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Qnap QTS 4.3.4 Beta OS for ARM-Based NAS

Reducing minimum requirement for snapshots to 1GB RAM

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on November 7, 2017 at 2:30 pm

Qnap Systems, Inc. released the QTS 4.3.4 beta for its ARM-based NAS.

 


As data security is an essential requirement for NAS, the firm makes snapshots a standard feature to help mitigate the growing threat of ransomware.

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The company has been working alongside Annapurna Labs, an Amazon company, and from QTS 4.3.4, firm’s NAS with Annapurna Labs processors can support snapshots with only 1GB RAM, making snapshot protection more accessible to users of entry-level NAS. QTS 4.3.4 for x86-based NAS and other ARM-based NAS models will be released soon with comprehensive and accessible snapshot protection.

Storage and snapshots
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The company continues to explore the potential of the ext4 file system, empowering firm’s NAS with performance and outstanding snapshots manageability. Users can also set snapshot reservation space to ensure enough dedicated space for saving snapshots.

File Station
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The QTS 4.3.4 smart NAS OS is reinforced with a focus on the ‘essence of storage’. Additional features and improvements include the new Storage and Snapshots Manager, global SSD cache technology, the ability for File Station to browse snapshot content and to directly access files on mobile phones, comprehensive file management solutions, GPU-accelerated computing, support for 360° photos and videos, multi-zone multimedia control, VLC media player streaming.

“Every aspect of QTS 4.3.4 was built on the foundation of comprehensive feedback and communication from business, individual and home users. We believe that our objective of developing QTS as designed from user experience delivers a complete NAS OS with the most professional storage services available,” said Tony Lu, product manager, Qnap. “Whether you are an existing or new Qnap NAS user, we are confident that you will feel the remarkable additions and improvements throughout QTS 4.3.4.“

Key apps and features in QTS 4.3.4:

  • New Storage and Snapshots Manager: Emphasizes the parallel importance of storage management and snapshot protection with a more comprehensive and intuitive UI design. Volume and LUN types are easily identified; all the snapshot versions and the time of your latest snapshots are precisely recorded.

  • Snapshots for ARM-based NAS: Block-based snapshots provide a fast and easy backup and recovery solution to protect from data loss and potential malware attacks. Firm’s ARM-based NAS feature cost-efficiency. Video

  • Snapshot Shared Folder: Contains only one shared folder on a single volume to reduce the time of recovering single folders to within seconds.

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  • RAID-50/60: Helps strike a balance between capacity, protection and performance for high-capacity NAS with over six-disk bays. Presentation video.

  • Intelligent Qtier 2.0 auto-tiering: Qtier can be configured at any time; adds IO Aware capabilities for SSD tiered storage to keep a cache-like reserved space to handle burst I/O in real time. Presentation video.

  • File Station supports USB direct access to mobile devices: Connect mobile devices to the NAS to start storing, managing, and sharing mobile media in File Station. The content of snapshots can also be directly browsed in File Station.

OCR Converter
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  • Total solution for managing digital files: OCR Converter extracts text from images; Qsync enables cross-device file sync for optimal teamwork; Qsirch facilitates full-text file search; and Qfiling automates file organization. From storage, management, digitalization, sync, search and archiving, the company empowers value-added file management workflows. Presentation video for Qsync

  • GPU-accelerated computing with PCIe graphics cards: Graphics cards help improve the image processing efficiency of QTS; users can leverage the HDMI port on the graphics card for displaying HD Station or Linux Station; GPU Passthrough strengthens the abilities of VMs in Virtualization Station.

Hybrid Backup Sync
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  • Hybrid Backup Sync official release: Consolidates backup, restoration and synchronization, making transferring data to local, remote and cloud storage spaces much easier. Presentation video.

Qboost
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  • Qboost: A NAS optimization tool that helps monitor memory resources, free up system resources, and schedule applications to boost productivity. Presentation video.

  • 360° photos and videos support: File Station, Photo Station and Video Station supports displaying 360° photos and videos; Qfile, Qphoto and Qvideo also support 360° format viewing. Presentation video.

  • Media streaming to VLC Player: Users can install QVHelper on their computer to stream multimedia files from a company’s NAS to VLC player.

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More about QTS 4.3.4 and its features

Note: Features are subject to change and may not be available for all firm’s NAS models.

Availability and compatibility:
The QTS 4.3.4 beta is available from the Download Center for the following ARM-based NAS models: TS-1635, TS-831X, TS-531X, TS-431X, TS-431X2, TS-1231XU, TS-1231XU-RP, TS-831XU, TS-831XU-RP, TS-431XU, TS-431XU-RP, TS-431XeU, TS-431U, TS-131, TS-231, TS-431, TS-231+, TS-431+, TS-431P2, TS-231P2, TS-431P, TS-231P, TS-131P

Note: that Qtier and GPU support are not available on ARM-based NAS models.

The availability of QTS 4.3.4 for x86-based NAS models will be announced separately.

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