Powered by a Dual Core Intel Core i3-2120 3.3 GHz processor with 2GB DDR3 RAM, the QNAP TS-1079 Pro comes with two 1Gb Ethernet ports as standard, two USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports and two eSATA ports. Roughly toaster-oven size (9 inches high, 13 inches wide, 13 inches deep) it consumes (again, in my configuration) 121 watts in operation and 40 W on standby.

You can configure the QNAP TS-1079 Pro to be a single giant disk volume, a number of single disk volumes, a single RAID 0 striping disk volume, one or more RAID 1 mirroring disk volumes, a RAID 5 disk volume, a RAID 6 disk volume or a RAID 10 disk volume.

So, where to begin with features? This is tricky because this system is loaded.

Perhaps a good place is the reason I was checking to see if my Internet gateway was UPnP-enabled: This was because the TS-1079 supports a service called .

MyCloudNAS is essentially a Dynamic DNS service (DDNS) that allows you to publish and access running on a QNAP NAS system on the Internet. You register whatever subdomain name you like on MyCloudNAS, configure your QNAP device and voila! Your remote users can access your NAS-based apps.