"the First Tower U.2 NVMe/SATA All-Flash NAS, Powered by AMD EPYC, Fulfilling 25GbE Collaborative Workflow Environments"

[OneCD]

... because spinning disks are so last-year.

https://www.qnap.com/en-au/news/2022/qn ... vironments

QNAP Launches the TS-h1290FX, the First Tower U.2 NVMe/SATA All-Flash NAS, Powered by AMD EPYC™, Fulfilling 25GbE Collaborative Workflow Environments

Taipei, Taiwan, July 4, 2022 - QNAP® Systems, Inc., a leading computing, networking, and storage solution innovator, today launched the TS-h1290FX NAS. Providing QNAP’s first PCIe 4.0 and U.2 NVMe/SATA all-flash NAS in a tower form factor, the TS-h1290FX excels in the most demanding work environments such as collaborative high-resolution video workflows. Featuring AMD EPYC™ 8/16-core processors, built-in 25GbE and 10GbE connectivity, PCIe Gen 4 expansion, and up to petabyte-scale storage capacity, the TS-h1290FX provides up to 816K/318K iSCSI 4K random read/write IOPS for tackling data-intensive and latency-sensitive applications, such as large media file transfer, real-time editing of 4K/8K media, and virtualization applications.
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With a sleek design, easily scalable storage, and near-silent cooling, the TS-h1290FX is ideal for small/medium businesses and video editing teams for high-speed backup, collaboration, and video editing workflows. It is fully compatible with mainstream software solutions and can tackle bandwidth-demanding challenges such as real-time 4K/8K video editing and collaborative editing. To streamline workflows, the TS-h1290FX offers direct connectivity for up to 20 PC/workstations when used with QNAP’s PCIe network cards. Its fanless CPU cooler and near-silent 90mm system fan also provide effective cooling without distracting noises, making it ideal for integrating into modern work environments.

The TS-h1290FX has four PCIe Gen 4 slots that allow for installing various expansion cards for expanding application potential: QNAP 2.5/5/25/40/100 GbE network cards for lightning-fast throughput; an entry-level graphics card to accelerate video editing and transcoding. The TS-h1290FX offers a scalable design to accommodate business growth by connecting expansion enclosures (such as the TL-D800C or TL-D800S) for up to petabyte-scale storage capacity. And with the QNAP QDA-UMP4 adapter, the TS-h1290FX can use M.2 PCIe Gen4/Gen3 SSD as a cost-effective alternative to U.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs.

The TS-h1290FX comes with the ZFS-based QuTS hero operating system to provide flexible storage management, comprehensive data protection, and optimized performance to streamline business-critical tasks.
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Key Specifications

• TS-h1290FX-7302P-256G: AMD EPYC™ 7302P 16-core/32-thread processor (Burst up to 3.3 GHz) with 256 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM (8x 32 GB; up to 1TB RAM).

• TS-h1290FX-7302P-128G: AMD EPYC™ 7302P 16-core/32-thread processor (Burst up to 3.3 GHz) with 128 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM (8x 16 GB; up to 1TB RAM).

• TS-h1290FX-7232P-64G: AMD EPYC™ 7232P 8-core/16-thread processor (Burst up to 3.2 GHz) with 64 GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM (8x 8 GB; up to 1TB RAM).

Tower model, DDR4 ECC RDIMM memory (expandable up to 1TB), 12x hot-swappable 2.5-inch U.2 NVMe Gen 4 x4 SSD drive bays (also compatible with PCIe Gen 3 SSDs or SATA 6Gb/s SSDs), 4x PCIe Gen 4 x4 slots, 2x 25GbE SFP28 SmartNIC ports, 2x 2.5GbE RJ45 LAN ports (2.5G/1G/100M), 3x USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5Gbps) ports

Bob Z, I wonder if you'll be installing these anytime soon? I'd hate to imagine the price of one of these in a fully tricked-out config...

[Bob Zelin]

U.2's are fast. I have installed 4 TS-h2490FU's for VuStudios in Tampa, Orlando, Nashville, and Las Vegas. All computers have the QNAP Mellanox 25G cards - they plug into the QNAP QSW-M5216-1T (this switch is $1200, the 25G cards are about $280 each. It's a pain to find the correct driver for them on the PC's from the NVidia/Mellanox website). All cables are 10Gtek SFP28 DAC cables (cheap), and all the PC's are in a rack mount, with KVM extenders for all the rack mount PC's. The actual TS-h2490FU of course connects with 25G to the QSW-M5216-1T. The U.2 drives are DEADLY expensive, so even though this is a 24 bay, we only have 12 U.2 drives in each system. These are Micron 7.68 TB drives in a RAID 6 configuration. The QuTS OS is on two M.2 NVMe drives that live on a QNAP QM2-2P-384 card that is in one of the PCIe slots.

VuStudios does Virtual Productions with Unreal Engine, so they need crazy fast speeds for their XR screens -
This is VuStudio -
https://vustudio.com/

Their post production facility is called Diamond View Studios (in Tampa) where they edit all this stuff with Adobe Premiere and Davinci Resolve. Those are all 16 bay enterprise QNAP's of assorted generations, and those are all 10G, not 25G, with regular Seagate EXOS drives. I am using a Ubiquiti UniFi Enterprise XG24 10G switch at that facility for 10G distribution.

here is one drive -
https://www.amazon.com/Micron-7-68TB-En ... B07SG5Z6CQ

now - with the TS-h1290FX - which is about $5000 starting price, for those on a budget, you can get the U.2 to NVMe adapter, and put 2 TB NVMe's in there -
https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Internal ... C70&sr=1-3

and after RAID 6, get 20 TB of all flash storage, for a competitive price for an all flash system.

Competitive ? Competitive with who ? Who else makes a box like this with all M.2 flash drives -
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/produc ... cloudstore

This is 20 TB RAID 5 (you can't change it) for $9995, and it's 10G only, not 25G. This is a preliminary product for Blackmagic Design (who is well established in the pro video business).
Currently, you can't set user, shared folders, you can't even log in - it just mounts - and it only syncs to Dropbox. But this is the infancy of this market, that is just getting started.

and by the way - they have 16 TB U.2 NVMe -
https://www.amazon.com/Micron-15-36TB-E ... B07SK8GSYZ

can you imagine buying 24 of these ?

Bob Zelin

[dolbyman]

Hey Bob, let me know if you need another pair of hands in any Vancouver installs, interesting stuff

But anyway as you have said, for the price these QNAP products seem to be VERY competitive (in the realm of video/audio production) compared to 'name brand' products

Professional SSD stuff is crazy expensive, I am looking into 8TB RDX cartridges right now and each is CAD 2500 on CDW (phew), you can get QLC based SATA SSD's with 8TB for less than 1000 bucks (that's the RDX extra you pay)

[Bob Zelin]

if they do a setup up there (they may - they have funding) - it's YOU that will do that install, not me !
Bob