Designed as a high-performance backup solution for small- to medium-sized businesses, the U4-500 4-Bay Rackmount NAS Enclosure from TerraMaster is equipped with an Intel Core i3-1215U 6-Core processor and 8GB of 4800 MHz DDR5 RAM. Also featured are four 3.5/2.5" SATA drive bays that can accommodate HDDs and SSDs, plus two M.2 2280 NVMe slots that support PCIe 4.0 x4 for SSD caching. Installed drives can be configured for RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, JBOD, Single, TRAID, and TRAID+ modes depending on your performance and security preferences, and can deliver sequential write speeds of up to 2090 MB/s and 4K random read/write speeds of up to 450 MB/s. The U4-500 seamlessly integrates into your network through its dual 10 Gigabit RJ45 ports, which can be combined using link aggregation to support 20GbE connections with compatible devices. Connecting external peripherals to the one USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 and three USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports allows you to share files and media with connected network devices. Your data is secured with hardware-based AES-NI encryption.
Necessity for Data Protection
Globally, both large and small enterprises are facing the threat of data security incidents every day, such as ransomware attacks, employee's accidental deletion of data, and unexpected server downtime. These incidents will not only have a significant impact on the core information and business continuity of the enterprise, but may even directly threaten the survival and development of the enterprise. Especially in the digital and information age nowadays, data has become the most valuable asset of the enterprise. Once the data is lost or leaked, the consequences will be disastrous.
Integrated Backup Solution
TerraMaster Backup Server is an integrated data backup solution designed for small- and medium-sized businesses. With a one-time payment, it eliminates additional software fees and places no limits on backup tasks or storage capacity. This solution combines a professional storage management system, backup software tools, and a hardware platform, offering deep integration and comprehensive backup services. TerraMaster employs advanced security strategies to ensure system stability and data security across all aspects. TerraMaster Backup Server provides a one-stop enterprise data backup solution for data stored on employee personal computers, physical servers, or virtual machines. With multiple protection mechanisms, including backup, snapshot, synchronization, and remote disaster recovery, this backup solution establishes a robust data protection barrier to ensure the security of data across various terminals and servers in diverse enterprise application scenarios.
Business Backup Suite Provides an Integrated Backup Solution
BBS (Business Backup Suite) is a comprehensive commercial backup solution developed by TerraMaster. Its core components include Duple Backup (DB), Centralized Backup (CB), TerraSync (TS), CloudSync, and Snapshot. Duple Backup is designed for off-site disaster recovery of data on TerraMaster backup servers. Centralized Backup handles the centralized backup of data from employee computers, file servers, virtual machines, and more to the local TerraMaster backup server. TerraSync enables data synchronization between multiple backup servers and between backup servers and PCs. CloudSync facilitates cloud-based disaster recovery solutions. The Snapshot feature provides snapshots and restoration of file systems and folders, offering protection against ransomware attacks.
BBS (Business Backup Suite) is specifically designed for business applications, offering complete functionality and meeting the high-performance requirements of enterprise environments. Users can flexibly combine TerraMaster's BBS backup components based on their specific needs to create diverse backup strategies, effectively addressing the majority of backup requirements for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
BBS (Business Backup Suite) is specifically designed for business applications, offering complete functionality and meeting the high-performance requirements of enterprise environments. Users can flexibly combine TerraMaster's BBS backup components based on their specific needs to create diverse backup strategies, effectively addressing the majority of backup requirements for small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Computer Backup of Employees
The data stored on employees' personal computers, including work results, design plans, and other information, are not only key intellectual properties and compliance elements of an enterprise but also crucial for operational development. For R&D-based enterprises, the R&D materials and innovative ideas within this data are essential for maintaining technological innovation and competitiveness. Thus, ensuring the integrity and security of this data is vital for enterprises.
Challenges in Backing Up Employee Computers
Backing up data from employee computers in enterprises presents several challenges, including the tedium of manual backups, complexity in data management, human error, cost concerns, and the need for robust security and privacy protections. Additionally, network performance can impact backup processes. To address these challenges, enterprises should implement centralized backup solutions and establish comprehensive backup management systems and strategies.
Active Backup Solution for Employee Computers
Centralized Backup (CB) is a backup tool developed by TerraMaster that offers a centralized, proactive backup solution tailored to the needs of business users. By deploying CB on an integrated backup server, IT administrators can centrally back up the storage space or even system partitions of employee computers within the enterprise. The backup server initiates the process, eliminating the need for individual configuration on each host.
Passive Computer Backup Solution for Employees
In addition to Centralized Backup for IT administrators, TerraMaster backup server offers TerraSync, a computer backup tool that employees can manage independently. TerraSync provides both data synchronization and backup functions, enabling employees to create their own synchronization or backup strategies based on the importance and frequency of data use. Employees can synchronize or back up data from their computers to TerraMaster backup servers. TerraSync also supports data synchronization across multiple devices and platforms, such as Windows computers, macOS computers, and iOS/Android mobile devices, enhancing mobile office convenience and improving employee work efficiency.
