Network Media Player With Storage

TS-219P+ is QNAP's new generation two-bay Turbo NAS with iSCSI, especially designed for small business and home users who are looking for a large storage center to store, back up, share thousands of multimedia files or expand the storage capacity. The NAS is equipped with latest powerful 1.6 GHz embedded CPU and 512MB DDRIII memory, supports 2.5" or 3.5" SATA hard drive, and delivers ultra high speed performance yet maintains extremely low power consumption.

Brand: Qnap Model: TS-219P+-US Dimensions: 4.02" h x 8.50" w x 5.91" l, 4.70 pounds Networking: Ethernet 1000 Mb-s Marvell 1.6GHz CPU and 512MB DDRII RAM. 2.5- or 3.5-Inch SATA hot-swappable HDDs. 1 Gigabit LAN port. Also equipped with 3 USB ports (Front:1, Back:2) and 2 eSATA ports for storage expansion or external data backup. Supports NAS and iSCSI applications. iSCSI targets can be created on the NAS for storage expansion. Connect to other iSCSI devices on the network and add them as virtual disk drives (VDD) to expand the storage capacity of the NAS. Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX. Windows Active Directory (AD), real-time system monitoring, detailed event logs, SNMP, instant SMS alert, Wake on LAN, and scheduled power on/off management are provided for the users to manage the NAS efficiently. Built-in UPnP media server (with TwonkyMedia enabled) supports a wide range of media players and works well with NFS-supported High-Definition (HD) digital media players for HD video streaming.

Most helpful customer reviews 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. it works ok but has issues By snuffy I put two 2tb drives in and formatted ext4 in a mirror. Data access has never been an issue. As a flat out simple NAS it has good speed and works well for data storage. Where this falls down is the value added apps. Youtube didnt work out of the box. Twonky server never worked either. I connected a printer to the USB port and that didnt work at all I downloaded the latest firmware and that fixed the youtube issue. I posted on their website and the tech there gave me a private build build of firmware to fix the printing issue. Interestingly enough a week later it quit printing again, so I had to go back to apples bonjour printing which works with no issues (install apple software on windows to get it to print to a linux box) Twonky media server is a cool piece of software, unfortunately it has never worked. There are several complaints on the forums about this and no resolution (I have a Sony BD player.) Would be very nice to have this working. Instead I ended up buying a netgear neo 550 media player (it plays BD ISO's with menus)since the twonky player was useless. Overall its a decent NAS, has good file I\O speed and works well as a basic NAS. The add-ons are problematic. I wish they would test them first before they make them available. Good ideas but execution is bad. I rated 3 stars because the NAS does whats its supposed to do and share files. I am docking 2 stars as the other parts flat out dont work. I will give cudos to the forum support at ReadyNAS as they do seem responsive. Snuffy 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. works maybe until it upgrades to the newest firmware By Kangagoo My goal was to get a a high quality NAS to store data on our home network. Nothing too fancy, but it should have some safety (RAID 1) and save me the time of installing and configuring a small dedicated linux server. Additionally the savings in electricity as such a small box does not drain much power. So I was ready to pay the premium price for a two hard drive NAS from QNAP.Got the QNAP-219P+ two days ago. It is very well made, as one can expect for the price. At the same time I got two 2 TB consumer grade hard drives (Samsung and WD). Installed the hard drives, started up the NAS. The web interface looks great and I configured the two hard drives for RAID 1 (mirroring). Did also configure the network services for "Microsoft Networking", "Apple Networking" and "NFS Networking" (Linux), as I have all three types of computers on the network. I let the formatting/sync for RAID 1 run over night as I took about 6-7 hours. In the morning I was able to access the public NFS share over the network. Now the ugly part. When logging into the web interface, I was told that there was a firmware update available and if I wanted to install it. Sure, that's what one usually does if you get a new piece of hardware, right? Firmware (3.5.1 Build 1002T) gets downloaded, installed and the NAS reboots. The network share is gone. Looking in the web interface the "Mirroring Disk Volume: Drive 1 2" is "unmounted". Why? I cannot re-mount the volume. Clicked on "FORMAT NOW" or "REMOVE NOW" for this volume, nothing works.Then I go have a look into the "System Status" tab to understand what the problem is: "Loading data, please wait..." . After 15 min. the NAS reboots and still nothing is working. No chance to see what the system status is. I try the "Restore to Factory Default" as a last resort. Accepts my command, then displays "Busy" forever (after two hours nothing has changed).I have no idea what the problem is. Maybe it's the NAS, maybe it's the hard drives. There is no error message, nothing. No way to re-mount, format, disconnect the volume or reset to factory default. The only thing the "System Event Log" tells me is that smbd and nmbd are restarting every minute. Which is not too astonishing as they have no volume to work on.So