The manufacturer QNAP continues to expand its family of managed switches with PoE + and NAS server functions. The new QNAP QGD-3014-16PT is a manageable desktop switch, with a very good internal storage capacity thanks to its built-in bays. If you need all the functions of an L2 manageable switch, and that this equipment also works as a complete NAS server with unlimited functionalities, this model is the ideal one for you. Do you want to know all the features and what this new switch-NAS is capable of?
Main features of this office PoE switch
This new PoE-managed switch incorporates some very interesting technical characteristics, not only because of its numerous Ethernet ports with PoE or because of its L2 functions, but because it has a large storage inside, making it ideal for video surveillance tasks in small and medium offices.
Processor and RAM
This new switch has an Intel Celeron J4125 processor , a CPU that is Quad-Core at 2.0GHz, although it can go up to 2.7GHz in turbo mode , it has a 64-bit x86 architecture and AES-NI hardware encryption engine . Thanks to the hardware encryption engine, we can transfer data encrypted with AES (using FTPES or SFTP) and store it at a very high speed when volumes or folders are encrypted. This processor integrates an Intel 600 UHD GPU, therefore, we can extract video from the equipment since we have two HDMI ports for this, a very important detail is that it supports real-time transcoding.
This equipment incorporates a DDR4 RAM memory of up to 8GB of capacity , it has two slots for RAM memory so we will have Dual-Channel.
Bays for storage
This new QNAP QGD-3014-16PT model incorporates a total of 4 bays for 3.5-inch SATA3 drives . As in all the servers of the manufacturer QNAP, we can install both 3.5-inch hard drives and 2.5-inch hard drives, in addition, we also have the possibility of installing 2.5-inch SATA3 drives that will allow us to increase overall performance for file transfers. We can configure these SSD units as SSD cache for reading, writing and also for reading and writing, in addition, we can configure a storage pool with all SSDs to have the best possible performance, and even use Qtier technology for data storage by levels.
This model also has two M.2 SSD 2230 slots for installing SSD drives and having SSD cache acceleration, creating a storage pool with all SSDs, and even using its tiered data storage.
Connectivity
The connectivity of this switch is very complete, we have a total of 16 Gigabit Ethernet ports, we have 14 dedicated 1000BASE-T ports, and we also have two Combo 1000BASE-T / SFP ports. The 16 1000BASE-T ports are PoE +, it is compatible with both the 802.3af and 802.3at standards. The maximum Power Budget that this model supports is 140W. We also have two 2.5G Multigigabit ports for the host, internally we can configure these ports for different types of uses, since the QNAP virtual switch utility is really complete, and will allow us to make very complex configurations.
Other ports we have are two HDMI 2.0 ports for video output in 4K resolution at 60Hz maximum, 3.5mm jack audio output and 3.5mm jack microphone input. Finally, we have two USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports (at 5Gbps) on the back, and another on the front, so we can connect expansion units, external hard drives and other removable storage devices.
Switching characteristics
Regarding the technical characteristics of switching, we have a table of MAC addresses of up to 8K, we have a bandwidth without blocking of 16Gbps, and a switching capacity of 32Gbps. It supports jumbo frames in all ports, and we have different configuration options because it has the QSS operating system for switches, specifically, we will have the following configuration options:
- 802.1Q and port based VLAN.
- Link Aggregation LACP
- QoS
- IGMP Snooping
- ACL
- Wake-On-LAN
By having the same functions as a QNAP NAS, we will be able to install virtual machines with operating systems such as pfSense, RouterOS and many others, we can also install equipment monitoring software such as Zabbix, and even our own SIP switchboard with FreePBX. Other utilities that we can install on this unit to make the most of its hardware, is QVR Pro for video surveillance, HBS 3 for backups to another NAS or in the cloud, and it even supports QuWAN to communicate with different company headquarters.
You can access the official website of the QNAP QGD-3014-16PT where you will find all the details of this new team. We recommend you visit our analysis of the QNAP QGD-1600P NAS functions manageable switch, this afternoon you will have the analysis of the QNAP QGD-1602P, the new version with renewed hardware.