QNAP Rolls Out 4/6/8‑bay TS-x73 Series NAS with Quad-core AMD R‑Series Pro­ces­sor, Dual M.2 SATA SSD Slots, and Dual PCIe Slots for Adding M.2 SSD, 10GbE, and a Gra­phics Card

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Tai­pei, Tai­wan, March 20, 2018 — QNAP® Sys­tems, Inc. today laun­ched the cost-effec­ti­ve high-per­for­mance 4‑bay ( TS-473), 6‑bay ( TS-673), and 8‑bay ( TS-873) TS-x73 series NAS fea­turing an AMD RX-421ND quad-core CPU with Tur­bo Core up to 3.4GHz and two PCIe slots for instal­ling a QNAP QM2 card, wire­less net­work card or a gra­phics card to extend NAS func­tion­a­li­ties. The TS-x73 series pro­vi­des small and medi­um busi­nesses with an ide­al NAS solu­ti­on to build a pri­va­te cloud for appli­ca­ti­ons inclu­ding high-speed data trans­fer, backup/recovery, vir­tua­liza­ti­on, media play­back and gra­phics display.

“The TS-x73 NAS series pres­ents a bud­get-fri­end­ly solu­ti­on by allo­wing users to add more value to their NAS based on their indi­vi­du­al needs. Through the two PCIe slots, users can install a QNAP QM2 card to add SSD caching/10GbE con­nec­ti­vi­ty for boos­ted per­for­mance; a wire­less card with Wire­les­sAP Sta­ti­on app to turn the NAS into a wire­less access point; or even an PCIe bus-powered gra­phics card to enable 4K trans­co­ding and HDMI out­put for a grea­ter media mul­ti­me­dia expe­ri­ence,” said Jason Hsu, Pro­duct Mana­ger of QNAP.

The TS-x73 series is powered by a high-per­for­mance and ener­gy-effi­ci­ent AMD RX-421ND quad-core 2.1 GHz CPU (Tur­bo Core up to 3.4 GHz) and 4GB/8GB DDR4 RAM (up to 64GB). With an optio­nal 10GbE net­work card instal­led, it deli­vers up to 1661 MB/s through­put and up to 1575 MB/s with AES-NI hard­ware-acce­le­ra­ted encryp­ti­on. With two built-in M.2 SATA SSD slots and SSD caching (M.2 SSD sold sepa­ra­te­ly), cou­pled with Qtier auto-tier­ing tech­no­lo­gy, the TS-x73 pro­vi­des opti­mal sto­rage effi­ci­en­cy across M.2 SSDs, 2.5‑inch SSDs and high-capa­ci­ty HDDs for balan­ced cost, per­for­mance, and capa­ci­ty. The TS-x73 series sup­ports block-based snapshots to record the sta­te of the sys­tem at any time to help users miti­ga­te the impact of ran­som­wa­re attacks and to ensu­re the sta­bi­li­ty of ser­vice operations.

The TS-x73 series fea­tures two PCIe (Gen3 x4) slots that allow grea­ter sys­tem fle­xi­bi­li­ty. In addi­ti­on to instal­ling a 10GbE net­work card for boos­ting vir­tua­liza­ti­on per­for­mance, users can also install a QNAP QM2 card that allows for adding two M.2 SSDs for SSD caching or to crea­te a RAID 5 tie­red sto­rage along with the two M.2 SSDs in the NAS 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.

Alter­na­tively, users could install a low-power gra­phics card (powered sole­ly by the PCIe slot) to boost sys­tem per­for­mance and enable smooth 4K video trans­co­ding and HDMI out­put; install a wire­less net­work card (for exam­p­le: QNAP QWA-AC2600) to use the TS-x73 as a wire­less base sta­ti­on, allo­wing users to direct­ly access the NAS, inclu­ding NAS ser­vices and Inter­net connection.

The busi­ness-rea­dy TS-x73 series is a NAS and iSCSI-SAN uni­fied sto­rage solu­ti­on that not only sup­ports VMware®, Citrix®, Micro­soft® Hyper‑V® and Win­dows Ser­ver® 2016 envi­ron­ments, but can also natively host mul­ti­ple vir­tu­al machi­nes (with Win­dows®, Linux®, UNIX® and Android™) and con­tai­ners (LXC and Docker®). Sto­rage space can be fle­xi­bly expan­ded using two 8‑bay UX-800P or 5‑bay UX-500P or four 10-bay REXP-1000 Pro expan­si­on enclo­sures. Users can also use QNAP VJBOD tech­no­lo­gy to levera­ge the unu­sed space of ano­ther QNAP NAS for sto­rage expansion.

Key spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons

TS-473–4G: sup­ports 4 x 3.5‑inch HDD or 2.5‑inch HDD/SSD, 4GB DDR4 RAM
TS-473–8G: sup­ports 4 x 3.5‑inch HDD or 2.5‑inch HDD/SSD, 8GB DDR4 RAM
TS-673–4G: sup­ports 6 x 3.5‑inch HDD or 2.5‑inch HDD/SSD, 4GB DDR4 RAM
TS-673–8G: sup­ports 6 x 3.5‑inch HDD or 2.5‑inch HDD/SSD, 8GB DDR4 RAM
TS-873–4G: sup­ports 8 x 3.5‑inch HDD or 2.5‑inch HDD/SSD, 4GB DDR4 RAM
TS-873–8G: sup­ports 8 x 3.5‑inch HDD or 2.5‑inch HDD/SSD, 8GB DDR4 RAM

Tower model; AMD RX-421ND quad-core 2.1 GHz CPU (burst up to 3.4 GHz), dual chan­nel DDR4 RAM (4 x SODIMM memo­ry slots, upgrada­ble to 64GB); hot-swappable 2.5‑inch/3.5‑inch SATA 6Gbps HDD/SSD; 2x M.2 SATA 6Gb/s 2280/2260 SSD slots; 2x PCle Gen.3 x4 slots; 4 x USB 3.0 ports; 4x Giga­bit LAN ports; 2x 3.5 mm micro­pho­ne jacks (dyna­mic micro­pho­nes only); 1x 3.5 mm Line-out audio jack; 1x built-in speaker

Avai­la­bi­li­ty

The new TS-x73 series is now available. For more infor­ma­ti­on, and to view the full QNAP NAS lin­e­up, plea­se visit www.qnap.com.

About QNAP Sys­tems, Inc.

QNAP Sys­tems, Inc., head­quar­te­red in Tai­pei, Tai­wan, pro­vi­des a com­pre­hen­si­ve ran­ge of cut­ting-edge Net­work-atta­ched Sto­rage (NAS) and video sur­veil­lan­ce solu­ti­ons based on the prin­ci­ples of usa­bi­li­ty, high secu­ri­ty, and fle­xi­ble sca­la­bi­li­ty. QNAP offers qua­li­ty NAS pro­ducts for home and busi­ness users, pro­vi­ding solu­ti­ons for sto­rage, backup/snapshot, vir­tua­liza­ti­on, team­work, mul­ti­me­dia, and more. QNAP envi­si­ons NAS as being more than “simp­le sto­rage”, and has crea­ted many NAS-based inno­va­tions to encou­ra­ge users to host and deve­lop Inter­net of Things, arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence, and machi­ne lear­ning solu­ti­ons on their QNAP NAS.