Qnap launches Chinese-made NAS drive for SMBs
Underpowered processor reportedly good enough for NAS devices
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Taiwan-basedQNAPhas launched its firstNAS devicepowered by an eight-core 2.50 GHz Chinese-made KaiXian KX-U6580 processor designed byZhaoxin.
Zhaoxin is a joint venture between Via Technologies and the Shanghai Municipal Government.
Tom’s Hardwarebelievesthe TVS-675 NAS is perhaps the first commercial device that’ll be available in the US and Europe that’s powered with the KaiXian CPU, which was developed primarily for the Chinese market.
This is a departure to Qnap using eitherIntelCeleron orArm-based systems-on-a-chip (SoC) in their entry level NAS devices designed for small businesses, sharesTom’s.
Although itwasn’t satisfiedwith the performance of the KaiXian KX-6000-series x86 processor,Tom’sreasons that the processor would perhaps work well in the TVS-675 since NAS devices don’t put too much demands on the underlying hardware.
Entry-level NAS
The TVS-675 has six hot-swappable 3.5-inch bays for high-capacity SATA hard disk drives (HDD), along with two M.2-2280 slots for Solid State Drives (SSD) supporting a PCIe 3.0 x1 or SATA interface.
The device also has two PCIe 3.0 x4 slots for SSDs or network cards, together with two 2.5 GbE ports, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A connectors, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and one HDMI 2.0 output.
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The drive ships with 8GB DDR RAM, but its two SO-DIMM slots can be used to crank this up to 64GB in total.
The Qnap TVS-675 is offered with either the Qnap’s QTSoperating system(OS) or its ZFS-based enterprise-grade QuTS OS.
The device supports all the capabilities you can expect from an entry-level NAS, but Qnap hasn’t yet shared any pricing information.
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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