Description
Qnap TS420 Kuwait
The Qnap TS420 Kuwait 4-Bay Home and SOHO NAS Server from QNAP is a 4-bay home & SOHO NAS for personal cloud and social sharing. The NAS server features the QTS 4.0 operating system, which makes your digital life easier, simpler and more convenient. The QTS 4.0 desktop includes quick main menu, graphic dashboard, drag-and-drop icons, multiple desktops, personalized wallpapers and the smart toolbar, making system operations much easier.
Features
- Simple yet Powerful Storage
- The Qnap TS-420 Kuwait features QTS 4.0 operating system which makes your digital life easier, simpler and more convenient. The TS-420 is a powerful yet easy-to-use network storage center for data storage, backup, synchronization, remote access and home entertainment. As your personal cloud, you will always be connected to your files and your files are always under your control.
- Easier Operations on QTS 4.0 Desktop
- The QTS 4.0 desktop includes quick main menu, graphic dashboard, drag-and-drop icons, multiple desktops, personalized wallpapers and the smart toolbar, making system operations much easier. In addition, multi-tasking support allows multiple windows to be open to access multiple applications concurrently.
- Freely Access Your Cloud Anywhere
- Through any web browser or the free app for tablets and smartphones, the Qnap TS-420 Kuwait becomes your personal cloud so you are always connected to your data. Take advantage of the myQNAPcloud service, which allows you to remotely access your TS-420 wherever you are. Instantly stream or share your multimedia contents and share them with your friends.
- Photo Albums on the Cloud
- The TS-420 acts as a photo vault for you to back up your favorite photos. The Photo Station makes photo sharing simple and you can designate your own access right controls. Simply upload your photos to the TS-420 to create and organize your photo albums through a web browser to share with your family and friends. Your mobile devices are useful too; with the Qfile mobile app in your iOS or Android devices, you can instantly upload photos to the TS-420.
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- You can view photo slideshow with background music
- Display photo details from EXIF: Date, exposure time, aperture and more
- Publish photos in a few clicks to social networking sites such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, MySpace and more
- Share photos with your friends and family via e-mail
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- Interact Through Your Favorite Social Media Sites
- Many applications on the Qnap TS-420 Kuwait are designed with user-friendly options, allowing you to share and connect with your social media communities. You can use Photo Station or Video Station to pick and share photos and video links directly to your Facebook. DJ Station allows you to stream and share your music playlist with your friends and family on your social media platforms.
- Enjoy Your Videos via AirPlay
- The Qnap TS-420 Kuwait supports Apple AirPlay function. You can enjoy video and multimedia contents on AirPlay-enabled devices with the QAirplay application or the Qfile mobile app. Available in the App Center, QAirplay allows you to steam your media content directly on TV via AirPlay-enabled devices such as Apple TV. The media contents are streamed on Apple TV, bypassing your mobile device, thus saving the energy of your mobile device. Alternatively, the Qfile mobile app allows you to browse videos and photos stored on the TS-420 and play on the TV via AirPlay-enabled devices such as Apple TV. It is very convenient to enjoy multimedia entertainment through the wireless experience
- A Sharing Center for Your Home Theatre
- The Qnap TS-420 Kuwait is an ideal video storage center for you to store your movie and home video collection. It features high-speed data transfer, fast enough to support multiple 1080p HD streams. The quiet operation design brings you remarkable cinema-grade home theater experience right to your living room.
- 24/7 Download Center
- The Qnap TS-420 Kuwait is a perfect download center for high-speed BT, Magnet, PT (Private Trackers), eMule, FTP and HTTP download. Your computer never needs to be on when you download your files, and managing your download can be done through any web browser. With the QGet utility, you can manage your download tasks on multiple NAS devices remotely on the local network or the Internet. The TS-420 also supports continuous NZB download and eMule download by installed App Center apps without turning on a PC. It also supports RSS download (broad catching) for automatic BT download.
