Qnap Dual-Port 16Gb/32Gb FC Expansion Cards

Qnap Systems, Inc. announced that its in-house developed dual-port 16Gb/32Gb FC expansion cards support the QuTS hero NAS to provide reliable, secure, and high-performance FC connectivity.

A QuTS hero NAS with a firm’s FC card can be added to existing FC SAN environments to provide high-performance storage and backup at a more affordable price than typical SAN devices.

“FC SAN are generally closed network environments that often require costly devices with limited deployment flexibility,” said Sam Lin, product manager. “By integrating Qnap NAS protocols with FC, users can add a more affordable QuTS hero NAS to their existing FC SAN environment, and boost applications that require low latency, high reliability, and fast data transfer, such as post-production studios, financial services, and data centers.“

QXP-16G2FC

The QuTS hero OS uses ZFS to provide users with data reduction, enhanced data integrity, and optimal performance. block-based inline data deduplication, compression, and compaction efficiently optimize storage usage and improve performance. Self-healing vs. silent data corruption ensures data integrity. Users can create near-limitless LUN snapshots for multi-version protection and configure Snapshot Replica for remote backup. QuTS hero with FC SAN provides high-capacity, business-oriented storage solutions for the big data era.

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These FC expansion cards support firm’s NAS that uses the QTS and QuTS hero OSs. Users can install an FC expansion card into a NAS PCIe slot and configure a FC target using the iSCSI and FC app, while leveraging rich business features from NAS for greater application potential.