| Operating System | Embedded Linux |
| Supported Operating System | Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista (32-/ 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-/ 64-bit), Server 2003/ 2008 |
| Apple Mac OS X |
| Linux & Unix |
| File System | Internal HDD: EXT3, EXT4 |
| External HDD: EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, FAT32 |
| Networking | TCP/IP (IPv4 & IPv6: Dual Stack) |
| Dual Gigabit NICs with Jumbo Frame |
| Multi-IP Setting, Port Trunking/ NIC Teaming |
| DHCP Client, DHCP Server |
| Protocols: CIFS/ SMB, AFP(3.1), NFS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet, SSH, iSCSI and SNMP |
| Network Service Discovery (UPnP, Bonjour) |
| Network File Sharing | CIFS/ SMB (plus DFS support), AFP, NFS, FTP, WebDAV |
| Backup Solution | USB One Touch Backup (Import/ Export) |
| Apple Time Machine Support |
| Block-level Remote Replication- Works as both an Rsync Server & Client- Supports Encrypted Replication between QNAP NAS Servers |
| QNAP NAS servers | Data Backup to External Storage Device |
| Data Backup to Cloud Storage (Amazon S3) |
| Security IP Filter |
| Network Access Protection with Auto-blocking |
| HTTPS Connection |
| FTP with SSL/ TLS (explicit) |
| Encrypted Remote Replication (Rsync over SSH) |
| Importable SSL Certificate |
| Instant Alert E-mail and SMS |
| Disk Management | Single Disk, JBOD, RAID 0/ 1/ 5/ 6/ 5+hot spare/ 6 +hot spare |
| Online RAID Capacity Expansion |
| Online RAID Level Migration |
| HDD S.M.A.R.T. |
| Bad Block Scan |
| RAID Recovery |
| Bitmap Support |
| iSCSI | iSCSI Target- Multi-LUNs per Target- Supports LUN Mapping & LUN Masking- Supports SPC-3 Persistent Reservation- Supports MPIO- Supports MC/S |
| Virtual Disk Drive (via iSCSI Initiator)- Stack Chaining Master- Max. Virtual Disk Drives: 8 |
| Server Virtualization & Clustering | Supports VMware vSphere (ESX/ ESXi 4.0 and above) |
| Supports Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V & Failover Clustering |
| Power Management | Wake on LAN |
| Scheduled Power on/ off (max. 15 settings) |
| Automatic Power on after Power Recovery |
| Access Right Management | Max. User Accounts: 4,096 |
| Max. Groups: 512 |
| Max. Share Folders: 512 |
| Batch Creating Users |
| Import User List |
| User Quota Management |
| Web Administration | AJAX-based User Interface |
| HTTP/ HTTPS Connections |
| Alert Notification (Email & SMS) |
| Smart Fan Control |
| DDNS |
| SNMP (v2 & v3) |
| UPS Support with SNMP Management (USB) |
| Resource Monitor |
| Network Recycle Bin for CIFS/ SMB and AFP |
| Comprehensive Logs (Events & Connections) |
| Real-time Online User List |
| Syslog Client |
| Backup and Restore System Settings |
| QPKG | Web Application- Joomla- phpMyAdmin- WordPress- AjaXplorer |
| P2P Application- MLDonkey (eMule)- SABnzbd+ |
| Server Application- SSOTS (Squeezebox Server)- Tomcat- Asterisk- XDove (Mail Server) |
| Miscellaneous- Optware IPKG- Python- Java Runtime Environment- And more |
| Supported Web Browsers | Internet Explorer 7 & 8 or Later |
| Firefox 3 or Later |
| Safari 3 & 4 or Later |
| Google Chrome |
| Multilingual Support | Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish |