QNAP TS-509 Pro Turbo 5-Drive NAS Server

The Software Basics

Form over function, or is it function over form? - Either way, a NAS server needs to be both feature rich and user friendly at the same time. If a consumer or network administrator cannot setup a function of the system, it will most likely go unused.

You start off with the QNAP software installed on your PC. This allows you to find the NAS and get things going in the right direction.

Just a few questions and you are ready to start picking the features you would like to use on your new storage product.

Setting your RAID array the first time couldn't be easier.

The Menu System

In our very condensed view of the configuration menu you can see all of the options that are available to the user. The TS-509 is very feature rich, even more so than the Thecus unit we have looked at.