The best NAS for video editing and for the living room, meet the QNAP TBS-h574TX

In recent years we are seeing the launch of many compact NAS servers, and other rack-type and even desktop servers, which have bays for SSD drives only. At first, NAS had all hard drive bays, as SSD drives evolved and became cheaper, they launched NAS with both types of storage. Finally, all-flash NAS are a reality, and are specifically aimed at users who need maximum reading and writing speed, sacrificing total storage capacity.

Main features

This new NASbook has high-end technical characteristics, so you will be able to achieve really high performance. The first thing we must indicate is that we can buy this NASbook with two different processor and RAM configurations (the RAM is not expandable, since it goes directly on the board):

• Intel Core i5-1340PE: This processor has 12 cores (4 high-performance cores and 8 efficient cores), with a total of 16 processing threads. It has a base frequency of 1.8GHz speed, but is capable of reaching up to 4.5GHz speed in the high-performance cores and up to 3.3GHz in the efficient cores. This processor has an integrated GPU which is the Intel Iris Xe, so we have hardware-accelerated transcoding, and we will also have hardware encryption acceleration. This model is capable of outputting video at a resolution of 4K at 60Hz via HDMI. The RAM incorporated with this processor is 16GB DDR4 ECC.
• Intel Core i3-1320PE: This processor has 8 cores (4 high-performance cores and 4 efficient cores), with a total of 12 processing threads. It has a base frequency of 1.7GHz speed, but is capable of reaching up to 4.5GHz speed in the high-performance cores and up to 3.3GHz in the efficient cores. This processor has an integrated GPU which is the Intel UHD Graphics. We have hardware accelerated transcoding, and hardware encryption acceleration. This model is capable of outputting video at a resolution of 4K at 60Hz via HDMI. The RAM incorporated with this processor is 12GB DDR4 ECC.

As you can see, this TBS-h574TX has really powerful hardware, perfect for making the most of the NVMe SSD storage that we are going to be able to install, and thus achieve reading and writing speeds greater than 3GB/s, perfect for professionals. of video editing. This NAS server has a total of 5 bays for E1.S or M.2 2280 SSD drivesIn both cases they are NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs, so we will be able to achieve very high reading and writing performance.

Regarding the connectivity of this NAS, the truth is that it is really complete, since it consists of the following ports:

• 1 10GBASE-T Multigigabit port.
• 1 2.5G Multigigabit port.
• 2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 type A ports at 10Gbps.
• 1 USB 2.0 port.
• 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports at 20Gbps speed.
• 1 HDMI 1.4b port for 4K video output.

This team, thanks to the NVMe M.2 or E1.S SSD drives It is really compact, since it only has dimensions of 60mm high, 215mm wide, 199mm deep. Due to the chassis design, which is really robust and with premium quality materials, it has a weight of 2.24Kg.

What has caught our attention the most about this new model is the quality of materials, and it is really robust. We can place it on a table without problems, since it is also very quiet, in the back we have two fans to extract the hot air from inside, in addition, in the SSD units we have the possibility of installing heatsinks so that the performance is optimal at all times, and we do not have a drop in performance due to this.

A very important aspect is that with the 10Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports that we have on this NAS, we can connect a DAS from the manufacturer QNAP and have storage with high-capacity hard drives, since right now the manufacturer QNAP has DAS with up to 8 bays for hard drives, so we could have large storage. In fact, since it is from the same manufacturer, we could configure some type of RAID such as RAID 5 to add a little more security to our data, and protect it against one of the hard drives breaking. Although there are DAS models that require a PCIe card, and we will not be able to put it in this NAS, there are other models that use USB 3.2 Gen 2 at 10Gbps or USB 3.0 for mass data storage.

Unboxing and first impressions

At RedesZone we already have this high-performance NAS server, perfect for video professionals and also for home users who want to use it as a multimedia center, since it has an HDMI 1.4b port, and we can install Plex Media Server, however, we must take into account the maximum capacity of this equipment, since we will only have 5 bays for NVMe SSD drives as we mentioned before, but we can easily expand it using a DAS from the manufacturer QNAP, which will integrate perfectly with the NAS and we can even configure different types of RAID.

Soon in RedesZone we are going to offer you a complete analysis, where you will be able to see in detail the speed that we have achieved using the Ethernet ports (10G and 2.5G), as well as the USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports at 10Gbps, so we will be able to know the maximum speed that it is capable of providing us.