Released on: October 15, 2008, 7:37 am

Press Release Author: QNAP Systems, Inc.

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: The leading network storage solutions provider QNAP Systems,
Inc. today announced its TS-509 Pro Turbo NAS honored the "Editor's Choice" from MPC
Club Europe for its ease of use, beneficial price/ value, advanced RAID
configurations, very low noise level, overall well tuned features and options and
reasonable price, etc. The TS-509 Pro is also the first NAS that acquired the award
from the Club this year 'as its value and performance are just so much farther than
the competition...'


Press Release Body: The leading network storage solutions provider QNAP Systems,
Inc. today announced its TS-509 Pro Turbo NAS honored the "Editor's Choice" from MPC
Club Europe for its ease of use, beneficial price/ value, advanced RAID
configurations, very low noise level, overall well tuned features and options and
reasonable price, etc. The TS-509 Pro is also the first NAS that acquired the award
from the Club this year 'as its value and performance are just so much farther than
the competition...'

The editor from MPC Club Europe did a thorough review on the TS-509 Pro from system
setup to server performance including the use of different software features. The
TS-509 Pro supports a large variety of services including the Multimedia Station for
media playing, iTunes server, Slim server by QPKG open source packages installation
etc. It is commented 'the whole device is well organized, easy to use for novice
users and advanced enough for others that it matches any class of consumers.'
Besides, the NAS impressed them by delivering an average of 58MB/s write speed and
60MB/s in read performance in their IOMETER tests that they have never come across
with any other NAS servers they have reviewed. In their conclusion "the TS-509 Pro
earned to be called the best NAS server out there at this moment and the most
featured in combination with the easiest one to setup as it is fully automatic by a
button press...".

According to Mr. Laurent Cheng, Product Manager from QNAP, "We're glad to receive
the award from MPC Club Europe. The TS-509 Pro is not only a complete storage
solution for the business users but also an ideal choice as a multimedia center."
The users can play the multimedia contents, e.g. mp3 or HD movies saved on the
TS-509 Pro on the digital media players (e.g. Slim Devices) or HD network media
players by CIFS, NFS, or DLNA streaming over the network. They can use the NAS as a
music sharing center by the iTunes server feature or installing the Squeeze Center
through the web-based QPKG installation easily. "From the review and the test
results performed in our lab, it is proven that the TS-509 Pro delivers outstanding
performance in large file transfer. It is the best option for PC-less multimedia
sharing over the network", said Mr. Cheng.

To find out how to use QNAP NAS as a multimedia center, please read our online
tutorials:
# How to install Squeeze Center(tm) 7 via QPKG to serve music files to Squeezebox(tm) Duet
# Using NFS Sharing of QNAP NAS to Set up Home Multimedia Center and Play HD Video

To read the complete review of MPC Club Europe on QNAP TS-509 Pro, please see
http://www.qnap.com/Files/news/newsreview/200809_MPC.pdf

About MPC Club Europe
MPC Club Europe is a community providing information, support and reviews on HD
network media players and media oriented NAS storage servers. (Taken from MPC Club
Europe)


About QNAP
QNAP Systems, Inc. is a dominant provider of Linux OS embedded network-attached
storage (NAS) and network surveillance system. We have released numerous NAS and NVR
(network video recorder) series, providing our customers high performance and high
reliability backup and security solutions. Today, QNAP continues to lead the
industry with our innovation in design and technology. Our products have gained
worldwide recognition. For example, TS-409 Pro was honored "Golden Bear Award" from
Bjorn3d (US), "Gold Award" from HWM (Singapore, Malaysia), "Dam Good" from Hardware
Canucks (Canada), and "Golden Tachometer Award" from Benchmark Reviews (US) etc.
TS-409U was awarded "Editor's Choice" from Bios Level (US) etc.



Web Site: http://www.qnap.com

Contact Details: QNAP Systems, Inc.
21F, No.77, Sec.1 Xintai 5th Rd, Xizhi City, Taipei County, 221, Taiwan
TEL: +886-2-8698-2000
FAX: +886-2-8698-2270
URL: http://www.qnap.com

Contact Person
Ms. Vera Wang
Phone: 886-2-8698 2000
E-mail: qnap_enews @ qnap.com