QNAP TS-420 Specs
Hardware
CPU | Marvell 1.6 GHz |
DRAM | 512 MB DDR3 RAM |
Flash Memory | 16 MB |
Hard Disk Drive | 4 x 3.5″ or 2.5″ SATA II HDD/SSD* |
Hard Disk Tray | 4 x hot-swappable |
LAN Ports | 2 x Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet port |
LED Indicators | STATUS, LAN, USB, eSATA, HDD 1, HDD 2, HDD 3, HDD 4 |
USB | 2 x USB 2.0 port (1 at front and 1 at back) 2 x USB 3.0 port (back) Supports USB printer, disk, pen drive, USB hub and USB UPS, etc |
eSATA | 2 x eSATA port (back) |
Buttons | Power button, USB one-touch-backup button, reset button |
Alarm Buzzer | System warning |
Form Factor | Tower |
Secure Design | K-lock security slot for theft prevention |
Fan | 1 x 3.5″ (9 cm) quiet cooling fan, 12 V DC |
Software
Operating System | QTS 4.0 |
Supported Operating Systems | Windows 8 (32/64-bit), Vista, Windows 7 (32/64-bit), Windows XP, Windows Server 2003/2008 R2/2012 Apple Mac OS X Linux & UNIX |
Supported Web Browsers | Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9, 10 Mozilla Firefox 8+ Apple Safari 4+ Google Chrome |
File System | Internal Hard Drive: EXT3, EXT4 External Hard Drive: EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, FAT32, HFS+ |
Networking | TCP/IP (IPv4 & IPv6: dual stack) Dual Gigabit NICs with Jumbo Frame: -Failover -Multi-IP Settings -Port trunking/NIC teaming (Modes: Balance-RR, Active Backup, Balance XOR, Broadcast, IEEE 802.3ad/Link Aggregation, Balance-TLB and Balance-ALB) Service binding Proxy client, proxy server DHCP client, DHCP serverProtocols: CIFS/SMB, AFP (v3.3), NFS(v3), FTP, FTPS, SFTP, TFTP, HTTP(S), Telnet, SSH, iSCSI, SNMP, SMTP and SMSC TFTP Server with PXE booting UPnP & Bonjour Discovery USB Wi-Fi adapter support |
Backup Solution | Real-Time Remote Replication (RTRR): -Works as both RTRR server & client with bandwidth control -Real-time & scheduled backup -Encryption, compression, file filter and transfer rate limitationBlock-Level Remote Replication: -Works as both Rsync Server & client with bandwidth control -Encrypted replication between QNAP NAS Servers Desktop backup by QNAP NetBak Replicator for Windows Apple Time Machine support with backup management Data backup to multiple external storage devices Data backup to Cloud storage (Amazon S3, ElephantDrive, Symform and Google Drive) |
Security | IP filter & policy-based automatic IP blocking Network Access Protection with Auto-Blocking: SSH, Telnet, HTTP(S), FTP, CIFS/SMB, AFP Encrypted Access: HTTPS, FTP with SSL/TLS (explicit), SSH/SFTP (admin only), encrypted remote replication between QNAP NAS servers (Rsync over SSH) CIFS host access control for shared folders Antivirus protection Importable SSL certificate Instant alert via E-mail, SMS, instant messaging (Windows Live) and beep |
Disk Management | Single disk, JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 5+Hot Spare Global Hot Spare Online RAID capacity expansion & online RAID Level migration Bad block scan & hard drive S.M.A.R.T. RAID recovery Bitmap support |
iSCSI (IP SAN) | iSCSI target with multiple LUNS per target (Up to 256 targets/LUNs combined) LUN mapping & masking Online LUN capacity expansion Supports SPC-3 persistent reservation Supports MPIO & MC/S iSCSI LUN backup, one-time snapshot and restore iSCSI connection and management by QNAP Finder (Windows) Stack Chaining Master: Up to 8 virtual disk drives (via iSCSI initiator) |
Server Virtualization and Clustering | Supports VMware vSphere (ESX/ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x) Supports Citrix XenServer 5.x, 6.x Supports Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Supports Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 failover cluster |
Power Management | Wake on LAN Internal hard drive Standby mode Scheduled power on/off (max 15 settings) Automatic power on after power recovery USB and network UPS support with SNMP management |
Access Rights Management | Maximum No. of Users: 4096 Maximum No. of User Groups: 512 Maximum No. of Network Shares: 512 Batch users creation Import/Export users User quota management Local user access control for CIFS, AFP, FTP and WebDAV Application access control for Photo Station, Music Station, Video Station and Multimedia Station Subfolder permissions support for CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP and web file manager |
Domain Authentication Integration | Microsoft Active Directory (AD) LDAP Server LDAP client Domain users login via CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP and Web File Manager |
myQNAPcloud NAS Service | Private cloud storage and sharing Free host name registration (DDNS) Auto router configuration (via UPnP) CloudLink for easy VPN connection (Windows VPN utility) |
Storage Plug and Play | Windows Software: QNAP Finder Create and map shared folders Create and connect to iSCSI Target/LUN |
Web Administration | Smart fan control Dynamic DNS (DDNS) SNMP (v2 & v3) Resource monitor Network Recycle Bin for file deletion via CIFS/SMB and AFP Automatic cleanup File type filter Comprehensive logs (events & connection) Syslog client Firmware live update System settings backup and restore Restore to factory default Mobile App Qmanager for remote monitoring |
Multilingual Support | Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish |
