Today at CEBIT 2011 we came across the Qnap booth and saw they had some new fancy devices on display. Being greeted instantly by the Taiwanese/Geman team members we arranged for our AkihabaraNews readers an exclusive look at the new Qnap TurboNAS x59 series. We were allowed to take some pictures of the 4 bay TS-459 Pro II which is one of the models currently being manufactured.

The whole line of new x59 network attached storage devices stick out head & toes compared to the previous versions.

Key improvements in the x59 Pro II are:

- Intel Dual-core ATOM CPU’s over the whole line

- Increased power saving hardware modifications

- Serial ATA 3 (SATA-3) rated 6Gb/s

- 1Gb fast DDR3 RAM

- Expandable RAM

- USB 3, 10x SuperSpeed

Power wise the new Qnap consume only 26 to maximum 44 watt depending if it is a 2, 4, 5, 6 or 8-bay unit. Which alone are impressive results. We did not notice any big changes in general design, yet the new Qnap x59 line did sport 1 usb 3 connector on the front panel and 2 extra ones at the back. Built quality, as always, was impeccable.