SOFTWARE PART 1 

You can either access several main features of the unit directly from the initial screen or head right into the main web interface. Aside very easy to use the explorer-like web interface is very familiar since QNAP has been using it like forever. Here you will find 9 different categories from where you can adjust and use every available feature of the TS-259 Pro+.

Under the System Administration tab you can adjust things related directly with the unit itself from the date/time, TCP/IP configuration and security options to the power options and firmware update.

Quite forthcoming the Disk Management tab allows you to manage your drives, setup new RAID 0/1 arrays, check your drives using SMART, encrypt the drive contents, use iSCSI and setup virtual drives.

The Access Management menu allows you to create users, share specific folders and apply quota limitations.

Inside the Network Services tab you can create a Telnet connection and a Web Server which turn allows you to host a website on the unit. The unit is also compatible with a number of network services including Microsoft Networking (Windows), Apple Networking (MacOS X) and NFS (Linux).

Just like all of the TurboNAS devices i have reviewed in the past the TS-259 Pro+ can host a large number of servers and application (like the quite handy AV) the most important of which we will cover in Part 2.

The TS-259 Pro+ supports several backup ways including remote replication to another server, cloud backup, Apple Time Machine and copy to an external drive.

You can configure external storage devices, setup printer sharing and adjust the UPS settings from the External Devices tab.

From the MyCloudNAS Service you can setup the TS-259 Pro+ for remote internet access either automatically or manually.

As the name points out under the System Status tab you can find details about the unit’s internal hardware and running services along with the resources used by the system at any given time.