Qnap TS-x73 Series NAS With 4/6/8-Bay Tower Models

Qnap Systems, Inc. launched the cost-effective performance 4-bay (TS-473), 6-bay (TS-673), and 8-bay (TS-873) TS-x73 series NAS featuring an AMD RX-421ND quad-core CPU with Turbo Core up to 3.4GHz and two PCIe slots for installing a company’s QM2 card, wireless network card or a graphics card to extend NAS functionalities.

The TS-x73 series provides SMBs with an NAS solution to build a private cloud for applications including fast data transfer, backup/recovery, virtualization, media playback and graphics display.

TS-873 NAS rear

“The TS-x73 NAS series presents a budget-friendly solution by allowing users to add more value to their NAS based on their individual needs. Through the two PCIe slots, users can install a QNAP QM2 card to add SSD caching/10GbE connectivity for boosted performance; a wireless card with WirelessAP Station app to turn the NAS into a wireless access point; or even an PCIe bus-powered graphics card to enable 4K transcoding and HDMI output for a greater media multimedia experience,” said Jason Hsu, product manager, Qnap.

TS-473 NAS rear

The TS-x73 series is powered by a performance and energy-efficient AMD RX-421ND quad-core 2.1GHz CPU (Turbo Core up to 3.4GHz) and 4GB/8GB DDR4 RAM (up to 64GB). With an optional 10GbE network card installed, it delivers up to 1,661MB/s throughput and up to 1,575MB/s with AES-NI hardware-accelerated encryption. With two built-in M.2 SATA SSD slots and SSD caching (M.2 SSD sold separately), coupled with Qtier auto-tiering technology, the TS-x73 provides storage efficiency across M.2 SSDs, 2.5-inch SSDs and high-capacity HDDs for balanced cost, performance, and capacity. This NAS series supports block-based snapshots to record the state of the system at any time to help users mitigate the impact of ransomware attacks and to ensure the stability of service operations.

The TS-x73 series features two PCIe (Gen3 x4) slots that allow system flexibility. In addition to installing a 10GbE network card for boosting virtualization performance, users can also install a firm’s M2 card that allows for adding two M.2 SSDs for SSD caching or to create a RAID-5 tiered storage along with the two M.2 SSDs in the NAS to increase data protection. There are also QM2 cards that include 10GbE 10GBASE-T connectivity to provide SSD caching with high-speed network connectivity on a single card.

Alternatively, users could install a low-power graphics card (powered solely by the PCIe slot) to boost system performance and enable smooth 4K video transcoding and HDMI output; install a wireless network card (for example: QWA-AC2600) to use the TS-x73 as a wireless base station, allowing users to directly access the NAS, including NAS services and Internet connection.

The business-ready TS-x73 series is a NAS and iSCSI-SAN unified storage solution that supports VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server 2016 environments, and can also natively host multiple VMs (with Windows, Linux, Unix and Android) and containers (LXC and Docker). Storage space can be flexibly expanded using two 8-bay UX-800P or 5-bay UX-500P or four 10-bay REXP-1000 Pro expansion enclosures. Users can also use VJBOD technology to leverage the unused space of another company’s NAS for storage expansion.

Key specs:

TS-473-4G: supports 4×3.5-inch HDD or 2.5-inch HDD/SSD, 4GB DDR4 RAM
TS-473-8G: supports 4×3.5-inch HDD or 2.5-inch HDD/SSD, 8GB DDR4 RAM
TS-673-4G: supports 6×3.5-inch HDD or 2.5-inch HDD/SSD, 4GB DDR4 RAM
TS-673-8G: supports 6×3.5-inch HDD or 2.5-inch HDD/SSD, 8GB DDR4 RAM
TS-873-4G: supports 8×3.5-inch HDD or 2.5-inch HDD/SSD, 4GB DDR4 RAM
TS-873-8G: supports 8×3.5-inch HDD or 2.5-inch HDD/SSD, 8GB DDR4 RAM

Tower model; AMD RX-421ND quad-core 2.1GHz CPU (burst up to 3.4GHz), dual channel DDR4 RAM (4xSODIMM memory slots, upgradable to 64GB); hot-swappable 2.5-inch/3.5-inch 6Gb SATA HDD/SSD; two M.2 6Gb SATA 2280/2260 SSD slots; two PCle Gen.3 x4 slots; four USB 3.0 ports; four Gigabit LAN ports; two 3.5mm microphone jacks (dynamic microphones only); one 3.5mm line-out audio jack; one built-in speaker.

The TS-x73 series is available.