Qnap TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP Series Rackmount NAS With 12Gb SAS and 40GbE

Qnap Systems, Inc. announced the enterprise 12Gb SAS-enabled, 40GbE-ready TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP series rackmount NAS.

Available in 24, 16, 15 and 12-bay models, the series is compatible with the high-density 12Gb SAS RAID expansion enclosures REXP-1620U-RP and REXP-1220U-RP. Featuring Qtier technology, that drives Auto Tiering for optimal storage efficiency, the TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP series can help businesses save money on expensive flash technology but still enjoy application performance and lower TCO of storage.

Qtier technology

The TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP series is an industry unified NAS that supports Auto Tiering to deliver constant optimization of data across high-performance SSD, 12Gb SAS drives and high-capacity SATA disks.

“Qnap’s Qtier Technology triggers storage auto-tiering for the TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP series, allowing the right data to be placed in the right disks at the right time according to the access frequency of stored data,” said Alan Lin, product manager, Qnap. “The new NAS series realizes the optimal storage efficiency and boosts performance, making it the best storage solution especially for environments like virtualization that contain dynamically-changing workloads.“

Qnap NAS TVS-EC1280U-SAS-RP front and rear

The TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP series is powered by a quad-core Xeon E3 v3 processor with 16GB DDR3 or 8GB DDR3 ECC RAM to deliver high performance up to 3,800+ MB/s throughput and 268,100+ IO/s, supports 10GbE-ready network connectivity, and features pre-installed 256GB mSATA modules for caching to improve the overall workflow of IO/s-demanding applications.

“The support for 12Gb SAS HDDs remarkably increases disk I/O performance and offers high reliability for data transmission and storage,” added Lin.

Qnap NAS TVS-EC2480U front and rear

Supporting Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. ‘s ConnectX-3 Pro adapter cards with 10/40/56 GbE connectivity, the TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP series can achieve higher throughput for high-performance embedded I/O applications and virtualization acceleration.

“We are glad to cooperate with Mellanox to deliver the most cost-effective computing and storage Ethernet Interconnection solution by the RDMA technology,” said Waterball Liu, product manager, Qnap. “Businesses can benefit a lot from the fast, flexible storage network of the 40GbE-ready Qnap NAS for boosting their mission-critical IT performance.“

Featuring high scalability, the TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP series supports online capacity expansion by connecting up to eight company’s RAID expansion enclosures (REXP-1620U-RP and REXP-1220U-RP) to flexibly expand the total storage to over 1PB raw capacity (depending on models) for growing data needs. The QTS Storage Manager can be used to manage the entire NAS capacity, and quickly create volume/LUN snapshots for easy backup, restoration and cloning.

The SAS-enabled series features the latest QTS 4.2 OS, and provides rich virtualization applications: Users can run multiple applications on Windows/Linux/Unix/Android based VMs on the NAS with the Virtualization Station; operate multiple isolated Linux systems on the NAS as well as download apps from the built-in Docker Hub Registry by using the Container Station which integrates LXC and Docker lightweight virtualization technologies; and simplify virtual storage management for VMware, Microsoft and Citrix virtualization solutions.

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The TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP series includes comprehensive business applications and is for enterprises and organizations to build a secure private cloud. The cross-platform file sharing for Windows, Mac, and Linux/Unix users makes the TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP series an excellent centralized storage solution for organizations with a large number of users. The support for Windows AD, LDAP directory services and Windows ACL improves the efficiency of permission settings. It also acts as a domain controller for Windows, and offers flexible backup solutions for Windows and Mac and DR solutions with RTRR, rsync and cloud storage backup.

The company provides various apps to improve work productivity, including Qsirch for quickly finding NAS data with its near real-time full-text search engine, Qsync that supports centralized configuration and can remotely erase the Qsync folder, Q’center for centrally managing multiple company’s NAS units; and Gmail Backup for archiving important emails in the NAS.

The TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP series offers up to five year warranty with three-year global warranty inclusive at no extra cost. This premier warranty demonstrates company’s attention to the essential business needs of continuous operations and non-interrupted services to their customers.

Key specs:

TVS-ECx80U-SAS series

TVS-EC2480U-SAS-RP: 24×3.5″ drive, 4U rackmount unit
TVS-EC1680U-SAS-RP: 16×3.5″ drive, 3U rackmount unit
TVS-EC1280U-SAS-RP: 12×3.5″ drive, 2U rackmount unit
TVS-EC1580MU-SAS-RP: 9×3.5″ drive and 6×2.5″ drive, 2U rackmount unit

Quad-core Xeon E3-1246 v3 Family 3.5 GHz processor, 16GB DDR3 RAM or 8GB DDR3 ECC RAM (expandable to 32GB); 4 x Gigabit LAN port, 10GbE ready (optional purchase); supports 3.5″ SAS 12Gb SAS/SATA 6Gb HDDs/ SSD or 2.5″ SAS/SATA SSD, HDDs hot-swappable; built-in 256GB mSATA modules; 2xPCle expansion slot, 4xUSB 3.0 port, 4xUSB 2.0 port; 1xHDMI port

REXP-x20U series RAID expansion enclosures