QNAP TVS-AIh1688ATX 16-Bay NAS Enclosure

Purpose-built for AI-driven image recognition and enterprise workloads, the TVS-AIh1688ATX 16-Bay NAS Enclosure from QNAP is powered by an Intel Core Ultra 7 265 20-Core processor with integrated compute, graphics, and neural processing units, allowing it to deliver stable performance while offloading AI inference tasks from the CPU. This reduces power consumption, improves efficiency, and accelerates intelligent image analysis. With its combination of robust processing power, large storage capacity, and flexible I/O expansion, the TVS-AIh1688ATX enables businesses to deploy a reliable storage solution while keeping budgets under control.

The TVS-AIh1688ATX has twelve 2.5"/3.5" SATA III drive bays and four 2.5" drive bays that can accommodate either U.2 NVMe SSDs or SATA III SSDs. Two 10GbE ports and two 2.5GbE ports allow for fast data connections, while peripherals and external storage drives may be added using two 40 Gb/s USB4 ports, two 10 Gb/s USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 ports, three 10 Gb/s USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports, and one HDMI 2.1 port. Expansions, including 10/25/100GbE network cards, storage expansion cards, and QM2 expansion cards may be added using one PCIe 4.0 x16 expansion slot and two PCIe 4.0 x4 expansion slots. Also supported are RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60, and JBOD, read speeds of up to 2362 MB/s and write speeds of up to 2363 MB/s via 10GbE, AES NI volume encryption, and more.

The TVS-AIh1688ATX is powered by a Intel Core Ultra 7 265 20-Core processor, delivering a major leap in multitasking performance, AI computing, and energy efficiency. It accelerates AI inference, multimedia processing, and virtual machine workloads-providing a smarter storage platform with higher performance and lower power consumption. It also has 32GB of DDR5 ECC RAM that may be expanded up to 192GB (4 x 48GB).

2 x 2.5GbE SMB Sequential Throughput (1M)

Read and write speeds up to 566 MB/s

2 x 10GbE SMB Sequential Throughput (1M)

Reads up to 2362 MB/s, writes up to 2363 MB/s

6 x 25GbE SMB Sequential Throughput (1M)

Reads up to 15,810 MB/s, writes up to 14,681 MB/s

1 x Thunderbolt 5 Sequential Throughput (AJA System Test

Reads up to 2826 MB/s, writes up to 2750 MB/s

The TVS-AIh1688ATX combines powerful CPU, GPU, and NPU resources to deliver up to 36 TOPS of AI performance. Optimized for the QNAP AI Core engine, it supercharges NAS image recognition workloads - making applications faster, smarter, and more efficient.

Accelerate QuMagie AI Photo Recognition

When importing a large photo collection, AI recognition is significantly faster - up to 77% - and smart album categorization completes sooner.

Speed Up QVR Face Insight Recognition

The TVS-AIh1688ATX can complete facial recognition in just 0.2 seconds, while also supporting up to 20 camera streams for real-time attendance management analytics.

Enhanced People Counting

QVR Human provides real-time counting data and analytics. The TVS-AIh1688ATX empowers up to 24 cameras to perform people counting concurrently for real-time analytics.

With high-performance Intel Arc Graphics, the TVS-AIh1688ATX delivers efficient and powerful image processing. It handles high-resolution video and photo workloads with ease while supporting seamless multitasking.

The TVS-AIh1688ATX is equipped with 32GB of DDR5 ECC memory for server-grade stability, working seamlessly with its powerful processor to maximize overall system performance. With support for up to 192GB of memory, it easily handles memory-intensive workloads and complex multitasking applications.

The TVS-AIh1688ATX features four 2.5" SSD slots that support high-performance U.2 NVMe PCIe Gen 4 x2 SSDs (up to 32 Gb/s per slot) or economical SATA III 6 Gb/s SSDs. By pairing with fast U.2 NVMe SSDs, it significantly boosts performance for latency-sensitive and intensive workloads such as AI applications, virtualization, and multimedia processing.

