- - Small & Medium Business NAS Tower Black
- - Linux
- - Number of storage drives supported: 4 HDD & SSD
- - 2.6 GHz
- - 2 DDR3
- - Ethernet LAN connection
- - LCD
- - 250 W
Intel Dual-Core 2.6GHz, 2GB DDR3, 4x 2.5/3.5", 3x LAN, 3x USB 2.0, 2x USB 3.0 + 4x ST4000VN000
QNAP TS-470, featuring the easy-to-use QTS operating system, is a secure, scalable, and reliable NAS solution designed for mission-critical business applications and fast growing data storage needs. The TS-470 delivers high performance with persistent throughput, providing a comprehensive storage solution that includes the following features:
- Up to 450MB/s read and 423MB/s write speed with optional 10GbE support
- Scale up to 36 hard drives with 216TB raw capacity with REXP-1600U-RP RAID expansion enclosures
- Complete backup, disaster recovery and data security management
- Supports VMware®, Citrix®, and Microsoft® Hyper-V® and advanced virtualization features
Ultra-high performance
The TS-470 delivers ultra-high performance achieving speeds of up to 450MB/s read and up to 423MB/s write. It is powered by a Dual-Core Intel® 2.6 GHz Processor and 2GB DDR3 RAM (expandable to 16GB with factory pre-configured options), and features 4 Gigabit LAN ports (two onboard LAN ports plus one dual-port GbE PCI-Express NIC) to maximize system bandwidth.
Seamless storage expansion with scale-up solution
The TS-470 supports online capacity expansion by connecting multiple QNAP RAID expansion enclosures to meet the needs of growing business data. With the QNAP scale-up solution, raw storage capacity can be expanded to hundreds of Terabytes gradually. It is especially useful for large data applications, such as data archiving, virtualization, TV broadcast storage, and surveillance video storage.
Intelligent Storage Manager
The TS-470 Storage Manager provides a secure and flexible way to manage volumes. This next-generation volume management offers powerful features such as storage pooling with multiple RAID group protection, thin provisioned volumes with Space Reclaim, block-level iSCSI LUN and online capacity expansion. The QTS Storage Manager neatly presents tools and options for managing system storage to simplify the process of NAS capacity expansion and QNAP RAID expansion enclosure management.
The Storage Manager provides enhanced features to secure important business data, including RAID Hot Spare and Global Hot Spare drives, SMART data migration, Time-Limited Error Recovery & Error Recovery Control, and advanced RAID read error recovery technology.
The SSD caching can greatly boost IOPS performance of volumes to increase operational efficiency, especially for high- transaction workloads, and allows the best of both cost and performance by combining SSDs with HDDs.
Qsirch – A smarter, faster way to search
Quickly and easily find documents, photos, videos, and music with Qsirch, QNAP’s new built-in NAS search application lets you find what you need by real-time, natural search. Simply type in as much as you know about what you are trying to find, including bits of the file name or even words/phrases in the document, and Qsirch will display a list of matches, complete with thumbnails, as you type. Qsirch even remembers your search history so you can quickly navigate to files you’ve previously searched for. Qsirch is a huge productivity boost – it greatly reduces the amount of time spent looking for files on the NAS so you can focus on other tasks.
QNAP TS-470, NAS, Tower, 16 TB, Black
QNAP TS-470. Total installed storage capacity: 16 TB, Installed storage drive type: HDD, Supported storage drive types: HDD & SSD. Processor frequency: 2.6 GHz. Internal memory: 2 GB, Internal memory type: DDR3, Flash memory: 512 MB. Ethernet LAN data rates: 10,100,1000 Mbit/s, Supported network protocols: CIFS/SMB, AFP (v3.3), NFS(v3), FTP, FTPS, SFTP, TFTP, HTTP(S), Telnet, SSH, iSCSI, SNMP, SMTP, SMSC. Form factor: Tower, Cooling type: Active, Product colour: Black
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