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QNAP TS-409 Pro Turbo NAS Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Included Goodies and Installation
Included with every TS-409 Pro Turbo NAS is everything you see here. Power pack, complete with anti kick connector, Installation manual, software CD, and a screw pack
The CD contains quite a bit of stuff including a handy backup program that copies file marked for backup directly to the NAS on a scheduled basis.
The CD contains quite a bit of stuff including a handy backup program that copies file marked for backup directly to the NAS on a scheduled basis.
Installation
Installation is actually very easy.
The first step was to install our hard drives, in this case 3 36GB Raptor drives. After that the TS-409 Pro was placed on our Gigabit network here in the Ninjalane Labs and powered on. The rest f the setup is preformed thru the Qnap Finder software found on the software CD.
The first step was to install our hard drives, in this case 3 36GB Raptor drives. After that the TS-409 Pro was placed on our Gigabit network here in the Ninjalane Labs and powered on. The rest f the setup is preformed thru the Qnap Finder software found on the software CD.
As the photos show we have a variety of RAID levels to choose from, including JBOD, RAID-0, RAID-1, and RAID-5. We choose RAID-5 as it’s the coolest.
During the installation process we are prompted for various account and network information, when complete the system reboots and magically is available for web and network requests.
