The manufacturer of NAS servers QNAP has launched a new team with the QuTS Hero operating system, the main feature of this operating system for its NAS is the incorporation of the ZFS file system . ZFS is currently the most advanced file system and provides the best data integrity, and the new QNAP TS-h2490FU incorporates NVMe SSD storage so performance is guaranteed. Do you want to know everything about this new high-performance NAS for data centers and medium-sized companies?
Main features of this NAS with NVMe all-flash
The ZFS file system provides us with great data integrity, and unique features such as Copy-on-Write, native deduplication, compression and even native snapshots, this makes it ideal for servers where integrity is the most important. The downside to this file system is that it is RAM intensive, and therefore we need a large amount of RAM to run with excellent performance. We must also bear in mind that it is highly recommended in ZFS that the RAM is ECC type (with error correction), so that the integrity of the data is not compromised.
Processor and RAM
QNAP has released two different versions of this NAS server, their main differences are in the processor, RAM and also connectivity.
The TS-h2490FU-7232P-64G model mounts an AMD EPYC 7232P processor with 8 cores and 16 threads at 3.1 GHz, in addition, it reaches up to 3.2GHz when more power is required. Of course, this high-performance processor has AES-NI to speed up hardware encryption / decryption. Along with this powerful CPU, we have a total of 64 GB of DDR4 ECC RDIMM memory (8 modules of 8 GB), thanks to this RAM capacity, we will be able to take full advantage of the ZFS file system.
The TS-h2490FU-7302P-128G model mounts an AMD EPYC 7302P processor with 16 cores and 32 threads at 3.0 GHz, although it reaches 3.3GHz, incorporates AES-NI, and we have a total of 128 GB of RDIMM memory DDR4 ECC (8 x 16GB modules).
In both server models, we can expand the RAM memory up to 4TB (configuration of 8 x 256GB each module). We must bear in mind that this NAS is oriented to servers.
Storage
The storage of this NAS server is all flash, we have a total of 24 bays to host solid state drives U.2 NVMe Gen 3 x4, therefore, we will have the best possible performance thanks to the fact that we can configure different storage sets in Mirror , RAIDZ-1, RAIDZ-2 and more. According to QNAP tests, we can have up to 472,000 / 205,000 random read / write IOPS
Connectivity
The connectivity of this server must be at the level of its hardware, in this case, we have a total of 2 2.5GbE ports with Link Aggregation support, and we also have a total of two SFP28 25GbE ports for the TS-h2490FU version. 7232P and a total of four SFP28 25GbE ports for the TS-h2490FU-7302P version. As if this were not enough, we also have a total of five PCie 4.0 slots (with a minimum of x4, a maximum of x8 and a maximum of x16) to increase the connectivity of this NAS by using the QM2 cards of the manufacturer QNAP and even installing a GPU. We must bear in mind that the SFP28 ports allow Link Aggregation, therefore, we can have a link of up to 100Gbps of bandwidth at most.
Finally, this team also has a total of 2 USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports at 5Gbps, and a redundant 1,100W power supply, since we are dealing with a professional team whose goal is to provide the best data integrity.
As for the QuTS Hero operating system, we have the same administration, configuration, monitoring and application store options as always, but incorporating the ZFS file system.
You can visit the official website of the QNAP TS-h2490FU where you will find all the details of this rackable NAS server. We recommend you visit our analysis of the QNAP TS-1277 , one of the best desktop NAS that you can buy with an AMD Ryzen 7 processor, you can also read the analysis of the QNAP TS-253D , the best NAS for home environments and SMBs.
