In recent years, content creators, instead of working on videos and rendering them locally, usually do so directly through the local network since we have 10Gbps connections that will not cause any type of bottleneck. The manufacturer QNAP wanted to further accelerate performance so that creators and even small studios can work faster, and they have incorporated Thunderbolt 4 ports to their NAS to achieve this.
TVS-h674T Features
This new high-end NAS server features a powerful Intel Core i5-12400 processor, has 6 cores with 12 processing threads and a speed of 2.5GHz, but is capable of reaching up to 4.4GHz in Turbo mode. This processor has a 64-bit x86 architecture, in addition, it incorporates a powerful integrated Intel UHD Graphics 730 graphics processor with floating point unit, hardware encryption acceleration and also accelerated video transcoding. The TVS-h674T model has a total of 32GB DDR4 RAM (2 x 16GB), however, it can be expanded up to a maximum of 64GB (2 x 32GB DDR4).
The storage of this model is really complete, we have a total of 6 bays to accommodate 3.5″ hard drives, 2.5″ hard drives and even 2.5″ SSDs. The latter will allow us to have really fast storage in both reading and writing, perfect for not having a bottleneck with internal storage. As if this were not enough, we also have two M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 slotswith the aim of using these two slots as SSD cache to speed up the main storage, and even also to configure an all-SSD storage pool to have the maximum possible speed.
The most notable thing about this model is the connectivity, we have 2 2.5G Multigigabit ports for the local network, these ports support Jumbo Frames and also Link Aggregation, with the aim of link aggregation of up to 5Gbps speed. We also have a USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps type C port and two USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps type A ports and an HDMI 1.4b port with 4K resolution at 30Hz.
This NAS server has two PCIe slots, specifically we have one PCIe 4.0 x16 slot where we can install a graphics card in order to further accelerate performance if we need it, but we could also install a QNAP card with a pair of 10GBASE-T Multigigabit ports so that the transfer speed on the local network works as quickly as possible. possible. We also have an additional PCIe 4.0 x4 slotwhich is occupied by a Thunderbolt 4 card with two ports, in this way, we can take advantage of this interesting feature to directly connect our editing equipment and achieve transfer rates of up to 40Gbps.
This NAS server has two 92mm fans to properly cool the hard drives, it also incorporates a small 60mm fan to extract the hot air generated by the NAS processor. The power supply is 350W, and has a typical consumption of 80W, although logically it will depend on what is required. This equipment has dimensions of 188.2mm by 264.3mm by 280.8mm, with a net weight of 6.36Kg.
TVS-h874T Features
This model is the older brother of the previous one, it has clearly more powerful hardware features and more storage bays. This equipment is perfect if you are going to use all its features intensively.
This TVS-h874T model has a powerful Intel Core i7-12700 processor, it has 8 high-performance cores, 4 efficient cores for low-resource consumption tasks, and a total of 20 processing threads. The base speed is 2.1GHz in the high-performance cores and reaches up to 4.8GHz in turbo mode, the efficient cores have a speed of 1.6GHz, but are capable of reaching a maximum of 3.6GHz. This processor has integrated graphics Intel UHD Graphics 770 with floating point unit, hardware encryption acceleration and also accelerated video transcoding.
There is an even more powerful version of this same NAS that incorporates a Intel Core i9-12900 processor. This model has 8 high-performance cores, 8 efficient cores for low-resource consumption tasks, and a total of 24 processing threads. The high-performance cores have a base speed of 3.2GHz and go up to 5.1GHz in turbo mode. The efficient cores have a base speed of 2.4GHz and reach a maximum speed of 3.9GHz. This processor also has integrated graphics Intel UHD Graphics 770.
The model with the Intel i7 has 32GB of RAM expandable up to 64GB DDR4 (2 x 32GB), the model with the Intel i9 comes directly with 64GB of DDR4 RAM installed.
The storage of this model consists of 8 bays to accommodate disks (3.5″ or 2.5″ and also SSD) and two M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 slots. This server supports both SSD cache acceleration and also creating an all-SSD storage pool for maximum read and write performance.
All the connectivity features of this model are exactly the same as the previous one:
- 2 2.5G Multigigabit ports with Jumbo Frames and Link Aggregation.
- One USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps Type C port
- Two USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps Type A ports
- An HDMI 1.4b port with 4K resolution at 30Hz.
It also has the PCIe 4.0 x16 slot where we can install a graphics card or 10G card, and the PCIe 4.0 x4 slot It is occupied by the Thunderbolt 4 card with two ports and we can achieve transfer rates of up to 40Gbps speed.
This NAS has two 120mm fans to cool the hard drives and a small 60mm fan in the processor area. The power supply is 350W, and has a typical consumption of 105W, although logically it will depend on what is required. This equipment has dimensions of 188.2mm by 329.3mm by 280.8mm, with a net weight of 7.34Kg.
As you can see, thanks to these two new NAS from the manufacturer QNAP, we will be able to edit video at a professional level directly on the server, without having to use the local storage of our PC.
