NAS server manufacturer QNAP is focusing on its new QuTS Hero operating system, an operating system that is exactly like the QuTS we all know, but makes use of the popular ZFS file system to provide the best possible data integrity. QNAP has released two new models, the TVS-h1288X and TVS-h1688X, both are high-end NAS with 10G connectivity and with the ZFS file system. Do you want to know all the details of these two new NAS servers for companies?
Main characteristics of these NAS
The main differences between the TVS-h1288X and TVS-h1688X is the capacity of the RAM memory that comes by default, although in both NAS the memory is expandable, they also differ in the bays to store hard drives and SSDs.
Processor and RAM
The main technical characteristics of these new NAS servers are the incorporation of the Intel Xeon W-1250 six-core 3.3 GHz processor (with a power of up to 4.7 GHz), this processor has a 64-bit architecture, floating point unit, AES-NI hardware encryption engine for transferring AES encrypted data and storing it at blazing speed, hardware accelerated video transcoding , and also features an integrated Intel UHD Graphics P630 GPU. Thanks to this processor, we can have high performance for virtualization of operating systems, and for data transfers at 10G speeds.
The TVS-h1288X NAS server comes with a 16GB (2 x 8GB) capacity RAM and DDR4 ECC memory, that is, it incorporates a RAM memory with error correction to guarantee the integrity of all the files that you read and write in the storage. Having an ECC-type RAM memory when we use the ZFS file system is very important, since this file system makes intensive use of RAM, especially when we use native deduplication. The TVS-h1688X model comes with a 32GB (2 x 16GB) capacity RAM and DDR4 ECC memory. These NAS servers allow you to expand the RAM memory up to 128GB (4 x 32GB) DDR4 ECC . In both models we have a 5GB FLASH memory to store the QuTS Hero operating system.
Bays for storage
The NAS model TVS-h1288X incorporates a total of 8 bays for 3.5-inch SATA3 drives, it also incorporates a total of 4 bays to install 2.5-inch SATA3 SSD drives, and be able to accelerate the storage pool thanks to the cache SSD. We could also configure these SSDs with Qtier, and even configure a storage pool with all SSDs so that all the data that is here has lightning-fast performance. The TVS-h1688X has a total of 12 3.5-inch SATA3 drive bays and 4 2.5-inch SATA3 SSD bays. All hard drives and SSDs are hot swappable, as is customary for QNAP.
Another very important feature of these two new NAS servers is the incorporation of 2 M.2 22110/2280 NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 slots to install ultra-fast SSD drives , these NVMe drives will allow us to configure them as SSD cache, Qtier and also as a set of storage with all flash, to put here the virtual machines or data that we need that have a high speed.
Connectivity
The connectivity of this new NAS server is really impressive, on the one hand, we have a total of 4 Multigigabit 2.5GbE ports, in this way, we can configure a link aggregation and have up to 10Gbps of speed together. In addition to these 4 2.5GbE ports, we also have two 2 x 10GBASE-T ports that will allow us to transfer data up to 10Gbps in each of them, if we do link aggregation we could reach up to 20Gbps of download and upload. Of course, we have the possibility to configure Jumbo Frames.
This NAS server incorporates a total of 3 PCIe 3.0 ports, specifically we have the following:
- Slot 1: PCIe Gen3 x8
- Slot 2: PCIe Gen3 x4
- Slot 3: PCIe Gen3 x4
An important detail is that in slot 1 we have the pre-installed dual port 10G network card, therefore, we will not be able to use this PCIe 3.0 x8 port. Another interesting connectivity is the possibility of installing the QNAP QXP-T32P card to have a total of 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports, this adapter is sold separately and is not built into the NAS. Of course, we could also install other expansion cards, with 10Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 connectivity, Multigigabit network cards, Wi-Fi cards with Wi-Fi 6 and much more.
As for the USB ports, we have a total of 2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports (at 10Gbps) type C, and another 3 USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports (at 10Gbps) type A. We also have an HDMI 1.4b port with resolution up to 4K and 30Hz, a 3.5mm jack audio input, a 3.5mm audio output, and a speaker.
As you have seen, these two new NAS servers TVS-h1288X and TVS-h1688X are two really powerful computers, the most interesting without a doubt is the ZFS file system thanks to the new QNAP QuTS Hero operating system. We recommend you visit the official QNAP website where you will find all the details of these new top-of-the-range NAS.
