting flexible deployment and management in the virtualization environments. It supports VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX to increase performance by offloading ESXi server loading, and supports QNAP vSphere Client plug-in and QNAP SMI-S provider with enhanced efficiency of operations and management in virtualization applications.

Run Multiple Operating Systems
• The Virtualization Station transforms this enclosure into a 2-in-1-box NAS that can function as an all-in-one NAS and a virtualization platform supporting multiple operating systems, fast virtual machine creation, virtual machine import/export, snapshot, and enables desktop operations on web browser. With the easy-to-use interface, you can centrally manage all virtual machines created on the enclosure with least efforts. Furthermore, you can download VMs on demand from the online VM markets and import them to enclosure to use directly without any complex procedure. ²

  Please Note:

  Pre-installed with 4GB RAM x2. You can upgrade the RAM to 32GB to run 8 virtual machines. close

Highly-Efficient Storage Solution for Video Editing
• Digital film and video production produces volumes of data that require high performance RAID storage with sustainable throughput to balance with the demanding output of video editing. The enclosure fulfills storage and video editing needs with a high speed 10GbE network interface. Digital videos can be quickly stored and edited on the enclosure directly over the network.

HIPAA Compliant Storage Solution
• While medical data (e.g ePHI) constantly increases, IT administrators are required to develop a strategy of strong storage platforms within their medical organizations. This enclosure meets the electronic requirements of HIPAA for storing PHI data, by providing a base to protect the confidentiality and security of "individually identifiable health information".

File Synchronization across Multiple Devices
• The Qsync utility turns your enclosure into a safe data center for file synchronization with large storage capacity. Any file uploaded to the enclosure will be made available for all linked devices, such as computers, laptops, or mobile devices. Qsync is especially useful for frequent travelers to manage files and always have the most updated files on different devices. It provides multiple ways of file synchronization and group file sharing, enhancing the flexibility of collaboration.

Comprehensive Surveillance Solution with 24/7 Security
• The enclosure's Surveillance Station Pro offers a professional surveillance solution with the user-friendly NVR (Network Video Recorder) management interface, a wide range of over 1,200 compatible IP camera models, and expandable IP camera channel licenses. It supports real-time monitoring, video and audio recording and playback, with flexible options to customize. You can also install the VMobile app on your iOS or Android mobile devices to manage the monitoring channels anytime and anywhere, and safeguard your office environment.

Install-on-Demand Apps to Extend NAS Features
• The enclosure has a built-in App Center providing various install-on-demand apps developed by QNAP and third-party developers, including backup/sync, business, content management, communications, download, entertainment, and so on. It's also a central place to manage and update installed apps. Besides, QNAP's development platform brings forth the open-source spirit to welcome program developers to develop various applications, adding values to the enclosure for extensive opportunities.

Additional SMB-Ready Features

FTP Server
• The Turbo NAS supports FTP server to share large size files, coming with user-defined settings including bandwidth limitation, number of connections, and write-only permission.

Web Server
• The Turbo NAS supports Web server which allows numerous websites built on the same server conveniently. Administrators can manage up to 32 websites on the single one Turbo NAS with reduced IT cost.

RADIUS Server
• The Turbo NAS supports RADIUS server which provides centralized authorization management for computers to connect and use a network service.

VPN Server
• The Turbo NAS supports VPN server which provides an easy way for IT administrators to build up a secure private network and allows the staff to log on from outside the office and access business resources securely such as files and Internet connections.

Printer Server
• The Turbo NAS supports Printer Server to send remote printing request over the Internet (maximum 3 USB printers), and supports IPP (Internet Printing Protocol), Samba, print job management and Bonjour printing for Mac OS X.

Surveillance Station
• The Turbo NAS supports Surveillance Station to connect and manage multiple IP cameras remotely, including real-time monitoring, video recording, playback, and event notifications.

Utilities

Qfinder
• Qfinder is a utility, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, to quickly find and access the Turbo NAS over LAN. Install the Finder on your computer, open it, and double click your Turbo NAS name and the login page is ready for you. Windows version of the Qfinder provides a convenient way to connect to the Turbo NAS and map a network drive or a virtual disk. By creating a shared folder on the Turbo NAS and mapping it as a network drive, you can use it as an additional drive and store files on it as it is a local drive of the computer.

myQNAPcloud Connect
• myQNAPcloud Connect helps you access the published services of the Turbo NAS quickly and securely on the Internet. myQNAPcloud Connect application is designed for Windows PC users. By installing the myQNAPcloud Connect, you will be able to connect to the Turbo NAS and easily manage files by drag-and-drop within the Windows Explorer.

Qsync
• Qsync is a useful tool to synchronize files in multiple computers. It creates a specific "Qsync folder" in your devices that you can simply drop files in, and synchronizes the files to all your devices linked to the Turbo NAS.

Full Sync
• Whenever you add, edit, delete, or rename a file on one computer, the change applies to all others linked with the Turbo NAS, so you have exactly identical contents on all your devices.

Smart Sync
• It allows you to remove files on one computer, without affecting the copies stored on others that are linked with the Turbo NAS. However, when someone updates the files you deleted from another computer, you can still retrieve them in the Qsync folder.

Advanced Selective Sync
• With both, Full Sync or Smart Sync options, you can choose to only sync specific sub-folders within the Qsync folder, which is useful if your computers have limited storage.

Share Files and Folders Easily
• You can create download links to share files with people, even if they don't have an account on the Turbo NAS. This reduces the time in creating user account and password for users. You can create sub-folders within the Qsync folder, and share each with different groups of Turbo NAS users as a file exchange center. Everyone in the same sub-folder is always kept up-to-date with the latest version of the files.

QNAP NetBak Replicator
• The QNAP NetBak Replicator, provided with any Turbo NAS unit free-of-charge, helps you easily back up files from Windows PC, entire disk drives, documents, pictures, music, videos, fonts, emails, and more to the Turbo NAS. You can do the backup task in just a few clicks using NetBak Replicator by the setting of real-time synchronization, scheduled backup, and auto-backup from multiple PCs to the Turbo NAS. NetBak Replicator also supports backing up to a remote server via FTP and WebDAV through the Internet. You can backup new photos whenever on vacation, even you are away from home.

QGet
• QGet is a powerful utility for download management. The software is available for Windows and Mac computers, allowing the management of BT, HTTP, and FTP download tasks of Download Station on multiple Turbo NAS servers. QGet enables you to add, remove, or watch your BT download jobs from LAN or WAN. You can manage your download tasks in school or at work. QGet supports intuitive drag and drop of torrent files, HTTP or FTP URL to the software interface for convenient adding of download tasks.

vSphere Client Plug-In
• The Turbo NAS supports vSphere Client Plug-in that allows managing VMware datastores on the Turbo NAS directly from the vSphere client console. In a large-scale server virtualization environment, management is centralized and straightforward. Administrators can easily control the status of the Turbo NAS and datastores and create additional datastores to multiple ESXi hosts in just a few clicks. ³

  Please Note:

  The TS-x51 series doesn't support vSphere Client plug-in. close

Qsnap
• Qsnap is a handy utility assisting you to quickly capture screenshots on your PC, and easily edit, save, and share, enabling quick note-taking or productive communication in your work and life. Hot-key capturing is designed for taking PC screenshots without complicated mouse operations. Easy editing allows you to add emphasis or remove unnecessary elements with a range of editing tools. The instant sharing allows simply drag-and-drop the screenshots to instant messengers and emails as attachments to share.

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