Intel® Core™ i5-12400 six-core/12-thread processor (burst up to 4.4 GHz), 32 GB DDR4 (2 x 16 GB) memory And tbh: For other than in Enterprise, Gen.5 is a hot Joke, barely faster than a good Gen4, but hotter and pretty much twice as expensive, with for most *NO* advantage to speak of.

Overall, although very little has changed in the external design of the TVS-h874 compared with the 4-5 years older TVS-872XT, that is not a bad thing. They have clearly refined the cooling in this time, adapted a few new hardware upgrades into an existing framework and it still continues to be a remarkably well-built chassis in 2022/2023. Let’s discuss the external connectivity of the TVS-h874 NAS. Note: At least 4 GB RAM is required. The maximum number of channels supported varies by NAS model, network configuration, and camera settings. For more information, visit https://www.qnap.com/go/qvr-nas-selector. QNAP today launched its TVS-hx74 series. This new series has relatively new CPUs with Intel Alder Lake generation parts. This is part of QNAP’s line focused mostly on QuTS Hero, the company’s ZFS-based OS but it can run standard QTS as well. When we dug into the specs of these, we found a few interesting features. QNAP TVS-hx74 Series LaunchedPeeling off the top cover entails removing three screws and on the inside QNAP’s large footprint allows ample breathing room for all components. The Intel Core i5 chip resides beneath a good-sized heatsink with nearby fan, and users have convenient access to both DDR4 SO-DIMM slots as well as two M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4 x4 slots. Alongside the LCD Panel mentioned earlier, the TVS-h874 also has numerous LEDs that denote system activity (much like other NAS brands that ditched LCD panels) These cover the individual eight storage bays health and activity, the system access activity, network status, USB access and even dedicated LEDs for the M.2 NVMe SSD Bays inside. These LEDs (and the LCD in fact) can have their brightness decreased or deactivated if you want. The PCIe expansion slots are on the other side of the motherboard. Here is the rear view annotated with features: QNAP TVS H874 Rear View The connectivity that the QNAP TVS-h874 NAS arrives with is all good, if fairly standard stuff (unless you opt for the Intel i9 version – more on that later). As mentioned earlier, there are a plethora of fans on the rear of this 8-Bay, but when it comes to the default connections on offer, there is only really three. It is in it’s long term scalability that the connections of the QNAP TVS-h874 that things start to get a little spicy. SSD Caching Monitor and Advisor – Allowing you to scale your SSD cache as needed, or get recommendations on how much you need

vJBOD and Hybrid Mount – Gives you the ability to mount cloud storage as a visible drive within the NAS (and the apps access it as if it was local) or mount a % of space from your NAS onto another as a virtual chunk of space to use Core i5 and Core i7 variants of TVS-h874 come equipped with dual Transcend TS2GSH64V2E3 16GB DDR4-3200 CL22 modules as standard, and this can be upgraded to a maximum of 128GB. Do note, however, the underlying Intel H670 chipset does not include support for ECC. The system ought to boot just fine with ECC memory installed, but error correction would sadly be disabled. QuTS hero Under the hood, the new TVS-hx74 Series features up to a 12 th-gen Intel Core i5-12400 (six-core/12-thread processor with burst up to 4.4 GHz) and 128GB dual-channel DDR4 memory with two 2.5GbE ports that offer speedier connectivity via Port Trunking. The TVS-hx74 Series also comes equipped with dual M.2 2280 PCIe slots, which can boost IOPS performance when SSD caching is configured. Samsungs 990Pro (utilizing the fresh NVMe 2.0 protocol) has set new standards as the fastest Gen4 NVMe drive, with the highest consistency and loadbearing,

The above chart is based off of one from QNAP, but the company did not mention the number of bays in its spec table so we augmented that. We also found a view of inside the system. Here we can see the dual M.2 slots: QNAP TVS H674 TVS H874 Internal View Space Saving Efficiency – Inline data deduplication, compression, and compaction reduce file size to conserve storage capacity and optimize performance. Intel 12th Gen i5, i7 or i9 Configuration Options, in 6 Core, 12 Core and 16 Core Versions (12/20/24 Thread Respectively) with Integrated UHD Graphics 770

