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QNAP TVS-h874-i5-32G Intel Core i5 Processor, 32 GB RAM, PCIe Gen 4 expandability NAS for virtualization applications

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QTS vs. QuTS, i get QuTS is the new QNAP OS and probably the only one that will be left in few years. I guess i should go with it to play the long game. Any gotchas i should be careful with considering my uses/needs? I know i can't add a disk to a storage pool with QuTS but since the NAS will be fully loaded from day 1, that is not an issue for me. I don't think I need any SSD caching as I don't use any database/VM/video editing solution. I heavily rely on Qfile and Qget apps on iOS to remotely access my current NAS, any restriction or loss of feature if I go with QuTS?

Alongside the LCD Panel mentioned earlier, the TVS-h874 also has numerous LEDs that denote system activity (much like other NAS brands that ditched LCD panels) These cover the individual eight storage bays health and activity, the system access activity, network status, USB access and even dedicated LEDs for the M.2 NVMe SSD Bays inside. These LEDs (and the LCD in fact) can have their brightness decreased or deactivated if you want. QNAP reserves the right to replace partial parts or accessories if the original is no longer available from its manufacturer/supplier. Any replacement would be fully tested and verified to meet strict compatibility and stability guidelines and will deliver identical performance to the original. QuTS hero is the operating system for high-end and enterprise QNAP NAS models. With Linux and ZFS, QuTS hero supports advanced data reduction technologies for further driving down costs and increasing reliablility of SSD (all-flash) storage. SystemIntel Core i3-12100 quad-core/8-thread processor (burst up to 4.3 GHz), 16 GB DDR4 (1 x 16 GB) memory The TVS-h874 proved to be very fast indeed in our tests. We upgraded it with a dual-port 10GbE RJ45 Emulex adapter and hooked it up to a Dell PowerEdge T640 Xeon Scalable server running Windows Server 2019.

However, the biggest potential upgrade/scalability element of the QNAP TVS-h874 NAS that we still need to discuss is the PCIe Upgrade slots. Thanks to the 12th gen Intel Core that this NAS arrives with, the main PCIe upgrade slots are PCIe Gen 4×4 and (wait for it) PCIe Gen 4 x16!!! This means that one slot has a potential 8,000MB/s of bandwidth available to a connected card, and the other has a staggering 32,000MB/s available. Just to put that in perspective, a 10GbE will need 1000MB/s of bandwidth to allow full saturation. You could install a dual port 100GbE network upgrade card in this slot and there would STILL be more than a third of the available bandwidth potential remaining untapped! SSD Caching Monitor and Advisor – Allowing you to scale your SSD cache as needed, or get recommendations on how much you need As with all QNAP NAS solutions, have the comprehensive App Center at their disposal, which will provide various install-on-demand apps to further expand the application potential of the TVS-hx74. TVS-hx74 QuTS hero NAS Series Specifications CPU Note: At least 4 GB RAM is required. The maximum number of channels supported varies by NAS model, network configuration, and camera settings. For more information, visit https://www.qnap.com/go/qvr-nas-selector.

The ZFS-based QuTS Hero OS and QNAP App Center

Virtual machines and containers - Host multiple virtual machines and containers with optimized resource utilization.

The rear fans lead to a completely open area behind the main storage bays that takes up around 30-35% of the available chassis space and there is an additional side fan that blows air directly onto the massive silver CPU heatsink at all times. The main SATA bays are held in an aluminium cage and the PSU is pretty far away from the main PCIe upgrade slots (something of a problem in the older TVS-1282 and TVS-h1288X that made card installation and maintaining cool running a little more challenging). I have a TVS-EC1080 10-bay NAS in RAID 5 currently populated with 14TB Exos (113.5 TB) which I am in the process of migrating to 18TB Exos drives. The volume easily handles 20 remote streams, DDR4 usage makes sense, as this is a NAS. On the other hand, we wish, especially given the similar cost, that QNAP used ECC memory on these units. It almost feels strange that they support ECC, but QNAP is not utilizing it while showing a ZFS NAS. Then you have KEY applications that are used on the QNAP NAS system that moves into tailored data access and use, such as: And tbh: For other than in Enterprise, Gen.5 is a hot Joke, barely faster than a good Gen4, but hotter and pretty much twice as expensive, with for most *NO* advantage to speak of.Each of the bays is SATA 6Gb/s, with most current enterprise-gen HDDs hitting 260-270MB/s or so (which promised 400-450MB/s HDDs from Seagate in their Mach2 still being rolled out slowly, plus their NVMe HDD EXO series still at the private testing phase at larger data centers at the time of writing). The connections are clean, wire-free combined DATA+Power connectors inside an aluminium cage. The system (depending on whether you opt for QuTS ZFS or QTS EXT4 at start up) supports numerous RAID configurations in RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60, as well as RAIDZ and especially business-centric triple parity configs. Opting for ZFS as your file system at initialization also allows you to benefit from considerably faster RAID build speeds (as the traditional volume layer is absent), RAID resilvering (ie re-introducing drives that have the same party/raid-group data that were cloned or accidentally ejected, is dramatically reduced in rebuild time to minutes, not hours), and other benefits towards inline data compression and deduplication (covered later). vJBOD and Hybrid Mount – Gives you the ability to mount cloud storage as a visible drive within the NAS (and the apps access it as if it was local) or mount a % of space from your NAS onto another as a virtual chunk of space to use Intel 12th Gen i5, i7 or i9 Configuration Options, in 6 Core, 12 Core and 16 Core Versions (12/20/24 Thread Respectively) with Integrated UHD Graphics 770 Container Station – much like the VM app, Container station lets you mount and access smaller virtual tools and GUIs, then access them over the network or internet. Are many users self inflicting heat problems, using performance mode on CPU, turning all power saving off and aesthetic cases with bad thermals? OEM systems are notorious for heat, as are the high end Intel CPUs.

The default network ports of the QNAP TVS-h874 NAS are 2.5GbE, with the system arriving with two ports. Using Link Aggregation/Port Trunking or SMB Multichannel in supported setups to hit between 279MB/s and 558MB/s. This eight-bay NAS will EASILY saturate this kind of bandwidth (even with rather domestic class storage media), but it is when you start to factor in upgrades towards 10GbE and 25GbE ports on this system that you will really see it stretch it’s muscles!Peeling off the top cover entails removing three screws and on the inside QNAP’s large footprint allows ample breathing room for all components. The Intel Core i5 chip resides beneath a good-sized heatsink with nearby fan, and users have convenient access to both DDR4 SO-DIMM slots as well as two M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4 x4 slots. The maximum number of channels supported varies by NAS model, network configuration, and camera settings. For more information, visit https://www.qnap.com/solution/qvr-face/en-us/ Core i5 and Core i7 variants of TVS-h874 come equipped with dual Transcend TS2GSH64V2E3 16GB DDR4-3200 CL22 modules as standard, and this can be upgraded to a maximum of 128GB. Do note, however, the underlying Intel H670 chipset does not include support for ECC. The system ought to boot just fine with ECC memory installed, but error correction would sadly be disabled. QuTS hero

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