Qnap TVS-x73e SMB 4-6-8 Slots NAS With AMD RX-421BD Quad-Core Processor

Qnap Systems, Inc. announced the TVS-x73e SMB NAS lineup featuring an AMD RX-421BD quad-core APU, up to 64GB DDR4 RAM, two M.2 SATA 6Gb/s SSD slots (for SSD cache acceleration with Qtier auto-tiering), the USB QuickAccess port, dual 4K HDMI output, and hardware-assisted 4K video transcoding acceleration.

Designed for versatile business needs, the secure and scalable TVS-x73e series provides a pair of PCIe slots for flexibly installing 10GbE NICs, QM2 cards or USB 3.1 10Gb/s cards, presenting SMBs with a NAS solution to build a private cloud for applications including fast data transfer, backup/recovery, virtualization, media playback and graphics display.

TVS-x73e NAS rear
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“The TVS-x73e NAS series is powered by an AMD quad-core APU with up to 3.4 GHz clock speed and also provides dual PCIe slots that add more value to maximize NAS potential for a wider range of applications, making the TVS-x73e ideal for organizations and professionals who ask for performance and expandability,” said Jason Hsu, product manager, Qnap.

Housed in a metal design, the TVS-x73e series includes 4, 6, and 8-drive bay models that feature a performance and energy-efficient RX-421BD quad-core 2.1GHz APU (Turbo Core up to 3.4GHz) and 4/8GB DDR4 RAM (up to 64GB). With an optional 10GbE NIC installed, it delivers up to 1,139MB/s throughput and up to 1,091MB/s with AES-NI hardware-accelerated encryption engine. With SSD caching and two built-in M.2 SSD slots, the TVS-x73e can benefit from Qtier technology to optimize storage efficiency across M.2 SSDs, 2.5-inch SSDs and high-capacity HDDs for balanced cost, performance and capacity.

The TVS-x73e series includes two PCIe slots that allows system flexibility; Users can install an optional 10GbE network card for boosting virtualization and high-resolution video editing and sharing; a USB 3.1 Gen.2 (10Gb/s) card for transferring large media files to/from USB storage; or the company’s QM2 cards that allows for adding up to two M.2 SSDs to configure SSD caching, or to create a RAID-5 tiered storage along with the two M.2 SSDs in the NAS (M.2 SSD sold separately) to increase data protection. There are also QM2 cards that include 10GbE 10GBASE-T connectivity to provide SSD caching with high-speed network connectivity on a single card.

QM2 optional card

The TVS-x73e features AMD 3rd Gen GCN architecture with GPU performance to support 4K video decoding and 4K UHD display, and the dual HDMI output with a free remote control makes it to enjoy audiovisual experience.

The business-ready TVS-x73e series is a NAS and iSCSI-SAN unified storage solution that supports VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 R2 environments, and can also natively host multiple VMs (with Windows, Linux, Unix and Android) and containers (LXC and Docker). Running the intelligent QTS OS, the series performs as an integrated storage solution to fulfill file backup, sharing, centralized management, and it supports block-based snapshots to record the state of the system at any time to mitigate the impact of ransomware attacks and to ensure the stability of service operations.

The TVS-x73e series is scalable by connecting the company’s expansion enclosures (UX-800P, UX-500P or REXP-1000 Pro). Storage capacity can also be expanded by using VJBOD (Virtual JBOD) that leverages the unused storage capacity of other firm’s NAS for use as virtual disks.

Key specs:

TVS-473e: supports four 3.5-inch HDD or 2.5-inch HDD/SSD
TVS-673e: supports six 3.5-inch HDD or 2.5-inch HDD/SSD
TVS-873e: supports eight 3.5-inch HDD or 2.5-inch HDD/SSD
Tower model; AMD RX-421BD quad-core 2.1GHz APU (burst up to 3.4GHz), dual channel 4/8GB DDR4 SODIMM RAM (upgradable to 64GB); hot-swappable 2.5″/3.5″ 6Gb ATA HDD/SSD; two M.2 6Gb SATA 2280/2260 SSD slots; one USB QuickAccess port; two PCle (Gen.3 x 4) slots; four USB 3.0 ports; four Gigabit LAN ports; two HDMI 1.4b outputs; two 3.5mm microphone jacks (dynamic microphones only); one 3.5mm Line-out audio jack; one built-in speaker

The TVS-x73e series is available.