However, the biggest potential upgrade/scalability element of the QNAP TVS-h874 NAS that we still need to discuss is the PCIe Upgrade slots. Thanks to the 12th gen Intel Core that this NAS arrives with, the main PCIe upgrade slots are PCIe Gen 4×4 and (wait for it) PCIe Gen 4 x16!!! This means that one slot has a potential 8,000MB/s of bandwidth available to a connected card, and the other has a staggering 32,000MB/s available. Just to put that in perspective, a 10GbE will need 1000MB/s of bandwidth to allow full saturation. You could install a dual port 100GbE network upgrade card in this slot and there would STILL be more than a third of the available bandwidth potential remaining untapped! while maintaining really good speeds and IOPS (1million IOPS read and 900k write or 7.4GB/s and 6.5GB/s respectivly), Warning: Using unsupported modules may degrade performance, cause errors, or prevent the operating system from starting. PCIe Gen 4 x16 Upgrade Slot for 10/25/100GbE Cards and 2x PCIe Gen 4 x4 M.2 NVMe Slots for 7GB SSDs Access-Anywhere with myQNAPcloud – Safe and secure remote access over the internet to your storage systems, apps or just file storageNote: Use only QNAP memory modules to maintain system performance and stability. For NAS devices with more than one memory slot, use QNAP modules with identical specifications. The actual number of virtual machine instances may vary by the memory installed on NAS (e.g. 1 VM= 1 thread for 1 vCPU and 1GB memory). Please expend memory if needed. As we dug into the specs, the memory was very interesting indeed. Alder Lake supports DDR4 or DDR5, but these NAS units support DDR4 SODIMMs. It also seems like QNAP is using non-ECC memory by default, but enables ECC on this platform. Here is the slide we found on that: QNAP TVS Hx74 ECC Memory Support TeamViewer app enables remote management and connectivity to multiple NAS devices from Windows® PCs with an unparalleled level of safety, while increasing IT efficiency and end user productivity. The actual number of virtual machine instances may vary by the memory installed on

rivaling and sometimes even beating the 980Pro for example and with a whopping 3 *PBW* and 5years Warranty its nothing to scoff at. This is made even easier to achieve when you loo through the official QNAP QM2 upgrade card range. The cards, with several new PCIe4 entries, allow to to scale things up in your storage even further with some featuring 4x PCIe 4×4 M.2 NVMe SSD bays or even a 2x 10GbE and 2x PCIe4 M.2 NVMe SSD Combo card. Currently there is no sign of a Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 4 Card (as seen in the TVS-872XT or TVS-h1288X), but this might well be down to the continued shortage of Thunderbolt components right now (as the Intel Core 12th Gen family has complete TB4 Compatibility).

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On that subject, the QNAP TVS-h874 does not have any perceived unreasonable limitations on hard drive compatibility and support (something, their biggest rival Synology has been debating with its user base about throughout 2022), meaning that by current commercial HDD compatibility in December 2022, the TVS-h874 can support (in it’s base, not expanded form) 176TB of raw storage. I mention expandability because the TVS-h874 can be expanded using two of any of the range of QNAP expansion devices (scaling from 2-Bays all the way to 12/16-Bays), as well as more if you use the SAS expander options. Expansion on the software side is a little less comprehensive, with your native storage expansion method (i.e just increasing the storage pool with more drives and expanding volumes) still being less smooth/possible in the ZFS QuTS setup than on the EXT4 QTS setup (which you cannot switch between after initialization without formatting the system). Still, this si a huge amount of storage expandability to have, whether you are considering Day 1 partial population or adding new expansion chassis’ later. Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish Have a switch supporting 2.5GbE link aggregation? QNAP’s in-house benchmarks suggest sequential throughput will climb to 590MB/s. Planning to add a 25GbE PCIe expansion card and, say, eight SATA SSDs in a RAID volume? Expect to see read and write numbers in the region of 2,950MB/s. Take note, content creators; at these speeds, there’s scope for TVS-h874 to handle real-time 8K video editing without breaking a sweat. Conclusion We generally like the fact that QNAP is much more aggressive than its competitors like Synology on introducing new hardware generations. Intel Alder Lake is still the current generation and all of these NAS units use 2.5GbE. At the same time, not including ECC memory with the unit, but supporting ECC seems like a strange cost savings strategy since the price difference for low capacity 4-16GB modules is very small these days, especially as the industry transitions to DDR5. Highly-reliable ZFS-based storage with PCIe Gen 4 expandability for 10/25GbE connectivity, M.2 NVMe SSD caching and multi-threads processors for virtualization applications