First 2-bay NAS which supports both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA hard drives

QNAP Systems announced the TS-219P Turbo NAS which supports both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA hard drives.

Powering Marvell 1.2GHz high performance processor and 512 MB DDRII memory, the NAS comes with 3 USB ports and 2 eSATA ports to deliver the best storage expansion capability compared with other 2-bay NAS in the market. The TS-219P supports two hot-swappable 2.5″ or 3.5″ SATA hard drives with maximum 4TB storage capacity.

The device can be accessed across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX. It is a highly reliable and powerful NAS with abundant business-class features, such as built-in iSCSI target service (max 8 iSCSI devices) with Thin Provisioning, Online RAID Capacity Expansion, Online RAID Level Migration, automatic policy-based IP blocking, hard drive status report, instant SMS and email alert, built-in TwonkyMedia UPnP/ DLNA media server, BT and eMule download, schedule power on and power off, one Giga LAN port, and 2 IP cameras for network surveillance.

The TS-219P supports diversified features, e.g. built-in TwonkyMedia to support DLNA streaming to play the multimedia files such as HD movies on TV. The Mac users can also install DLNA/ UPnP on their iPhone or iPod Touch to play the video, music, or digital photos from the Turbo NAS.

Moreover, the unique QPKG software expansion feature is provided to allow the users to install powerful add-on software on the NAS, e.g. XDove mail server or WordPress for creating interactive websites or personal blogs. The NAS also supports Surveillance Station (network surveillance) with maximum two IP cameras for home or office security monitoring.