QNAP Announces Ryzen Powered TS-x77 NAS Series

[Julio Urquidi]

QNAP has announced three AMD Ryzen based NASes. The TS-x77 series includes the 12-bay TS-1277, 8-bay TS-877 and 6-bay TS-677.

All are based on AMD’s Ryzen multi-core processors, use DDR4 memory, support two M.2 SSD modules for internal cache, and have eight USB (six 3.0 and two 3.1) ports.

With their three PCI-e expansion slots, the TS-x77 series can support AMD Radeon and Nvidia graphics cards and QNAP’s QM2 10 GbE/ 40 GbE network cards for faster network throughput.

Storage expansion for the TS-x77 series includes VJBOD, hot-swap RAID upgrades to larger drives, and hardware expansion using one of QNAPs own expansion enclosures.

The larger TS-1277 can house eight 2.5”/3.5” and four 2.5” drives and is available in three models:

• TS-1277-1700-64G: AMD Ryzen™ 7 1700 8-core / 16-thread 3.0 GHz processor, Turbo Core 3.7 GHz and 64GB DDR4 UDIMM (4 x 16GB)
• TS-1277-1700-16G: AMD Ryzen™ 7 1700 8-core / 16-thread 3.0 GHz processor, Turbo Core 3.7 GHz and 16GB DDR4 UDIMM (2 x 8GB)
• TS-1277-1600-8G: AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600 6-core / 12-thread 3.2 GHz processor, Turbo Core 3.6 GHz and 8GB DDR4 UDIMM (2 x 4GB)

QNAP’s TS-877 can house six 2.5”/3.5” and two 2.5” drives and is available in two models:

• TS-877-1700-16G: AMD Ryzen™ 7 1700 8-core / 16-thread 3.0 GHz processor, Turbo Core 3.7 GHz and 16GB DDR4 UDIMM (2 x 8GB)
• TS-877-1600-8G: AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600 6-core / 12-thread 3.2 GHz processor, Turbo Core 3.6 GHz and 8GB DDR4 UDIMM (2 x 4GB)

And the TS-677 can house four 2.5”/3.5” and two 2.5” drives and is available in a single model:

• TS-677-1600-8G: AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600 6-core / 12-thread 3.2 GHz processor, Turbo Core 3.6 GHz and 8GB DDR4 UDIMM (2 x 4GB)

For business applications, the TS-x77 series supports block-based iSCSI LUNs. Virtualization products from VMware, Citrix and Microsoft, or QNAP’s Virtualization Station and Container Station can be used to run VMs and containers. Other features include backup for Windows, Mac, LUN/volume snapshots and VMs, IFTTT Agent, and IoT application management.

The QNAP TS-1277, TS-877 and TS-677 NAS are now available with pricing ranging from $3599 to $1699 on Amazon.