The QNAP TS-809 Pro is the powerful 8-bay high-volume member of QNAP's award-winning Turbo NAS family designed for business users. It is a NAS of class-leading performance, supports advanced RAID configurations for data protection, built-in iSCSI target service, AES 256-bit volume-based encryption, lots of enterprise-grade server features, and delivers high reliability for multiple concurrent applications. The QNAP TS-809 Pro is featured with Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz CPU and 2GB DDRII memory. It supports RAID 0/ 1/ 5/ 6/ 10/ 5+Spare, JBOD, Online RAID Capacity Expansion, and Online RAID Level Migration. The QNAP TS-809 Pro can serve as a NAS and an iSCSI target server. The built-in iSCSI target feature provides an affordable IP-SAN (Storage Area Network) alternative for SMB. You can set up the NAS to expand the storage capacity for existing application servers, such as database server and mail server in an economic way. Moreover, the "Virtual Space Allocation" (Thin Provisioning) feature is provided which allows you to flexibly allocate the capacity of iSCSI LUN (Logical Unit Number) at the beginning regardless of the physical volume capacity.

QNAP TS- 809 Pro Main Features:

• Holds 8 x 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch hot swappable SATA hard disk drives
• Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz CPU and 2GB DDRII memory
• supports advanced NAS and iSCSI applications
• supports  eSATA
• supports cross-platform data sharing
• compatible with VMware® vSphere4 (ESX 4.0 and above) and Citrix® XenServer
• compatible with Microsoft Hyper-V environment
• compliant with Windows 2008 Failover Cluster
• supports file sharing across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX platforms
• FTP server, printer server, & web server support
• Windows AD (Active Directory) support
• Share Folder Aggregation
• Pv6 and IPv4 dual-stack
• schedule power on/ off
• HDD S.M.A.R.T support