Qnap TS-112 (TS-112-US)

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Qnap TS-112 (TS-112-US)

All-in-one single-bay NAS server for Home & SOHO

Multimedia Station: Home Entertainment Center for Sharing Photos, Music, Movies and Videos

An easy-to-use storage center for new digital home experience
Introducing the QNAP TS-112 NAS server for home use, an easy to use networked storage center for the ultimate digital home entertainment experience. QNAP Turbo NAS servers are a new approach for sharing digital photos, music, and movies/videos, and keeping home computers backed up. You can easily view photos, listen to music, and even watch Full HD 1080p movies on a widescreen TV or projector streamed from the NAS over the network through PS3, Xbox 360, or other network media players. You can share multimedia content with family and friends wherever they are on the Internet by web browsers. iPhone/iPod touch/iPad and Android users can browse shared photos or listen to their music collections anywhere with 3G or Wi-Fi connection by streaming content directly to the device – no sync required. QNAP NAS brings to life the ultimate in digital home theater enjoyment.
  • View precious photos with slideshows and even background music
  • Listen to your favorite music using customized playlists
  • Enjoy HD movies or family videos on TV when streamed through various network players
  • Anytime, anywhere access to your digital media over the Internet by web browsers or iPhone/iPod touch/iPad, or Android mobile devices

Home Photo Center

Back up and share your digital photos

QNAP NAS is an ideal device for photo backup, archiving, and sharing. Simply upload your photos to the NAS, you can create and organize beautiful albums by a web browser and share with your family and friends. You can view the entire albums through UPnP-compatible players. Browsing your pictures on widescreen TV with your family has never been easier!
  • View photo slideshow with background music
  • Display photo details from EXIF: date, exposure time, aperture, etc.
  • Publish photos in a few clicks to social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and more.
  • Share photos with your friends by email
  • Browse photos via QMobile app for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices

Home Music Center

Build your own home music library and enjoy it anywhere

You can use the QNAP NAS as a music server to easily store music files and share them to your PC or various media players.
  • Enjoy your stored music on your PC
    You can listen to your favorite MP3 songs streamed from iTunes Server, or play music by web browsers on your PC.
  • Play your music on Logitech Squeezebox players
    With SBS (Squeezebox Server) QPKG plugin, you can efficiently manage and play them with Logitech music players without even turning on the PC.
  • Experience high-quality music directly on Hi-Fi system
    Stream music to your UPnP Hi-Fi system and indulge in high-quality sound experience.
  • Listen to your music on iPhone/iPod touch/iPad and Android devices anywhere you have a 3G or Wi-Fi connection. Put tons of music right in your pocket! You can play the music files via QMobile app on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices remotely without taking up the storage space of the handheld devices.

Home Movie/Video Center

QNAP home Turbo NAS with large storage capacity and high performance for your home theater
QNAP NAS is an ideal video storage center for you to store numerous home videos, movies, and ripped Blu-ray or DVDs. Not only that, you can enjoy Full HD movies on your TV streamed from the NAS through PS3, Xbox 360, and other network media players.The NAS features high-speed data transfer of exceeding 70MB/s*, fast enough to support multiple 1080p HD streams. The whisper-quiet design brings you the best cinema-grade home theater experience right in your living room.

Home Data Backup

Complete Backup Server

With QNAP’s backup utility NetBak Replicator, you can automatically back up your important files from Windows PC to a QNAP NAS over the network. You can execute real-time synchronization and scheduled backup from multiple PCs to the NAS, and also restore the data to the original location or to a new directory in the event of a PC crash. In addition, QNAP NAS are compatible with many third-party backup software applications including Apple Time Machine.

Exclusive Q-RAID 1 Disk Mirroring

You can connect an external USB or eSATA drive to the NAS and configure it as a “mirror disk” of the internal hard drive of the NAS. The NAS data will be synchronized with the external drive continuously. If the internal hard drive on the NAS fails, you could install the external drive in the NAS to restore the system with all the data retained.

Home File Server

You never have to worry about the PC’s hard drive crashing and data loss, because it is easy for everyone to centrally store, protect, and recover files on the NAS with advanced data protection. You can conveniently share all the photos, music, and movies/videos with your family and friends. Furthermore, different family members can be assigned to access specific share folders for privacy. All the advanced software features are built-in without extra effort and cost.

Home Printer Server

You can connect up to 3 USB printers to the QNAP NAS and share the printers with family members for network (LAN or Internet) printing.

 

 

Wireless Home Networking Integration

Convenient Wi-Fi Connection**

Connect the Turbo NAS to the home wireless network through a USB Wi-Fi dongle for convenient access. The NAS is compatible with fast 802.11n and 802.11g dongles for Wi-Fi connection.

 

 

Remote Access Anytime, Anywhere

MyCloudNAS Service**

MyCloudNAS is a service which allows you to connect to your NAS remotely from anywhere. Various NAS services can be easily published and accessed on the Internet. You can download and upload files, back up and share your photos and music instantly, and even back up important files from the NAS to other cloud storage providers.

Web File Manager

QNAP Turbo NAS provides Web File Manager for you to access and manage the server data anytime, anywhere by a web browser. Web File Manager supports intelligent data search, batch files upload and download, file extraction, mounting ISO files, file-level permission settings, and more.

FTP Server

You can set up QNAP NAS as an FTP server and share large files conveniently with others.

Wireless Data Access by Apple iPhone and Android Phones

QMobile is an application dedicated to iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Android users. You can view and play Terabytes of photos, music, and video files on the NAS by QMobile from anywhere regardless of the actual storage size of your mobile devices. You can also upload photos to QNAP NAS straightway from your iPhone for instant sharing.

