QNAP Announces New AMD-Based TVS-x73 NAS Series

[Julio Urquidi]

The new AMD-based NAS products will target the SMB market and will be available in three sizes, including the 4-bay TVS-473, 6-bay TVS-673, and the 8-bay TVS-873.

The TVS-x73 family is powered by AMD’s RX-421BD quad-core 2.1 GHz APU and 8GB/16GB/64GB dual channel DDR4 SODIMM memory (upgradable to 64 GB). For storage, the new series supports hot-swappable 2.5/3.5 drives and has two M.2 SATA SSD slots built in.

Ports include two PCIe expansion slots, 4x USB 3.0 ports, one USB QuickAccess port, four GbE LAN ports, two HDMI outputs, two 3.5mm microphone jacks and one3.5 mm line-out audio jack. Expansion cards for the TVS-x73 include a dual port 10GbE network card and a USB 3.1 Type-A card. An IR remote is also included.

Storage on the TVS-x73 can be expanded by either using QNAP expansion enclosures (UX-800P and UX-500P), or by using the VJBOD feature that uses other QNAP NAS’ disks to create virtual drives accessible as shares or LUNs.

Running QNAP’s 64-bit QTS 4.3 operating system, the TVS-x73 series gets a variety of QNAP applications suitable for small and medium businesses, including email, contacts, file organization and IoT initialization. The included Virtualization Station feature supports VMware, Citrix, Microsoft hypervisors and can host Windows, Linux, Unix and Android virtual machines, while Container Station supports LXC and Docker containers.

The QNAP TVS-x73 product line is available now, however no pricing was mentioned.

 

[sfx2000]

The TVS-x73 family is powered by AMD’s RX-421BD quad-core 2.1 GHz APU and 8GB/16GB/64GB dual channel DDR4 SODIMM memory (upgradable to 64 GB). For storage, the new series supports hot-swappable 2.5/3.5 drives and has two M.2 SATA SSD slots built in.

Pretty stout CPU (APU) in this unit... AMD Big Cores (Excavator) with CGN 3 graphics...

Should do nicely with 4K

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-R-Series RX-421BD.html

 

[L&LD]

sfx2000, those 'stout' cores seem to be in the i3 (desktop) or i5 (laptop) range of Intel processors.

Except that the roughly equivalent Intel processors are in the 15W (laptop) range versus AMD's 35W TDP's.

The prices (or other features) for these models must be exceptional to be considered over an Intel based option.

 

[sfx2000]

True - the GPU side of that chip is interesting, as it does (the chip that is) support HDMI 2.0 and 4K - which for some is a bigger deal than the CPU...

 

[TheLostSwede]

The prices (or other features) for these models must be exceptional to be considered over an Intel based option.

How so? If it offers similar price/performance to an Intel based NAS, why would you not consider an AMD based model? It's not as if we're comparing x86 to ARM here.

That said, knowing QNAP, they'll price this out of the reach for most people.

 

[L&LD]

How so? If it offers similar price/performance to an Intel based NAS, why would you not consider an AMD based model? It's not as if we're comparing x86 to ARM here.

That said, knowing QNAP, they'll price this out of the reach for most people.

In one word? Efficiency (TDP).

 

[Threska49]

I'm not seeing a TVS-x73 on their site. Maybe L&LD's comment caused them to withdraw, and reconsider?

 

[sfx2000]

I'm not seeing a TVS-x73 on their site. Maybe L&LD's comment caused them to withdraw, and reconsider?

https://www.qnap.com/en/product/model.php?II=254&ref=product_overview

 

[sfx2000]

Except that the roughly equivalent Intel processors are in the 15W (laptop) range versus AMD's 35W TDP's.

The prices (or other features) for these models must be exceptional to be considered over an Intel based option.

The SOC involved here is equivalent to a Desktop Intel Core i5 - and the GPU is quite a bit more than Intel's on-board graphics...

It's a single chip solution - with Intel, one still has to do a 2-chip solution for the Quad cores - CPU and the PCH..