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[XVortex] pulled off a pretty incredible firmware hack. He managed to get a firmware upgrade for Synology running on a QNAP machine. These are both Network Attached Storage devices, but apparently the Synology firmware is better than what QNAP supplies with their offerings.
The nice thing is that this is not a one-off hack. You can download the raw image and give it a spin for yourself. A few words of warning though. It will only work on models which use the Atom and ICH9R chipset, you’re out of luck if you have one sporting an ARM processor. You will also need to format the drives once the new firmware is flashed so do this before you fill them up.
This harkens back to the days when DD-WRT was first being run on Linksys routers. We don’t remember if that started with upgrade image hacks like this one uses, or if the source code was available (Linksys was compelled to release it once it was proven they were in violation of the GPL).
See a proof video of this hack after the break.
[Thanks ZeroQI]
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QNAP Systems, Inc. today updated QTS 4.0, Turbo NAS operating system, for its business-class Turbo NAS models, featuring advanced functions for SMB users, including 400TB scale-up solution, intelligent Storage Manager, flexible volume management with thin-provisioned volume supported, SSD cache, SMART data migration, VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX support and more, and greatly enhancing the efficiency in storage management, expansion, data process, and management in virtualization environments.
'Our previous release of QTS 4.0 for home-class Turbo NAS models has been a great success with tremendous positive feedback from our users,' said Tony Lu, product manager of QNAP. 'Now we are pleased to bring forth the QTS 4.0 for QNAP's business-class Turbo NAS models that we believe will greatly benefit business applications of the Turbo NAS,' added Lu. 400TB scale-up solution The newly launched QNAP RAID expansion enclosures, REXP-1200U-RP and REXP-1600U-RP, are designed to expand the Turbo NAS storage capacity over 400TB raw capacity to cope with the growing data of businesses. 'The storage expansion solution is economical and it helps businesses invest only for the storage capacity needed at initial setup, and have the flexibility to expand the storage capacity on demand,' said Lu. Flexible volume management QTS 4.0 introduces the Storage Pool that allows IT administrators to aggregate multiple RAID groups of different levels as a big storage pool to flexibly utilize the storage capacity as a whole. In the Storage Pool, multiple volumes can be created, coupled with features including block-level iSCSI LUN, online capacity expansion, thin-provisioned volume, and space reclaim. Through the intuitive graphical interface, provided by QTS 4.0 Storage Manager, IT administrators can easily manage storage systems on a centralized platform. Proactive data protection QTS 4.0 provides enhanced features to secure important business data, including RAID Hot Spare and Global Hot Spare drives, SMART data migration, Time-Limited Error Recovery and Error Recovery Control, and advanced RAID read error recovery technology. The proactive data protection makes the Turbo NAS a reliable storage for businesses' mission-critical needs. New virtualization experience QNAP business-class Turbo NAS is a virtualization-ready storage solution supporting VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. Advanced hypervisor offload features are supported, including VMware VAAI for iSCSI and NAS, and ODX in Microsoft Windows Server 2012. These hypervisor offload features brought by QTS 4.0 highly increase performance in the virtualization environment. Moreover, QNAP vSphere Client plug-in and QNAP SMI-S provider for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) remarkably increase management productivity and efficiency. Performance acceleration QTS 4.0 supports SSD caching, which can greatly boost IOPS performance of volumes, and 10GbE network bandwidth, increasing operation efficiency for intensive database environments that require fast data transmission, such as data center or a virtualized IT environment. The support of SMB 2.0 improves Microsoft Networking performance. Windows users will enjoy faster transmission speeds and read performance even though there are multiple concurrent users or in a high latency network environment such as VPN between two offices. A well-rounded NAS system Apart from these enhanced business features, QTS 4.0 provides versatile functions such as file synchronization with Qsync utility, cross-platform file sharing, comprehensive backup solutions with QNAP NetBak Replicator utility, Apple Time Machine support, Real-Time Remote Replication (RTRR), rsync and cloud storage support, and advanced privilege settings with Windows AD/ACL and LDAP, performing as a powerful and comprehensive Turbo NAS system. For more information, please visit our website. View at TechPowerUp Main Site ![]() ![]()
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Hi Everyone, Enr building cost index.
currently I am looking to buy my first nas and I am reading a lot what stuff I need to consider when deciding between qnap or synology. At the moment I would buy the qnap ts 251+ or the synology ds216+ii. I am a technical guy and like to configure and optimize the stuff I am using if that should be also a point for the consideration.
That been said I am reading a lot for getting the best nas performance and a lot of synology people a recommending docker builds for tools like sonarr, nzbget and so on. For qnap i did not find many people that are isolating the apps like this. Most of the cases they just installed the community versions.
So now I have two questions and I know I am here in the qnap reddit but please stay neutral.
What I read from reviews is that qnap hardware is better, you get more for your money but the software cannot compete against synology. I just saw that qts 4.3.2 is doing a lot better than before. But I would like to hear your opinion.
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Thanks for your help!
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