Stefan Mileschin

QNAP this week introduced its new family of 16-bay enterprise-class NAS based on AMD’s Ryzen processors. The new TS-1677X devices support Qtier automatic data tiering and SSD caching technology as well as 10 GbE and Multi-Gig Ethernet connectivity. Interestingly, QNAP ships the NAS with with its QuAI developer package that can be used to optimize the NAS for AI, ML, and DL applications.

The QNAP TS-1677X is powered by AMD’s Ryzen 1000-series processors with up to eight cores & AES-NI encryption engine, as well as up to 64 GB of DDR4 memory. The NAS features 12 3.5-inch hot-swappable bays for high-capacity hard drives, and four 2.5-inch hot-swappable bays for SSDs to be used for caching. In addition, the NAS has three PCIe expansion slots (one PCIe 3.0 x8, one PCIe 3.0 x4, one PCIe 2.0 x4) that can be used to install additional high-performance M.2 SSDs using special add-on adapter cards, additional 10GbE/40GbE networking card(s), or a GPU to accelerate highly-parallel workloads such as those used for AI, ML, and DL applications. For connectivity, the device uses two 10GBASE-T network controllers (presumably from Aquantia) that support 10 GbE, 5 GbE, 2.5 GbE, 1 GbE, and 100 MbE speeds over conventional cables (so presumably a controller from Aquantia, unless Intel has something unannounced). In addition, the system has two GbE headers, and eight USB 3.0 Type-A/Type-C ports.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12807...as-with-10-gbe