Enable SSD Caching

Accelerates random read/write performance (IOPS) and reduce latency.

Configure SSD Storage Pool

Boosts data transfer speeds and access efficiency.

Configure SSD System Drive

Use U.2 SSD storage pool as system drives for QuTS hero, greatly improving metadata management and database efficiency for overall system performance.

The TVS-AIh1688ATX supports multi-port high-speed networking to meet enterprise demands for large file transfers, high-speed backup/restore, and running multiple virtual machines.

Built-in 2.5/10GbE Ports

Two 2.5GbE and two 10GBASE-T ports, supports Port Trunking for higher bandwidth potential and network redundancy.

Scalable to 100GbE

Empowers organizations to tackle the most demanding, performance-intensive applications.

The TVS-AIh1688ATX features three PCIe Gen 4 slots, delivering twice the I/O performance of PCIe Gen 3. Users can flexibly install a variety of expansion cards to meet evolving workloads and business needs.

10/25/100GbE Network Card

Enable lightning-fast throughput for bandwidth-hungry tasks as 4K/8K production or virtualization.

Storage Expansion Card

Flexibly connect storage expansion units (PCIe JBOD or SAS JBOD) to the TVS-AIh1688ATX to attain PB-scale storage with high-efficiency data transfer.

QM2 Expansion Card

Add M.2 SSDs or 2.5GbE/10GbE connectivity to the NAS for optimized performance and bandwidth.

Whether it's real-time access to 4K projects, online editing, or fast backup of massive media assets, the TVS-AIh1688ATX serves as a centralized file storage hub that ensures smooth performance, secure storage, and seamless multi-workstation collaboration-keeping creativity uninterrupted.

• Two USB4/USB-C ports built in, directly connectable to QNAP USB4 JBOD enclosures for easy capacity expansion.
• USB4 ports are compatible with Thunderbolt 3/4 and can be expanded via PCIe with a dual-port Thunderbolt 5 card, supporting direct high-speed connections to four Thunderbolt devices.
• For best performance and storage configuration, use high-speed SSDs in RAID 5 or higher.
• Output high-resolution video directly via the 4K HDMI 2.1 port on the NAS.

The TVS-AIh1688ATX can be daisy-chained with multiple high-performance QNAP SAS-interface JBOD expansion enclosures. For example, by connecting eight 16-bay TL-R1620Sep-RP JBOD units, you can add up to 128 additional drives, eliminating storage capacity concerns as your data grows.

QNAP's myQNAPcloud One is an integrated cloud storage solution that supports both file and object storage, making it the ideal cloud backup destination for TVS-AIh1688ATX. Data transfers are completely free, while team members can remotely access, sync, and share files anytime, anywhere. The TVS-AIh1688ATX also supports 20+ major public clouds, ensuring near-LAN access speeds for seamless cloud sharing and multi-point synchronization.

Designed for enterprises, the QuTS hero operating system adopts the highly reliable ZFS file system to provide utmost data integrity and stability for mission-critical storage. QuTS hero further optimizes SSD performance and endurance to meet businesses' stringent demands for performance and reliability.

Automatic Repair of Corrupted Data

ZFS supports self-healing for silent data corruption, automatically detecting damaged data to ensure data integrity.

Data Immutability

Defend against ransomware by creating a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) folder to prevent data from being overwritten, modified, or deleted, while also enabling immutable backups.

Power Failure Protection

ZIL (ZFS Intent Log) protects against potential data corruption caused by power failure by safeguarding unwritten data.

Data Reduction

Inline data deduplication reduces storage consumption for maintaining optimal disk capacity.

Prevent Simultaneous SSD Failure

The patented QSAL algorithm automatically and regularly detects RAID-level SSD lifespan to prevent simultaneous SSD failure, avoiding RAID crashes and data loss.

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