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What on earth is Amazon S3 you may ask. Well it is a very clever product from Amazon, S3 stands for Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

That does not really mean much but the official blurb is:

Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

It is basically a lot of hard drives stuck together at Amazon HQ designed to allow people to store an almost infinite amount of data for a very cheap price. The best bit is it is secure and you have no danger of the data going missing as its run off the same servers the Amazon website and it’s not likely Amazon is going anywhere Remember this is not “free” Amazon charge a very small amount of money for each bit of data they store so check out the pricing before uploading all those Mp3′s you want to keep safe.

If you follow the information below it will tell you how to enable your QNAP NAS to perform an online secure backup. Remember while a NAS offers great security due to its redundancy there is nothing like an offsite backup, a RAID won’t save your data in a fire or theft!

The supported models for the QNAP Amazon S3 add-on are:

SS-439 Pro, SS-839 Pro, TS-110, TS-119, TS-210, TS-219, TS-219P, TS-239 Pro, TS-239 Pro II, TS-259 Pro, TS-410, TS-410U, TS-419P, TS-419U, TS-439U-SP, TS-439U-RP, TS-439 Pro, TS-439 Pro II, TS-459 Pro, TS-509 Pro, TS-639 Pro, TS-659 Pro, TS-809 Pro, TS-809U-RP, TS-859 Pro  

All these QNAP models are available from us (just give us a call) and can come pre-built with the hard drives you want already fitted.

How to Use Amazon S3 with QNAP Turbo NAS

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