Quick question to the QNAP team and forum users about E-Waste and how QNAP can help reduce some E-Waste. (I am a new QNAP product owner and forum member so please excuse me if this has been discussed)
So I have become the owner of several TS-EC1279U-RP which has the following specifications:
- Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E3-1225 v2 Processor 3.2 GHz
Memory expandable up to: 32 GB (8GB x4)
2 PCIe Gen.2x4 (for network and storage expansion)
The TS-EC1280U has similar specs:
- Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 v3 Family 3.4 GHz Quad Core Processor
Memory expandable up to: 32 GB (8GB x4)
2 (1* PCIe Gen3 x8, 1* PCIe Gen3 x4)
The big changes seem to be the PCI X8 slot and the bump from 3.2 to 3.4 on the CPU. My issue with this is that the older 1279 should be able to run the 5.X QTS version without issue unless I am missing something and I may very well be. Even if there would be
no support for QTS 5.X it would be nice if we could upgrade the 1279's to QTS 5.X as there doesn't appear to be anything I can see that would stop it and the support for the 1279 is already EOL. It would just stop folks from throwing the 1279's in the trash as E-Waste in my opinion.
There are other platforms where this option could be used as well but this one is my current scenario. Any thoughts from the QNAP team or the forum users on this potential to not throw perfectly good hardware to the E-Waste bin?
Thanks for taking the time to read and provide feedback!