The manufacturer of NAS servers QNAP , today launched a new PCIe expansion card that will allow us to expand the number of USB ports . This new card is compatible with both the NAS servers of the QNAP manufacturer, without the need to install any driver, as it will automatically recognize it, and also for PCs. Do you want to know all the characteristics of this new expansion card from the manufacturer?
QNAP QXP-10G2U3A Main Features
This new QNAP QXP-10G2U3A PCIe expansion card will allow us to have a total of two USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, therefore, we will have two USB ports that can achieve transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps, double that of the typical USB 3.0 / 3.1 port. Gen 1 / 3.2 Gen 1. The 10Gbps transfer speed allows us to have up to 10Gbps in each of the two ports, therefore, we can have a transfer speed of up to 20Gbps if we are using both USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports.
In this article we already checked the high speed rates provided by the USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports when we analyzed the QNAP TS-1277 NAS server, and also when we did the tests of our new USB benchmark for testing on NAS and routers . This 10Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 port allows us to achieve real transfer rates of 1000MB / s in reading and about 900MB / s in writing, very high values that we will only achieve if we are going to use NVMe SSD drives, since if we use drives SATA3 we will have the limitation of the SATA3 interface itself, which is 6Gbps. In the following video you can see all our tests:
This QNAP expansion card is compatible with both your NAS servers, as well as for PCs , regardless of whether we use desktops or servers, with Windows or a Linux-based operating system. An important detail is that it supports the UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol) protocol, to facilitate fast data transfers when sharing files, in addition, it also uses low-power processes and complies with the power management standard to optimize power consumption when maximum. Of course, this expansion card also supports the detection of short circuits and overcurrents, in order to give full guarantees of its proper operation.
Thanks to this QNAP QXP-10G2U3A expansion card with ultra-fast speeds, we will be able to use QNAP JBOD USB storage expansion devices , ideal for making backup copies and transferring data at high speed. Also, we won’t have to install any kind of driver if you use the TL-D800C and TL-R1200C-RP series of QNAP JBOD USB devices. Users of QTS and QuTS Hero operating systems will be able to manage JBOD USB storage directly from the storage and snapshot manager. PC users will be able to use the application that QNAP makes available to its customers.
In our complete review of the QNAP TS-253D NAS server we already used a QNAP JBOD storage expansion device, although in this case, it was not via USB but we needed to use a special expansion card. All the management and administration was done through the storage manager and snapshots quickly and easily, as if it were storage within the NAS server itself.
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