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Comparison Charts

TeraStation™ Comparison Chart

Feature
(Mouse over a feature for description)
TeraStation™ Duo - TS-WXL/R1 & TS-WXL/1D
TeraStation Pro™ II - TS-HGL/R5 & TS-RHGL/R5
TeraStation™ ES - TS-XEL/R5
TeraStation™ III - TS-XL/R5 & TS-RXL/R5
TeraStation™ WSS - WS-QL/R5
TeraStation Pro™ II iSCSI - TS-IGL/R5 & TS-RIGL/R5
TeraStation™ III iSCSI - TS-IXL/R5 & TS-RIXL/R5
Fast Network Throughput High speed CPU and RAM provide faster network performance Yes   Yes Yes Yes   Yes
High Performance Network Throughput Optimized hardware architecture provides class-leading performance, especially when multiple computers are accessing the device Yes     Yes     Yes
RAID-5 Mode All 4 drives arrayed into a one massive network share with parity (Factory default)   Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Standard (JBOD) Mode Four individual network shares Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes    
Spanning Mode
One massive share
    Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RAID-0 Mode One massive, high performance network share in a striped RAID-0 array Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RAID-1 Mode
A set of two drives are separately mirrored to another set of two drives
Yes Yes Yes Yes   Yes Yes
RAID-10 Mode One striped set of mirrors   Yes Yes Yes   Yes Yes
File Sharing over Network Easily store, back up and share all your data over network Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DFS (Distributed File System) Support Allows multiple TeraStations to work seamlessly together as one unit Yes Yes Yes Yes   Yes Yes
Built-in FTP Server Access your TeraStation files via FTP (Files Transfer Protocol) over the Internet Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes    
TeraStation to TeraStation Backup Additional TeraStations can be stacked for extra backup and storage Yes Yes Yes Yes      
Memeo® AutoBackup Software included Fully automated Memeo backup software for Windows® PCs and Macs included Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes    
Time Machine® Support Use TeraStation with Time Machine Backup
Yes   Yes Yes      
Two USB 2.0 Ports Connect up to 2 USB hard drives simultaneously Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes    
Fanless Power Supply Equipped with a power supply that does not require a cooling fan Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes    
Active Directory Support Works as a client member in an Active Directory domain utilizing the domain users and groups Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes    
Quick Swap Removable Hard Drives Front panel access to hard drives for quick hard drive replacement (Power off is required for hard drive replacement) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes  
Hot Swap Removable Hard Drives Front panel access to hard drives for quick hard drive replacement (Device can be powered on during hard drive replacement) 
Yes   Yes Yes     Yes
Schedulable RAID Consistency Check Advanced RAID system to regularly check hard drive performance Yes Yes Yes Yes   Yes Yes
DLNA™ CERTIFIED Media Server For multimedia streaming to any DLNA compatible media player
Yes   Yes Yes      
Status LCD Display Informative display reporting important data such as disk usage, network information, RAID mode and system errors Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Email Alerts
Email notifications of status of TeraStation's activity and critical system errors
Yes Yes Yes Yes   Yes Yes
High Tolerance Cooling System Enhanced cooling system designed to keep the device cool, even in high intensity operating environments, such as server rooms Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SATA Hard Drive 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drives Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Built-in USB Print Server Connect to a USB Printer so that all computers on your network can share one printer Yes     Yes Yes    
Block-level I/O Physical or logical volume access via block I/O as typically found in a SAN environment           Yes Yes
File-level I/O Physical or logical volume access via file I/O as typically found in a NAS environment Yes Yes Yes Yes   Yes  
3-Year Warranty
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
 

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