Qnap Officially Releases QTS 5.1.0 NAS OS with Enhancements for Storage Applications, Services, and Management

Qnap Systems, Inc. officially released the QTS 5.1.0 NAS OS that includes enhancements for storage applications, services, and management to address IT challenges.

With QTS 5.1.0, the company has bolstered its 2.5, 10, and 25GbE-ready NAS solutions, providing suitability for SMB multichannel to drive boosted network performance for demanding workloads.

“Our focus in QTS 5.1.0 was optimizing performance and cloud management, with an aim to help organizations resolve performance bottlenecks and also maximize operational efficiency from cloud management toolsets,” said Tim Lin, product manager. “We also want to acknowledge the valuable feedback submitted by our amazing QTS 5.1.0 beta testers, as it helped us put the finishing touches to this official release.”

Key features in QTS 5.1.0:

• File Station improves file management and searching
  The new File Station user interface allows users to find files that have been recently uploaded, accessed, and deleted, while also finding files via rich search/sort functions powered by the full-text search engine Qsirch.

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• SMB multichannel for full throughput and multi-path protection
  SMB multichannel aggregates multiple network connections to maximize available bandwidth with higher transfer speeds – especially for large file and multimedia transfer. SMB multichannel also provides network fault tolerance to prevent service interruption.

• Supports AES-128-GMAC for SMB signing acceleration
  QTS 5.1.0 supports AES-128-GMAC signing acceleration (only in Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11 clients) that not only increases data signing efficiency over SMB 3.1.1 but also enhances the CPU utilization of the NAS – providing the best balance of security and performance.

• Qnap Authenticator supports passwordless login
  The Authenticator mobile app is available for setting up 2-step log-in process to NAS accounts, including time-based one-time passwords, QR code scanning, and login approval. Passwordless login is also supported.

• Delegated administration improves management productivity and data security
  NAS administrators can delegate 8 types of roles to other users with specified permissions to management tasks and NAS data. For growing organizations, role delegation helps ease management workloads without sacrificing data access controls.

• Automatic RAID disk replacement with spares before potential failure
  If potential drive errors are detected, the system automatically moves data from the affected disk in a RAID group to a spare disk, before the data on the affected disk is completely corrupted. It prevents the time needed and potential risks of RAID rebuilding, thus system reliability is improved. QTS 5.1.0 integrates more HDD/SSD health check tools, including S.M.A.R.T., Western Digital Device Analytics, IronWolf Health Management, and ULINK DA Drive Analyzer.

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• Improved drive health analysis and failure prediction
  ULINK DA Drive Analyzer leverages cloud-based AI to predict drive failure. Now it comes with an advanced UI that allows users to clearly identify drive information in each drive bay/slot, life prediction score, and drive data upload logs. The DA Desktop Suite, available for Windows and macOS, helps you monitor several devices for multiple users.

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• Monitor and manage multiple NAS using AMIZ Cloud management platform
  AMIZ Cloud, a centralized cloud management platform, can remotely monitor not only QuCPE Network Virtualization Premise Equipment but also Qnap NAS. It enables remotely monitoring NAS resources and system status, conducting firmware updates, and batch install/update/start/stop of apps. For organizations with multiple sites or branches, IT staff can manage multi-site devices from a single place.

• Add a Hailo-8 M.2 AI module to boost smart surveillance with lower total costs
  By adding a Hailo-8 M.2 AI acceleration module to a Qnap surveillance server, AI recognition performance is boosted by increasing the number of IP cameras for simultaneous analysis for QVR Face facial recognition and QVR Human people counting. This Qnap-Hailo joint solution helps maximize your investment compared to using the same quantity of expensive AI cameras.

QTS 5.1.0 NAS OS is available from the Download Center.