Qnap TS-1677X Ryzen 16-Bay Tower NAS

Qnap Systems, Inc. released the enterprise TS-1677X Ryzen NAS with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays, four 2.5-inch drive bays, and driven by the performance of an AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.) Ryzen 8-core processor, optimized storage efficiency with Qtier auto-tiering, and SSD caching.

The processor, with Turbo Core of up to 3.7GHz, can boost virtualization performance. The TS-1677X can also perform as AI-oriented big storage when used with a high-end graphics card and the firm’s QuAI AI developer package.

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The TS-1677X includes models with Ryzen 7 1700 (8-cores/16-threads), Ryzen 5 1600 (6-cores/12-threads) and Ryzen 3 1200 (4-cores/4-threads) that support AES-NI encryption acceleration and up to 64GB DDR4 RAM. Every model provides two 10GBASE-T RJ45 ports (that support 10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M speeds) and three PCIe slots for expansion potential. Supported PCIe devices include a graphics card, 10GbE/40GbE NICs, USB 3.1 expansion cards, and QM2 cards (that add additional M.2 SSDs or 10GbE connectivity). Incorporating performance, reliability and scalability, the TS-1677X provides a storage solution for diverse business IT environments.

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Facing the booming AI the company developed QuAI AI developer package can empower the TS-1677X NAS to perform as an AI/ML/DL solution. Data scientists and developers can leverage the NAS-based AI platform to build, train, optimize, and deploy machine-learning models. When used with a high-end graphics card, the TS-1677X delivers computing performance to empower data-intensive machine learning applications, providing benefits for exploring intelligent services and the business value they can provide.

“The TS-1677X NAS features flagship-grade hardware to deliver the 10GbE connectivity and PCIe expandability required by today’s compute-intensive workplaces, and empowers AI-oriented tasks for greater business potential,” said Jason Hsu, product manager, Qnap, “The robust TS-1677X series includes models with higher-performance AMD Ryzen 7, cost-effective AMD Ryzen 5, and budget-friendly AMD Ryzen 3 options to provide organizations with greater choice to meet their requirements.”

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The multi-threading TS-1677X is capable of simultaneously running multiple VMs. It is virtualization-ready for VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server 2016 environments with the support of iSER (iSCSI Over RDMA). It can host VMs and containers as an all-in-one server, and support snapshots and VM backups for all-in-one virtualization management. The TS-1677X also supports vQTS that enables users to run multiple virtual QTS systems on a single NAS, to provide resource segregation benefits, flexible application deployment, and savings on power, cost, and physical space.

Combining performance, storage potential, and SSD caching to optimize music streaming, the TS-1677X serves a choice for the Roon music experience. Users can install the Roon Server app in the QTS App Center and browse and play music with Roon apps on any compatible device for multi-zone multimedia experiences.

Running the intelligent QTS OS, the TS-1677X series is a storage solution for storage, backup/restoration, sharing and management. The built-in App Center includes hundreds of install-on-demand apps to extend NAS functionality: the QRM+ centralized management solution features graphic topology diagrams for managing Windows, Linux, and IPMI devices; Q’center consolidates the management of multiple company’s NAS; QVPN integrates settings of VPN server and VPN clients; QVR Pro provides a professional video surveillance solution (8 free channels; expandable to 128 channels); QIoT Suite Lite builds a private IoT cloud platform.

Key specs:

• TS-1677X-1700-64G:
  Ryzen 7 1700 8-cores/16-threads 3.0GHz processor (Turbo Core 3.7GHz), 64GB RAM

• TS-1677X-1700-16G:
  Ryzen 7 1700 8-cores/16-threads 3.0GHz processor (Turbo Core 3.7GHz), 16GB RAM

• TS-1677X-1600-8G:
  Ryzen 5 1600 6-cores/12-threads 3.2GHz processor (Turbo Core 3.6GHz), 8GB RAM

• TS-1677X-1200-4G:
  Ryzen 3 1200 4-cores/4-threads 3.1GHz processor (Turbo Core 3.4GHz), 4GB RAM

16-bay tower NAS; up to 64GB DDR4 RAM (four 16GB DDR4 UDIMM RAM); hot-swappable 2.5″/3.5″ 6Gb SATA HDDs or SSDs; three PCle slots (1x PCIe 3.0 x8, 1x PCIe 3.0 x4, 1x PCIe 2.0 x4); two 10GBASE-T RJ45 LAN ports, four Gb LAN ports; eight USB 3.0 ports; two 3.5 mm dynamic microphone jacks; one 3.5mm line-out jack, one built-in speaker; Infrared receiver; 550W power supply.

The TS-1677X NAS is available.

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