Qnap Quad-Core TS-531X NAS With Dual 10GbE

Qnap Systems, Inc. announced the TS-531X – a five-bay business NAS that features two integrated 10GbE SFP+ ports, providing a NAS solution with 10GbE connectivity.

The TS-531X features Container Station, allowing users to rapidly develop and deploy IoT applications and supports VJBOD (Virtual JBOD) as an method for expanding the capacity of other company’s NAS using unused storage space. The TS-531X is a versatile NAS that satisfies SMBs’ demands for 10GbE connectivity, container virtualization, and storage expansion.

The TS-531X comes with an Annapurna Labs, Inc.‘s Alpine AL-341 quad-core 1.4 GHz processor by Amazon and uses 2/8GB DDR3 RAM (upgradable to 16GB). Offering two 1GbE ports, two built-in 10GbE SFP+ ports and 6Gb SATA ports for HDDs and SSD, the TS-531X can reach up to 1,723MB/s throughput speeds. The model also features a hardware-accelerated encryption engine and SSD cache support, ensuring security without compromising performance.

“With its two built-in 10GbE SFP+ Ports, the TS-531X is the perfect solution for high-bandwidth applications such as high-speed file transfer and online video editing and storage,” said Jason Hsu, product manager, Qnap. “The TS-531X is also designed to accommodate business and virtualization applications, making it an ideal option for small/medium businesses looking for cost-effective and high-performance NAS solution.“

The TS-531X is a secure private cloud solution for SMBs. It supports cross-platform file sharing for Windows, Mac, and Linux/Unix, serving as a centralized storage. Windows AD, LDAP directory services and Windows ACL are supported to improve the efficiency of permission settings. Backup, restoration and synchronization functions (via RTRR, Rsync, FTP or CIFS/SMB) are also integrated into the Hybrid Backup Sync app, allowing users to synchronize their backup tasks to other firm’s NAS, remote servers and cloud storage.

The TS-531X provides a range of pplications to boost productivity. Container Station brings advanced virtualization technologies and provides QIoT Containers to transform the TS-531X into a private IoT cloud platform for rapid IoT stack development. Proprietary full-text search engine, Qsirch, allows files to be found and supports searching through .eml files stored on the NAS. It also provides the Qsirch Helper extension (for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox), allowing users to search for files on their TS-531X when using Google Search. QmailAgent allows users to centrally manage multiple email accounts from popular email services and IMAP servers. Qcontactz allows for the centralization of contact information, providing organization of business networking resources.

TS-531X VJBOD NAS

The TS-531X is expandable to meet growing data requirements. Users can connect up to two expansion enclosures (UX-800P or UX-500P) to the TS-531X to maximize storage space. With VJBOD (Virtual JBOD) support, users can also leverage the TS-531X to expand the storage space of other company’s NAS and create virtual storage pools and volumes on virtual disks for operating NAS services.

Key specifications:

• TS-531X-2G: 2GB DDR3 RAM (2GBx1)

• TS-531X-8G: 8GB DDR3 RAM (8GBx1)

• Annapurna Labs Alpine AL-314 quad-core 1.4GHz processor; hardware-accelerated encryption; 2/8GB DDR3 SODIMM RAM (upgradable to 16GB); hot-swappable 2.5″/3.5″ 6Gb SATA HDD or SSD; 2×10 Gigabit SFP+ ports, 2xGigabit RJ45 ports; 1xPCIe Gen2 ( x2) slot; 3xUSB 3.0 port.

The TS-531X is available.