Powerful All-in-one server
Photo Station | Supported File Formats: Photo: JPG/JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, RAW (.arw, .srf, .sr2, .dcr, .kdc, .cr2, .crw, .nef, mrw, .pef, .paf, .3fr, .erf, .mef, .mos, .orf, .rw2, .dng, .x3f, .tif, .nrw, .raf) Video: FLV, MPEG-4 video (H.264 + AAC) Image slideshow with background music, thumbnails and different transition effects Online photo editing by Pixlr editor Geotagging photos with Google Maps Slideshow sharing (from private albums) with password protection Photo publishing to social websites (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk and Blogger) Photo sharing by E-mail |
Music Station | Supported Audio Formats: MP3, OGG, WAV, AIFF, AU, FLAC, M4A, APE, AAC Local playback with USB speakers/sound card Music streaming from DLNA/UPnP media servers Internet Radio (MP3) Music alarm (up to 8 alarms) Real-Time Playback Control by QNAP Mobile App: QMobile |
Video Station | Web video sharing Video Categorization and Transcoding Supported Format: mv, avi, divx, 3gp, mov, mpeg, mpg, xvid, flv, asf, rm, dat, mp4 Video Upload: -Up to 2048 MB in size -Up to 320 minutes in length -Batch upload (max 50 files) Publish videos to Facebook, Twitter and Google+ |
TV Station | DVB-T* digital TV live view, recording and playback Supports up to 2 USB TV tuners Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) with scheduled recording |
DJ Station | Live web broadcasting of music playlists Music Sharing on Facebook |
Download Station | PC-less BT, FTP, HTTP download (up to 500 tasks) BT Download with Magnet Link and PT Support: -Supports TCP/UDP tracker protocol -Scheduled download -Configurable port range -Bandwidth control -RSS subscription and download (broadcatching) -Selectable download files -Configurable saving directory HTTP/ FTP Download: -Bulk download with wildcard settings RapidShare download support Website Subscription Service: YouTube QNAP Download Management Software: QGet -For both Windows & Mac OS -Manage the download tasks of multiple QNAP NAS remotely over LAN or WAN |
Surveillance Station Pro | Supports over 1,400 IP cameras Includes 1 free camera license Up to 8 camera channels via additional license purchase Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) for advanced video search Visual aids by E-maps Surveillance client for Mac Mobile App: VMobile (iOS & Android) |
File Station | File sharing across Windows, Mac and Linux/UNIX Windows ACL Advanced folder permission for SMB, AFP, FTP and file station Shared folder aggregation (CIFS/SMB) |
File Manager | -Supports ISO mounting (Up to 256 ISO files) -File viewing via Google Doc -Create and send download links for public file sharing with expiration time and password protection -File drag-n-drop via Chrome and Firefox browsers -Photo, music and video preview and playback with transcoding -File compression (ZIP or 7z) -Advanced search Mobile App: Qfile for file browsing and management |
FTP Server | FTP over SSL/TLS (explicit) Max No. of Concurrent Connections: 256 FXP supported Passive FTP port range control FTP bandwidth & connection control Unicode support |
Backup Station | Remote replication server (over Rsync) Real-time remote replication to another QNAP NAS or FTP server Apple Time Machine support Windows Client Backup Application: QNAP NetBak Replicator Third Party Backup Software Support: Veeam Backup & replication, Acronis True Image, ARCserve Backup, EMC Retrospect, Symantec Backup Exec, LaCie SilverKeeper, etc. |
App Center | Add new features by online installation of official and community apps* |
Print Server | Max No. of Printers: 3 Supports Internet Printing Protocol Print job display and management IP- and domain name-based privilege control Supports Apple Bonjour printing |
VPN Server | Secure Remote Access: PPTP & OpenVPN VPN services Remote access to other resources on local network Max No. of Clients: 30 |
Web Server | HTTP/HTTPS connections Supports WebDAV connection Support virtual host (Max: 32) Importable SSL certificate |
Database Server | Built-in MySQL server Web-based management via phpMyAdmin (App Center) |
Syslog Server | Centralized log monitoring and archiving Immediate E-mail alerts Supports log filtering |
RADIUS Server | Centralized account management and authentication for network access Supports PAP, EAP-TLS/PAP and EAPTTLS/PAP authentication |
iTunes Server | Audio and video sharing for Windows & Mac iTunes (MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4, AAC and M4A) Smart playlist |
Antivirus | Protection against viruses, Trojans and other threats Free Virus databases update on manual or scheduled basis Multiple scan tasks (max: 64, concurrent: 5) with custom folder selection and scheduled scanning E-mail notification upon task completion or virus detection Quarantines or deletes infected files |
Power
Type | External power adapter |
Power Supply | 120 W, Input: 100-240 V |
Power Consumption | Sleep Mode: 13 W In Operation: 31 W (with 4 x 500 GB HDD installed) |
Environmental
Temperature | 32 to 104°F (0 to 40˚C) |
Relative Humidity | 0 to 95% |
General
Dimensions | 7.09 x 6.97 x 9.25″ (180 x 177 x 235 mm) |
Weight | 6.6 lb (3 kg) |
Packaging Info
Box Dimensions (LxWxH) | 12.6 x 12 x 9.9″ |