Qnap TVS-h874

The price is high, but this well-endowed desktop NAS delivers enterprise-class storage features

DAVE MITCHELL

SCORE PRICE Diskless/32GB, £2,071 exc VAT from box.co.uk Qnap has been promoting its advanced QuTS hero operating system, and the TVS-hx74 family of desktop NAS appliances aim to provide SMBs with an entry point into the world of ZFS-based network storage. We reviewed Qnap’s flagship TVS-h874 8-bay model, which may look a tad pricey but comes with a mouth-watering hardware spec. It’s powered by a 2.5GHz Intel Core i5-12400 CPU which puts six P-cores on the table and teams them up with 32GB of DDR4 memory, expandable to 64GB. Along with eight front hot-swap LFF/SFF bays, it offers two internal M.2 NVMe PCI-E Gen4 slots, which can be used for caching duties or as a high-performance storage pool. Storage can be presented over the dual 2.5GbE multi-Gigabit ports; if you need more speed, two…

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