Easy to Install, Easy to Use

The easy-to-use wizard is included in the product CD. Just a few clicks to go through the steps, and you can complete the installation in few minutes. The NAS is designed with user-friendly AJAX web interface, you can easily enjoy all the features – No IT expertise required.

Secure Network Access Protection

    • Auto network attack prevention:

To prevent the QNAP NAS succumbing to external malicious attacks, you can create an IP filter policy to allow, deny, or auto-block the IP address or network domain which attempts to connect to the NAS via SSH, Telnet, HTTP(S), FTP, Samba, and AFP.

You can configure the SMTP server and SMSC server settings on the NAS in order to receive instant system warning or error messages by email or SMS.

    • Comprehensive event logs:

Detailed logs of file-level data access to the NAS via Samba, FTP, AFP, HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet, and SSH, and networking services accessed by online users are all recorded.

    • SSL security (HTTPS):

The NAS can be accessed and configured by web browser securely.

    • Remote login to the NAS by SSH (secure shell) or Telnet connection is supported.
    • Secure FTP:

The data can be transmitted with SSL/TLS (explicit) encryption. Passive FTP port range setup is also supported.

    • Write-only access right on FTP server:

The third party partners are allowed to upload data to the NAS but not able to read or edit the data on the NAS via FTP.

Green Design

QNAP NAS features the latest green technologies to protect the environment and save your electricity bill. The smart fan monitors the server and hard drive temperature and automatically adjusts the fan speed for quiet 24/7 operation. The hard drives can also be set to enter sleep mode after a period of idling to reduce power consumption and extend their lifespan. The NAS can also be scheduled for automatic power on and off to save energy when no data access is required.

Class-leading Performance

High-speed data sharing for home network

With the Gigabit Ethernet interface and advanced processor, the NAS delivers ultra-high-speed home network data transfer. You can quickly store large amount of movies, photos, and music within a short period of time.

Other Applications for Digital Home

Download Station

QNAP NAS is a perfect download center for high speed BT, eMule, FTP, HTTP download. You can use the Download Station with the QGet utility to manage your download tasks remotely on the local network or the Internet. The NAS also supports continuous NZB download, and eMule download by installed QPKG without turning on a PC.

 

Surveillance Station

Surveillance Station of QNAP NAS enables you to connect to multiple IP-based security cameras for real-time monitoring, recording, and playback. It supports leading network camera brands such as AXIS, D-Link, IPUX, LevelOne, Linksys, Panasonic, and VIVOTEK. By using particular models, you can use two-way video and audio monitoring and recording, and smart PTZ control to control the monitoring direction of the IP cameras by a web browser.

Virtual Host Supported Web Server

You can host multiple websites on QNAP NAS with the web server and virtual host feature. The NAS supports PHP, MySQL, HTTPS connection, and SSL authentication. It is the ideal solution for you to create your own websites, e-shops, blogs, content management system (CMS), wiki, and so on.

MySQL Server

The NAS can be flexibly applied in various deployments such as a database server of another web server in remote site or as an additional backup database server.

Network UPS

This feature allows multiple QNAP NAS servers on the same physical network to be protected by a single UPS via receiving UPS notification about abnormal power supply.

Built-in iSCSI Target Service

The TS-112 is both a NAS and an iSCSI target server, ideal for cost-efficient IP-SAN setup. You can make use of the built-in iSCSI target service to add up to 256 iSCSI devices. Different iSCSI Target LUNs (Logical Unit Number) can be defined as storage expansion or backup destination of the existing application servers, such as database servers and mail servers.

Furthermore, the “Virtual Space Allocation” (Thin Provisioning) feature is provided which allows you to flexibly allocate the capacity of iSCSI LUN (Logical Unit Number). When the physical storage capacity of the volume is going to be full, you can easily expand the storage capacity by adjusting/removing the currently unused volume space.

Virtual Disk Drive (VDD)

The NAS supports flexible storage expansion by stacking other iSCSI targets on the network via its built-in iSCSI initiator. The connected iSCSI targets are turned into “virtual disk drives” of the NAS to provide more storage capacity.

Windows Active Directory (AD)

You can import the user accounts* from a Windows AD domain to the NAS to let the domain users access the domain and the NAS with the same login settings. The NAS also supports setup of large amount of users and user groups. (200,000 domain users and user groups can be imported according to QNAP’s lab test.)

Software Expansion via QPKG Plugins

You can maximize the usage of QNAP NAS by installing additional QPKG software packages developed by the users and community worldwide.

* Actual performance varies by models

** Available on firmware v3.4

Hardware Specifications

CPU Marvell 6281 1.2GHz
DRAM 256MB DDRII RAM
Flash Memory 16MB
Hard Disk Drive 1 x 3.5″ SATA I/II hard disk drive (HDD)
NOTE:

  1. The system is shipped without hard disk drives.
LAN Port 1 x Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet port
LED Indicators USB, Status, HDD, eSATA, LAN, Power
USB 3 x USB 2.0 port (front: 1; back: 2)
Support USB printer, pen drive, USB hub, and USB UPS etc.
Buttons System: Power button, One touch copy button, Reset button
Alarm Buzzer System warning
Form Factor Portable
Dimensions 165.5 (H) x 60 (W) x 218.4 (D) mm
6.52 (H) x 2.36 (W) x 8.60(D) inch
Weight Net weight: 0.79 kg/1.74 lb
Gross weight: 1.7 kg/ 3.75 lb
Power Consumption (W) Sleep mode: 5W
In operation: 7W
(with 1 x 500GB HDD installed)
Temperature 0-40°C
32-104°F
Relative Humidity 0-95% R.H.
Power Supply External Power Adapter, 36W, 100-240V
Secure Design K-lock security slot for theft prevention
Fan 1 x quiet cooling fan (4 cm, 12V DC)
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