Qnap TS-1685 Desktop 16-bay NAS With Six M.2 SSD Slots

Qnap Systems, Inc. announced the TS-1685 desktop 16-bay Xeon D NAS that supports twelve 3.5″ HDDs and four 2.5″ SSDs, provides six M.2 SSD slots, and features a Xeon D processor to deliver performance.

TS-1685 NAS front and rear
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Designed to optimize enterprise IT infrastructure, the TS-1685 comes with three PCIe slots that support 10GbE/40GbE NIC, PCIe NVMe SSD, graphics cards, and USB 3.1 expansion cards to provide a business-ready storage solution incorporating security and scalability.

TS-1685 10GbE solution

The TS-1685 leverages the Xeon D multi-core processor and up to 128GB DDR4 RAM to reach read speeds up to 2,339 MB/s with a dual 10GbE configuration. The dedicated four 2.5″ SSD slots and six M.2 SATA 6Gb/s SSD slots excel in cache acceleration, and coupled with Qtier technology the TS-1685 can continuously optimize storage efficiency across M.2 SSD, SSD, high-capacity SATA drives, and the optional PCIe NVMe SSD.

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“The TS-1685 is designed to incorporate both high performance and high capacity,” said David Tsao, product manager, Qnap. “Besides SSD caching and PCIe expandability, the NAS can be remarkably integrated into 10GbE/40GbE environments necessary for modern data centers. All these features make the TS-1685 a perfect choice to tackle high-bandwidth applications such as virtualization and massive backup and recovery.“

QRM+ centralized management solution
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The TS-1685 supports IT management functions, including the QRM+ centralized management solution for networked devices that helps IT administrators to discover, map, monitor and manage critical networked computing devices (including servers, PCs, and thin clients). QRM+ also supports IPMI 2.0 and a graphical topology diagram. Q’center turns the TS-1685 into a centralized system for managing multiple company’s NAS at different locations and allows for monitoring system logs, conducting maintenance and firmware updates.

The TS-1685 supports virtualization environments (including VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 R2), and can also directly host multiple VMs for Windows, Linux, Unix and Android using Virtualization Station and operate near-limitless LXC and Docker containerized applications using Containers Station.

Notes Station

Users can enjoy the TS-1685 as an all-in-one NAS for cross-platform file sharing, backup/restoration, security, and use a range of the firm’s productivity-boosting apps. Qsync enables cross-devices file synchronization and team folders sync; the Qsirch full-text search engine helps find files on the NAS; Qfiling automates file organization on a scheduled basis; QmailAgent allows for centrally managing multiple email accounts and IMAP servers; Notes Station provides an online note-taking tool enabling collaborative writing. The TS-1685 also supports VPN server and client services and a professional IP surveillance system.

Besides connecting up to four company’s expansion enclosures (REXP-1000 Pro) to scale up storage capacity, the TS-1685 can also be expanded by using VJBOD (Virtual JBOD) that allows the unused storage capacity of other firm’s NAS to be mounted as local disks for shares, applications, or even creating another LUN.

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Xeon D multi-core processor, up to 128GB DDR4 RAM; 12×2.5″/3.5″ HDD/SSD slots and 4×2.5″ SSD slots, supports 6Gb SATA; compartmentalized smart cooling; 6xM.2 6Gb SATA SSD slots (with built-in M.2 cooling modules, M.2 SSD is optional purchase); 2x10GBASE-T ports, 4xGigabit ports; 2xPCIe Gen3 (x8) slots, 1xPCIe Gen2 (x4) slots; 3xUSB 3.0 ports; 1xspeaker; 1×3.5mm audio output

The TS-1685 is available.

Comparison between two similar NAS products
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