Modern businesses face the challenges of dramatic growth of digital data as well as raising productivity & efficiency. To well deploy the business IT environment with a reliable, affordable, scalable, & easy-to-maintain storage center to securely store, share & back up the digital assets has become the top task for the server managers nowadays in small & mid-sized companies. The TS-459U+ series Turbo NAS is the br&-new 4-bay 1U rackmount chassis network attached storage (NAS) server to satisfy these requirements. The TS-459U-RP/ SP+ is equipped with the next-generation Intel Atom™ Dual-Core 1.8 G Hz processor delivering exceptionally high performance, yet with low power consumption for energy-saving commitment. The Turbo NAS offers the best cost performance ratio of rack mount server in the industry; & provides versatile business applications to maximize server consolidation in the business environment. The Turbo NAS is integrated as a powerful all-in-one application server, which requires no extra time & efforts for software installation. The server managers can adopt the NAS in many of the system integration projects or office applications quickly. The Turbo NAS is also an affordable solution capable of business-class server applications, secure data backup & sharing, & i SCSI service for virtualized & clustered environment. The TS-459U-RP/ SP+ is certified as compatible with VMware v Sphere 4 (ESX 4.0 & above) virtualization platform. The NAS can be utilized as the networked shared storage of VMware virtualization environments & Windows cluster servers. Comparing with traditional SAN (Storage Area Network), the Turbo NAS is a competitive alternative with much lower setup & maintenance costs in an IP SAN. The Feature-rich & Integrated Applications for Business The NAS supports file sharing across Windows, Mac, Linux, & UNIX platforms. Versatile business applications such as file server, FTP server, printer server, web server, & Windows AD support are provided. The dominant features, such as Web DAV, Share Folder Aggregation (also known as DFS), IPv 6 & IPv 4 dual-stack, Wake on LAN, schedule power on/ off, HDD S.M.A.R.T, comprehensive log systems, & policy-based unauthorized IP blocking are all included features of a QNAP NAS server. Redundant Power Supply The TS-459U-RP+ is equipped with two power supply units, each of which is capable of supplying the power for the entire NAS independently. If one of the units fails, the other one will take over to supply the power to ensure continuous operation of the NAS. You can replace the failed power supply unit without turning off the server. Hard Disk Standby The hard disks can be configured to enter standby mode if there is no disk access within the specified period. Scheduled Power on/ off The flexible scheduled power on/off feature is provided on the NAS for you to manage the NAS servers up time according to the working hours. UPS Support The NAS supports the majority of USB (Universal Serial Bus) UPS devices (usbhid-ups supported) which enables the users to store the data in time & avoid critical data loss when power outage occurs during data transfer. It also supports advanced st&-by mode setting that you can set the time for the server to enter standby mode when an abnormal AC power supply is detected. When the power resumes, the server resumes to the operation status before the power outage.