Server Backup Solution
The server is the central hub for enterprise digital information, running essential applications like OA, CRM, and ERP, and storing crucial business data. TerraMaster Centralized Backup (CB) provides a comprehensive solution by using the backup server to centrally back up storage spaces or system partitions of enterprise computing and file servers.
Virtual Machine Backup Solution
Virtual machine backup is crucial for maintaining the integrity and recoverability of critical business systems and data. In the face of risks such as hardware failure, software errors, human mistakes, or natural disasters, backups can swiftly restore the virtual machine to its most recent stable state, minimizing service interruption, ensuring business continuity, and preventing data loss and potential financial impact. Therefore, regular virtual machine backups are an essential component of any enterprise risk management strategy.
Disaster Recovery Solution
To safeguard against data threats from hardware failures, system malfunctions, theft, and natural disasters, TerraMaster's enterprise data backup solution includes a secondary layer of protection called Duplicate Backup (DB). DB is a robust disaster recovery tool with a user-friendly interface. It enables IT administrators to back up important folders, entire data volumes, or iSCSI LUNs from the backup server to remote locations such as another backup server, file server, or cloud storage. Supporting various backup strategies, including incremental and multi-version backups, DB ensures a straightforward and efficient backup and restoration process, facilitating rapid data recovery in the event of equipment failure.
To prevent data loss in the event of an accident, the 3-2-1 backup strategy is widely used. This approach involves maintaining at least 3 backups of the data, with 2 stored on different devices and at least 1 stored off-site. Duple Backup, a professional tool designed specifically for TerraMaster backup servers, is ideal for implementing the 3-2-1 backup strategy.
Cloud Data Backup
By using TerraMaster's CloudSync service with the integrated backup server, enterprises can fully protect their network disk and cloud SaaS data. As an advanced cloud disk synchronization application, CloudSync enables high-speed, real-time synchronization between local backup servers and cloud storage. It efficiently downloads cloud data for easy access, overcomes Internet bandwidth limitations, and significantly boosts work efficiency. This cost-effective solution offers reliable off-site disaster recovery strategies, ensuring data integrity and business continuity.
Advantages of the CloudSync Cloud Disaster Recovery Solution
Supports synchronization with major cloud storage services, including Google Drive, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Dropbox, and Baidu Cloud.
- Offers bidirectional disaster recovery strategies, including cloud-to-local and local-to-cloud.
- Monitors file changes in real-time and triggers immediate data synchronization.
- Supports various synchronization strategies to accommodate flexible data utilization needs.
- Provides data encryption during upload to prevent sensitive data leakage on cloud storage.
- Offers flexible synchronization options and scheduled tasks to avoid network bandwidth congestion during peak business hours.
Avoid Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware poses a major threat to data security. A single compromised device can swiftly and discreetly infect your entire network, including network-connected backups, often without detection. Ransomware not only encrypts your data but can also delete, overwrite, or destroy it. Failing to pay the ransom risks permanent loss of critical business data.
In addition to backup and disaster recovery solutions, TerraMaster Backup Server offers a powerful tool against ransomware attacks: folder and file system snapshots.
In addition to backup and disaster recovery solutions, TerraMaster Backup Server offers a powerful tool against ransomware attacks: folder and file system snapshots.
Folder Snapshot
- Leveraging the COW (Copy-on-Write) feature of the Btrfs file system, snapshots are highly efficient and storage space is optimized.
- The scheduled task can take a snapshot of the folder or iSCSI LUN every hour.
- Each folder can hold up to 1024 snapshots.
- Arranged chronologically, browsing and restoring snapshots are quick and easy.
- Enhance snapshot security by supporting incremental snapshot replication.
- When the server goes down, the business can swiftly switch to the backup server and resume operations.
File System Snapshot (TFSS)
- TerraMaster's Unique Snapshot Protection Solution.
- Minimize human error, create full system or volume snapshots, and enhance data security.
- Adopt a read-only snapshot storage method to minimize the risk of ransomware affecting snapshots and enhance overall snapshot security.
- Customizable snapshot scheduling tasks allow for flexible arrangement in alignment with the business operation cycle.
- One-click activation and restoration simplify IT administrators' tasks.
Applications for TerraMaster Backup Servers
The TerraMaster integrated backup server offers enterprise-grade disaster recovery solutions tailored to meet the demands of freight, efficiency, collaboration, compatibility, and security in a digitally centralized enterprise environment. It is ideal for data disaster recovery in small- to medium-sized enterprises, campus cloud disk and backup solutions, document management for design institutions, and PACS digital medical data storage.
