Upgraded with Thunderbolt 3 and an Intel 7th-Gen Kaby Lake processor, the TVS-1282T3 12-Bay NAS Enclosure from QNAP is a Thunderbolt 3/NAS/iSCSI SAN triple solution that can handle collaboration between up to four Mac and Windows devices. As its increased bandwidth allows for smooth 4K video transfers and online editing, the TVS-1282T3 is well. Buy QNAP TS-453BT3-8G-US 4-Bay Thunderbolt 3 NAS. Intel Celeron Apollo Lake J3455 Quad-core CPU, 8GB RAM, SATA 6Gb/s: Everything Else.
The QNAP NAS operating system is one with a seemingly endless array of possibilities. The vast majority of these are diskless and already have HDD installed, with the number of bays ranging from two to as many as 24, depending on the needs of the particular customer. What that customer gets is storage capacity that’s much larger than before, yet isn’t compromised in the area of reliability.
A key selling point is the ability of the devices to apply easy-to-understand principles that help expedite the process of getting it up and running. While this system is more designed for the business world, it’s flexible to work for either personal or home use. Those businesses that use it might be small in nature or large corporations, yet the storage capacity has a wide enough range that accommodations can even be made to those that require more than 100 terabytes of capacity. That latter group has the ability to take advantage of the Turbo NAS, which is yet another innovation from QNAP. Choosing a system with storage in mind is one reason why QNAP NAS solutions continue to be a major part of any conversation.
Even more of a selling point are the extension units that QNAP sells, with four different series making up this group. The EJ, TX, REXP and UX can provide backup solutions, with the UX taking the prospect of both HD media and data storage into account.
QNAP recently held a product launch event in San Jose. The main announcement was the follow-up to their TVS-871T released late last year. The first generation Thunderbolt NAS came with eight 3.5' drive slots, 16GB of RAM, two Thunderbolt 2 ports and two 10GBASE-T ports. Despite being priced at $2800 (Haswell Core i5 configuration) and $3200 (Haswell Core i7 configuration), QNAP noted that it was popular enough to expand the lineup with more models. The popularity stems from the fact that creative professionals dealing with multimedia content often deal with Thunderbolt DAS units for fast access to data. However, those DAS units are typically not amenable to shared workflows. This is where a NAS / DAS combination like the TVS-871T has been able to make an impact.
Thunderbolt networking support means that multiple PCs can access the NAS / DAS at high speed, while the network links can be used by other non-performance sensitive clients to access the data. The new TVS-x82T series comes in three different varieties, the TVS-682T, TVS-882T and TVS-1282T.
They have 4, 6 and 8 3.5' drive bays respectively. The 4- and 6-bay units have two additional 2.5' drive slots, while the 8-bay unit has four additional 2.5' drive slots. The 6- and 8-bay units have LCD screens in the front panel. As the slide below shows, the models come with three HDMI ports (2x HDMI 1.4 + 1x HDMI 2.0), and have two M.2 SSD slots on the motherboard. The TVS-1282T also has a spare PCIe 3.0 x8 slot that can be used to add a 10 GbE / 40 GbE card or NVMe SSD or a USB 3.1 Gen 2 card or even a discrete GPU (that can be used as a passthrough device for a VM running on the TVS-1282T). QNAP was also heavily promoting their Qtier automatic data tiering technology which helps in improving performance while also enabling archive functionality within the same NAS by using another storage pool.
Thunderbolt expansion units (5-bay and 8-bay) are also available. More information on the TVS-x82T models can be found on QNAP's product page. It is interesting to note that the Thunderbolt ports are v2 and enabled by an add-on card.
One of our chief complaints is the usage of Thunderbolt 2 instead of Thunderbolt 3 (which can also act as a USB 3.1 Gen 2 host / client as needed). QNAP mentioned that Thunderbolt 3 add-on cards are definitely in the pipeline, but, most current Thunderbolt users are in the Apple ecosystem.
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