COMPUTEX 2017 | QNAP announces the world's first AMD Ryzen NAS

QNAP TS-x77 Series NAS with AMD Ryzen processor — QNAP TS-x77

The new TS-x77 NAS will hit the market in the third quarter with 6, 8, and 12-bay models, all powered by Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 processors, next to up to 64 GB DDR4 memory. The pre-release version will be on display at COMPUTEX Taipei until the end of the week.

by Codrut Nistor, 2017/05/31

The new AMD Ryzen processors seem to be able to take back a lot of lost niches, also conquering new areas, as proven by the world's first NAS to use such a chip. Dubbed TS-x77, this new storage accessory for businesses has been announced by QNAP Products at COMPUTEX and should hit the market in a few months.

According to the official press release, "The TS-x77 is designed as a high-performance, highly-capable tiered storage geared for I/O intensive and virtualization applications, and also supports AMD Radeon™ and NVIDIA® graphics cards to satisfy resource-demanding video editing and playback."

QNAP TS-x77 will hit the market with three models (6, 8, and 12-bay ones), the list of processor options including both quad and six-core Ryzen 5 chips, as well as octa-core Ryzen 7 processors. The TS-x77 also features up to 64 GB DDR4 RAM, two M.2 slots for cache acceleration or high-performance storage pools, as well as PCIe Gen.3 slots for 40 GbE network adapters, NVMe SSDs, graphics cards, or USB 3.1 expansion cards.

QNAP has some pre-release units on display at COMPUTEX, where the TS-x77 will be found until June 3 at stand J217. This new product is expected to hit the market in Q3 2017.

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COMPUTEX 2017 Sneak-preview: QNAP Unveils World's First Ryzen-based NAS

Taipei, Taiwan, May 31, 2017 – Amidst the cutting-edge innovations in NAS, networking, and IoT presented by QNAP® Systems, Inc. at COMPUTEX 2017, the announcement of the world's first AMD Ryzen™-based NAS took center stage and underlined QNAP's commitment to push the boundaries of NAS performance and functionality.

The new TS-x77 series leverages the incredible power of Ryzen, featuring processors with up to 8-cores/16-threads with Turbo Core up to 3.7 GHz to greatly boost virtualization performance. The TS-x77 is designed as a high-performance, highly-capable tiered storage geared for I/O intensive and virtualization applications, and also supports AMD Radeon™ and NVIDIA® graphics cards to satisfy resource-demanding video editing and playback.

The TS-x77 series will be available in 6, 8, and 12-bay models with AMD Ryzen 7 (8-cores/16-threads) and AMD Ryzen 5 (6-cores/12-threads and 4-core/8-thread) processors that support AES-NI encryption acceleration and up to 64GB DDR4 RAM. Every model in the series provides three PCIe Gen.3 slots for incredible expansion potential for supporting 10GbE/40GbE NICs, PCIe NVMe SSD, graphics cards, and USB 3.1 expansion cards. Two M.2 SATA 6 GB/s SSD slots are provided for cache acceleration or high-performance storage pools. Incorporating incredible performance, scalability and reliability, the TS-x77 series provides an exceptional business-ready storage solution for running a wide range of business tasks (including cross-platform file sharing, backup, disaster recovery, and iSCSI & virtualization tasks) without breaking a sweat.

The TS-x77 series features an excellent combination of hardware and software that delivers high expandability, high reliability, and all the tools necessary to satisfy IOPS-demanding workloads and multitasking. Download the TS-x77 datasheet for more information.

The QNAP TS-x77 NAS will be available from Q3 2017. Check out the pre-release version of the TS-x77 series at QNAP stand J1217, COMPUTEX TAIPEI from May 30 to June 3, 2017.

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.