QNAP Qnap TS-H973AX 9-Bay Desktop NAS Enclosure, AMD Ryzen V1500B 4-Core, 8GB RAM

The TS-H973AX 9-Bay Desktop NAS Enclosure is a high-capacity, compact storage solution powered by an AMD Ryzen V1500B 4-Core 2.2GHz processor. This advanced device offers a hybrid storage infrastructure, featuring five 3.5-inch SATA 6Gbps drive bays, two 2.5-inch U.2 NVMe SSD slots, and two 2.5-inch SATA 6Gbps SSD slots. Designed to boost IOPS-intensive applications, the TS-H973AX leverages SSD caching and is equipped with the ZFS-based QuTS hero operating system. This ensures data integrity and supports block-level inline data deduplication and compression, near-limitless snapshots, and real-time SnapSync. This makes it an ideal choice for mission-critical file servers, virtualization servers, collaborative video editing, and efficient data backup and recovery.The TS-H973AX is capable of hosting multiple virtual machines and containers, allowing a wide range of applications to run seamlessly. It also features cloud storage gateways that work with the cache space reserved on NAS, ensuring low-latency data access to the cloud. This NAS enclosure is designed for scalability, allowing you to flexibly increase your total storage capacity to match your business growth by connecting USB expansion enclosures. It's powered by an AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B 4-core/8-thread, 2.2 GHz processor with up to 64 GB DDR4 RAM, delivering aggressive yet power-smart performance for compute-demanding applications. The TS-H973AX also features dual U.2 NVMe PCIe Gen 3 x4 SSD slots for optimal I/O and low latency. It supports SSD cache acceleration to increase IOPS performance and reduce latency for storage volumes, making it perfect for IOPS-demanding applications including virtualization and databases. With one 10GBASE-T Multi-Gig and two 2.5GbE LAN ports, the TS-H973AX accelerates virtualization, intensive file access, large backup/restoration tasks, and media transfer. It also supports high-speed networking solutions, including 10GbE/2.5GbE managed/unmanaged switches, 2.5GbE/5GbE/10GbE PCIe cards and USB 5GbE adapters for Windows/Linux workstations. The ZFS-based QuTS hero operating system enhances NAS performance and data integrity, providing flexible storage management, comprehensive data protection, and optimized performance to tackle the complexity and performance demands of modern IT. The TS-H973AX also supports advanced block-based data reduction technologies to reduce file sizes, conserve storage capacity, and optimize performance. It also ensures real-time SnapSync for minimal RPO with real-time disaster recovery. With its comprehensive virtualization support, the TS-H973AX is an all-in-one virtual machine and container hosting solution. It also serves as a license-free VMware and Hyper-V backup appliance, making it a cost-effective and reliable disaster recovery plan, ensuring 24/7 operation of your services.