Wednesday, August 29, 2018

QNAP TVS-873E-4G NAS Server Review

Need a powerful NAS server? The crew at NikKTech recommend taking a look at the QNAP TVS-873E-4G. Get a load of these specs:

Alongside the AMD RX-421BD Embedded R-Series SOC (quad-core/64-bit/2MB Cache/2.1Ghz base clock at 15TDP - 3.4GHz max clock at 35W TDP) and its Radeon R7 GPU (800Mhz clock / 8 compute units / 4K encode and decode / supports DirectX® v12, UVD v6 and VCE v3.1) we also find two 2GB SODIMM DDR4 RAM modules (clocked at 2400Mhz @ CL17 / expandable up to 64GB) and a 512MB flash memory DOM. In terms of expandability the TVS-873E features a total of eight 2.5/3.5" SATA III drive bays, two PCIe 3.0 x 4 slots and two M.2 2260/2280 slots and as for available connectors it sports one USB 3.0 host port (micro-B type), 4 RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 4 USB 3.0 ports, two HDMI v1.4b ports, 2 dynamic microphone jacks and one line-out audio output jack.