Qnap: ZFS-Based QuTS Hero OS and Enterprise QuTS Hero Rackmount NAS

Qnap Systems, Inc. introduced the brand QuTS hero NAS OS that integrates the app-based QTS with a 128-bit ZFS file system to provide flexible storage management, data protection and optimized performance to meet business-critical application needs.

Meanwhile, the company rolled out the special edition firm’s NAS- the TS-h1283XU-RP, TS-h1277XU-RP, and TS-h977XU-RP– with QuTS hero preinstalled and multi-core computing power, providing reliable and cost-effective NAS solutions for demanding IT applications.

“The QuTS hero edition is the evolved QTS that integrates ZFS advantages with multiple cost-free apps that expand NAS functionality, delivering overall improvements in data integrity, performance, and managerial flexibility,” said Sam Lin, product manager. “Faced with explosive data growth, VDI popularity, increasing SSD adoption, 8K media, and other disruptive IT trends, modern businesses can count on QuTS hero solutions to meet future demands and achieve maximized IT efficiency.“

QuTS hero: Performance ZFS-based OS with reliability
QuTS hero focuses on data integrity and features self-healing capabilities. It supports R/W cache technology to boost performance and provides multiple RAID configurations with the newly-added RAID Triple Parity and Triple Mirror to enhance data protection.

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Additionally, support for near-limitless, instant snapshots enables more complete multi-version backups. For data reduction, QuTS hero supports inline data deduplication, inline compression, and inline compaction to optimize storage usage and improve performance. Whether used as a mission-critical file server, virtualization server, VDI, collaborative video editing, and file backup and recovery, it streamlines business-critical tasks. The inclusive App Center provides multiple install-on-demand apps to expand NAS application potentials, such as hosting VMs and containers, simplifying local, remote, or cloud backups, performing cloud storage gateway (feature will be available soon).

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Introducing QuTS hero edition NAS for SMEs
QuTS hero NAS systems come with an Xeon E-2236 six-core processor or an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X eight-core processor with immense computing power. Four 10GbE ports provide advantages for bandwidth-demanding applications, while support for SSD caching can boost IO/s performance and maximize 10GbE file transfer speeds. The PCIe expansion allows I/O capability by installing various expansion cards, including 10GbE/25GbE/40GbE adapters, QM2 cards for adding M.2 SSDs, FC cards for making the NAS a SAN storage, and SAS expansion cards for connecting storage expansion units. QuTS hero NAS also supports storage for VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V, and Windows Server 2019 virtualization environments.

QuTS hero NAS key specs
The TS-h1283XU-RP supports 12 drive bays, features an Xeon E-2236 six cores/twelve threads 3.4GHz processor with burst up to 4.8GHz and up to 128GB DDR4 ECC memory. It provides two 10GbE SFP+ ports, two 10GbE RJ45 ports, 4 GbE ports, 4 PCle slots (2 slots are pre-installed with 10GbE adapters), and 300W redundant power supply.

Available models include:

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TS-h1283XU-RP-E2236-32G: 32GB DDR4 ECC memory (2x16GB)
TS-h1283XU-RP-E2236-128G: 128GB DDR4 ECC memory (4x32GB)

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The TS-977XU-RP and TS-1277XU-RP support 9 drive bays and 12 drive bays respectively. Both NAS are powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8 cores/16 threads 3.4GHz processor (Turbo Core up to 4.4GHz) with up to 128GB DDR4 memory, and provide two 10GbE SFP+ ports, 2 GbE ports, a pre-installed PCIe-based dual-port 10GbE RJ45 adapter, and 300W redundant power supply.

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