Overview & Performance Testing the QNAP TVS-h1288X Xeon ZFS NAS
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2020
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For a FREE 1 year trial license of ANY QNAP licensed software, please email youtube_uk@qnap.com, with your QID (The email account associated with your QNAP NAS) and which software you’d like to trial. The license should appear in your account within 48 hours. 1:18 Overview of Enterprise Desktop NAS
12:06 Virtual Machine Boot up test.
15:48 Performance Test
This webinar was recorded live on 18-11-2020.
Spec of NAS used
TVS-h1288X-W1250-16G
8 x WD Red Pro 10TB HDD
2 x WD SA500 500GB SSD
2 x WD SA500 4TB SSD
6 x WD Black SN750 M.2 NVMe SSD 1TB (2 on-board, 4 in QM2-4P-384)
This week our technical manager provided an overview of the latest desktop series NAS featuring our QuTS Hero Operating system. We also provided a performance demo using 10GbE ethernet as well as our QXP-T32P dual-port ThunderBolt Card.
The high-capacity TVS-h1288X features a powerful Intel® Xeon® W processor and allows for installing two QNAP QXP-T32P Thunderbolt™ 3 PCIe expansion cards (sold separately) to attain four Thunderbolt™ 3 ports, making it a perfect match for Thunderbolt™-equipped Mac® and Windows® users for high-speed media collaboration. The built-in 10GbE and 2.5GbE connectivity support Port Trunking and failover to further satisfy bandwidth and reliability demanding business applications. Running the ZFS-based QuTS hero operating system, the TVS-h1288X supports block-level inline data deduplication and compression, near-limitless snapshots, real-time SnapSync, and read/write cache technologies, helping your business achieve reliable service-level agreement performance, from creative workflows to file server, virtualization server, and efficient file backup and recovery applications.
Two 10GBASE-T and four 2.5GbE LAN ports accelerate virtualization, intensive file access, large backup/restoration tasks, and media transfer.
PCIe slots allow for installing 5/10/25/40GbE adapters, QM2 cards, or graphics cards to increase application performance.
Attain quad-port Thunderbolt™ 3 connectivity by installing two QXP-T32P expansion cards in the PCIe Gen 3 x4 slots.
Intel® Xeon® W processors are designed for a wide range of creative professionals. Powered by an Intel® Xeon® W-1250 6 cores/12 threads 3.3 GHz processor (Burst up to 4.7 GHz), the TVS-h1288X has enormous processing power to drive virtual machine performance. The integrated Intel® AES-NI encryption engine boosts encryption performance while also maintaining the security of NAS data. With dual-channel modules and 4 Long-DIMM slots, the TVS-h1288X’s DDR4 ECC memory can be upgraded up to 128 GB for memory-intensive and complex multitasking workloads.
The TVS-h1288X comes with a pre-installed dual-port 10GBASE-T network card (supports 10GbE/1GbE), supporting failover and up to 20Gb/s bandwidth under Port Trunking, to improve bandwidth-demanding data center and virtualization applications. The 10GbE SmartNIC uses a Broadcom NetXtreme® E-Series BCM57416 network controller that supports RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE and RoCEv2), allowing data to bypass general network drivers, the socket layer, and directly enter the ESXi server and storage memory buffer. RoCE technology can improve NAS performance while lowering the CPU usage of applications that use Ethernet networks, ideal for low-latency and high-speed large data transfers.
The TVS-h1288X comes with four 2.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s drive bays for SSDs and two M.2 NVMe Gen 3 x4 SSD slots that allow you to flexibly configure SSD caching to increase IOPS performance, reduce storage volume latency, and optimize 2.5GbE/10GbE performance. This is especially perfect for databases and virtual machine applications. With dedicated SSD bays/slots, the TVS-h1288X allows you to dedicate all of the 3.5-inch drive bays for high-capacity hard drives, ensuring both maximized storage capacity and performance.
QuTS hero combines the app-based QTS with the 128-bit ZFS file system to provide flexible storage management, comprehensive data protection, and optimized performance to tackle the complexity and performance demands of modern IT. From storage management, virtualization, to collaborative media workflows, QuTS hero streamlines your business-critical tasks.
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Very interesting units . Would love one of these for a media system. Great work QNAP.
What a fabulous NAS. I paid a similar amount for my NAS 5 years ago, and I will be upgrading sometime soon to something like one of these.
These QNAP NASs may well be aimed at companies, but they are equally suitable and desirable for domestic use too.
Thanks for the demo.
Glad to see these coming to the UK.. It was really disappointing it took so long for the TS-h886 to arrive, I was checking all the normal online supplier through August and September. One suggestion I do have, what you offer through Amazon desperately needs updating, the last model on there is the TS-x53D
Monster NASes. I like the chassis style of the TVS-x82, TS-x77 which are the same as this one.
Hey Craig, not sure if you're still managing this but I'm looking for some advice on configuring the TVS-h1288X for my needs as a professional content creator. I'll be setting the enclosure up with 8 16TB IronWolf Pro drives and plan to use those as the main pool. I'll store my various Final Cut Pro libraries in that pool so myself and my editor can both work off of the drive in the office. I'm planning to use RAID 5 or 50 for these drives, not sure which you might recommend.
I'll be using two NVMe drives for the system and will probably set those up as RAID 1, in case either drive fails. I'm still working out which SATA SSDs I'll be picking up for the cache and am looking for guidance there. Would four 1TB drives be sufficient or would you recommend larger drives for my video editing use case? Is RAID 0 your recommendation for the cache pool, since redundancy isn't really important there?
Thanks in advance! I'd love to chat via email but couldn't find your email.
