Buy your NAS from the QNAP EXPERTS at QNAP DIRECT. You receive your QNAP NAS Ready To Plug 'N' Store. Then it's double boxed to protect the unit during shipping. Once the tests are complete we QA and pack the system back into it's retail box. Our tests put a greater emphasis on robustness, availability and error handling heavy loads. These tests can include extremes of workload (constant I/O's), CPU and memory use, thermal load (heat), clock speed, or voltages, bus and connectivity components, with the primary stress testing software aiming to test stability by trying to force a system to fail. This is undertaken in order to ensure stability when used in a normal environment. Our stress testing (burn-test) cycle commences for a minimum of 24 hours and extends to 48 hours if requested or required. Our pre-burn testing prepares the NAS with an initial system and drive testing cycle to ensure that the integrity of the entire system is tested and passed with no issues at all. I use the SSD for all real usage and the HDD for backup and long-term storage like pictures and stuff. Passed drives are then installed in the NAS with Volume and RAID set. I have Corsair X64 (2.5' solid state drive) and Seagate Momentus 7200.4 (2.5' hard disk drive) mounted in a single 3.5' bay using Scythe Twin Mounter. The selected drives are batch controlled and tested using our HDD and SSD servers.
