Last year, QNAP released the first enterprise-class NAS network storage device based on the AMD Ryzen platform. Up to 8 cores and 16 threads of Ryzen 7 1700 can be selected, supporting up to 12 seats.
Now, QNAP has brought more powerful 'TS-1677X ', also based on Ryzen, Supports up to 16 bays, including 12 3.5-inch, 4 2.5-inch, all hot-swappable, channels are SATA 6Gbps.
It also has three PCI-E expansion slots, each supporting PCI-E 3.0 x8, PCI-E 3.0 x4, and PCI-E 2.0 x4, with additional expansion cards, additional M.2 SSDs, or GPU graphics cards. For artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and other parallel computing.
The processor is still the first generation of Ryzen, Optional 8-core Ryzen 7 1700, 6-core Ryzen 5 1600, 4-core Ryzen 3 1200Thermal design power consumption is 65W, corresponding to the memory 4 × 16GB/2 × 8GB, 2 × 4GB, 1 × 4GB, are DDR4-2400.
The network comes with two 10GbE NICs (should all come from Aquantia), and it can also expand more 10/40GbE NICs, as well as seven USB 3.0 Type-A, one USB 3.0 Type-C interface, and 500W power supply.
The operating system is also QNAP's own QTS 4.3, which supports RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60/JBOD disk array formats, Qtier cache acceleration technology, AES-NI encryption instruction set, Qsync cross-platform file sharing, One-click copy and so on, also supports third-party encryption.
Virtualization solution supports VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2016, vQTS.
Price not disclosed.
