QNAP TBS-h574TX - All Flash NASbook With Thunderbolt 4 Connectivity

Today's Video will cover the new QNAP TBS-h574TX, an all flash NASbook aimed at the power user and content creator. This is a fast, powerful, and flexible NAS unit that supports 2.5G, 10G, and Thunderbolt 4 for connectivity and is capable of extremely fast transfer speeds. I test many storage products, and this is one of the most exciting products I have had the opportunity to test in a while. This product natively supports ZFS but, unlike others, allows you to add a disk to an existing pool, which is critical when you have 5 slots for SSDs. Overall, I really like this unit, and it is ideal for my workflow.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro and Overview
01:20 Hardware
03:59 Setup
04:42 Drive Setup
05:58 Storage Setup
08:37 Pool Setup and Configuration
13:07 Differences between QTS and QuTS
13:59 Provisioning
17:58 Thunderbolt
20:13 Performance Testing
21:34 Summary and Thoughts

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[mjs]

Thanks for the review. Glad to see that all NVMe NAS devices are becoming more common place. Been looking at this one and the ones by Asustor. It is temping to get one of these, but since I only use my NAS for storage and I don't have the need to video edit directly off of it, I really can't justify the cost of the devices, the NVMe drives and the lost of storage capacity if I were to switch to one of these units.
Please do some follow-up videos on this NAS.

[JasonsLabVideos]

Sweet video, good info. This something i have been looking into for my video storage..

[lylefabian]

thank you mike for such a great video.

[ruek]

Hi Mike, ok that was a straight forward review, but to be honest there's nothing new to it more then the nvme's. What you should do to be different is to do a real-life review i.e how to set it up in the wild (off network) use it as a creator and then how you hook it up to your network, transfer the file to back-office NAS etc. Otherwise it's just another fast NAS. What's the usability it?

[FarrellMcGovern]

It would be nice to see this compared to the Asustor Flashstor 12 Pro FS6712X, another M.2 based SSD NAS.

[markifi]

this is a good start, but a consumer grade version would be a dream come true. "only pay for the speed you need" quoting a mikrotik sales rep

[GOVAUS]

Thanks. Can you test the communication through its NICs?

[jimsvideos]

Can it do SMB multichannel using both LAN connections?

[sergiubn]

Hi Mike, thank you for the great video. I have this nasbook and I am planning to set it up. Using it next to the computer desk with a very quiet mac mini, this is loud. So I am looking for some USB C cables that are long enough to keep it away from the office. Do you know if USB C 20gbps cables that are 5m (16ft) will work with this and a mac?

[jgp]

Hey Mike, Im looking for something to run Adobe Lightroom Classic. I build 1:1 previews and cannot use LRC on my NAS. The previews take up over 300GB on my Mac Studio. I would like to use this drive for all my photo and video content. Would the thunderbolt 4 connection work for LRC? Sounds like It sets it up with an IP address so I'm thinking LRC would think this was a networked location. Is there an option to set up thunderbolt 4 not using an IP address??

[mjs]

Hello Mike, I wonder how this NAS can handle a large amount of data transfer? Will the drives thermal throttle? Will the device over heat or malfunction because of the NICs getting too hot. Example, I once was tranferring my music collection to a portable NVMe device from my QNAP NAS with a USB 5G NIC, the NAS was handling the TBs of data tranfer fine, just the USB 5G NIC over heated And shut down. Once I unplugged it and let it cool down, it was fine once I plugged it back into the NAS. This was over a 10G network. All the other devices handled the large data transfer just fine, only the 5G USB NIC over heated.

[jserenity]

Have anyone tried putting 8TB NVME? Like putting 5 x 8TB nvme?

[BigIrisProductions]

I'm a little confused. Weren't those read and write speeds at 1 Gbps and not 10? You showed over 900 mbps. Shouldn't 10Gbps be 10, 000mbps? Seeing as these nvme SSDs are capable of up to 7000mbps read and around 6000 write. And Qnap adversises read speeds of (something like) 2300 for this machine.
In any case, I should be able to edit 6K video just fine but was curious. 20:16

[zmr-yoor]

Hello Mike, thank you for the informative video. However, I feel that I'm missing something. Why would someone pay more for NVMe drives if It would be limited to 10Gbps ethernet. I feel that using SSD would get you the same speeds in 10Gbps ethernet and be more cost efficient. Even direct attached to Thunderbolt 4 (which is just a glorified Thunderbolt 3 port because they share the same 40Gbps bandwidth) the best speed you would see is 2000~2400MB's at best which is better, but still not taking full advantage of NVMe drives.

[mattrg]

If NVMe speed is 5-7GB/s and Thunderbolt 4 is 5GB/s, then why does this device only work at 1.5GB/s?

[NAGGNEKIM]

What about noise?
Is it comfortable to use on a desk?

[jimsvideos]

If only you could use the Thunderbolt port as a redundant power input.