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6-bay 3.5" desktop NAS AL524 4C 2.0GHz
Specifications
Storage
- Storage drives installed
- No
- Number of storage drives installed
- 0
- Number of storage drives supported
- 6
- Installed storage drive type
- No
- Supported storage drive types
- HDD & SSD
- Storage drive capacity
- 0 GB GB
- RAID support
- Yes
- Supported storage drive interfaces
- Serial ATA, Serial ATA II, Serial ATA III
- Storage drive sizes supported
- 2.5,3.5" "
- RAID levels
- 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, JBOD
- Online RAID migration
- Yes
- Online RAID expansion
- Yes
- RAID rebuild
- Yes
- Hot-swap drive bays
- Yes
- Supported file systems
- FAT32, HFS+, NTFS, ext3, ext4
- Auto-rebuild
- Yes
- Disk roaming
- Yes
Processor
- Processor family
- Alpine
- Processor manufacturer
- Annapurna Labs
- Processor model
- Alpine AL-524
- Processor frequency
- 2 GHz GHz
- Processor cores
- 4
Memory
- Internal memory
- 4 GB GB
- Internal memory type
- DDR4
- Maximum RAM supported
- 16 GB GB
- Memory slots
- 1
- Memory form factor
- SO-DIMM
- ECC
- Yes
- Flash memory
- 512 MB MB
Network
- Ethernet LAN
- Yes
- Ethernet LAN data rates
- 100,1000,2500 Mbit/s Mbit/s
- Ethernet LAN data rate supported (max)
- 10000 Mbit/s Mbit/s
- DHCP server
- Yes
- Jumbo frames support
- Yes
- iSCSI support
- Yes
- Wake-on-LAN ready
- Yes
- Supported network protocols
- IPv4, IPv6
- Dynamic DNS (DDNS)
- Yes
Ports & interfaces
- Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports
- 2
- USB port
- Yes
- USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-A ports quantity
- 2
- Fiber ports quantity
- 2
- Fiber optic connector
- SFP+
- PCI Express x4 (Gen 3.x) slots
- 1
Design
- Chassis type
- Tower
- Cooling type
- Active
- Product colour
- Black
- Number of fans
- 2 fan(s) fan(s)
- Fan diameter
- 9 cm cm
- LED indicators
- HDD, LAN, Power, Status, USB
- Built-in display
- No
- Cable lock slot
- Yes
- Cable lock slot type
- Kensington
Performance
- Type
- NAS
- Device class
- Home & Home Office
- Backup function
- Yes
- Backup features
- Cloud, USB drive
- Buzzer
- Yes
- Number of users
- 4096 user(s) user(s)
- Snapshot
- Yes
- Access Control List (ACL)
- Yes
- Reset button
- Yes
- On/off switch
- Yes
- Built-in FTP server
- Yes
- Browser supported
- Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox
- System log
- Yes
- Hot spare
- Yes
- S.M.A.R.T. support
- Yes
Software
- Operating system installed
- QNAP QTS
- Operating system version
- 5.1.7
- Windows operating systems supported
- Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8
- Linux operating systems supported
- Yes
- Mac operating systems supported
- Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra, Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra, Mac OS X 10.14 Mojave, Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina, Mac OS X 10.15.3 Catalina, Mac OS X 11.0 Big Sur, Mac OS X 12.0 Monterey, Mac OS X 13.0 Ventura, Mac OS X 14.0 Sonoma
- Server operating systems supported
- Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 Core, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2022
- Other operating systems supported
- Solaris 10, Solaris 10 SPARC, Solaris 11, Solaris 11 SPARC
Power
- Power supply location
- External
- Power supply unit (PSU) capacity
- 120 W W
- AC input voltage
- 100 - 240 V V
- Output voltage
- 12 V V
Weight & dimensions
- Width
- 235 mm mm
- Depth
- 165 mm mm
- Height
- 226.5 mm mm
- Weight
- 2.5 kg kg
- Package width
- 300 mm mm
- Package depth
- 201 mm mm
- Package height
- 287 mm mm
- Package weight
- 4.96 kg kg
Packaging content
- External power adapter
- Yes
- Cables included
- AC, LAN (RJ-45)
- Power cables quantity
- 1
- Number of screws
- 56
- Package type
- Box
Operational conditions
- Operating temperature (T-T)
- 0 - 40 °C °C
- Operating relative humidity (H-H)
- 5 - 95% %
- Storage temperature (T-T)
- -20 - 70 °C °C
- Storage relative humidity (H-H)
- 5 - 95% %
Other features
- Warranty period
- 2 year(s) year(s)