Powerful Backup Server
The U4-500 is equipped with an Intel Core i3-1215U processor, featuring 6 cores, 8 threads, and a turbo frequency of up to 4.4 GHz. It includes Intel UHD Graphics with a dynamic frequency of 1.1 GHz and supports AES-NI hardware encryption. With 8GB of 4800 MHz DDR5 memory and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, it ensures robust performance. Additionally, it has two M.2 NVMe slots for Hyper Cache acceleration, enhancing disk array storage efficiency. This makes it an ideal high-performance backup solution for small to medium-sized businesses.
High-Capacity Storage
The U4-500 can accommodate up to four 3.5" SATA hard drives, offering a remarkable maximum storage capacity. This is sufficient to meet the backup and storage needs of most small- and medium-sized enterprises. Additionally, through the 10 Gb/s USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface, the U4-500 can easily connect to external USB storage devices, enabling further storage expansion. For example, when used with the TerraMaster D6-320, it can increase storage capacity to meet your ever-growing data storage demands with an additional six drive bays.
20Gb Lightning-Fast Throughput Performance
The U4-500 is equipped with two 10GbE copper cable 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, offering up to 20 Gb/s of bandwidth for data transmission. In real world scenarios, combined with SMB multichannel, the U4-500 delivers impressive throughput performance, with sequential write speeds of up to 2090 MB/s and 4K random read/write speeds up to 450 MB/s. This performance ensures smooth image and video read/write capabilities, making it ideal for film and video production, post-production in audio-video studios, and production teams. It also provides outstanding random read/write performance for virtualized environments and database applications.
Versatile Storage Options, Configure as You Wish
The U4-500 offers a comprehensive range of storage configurations, supporting various RAID types including Single, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10. It also introduces TerraMaster's innovative flexible array (TRAID/TRAID+), which enables online capacity expansion, migration, and redundant disk configuration within the array. Users can create multiple storage spaces and choose between ext4 or Btrfs file systems based on their business needs. For added flexibility, pair the U4-500 with the TerraMaster USB DAS disk array to seamlessly expand storage capacity as needed.
A New Generation Operating System
The U4-500 features the TOS 6 operating system, introducing over 40 new features and optimizing more than 370 details for an unparalleled upgrade experience. TOS 6 boasts a completely revamped user interface, transforming the system from the inside out. Enhanced security measures ensure even more secure and reliable data storage. Additionally, TOS 6 is fully compatible with the Ubuntu root file system, making it familiar and easy to maintain for a wide range of users.
Across-Platform File Services
The U4-500 supports mainstream file services including SMB, SFTP/FTP, iSCSI, NFS, and WebDAV, fully meeting cross-platform file service needs in various network environments. It is compatible with Windows AD domain and LDAP, making it easy to integrate into existing enterprise IT environments and improve management efficiency. Additionally, it offers multi-level permission management for users, user groups, and file directories, addressing comprehensive cross-department collaboration and data security requirements for enterprises.
Virtualization Tools to Facilitate Every Project
Leveraging the virtualization tools and hybrid storage architecture of the TerraMaster Operating System (TOS), the U4-500 offers exceptional advantages in virtualization. The Docker Manager visualization tool makes managing containers and projects effortless. Additionally, with VirtualBox support, you can create a highly efficient virtualized environment, enabling your business to launch and become operational in a very short time.
System Level Security Protection
Facing increasingly rampant cyber attacks, network device security encounters unprecedented challenges. TOS offers a comprehensive suite of security measures, including PAM authentication, OTP two-factor authentication, AES 256 encryption, automatic account lockout, anti-DoS attack protocols, firewalls, and security isolation modes, all designed to effectively reduce the risk of malicious attacks. The recently introduced SPC (Security and Privacy Control) module has enhanced system security tenfold. SPC ensures that all executable programs running on the system are authorized and legitimate, further protecting user data from hackers and ransomware.
Multiple Commercial Applications
TNAS allows business users to easily build file servers, mail servers, web servers, FTP servers, MySQL databases, CRM, Node.js, Java VMs, and many other services, thereby satisfying the commercial requirement of various SMBs in such fields as education, consulting, finance, scientific research, and law.
Powerful Multimedia Service
The U4-500 Max's formidable 4K video decoding prowess offers seamless compatibility with the uPnP/DLNA protocol. When paired with TerraMaster's dedicated Multimedia Server application, or even third-party servers such as Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin, it effortlessly streams videos to a myriad of multimedia devices including PCs, smartphones, media players, and televisions. Enjoy uninterrupted and immersive viewing experiences at the touch of a button.
Miniaturized Rackmount Server
The U4-500 adopts a 1U rackmount case with a depth of only 14.17" and weighs merely 7.1 pounds, which saves a lot of space. It features simple installation without any rail, it is applicable to most 2-column cabinets and wall-mounted small cabinets, and can be used in a machine room, storage room, staircase, office along with a plethora of other places. suitable for small office users. With a high-quality silent fan and specially optimized internal structure, the U4-500 maintains a relatively low noise level when working conditions at full load.