TS 1079 Pro

[evilnewbie]

I am new to this NAS thing and had several questions...

1) I know the 1079 Pro can fit 10 hard drives, can I put in 10 4TB hard drives for 40TB? Is there a maximum hard drive space limit?

2) Can I allocate hard drives to certain areas? Like I want hard drive 1-6 to be shared in my local network (read only) and hard drive 7 to be my backup hard drive, and hard drive 8-10 will be miscellaneous data storage (read/write privileges)...

3) I mentioned that I want hard drive 7 as a backup hard drive. I have head you could do a VPN connection to an external hard drive by the internet for backup. I have an office 10 miles away and would like to backup every night. Is this possible with this NAS?

4) I also would like to encrypt hard drive 7 with TrueCrypt. How do I do something like that with a NAS? Do I plug it into my computer and encrypt it and then physically move the hard drive and plug it into the NAS?

5) Can I build a website on this NAS (say hard drive #10) so that other people can look at it on the internet? Do I have to purchase a hosting website or pay some kind of monthly/annual fee to do this?

That is all I can think of right now, thanks..

 

[travisco_nabisco]

1. If you look at the list of officially supported harddrives they do list the Hitachi 4TB drive, so that means you can put 10 x 4TB drives in.

2. Yes, you can set up multiple volumes using specific harddrives for each volume.

3. I see no reason you cannot do this. Out of the box the TS 1079Pro supports rsync.

4. AES-256 is supported for encrypting volumes. There may be an app that would allow you to use TrueCrypt.

5. You are able to host a web site from this NAS. There is also a built in web based file browser that you can most likely expose to the outside world.

 

[evilnewbie]

Thanks...

Do you know of any website to tell me how to host my website?

 

[travisco_nabisco]

Off the top of my head no, but I would imagine QNAP as a pretty decent community forum.