HI iTECH DREAM! In 2020!
I just bought a 1288 and have been doing my research regarding the triple tear storage solution and utilizing ZFS. I have two questions.
I’m using it to edit 4K - 8K raw and compressed footage, what would be the ideal way to configure cache, installing the qnap ZFS OS, and specific raid levels? Does it make sense to setup the sata ssds as a raidz and use that as a storage pool + OS, and then use the m.2 as cache? Or the other way around?
I’m getting mixed info about goal storage capacity of ZFS based on the qnap ZFS calculator vs other ZFS calculators. On other ZFS calculators, I’m getting approx 42TB for a 6TB x 8 vs the qnap site calculates 32Ish TB, am I missing something?
Thanks!!
Hello - if I wanted to install unraid as the core operating system, is it as easy as removing the DOM and then just plugging in the unraid USB on the back? Would there be any huge compatibility issues I should be concerned about?
I saw that you used NVMe for system and SATA SSD for cache. Is this a recommended config? I got my h1688x and planned to install this weekend. But my original plan is to use SATA SSD RAID 1 for system and NVMe RAID 1 for cache. There are 2 reasons for my setup. Use the fastest storage for cache and keep system disk hot-swappable in case of failure. How do you compare the difference between my setup and yours?
As you're running ZFS, do you allow users to set the ASHIFT and RECORDSIZE values? If I was building my own box with ZFS I'd set those to give me optimal performance, for example a large RECORDSIZE value for my media. The new Hero units look great, just that question around how much of the ZFS system is exposed for config and how much you just set a default value and abstract that underlying system from the user.
@@QNAPUK Thanks for the quick response. It would be cool if there was an option to increase the RECORDSIZE value to say 1MB, help cut down on the number of blocks and checksums when storing large media files. Well when I say cut down I just mean have fewer large blocks than many smaller if that makes sense. Really keen on the Hero devices, it just comes down to how much ZFS config is exposed and how much is 'hidden' away. More research required but I am very tempted :D
Do you have a setup video for this unit? (TVS-h1288x) if not Can you make one? Ty in advance!!
The one open question I have on the H1288 it with its Plex transcoding capability.
From NASCompares various Plex tests, it looks like practically all NAS’s so far that they have tested struggle/fail when it gets to 4K transcoding, but most will happily manipulated standard 1080P or less.
However, the H1288x has a significantly more powerful cpu with embedded graphics, than the other NAS’s they have Plex tested, so I think it stands a fair chance of completing the 4K Plex tests.....but, if it doesn’t, then, I’m not sure there is much advantage for me getting the H1288x over the cheaper, but still excellent H686 or H886.
4K transcoding isn’t something I need now, but may well be before I replace this NAS, so I’m looking at protecting for future needs.
So I’ve been holding off ordering a NAS until those Plex tests appear.
NASCompare have performed Plex test. REALLY impressive with 3 x 4K 400M h.265 10-bit
@@hkgerrard ....when I posted my comment above, the Plex test had not been posted, I watched it yesterday though shortly after it was posted and it blitzed the Plex test - super impressive.
On the H1288, i noticed that it comes with the 2x 10GBe PCIe card in the PCIe3 x8 slot. This got me wondering something:
1) Could the 2x 10GBe PCIe card be installed in one of the PCIe3 x4 slots instead?
2) assuming the answer to the above is ‘yes’: would this make sense on the grounds that 10GBe maxes out at 1250MB/s & PCIe3x4 maxes out at 3940MB/s, so even doubling the 10GBe because there are two ports would still be within the capability of the PCIe3x4 slot....or am I missing something with my logic not being an IT expert?
3) the logic for thinking along the above lines is if someone has the desire to install the QNAP QM2-4P-384 card, then with four NVMe ‘sticks’ installed in it, each giving up to ~2000-3000MB/s, it might be advantageous to install the QM2-4P-384 in the x8 slot currently taken by the two 10GBe ports......I appreciate that the GBe ports will still be a bottle neck vs what the NVMe memory can theoretically deliver, but at least it might maximise internal speeds.
Just a thought I’ve been wondering about.
@@QNAPUK brilliant! That’s almost exactly the install I’m looking at (minus the TB3 ports). I have already bought 7 NVMe 2TB sticks from Span & the QM2-4P-384 card (1 NVMe will go in my desktop, the other 6 in the NAS). I’m going to add a couple of smaller SATA SSD’s just for system use, I was the 6 NVMe’s just for storage.
@@QNAPUK ...yes, I realised from the video that your storage setup was different to what I have planned. Initially at least, I felt the 6 NVMe’s would give me sufficient capacity (& of course speed), that I didn’t need to bother about HDD’s, for now at least.
What I had not spotted in the video, is that the 10GBe card had been moved into a x4 slot to make way for the QM2 in the x8, which was great to know & learn that it’s possible.
@@QNAPUK ，where can I get the optional half height bracket for the 10GbE card? Should I order from my local (in my case HK) QNAP support?
@@QNAPUK ....oh, I’m surprised at that, because on a lot of QNAP cards, they are supplied with the different height brackets.....but maybe because the 10GBe card is built in as standard, there is little point in supplying the half height bkt.
Just a thought, why don’t you suggest to QNAP HQ that they start installing the 10GBe card in one of the x4 slots instead of the x8...as there is no speed penalty in doing so. I think most users would prefer that.
@@QNAPUK good suggestion.....should be the standard fit though.
You mention that the TVS-h1288x power consumption is 97W when populated. That makes no sense. The cpu itself uses 80W... you are telling us that 8 HDDs and 4 ssd only add 17W? What about in your case with your set up (with everything populated)? what is the real consumption?