QNAP TVS-873 wins a Red Dot Award for design

QNAP TVS-873 NAS gets a Red Dot Award for its design — QNAP TVS-873

Thanks to this award, the QNAP TVS-873 NAS will be shown for an entire year in the Red Dot Design Museum. This NAS is driven by a 3rd gen AMD R-Series APU and features up to 64 GB RAM, USB 3.1 Gen 2 connectivity, dual HDMI out, and more.

by Codrut Nistor, 2017/04/22

Business Storage

Yesterday, QNAP Systems announced that one of its products has just been recognized for its design. According to the official press release, "the TVS-873 NAS has won the honorable Red Dot Award for high design quality." As a direct consequence of this achievement, the Red Dot Design Museum will keep this product in its collection for an entire year.

QNAP's TVS-873 NAS is one of the few such accessories to use an AMD processor. Next to the R-Series RX-421BD quad-core APU, it also features up to 64 GB DDR4 memory, AES-NI hardware encryption, two M.2 slots for auto-tiering, dual HDMI out, 10 GbE expandability, USB 3.1 Gen 2, and more. The AMD processor mentioned above enables this NAS to offer dual HDMI 4K output without any hiccups.

After thanking for the award, QNAP's design director revealed the following: "We knew we were building something special when designing the TVS-873, so we decided to match its exceptional internal hardware with a special external appearance for unique and eye-catching aesthetics."

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QNAP NAS TVS-873 Honored with Red Dot Award 2017 for Outstanding Product Design

Taipei, Taiwan, April 21, 2017 - QNAP® Systems, Inc. today announced that the TVS-873 NAS has won the honorable Red Dot Award for high design quality. The product will be presented for one year in the Red Dot Design Museum, the largest museum for contemporary design.

The award-winning TVS-873's stylish gold aesthetics is a representation of it being the gold standard in high-performance NAS. With a powerful 3rd gen AMD R-Series RX-421BD quad-core APU, AES-NI encryption acceleration, up to 64GB DDR4 RAM, USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbps), 10GbE expandability, two M.2 SSD slots for auto-tiering, and 4K-capable GPU performance with dual HDMI output, the TVS-873 is ideal for media storage, SSD caching, and 10GbE applications.

“It is a great honor for the TVS-873 to receive the Red Dot award,” said Dino Wang, Design Director of QNAP, adding “the TVS-873 is an outstanding NAS that blends performance, reliability and functionality with a distinct gold exterior. We knew we were building something special when designing the TVS-873, so we decided to match its exceptional internal hardware with a special external appearance for unique and eye-catching aesthetics.”

To learn more about the QNAP TVS-873 and other QNAP products, please visit www.qnap.com.

About the Red Dot Design Award

In order to appraise the diversity in the field of design in a professional manner, the Red Dot Design Award breaks down into the three disciplines of Red Dot Award: Product Design, Red Dot Award: Communication Design and Red Dot Award: Design Concept. The Red Dot Award is organized by Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen and is one of the world’s largest design competitions. In 1955, a jury convened for the first time to assess the best designs of the day. In the 1990s, Red Dot CEO Professor Dr. Peter Zec developed the name and brand of the award. Ever since, the sought-after Red Dot award has been the revered international seal of outstanding design quality. More information is available at www.red-dot.org.

About QNAP Systems, Inc.

QNAP Systems, Inc., as its brand promise "Quality Network Appliance Provider", aims to deliver comprehensive offerings of cutting edge network attached storage (NAS) and network video recorder (NVR) solutions featured with ease-of-use, robust operation, large storage capacity, and trustworthy reliability. QNAP integrates technologies and designs to bring forth quality products that effectively improve business efficiency on file sharing, virtualization applications, storage management and surveillance in the business environments, as well as enrich entertainment life for home users with the offering of a fun multimedia center experience. Headquartered in Taipei, QNAP delivers its solutions to the global market with nonstop innovation. More information is at www.qnap.com.