A SSD NAS of the Future Our QNAP TBS-h574TX Review

QNAP made an all-flash NAS that is the future. This NAS can take E1.S EDSFF or M.2 SSDs. it has 2.5GbE, 10GbE (10Gbase-T), and Thunderbolt connectivity. You can even expand the NAS to add hard drives. At the same time, we had some points of feedback for QNAP with this one.

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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
01:14 Hardware Overview
10:00 System Setup
11:04 Performance
12:25 Power Consumption and Noise
14:32 Using this NAS with Hard Drive Enclosures and Thunderbolt
16:31 Key Lessons Learned
19:18 Wrap-up

[Psikeomega]

I like how it has the aesthetics of a simple object that will blend in on my desk under a pile of clutter until it overheats.

[Wannes_]

Pricing is a joke : 1600 € for the i3 and 3000 € for the i6
Have QNAP been taken over by Apple ?

[floodo]

It’s not hard to deduce the target audience: supports enterprise drives with high endurance, has relatively competent CPU for NAS, thunderbolt, and networking = video content producer who dumps and edits over thunderbolt, transcodes with CPU (don’t need tons of RAM), upload or access from another machine over net.

Sure enough “ Designed for film sets, small studios, small-scale video production teams and SOHO users” and “ njoy the smoothest experience ever in real-time video editing, large file transfer, video transcoding, and backup. The TBS-h574TX, as the bridge between pre-production and post-production”

[ВиталийБойко-зй]

Why locking barrel plug for power isn't a standard yet?

[StevenHarris-mdqt]

In our MSP toolkit, QNAP is for data storage while Thirdlane Multi Tenant keeps VoIP communication sharp and reliable.

[qazwsxxswzaq]

I find its form factor attractive. But given the price and constraints, I would rather build a proper

[axescar]

Its a good direction, but for 5 disks I would rather use socket AM4/AM5 boards, that can do bifurcation 4x4 out of x16 slot. With 2xM.2 onboard i can use same or even better setup and on fullspeed w/o this annoying RAM limitation. With AM5 it can be even fullspeed pcie 5.0 drives. If I'll get cooling problems I always can limit tdp in bios to 35w (or any number I like)

[heartPahoa]

Was really excited to see this over the Asustor… then saw the 5 drive limitation, 12/16GGB RAM limitations (non upgradable) and associated prices. Allowing this device to leave my dreams and drift into the forgotten realm of could have been great hardware.

[diversify]

At 1200 bucks, Im just not interested. Im not someone that quibbles about price because for what ever you want in life; there is a cost associated with it. I do quibble about value though and I just dont see the value here. 1200 for the NAS and another 700-900 bucks for descent m.2 drives. For a cost of 2k or more if you go with larger m.2 drives, you could get much more NAS by sticking with the tradition HDD NAS. This thing is cool, but its price needs to come down before I will be able to see its value. If it were 1200 bucks with 2 or 3 m.2 drives included, then I could see it.

[jamescater]

Very much looking forward to the Topton clone in a few months

[JSiuDev]

We need more nas devices like this utilizing ssd, m.2 to drive down the price.

[etimacias]

In this price range, you can get a Xeon-D-based 1U micro-server from Supermicro. It will allow you to connect to at least 5 drives with 4 lanes + give QAT acceleration, ECC memory, and potentially even a 25GBe port in just slightly bigger box.

[pyroslev]

I love the swapability and flexibility of this system. When these hit the second hand market, I'll have to snag one.

[alex]

Lost me when they didn't include an SFP+ port for 10Gb, then the price cemented it....

[OWOLABIYANU]

As someone in the apple ecosystem, I would have given this a shot if it took widely available u.2 drives. The pricing is crazy but with u.2, it may have made that easier to swallow. I currently run 2 u.2 drives with owc pcie boxes and have been looking for something like this but with u.2 but everything that supports u.2 in the nas space is either overkill, expensive or both

[maliciousloki]

Umm no go at this density. If it were 12 bays like the Asustor then… maybe… but this is crazy. Also why do people poop all over the Asustor for “only 1 lane per NVME” when it only has one 10Gbps port and can, yes, fill it no problem? If it had a 40 or 100 gig port and couldn’t fill it then okay maybe you have a point but then you should be using an enterprise NAS.

[ipsdon]

By the time you add the ssd drive, it is the price of a high end gaming pc?

[shammyh]

I just want 16x-32x EDSFF bays... a low-power CPU... and high-capability NIC (or even DPU)... in a form factor that doesn't start at ~$10-15K like the OEMs are still charging for JBOD-esque nvme storage. I don't need a super-powerful CPU... but I would like something that can manage to get 40-100 gbit/s out over the network for a "poor mans storage over fabric" setup. I'd even take like... Just a DPU + EDSFF + nvme switch in a box?

[test-rjvl]

Tnx for mentioning noise. I am looking for silent NAS so that gave me all I needed to know about this NAS.

[OnlyMon]

I know he talked about saturating the 10G port, but can anyone tell me if he was able to fully saturate the 40G thunderbolt port?