There is a solution to every problem. There is what fits a small problem and there is what fits a big problem, and you cannot take the big option for the small problem because you will waste a lot of energy at the same time that you cannot take the small option for the big problem because you will not get the energy you need.
This is the same idea as a network solution, and this is one of the most important solutions we’ve seen so far from QNAP, the TVS-H1288X.
NAS devices come in many forms and different devices, and each of them is designed for a specific function. That is, yes, they all do the same job, but they do it in a way that suits those who intend to adopt it in particular.
All this in order to access the files that whoever needs them needs from anywhere, anywhere. It sounds easy, it is actually easy to experience because there are good devices with great operating systems that make it easier for users to do their work. Their work depends on NAS devices, but what are NAS devices?
What are NAS Network Storage Devices?
NAS devices, and NAS is an acronym for Network Attached Storage, or a network-attached storage unit, are devices that work on it to store and restore files at any time through network connections.
There is a device on the network that provides all these files to all devices on the network or devices that have access to the files. Think of it as a hard disk that is not placed inside any of the computers, but that all devices use as long as they are on the same network as it.
In order to make it short for you and us, you can click on this link to fully learn about NAS devices and how they work.
The needs of large organizations differ from the needs of companies
The difference between institutions and corporations lies in size. A company may be a half-floor office in an apartment building, but an organization? full tower A complete tower with branches scattered in other countries or in provinces around the perimeter of one country.
This volume increases, in turn, the number of employees in this enterprise. Their number may reach thousands of workers and not tens or hundreds like some companies, and this number cannot be placed for all those hard disk units in its devices.
It is expensive, and even dangerous. No one knows what could happen to these hard drives in the next week, and it would be a disaster if they lost their data.
For this reason, there must be a device that can support all of these users. A device that can connect to thousands of users, which means it will need to have plenty of space with good read/transfer speed and technologies that allow it to handle all of them with their data.
A lot of weight if you ask us, but what QNAP has to offer with the TVS-H1288X can handle it all with ease.
What QNAP has come up with is the TVS-H1288X to take all of this
Starting with capacity
When you look at the TVS-H1288X, you’ll know it’s the one to come. Here you see eight 3.5″ hard disk slots maximum, and you can put an SSD working on SATA interface in them.
Above the eight are four slots for placing 2.5-inch SSDs, which means you can put up to 20 TB in one hard disk slot.
This means that up to 160 TB can be placed inside this device. A large number if you ask us, but it is a number that can be expanded more and more.
You can even install an external device from QNAP, which in turn will also increase the system-wide capacity available to the network. The maximum that you can put as a base here is 160 terabytes if we focus on the device only.
The speed improvement of this capacity is also present
Hard disk capacity is generally slow to work in environments that need data as quickly as possible. That’s why you can fit four SSDs into the quad slot on top and two M.2 PCIe ones to speed up performance.
This performance acceleration will be through the installation of these units as caching units for acceleration by reducing the response time between devices and the storage unit, carrying a greater number of transfer / reading requests, and helping to exploit high network connections to reach higher device speeds.
This brings the transfer speed up to 4 GB and the upload speed to 3.5 GB as well, and this is while using the highest network speed, which is 25GbE, with an NVMe SSD that works as an internal cache and requests files through a device running on Windows Server.
Thanks also to the use of larger RAM, up to 128 GB of DDR4 class on two channels, and this is to raise efficiency in the highest possible way. All this is only in order to raise the transfer and write speeds, which in our case becomes uploading and downloading, in order to provide the highest possible speed for a large number of users.
Even if you think about putting expansion cards in, it’s possible. You can put cards hosting up to four NVMe modules on its surface to fit as many PCIe modules as possible.
This expansion is done through two PCIe slots in the back, and you can also use them to place QXP-T32P cards so you get up to four Thunderbolt 3 ports inside for the highest possible transfer speed.
Amazing network connections
Basically, this device relies on two 10GbAE-T ports with four 2.5G ports. You can get more than this by installing network cards in the rear PCIe slots.
From here, you can provide 5/10/25/40 Gigabit connections in order to get a very high speed, and this will greatly benefit those who need the highest speeds in your office.
These connections, with the hardware that can be installed, makes this device able to handle 10,000 users at the same time if you install the highest RAM that can be installed, and this number will be sufficient to work with an entire organization.
An entire organization with its branches in other places because the operating system of the device allows you to deal with it from outside the network, and this is while maintaining the security standards that you will need for those conditions of use.
A powerful processor that works with an operating system designed specifically for this function
The device is powered by the Intel Xeon W-1250 processor, which provides six processing cores with 12 processing threads, which reaches a speed of 4.7 GHz. The processor that comes from this class of workstation processors also deals with a unique operating system, which is QuTS Hero.
This QuTS Hero system comes with the ZFS file system for giant storage devices, which in turn provides all the advantages that users of these devices that will deal with a large number of users and millions of gigabytes are looking for.
The basic reasons that we can actually say are the most important reasons for adopting a system like this in this device are summarized in:
- High storage efficiency by compressing files and preventing duplication.
- Large capacity usage of up to two petabytes per folder.
- Providing hard disk copies tied to the time they were taken with a small space that restores the device to its state at the time it was taken.
- Fast file compression algorithms, which are commensurate with the speed of command execution and the high performance that the device aspires to.
- Ensure the integrity of files throughout the operation of the device and ensure that no unwanted change in the file status occurs.
- The temporary memory operates in different stages in order to provide the largest number of operations simultaneously while protecting from power problems, while maintaining the file and security standards to ensure the best performance with the highest security standards.
- Set more than one level of RAID to fully control your storage capacity, while providing RAID Triple Parity and Triple Mirror technologies to protect data in the event of any hard disk problem.
- The QSAL system monitors the health levels of the SSDs to change them if they are running in a RAID system before the situation becomes too late.
All these features allow the TVS-h1288X to be multifunctional. It can simply act as a database, a device that hosts a Virtual Machine, a home for data being processed and analyzed or even a terminal for visual content creators who want access to everything at once, even if it’s 8K footage they want to work on throughout the day.
All this through a powerful operating system and a powerful processor as we mentioned, and the duo guarantees you the best performance with the best standards of security and data integrity, in which QNAP excels in its basic operating system or the system that we see in this device, which was specially modified for it.
Not a device for home use, nor small businesses
We want everyone to focus on this part. The device is amazing because of its capabilities, but its capabilities will only benefit those who need it in a giant institution that can take advantage of this equipment, which will be expensive. But for a large company and for a huge number of workers who consume a large amount of sensitive data throughout the day, the cost that will be paid in the device will save a lot of money and also prevent a lot of risks.
That’s why we can say that the TVS-h1288X from QNAP is great for this category of large companies.