Computex: Qnap TS-x77 NAS With AMD Ryzen Processors

Amidst the innovations in NAS, networking, and IoT presented by Qnap Systems, Inc. at Computex 2017, the announcement of a first AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.) Ryzen-based NAS took center stage and underlined firm’s commitment to push the boundaries of NAS performance and functionality.

The TS-x77 series leverages the power of Ryzen, featuring processors with up to 8-cores/16-threads with Turbo Core up to 3.7GHz to boost virtualization performance. The TS-x77 is designed as a performance, highly-capable tiered storage geared for I/O intensive and virtualization applications, and also supports AMD Radeon and Nvidia Corporation‘ graphics cards to satisfy resource-demanding video editing and playback.

The TS-x77 series will be available in 6-, 8-, and 12-bay models with Ryzen 7 (8-cores/16-threads) and Ryzen 5 (6-cores/12-threads and 4-core/8-thread) processors that support AES-NI encryption acceleration and up to 64GB DDR4 RAM. Every model in the series provides three PCIe Gen.3 slots for expansion potential for supporting 10GbE/40GbE NICs, PCIe NVMe SSD, graphics cards, and USB 3.1 expansion cards. Two M.2 SATA 6 GB/s SSD slots are provided for cache acceleration or performance storage pools. Incorporating performance, scalability and reliability, this NAS series provides a business-ready storage solution for running a range of business tasks (including cross-platform file sharing, backup, DR, and iSCSI and virtualization tasks) .

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The TS-x77 series features an combination of hardware and software that delivers expandability, reliability, and all the tools necessary to satisfy IO/s-demanding workloads and multitasking.

The TS-x77 NAS will be available from Q3 2017.

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