QNAP 96TB TVS-h1688X 16-Bay NAS Enclosure Kit (6 x 16TB) with Thunderbolt 3 Card

Expand your network storage capacity to support demanding workflows such as video post-production and archiving with the TVS-h1688X 16-Bay NAS Enclosure from QNAP. This 16-bay NAS enclosure includes twelve 3.5" and four 2.5" SATA III drive bays. Installed drives can be configured in RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60 mode with support for triple parity and triple mirror setups for added data security. Performance can be further enhanced by installing up to two M.2 PCIe solid-state cache drives into the available slots. Combined with its 3.3 GHz Intel Xeon W-1250 six-core processor and 32GB of ECC memory, which can be expanded to 128GB, the TVS-h1688X-W1250-32G can deliver sequential read speeds of up to 1403 MB/s. With four 2.5G Ethernet and two 10G Ethernet ports, this NAS enclosure is designed to deliver the bandwidth to support virtualization, intensive file access, large backup and restoration tasks, and media transfers.

Daisy chain up to six compatible devices with the Dual-Port Thunderbolt 3 Expansion Card from QNAP. Designed for use in select QNAP devices, this expansion card installs into an available PCIe 3.0 x4 slot and provides two Thunderbolt 3 ports capable of transferring data at up to 40 Gb/s to streamline real-time 4K video editing, content sharing, collaborative workflows, and more. Devices include compatible NAS enclosures and Thunderbolt 3 10GbE adapters. A low-profile bracket is pre-installed on the expansion card and a full-size bracket included. Using an adapter allows you to connect Thunderbolt 2 devices to transfer data at up to 20 Gb/s.

Designed to deliver performance, reliability, and dependability in multi-bay, multi-user RAID and NAS environments within commercial and enterprise settings, the 16TB IronWolf Pro 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal NAS HDD from Seagate is built to withstand 24/7 operation, or 8760 hours per year. This 16TB drive has been equipped with a SATA III 6 Gb/s interface, a rotational speed of 7200 rpm, a 3.5" form factor, and a 256MB cache, providing users with ample storage capacity with data transfer speeds of up to 270 MB/s. The IronWolf Pro also has an MTBF rating of 2.5 million hours and a workload rate of up to 550TB per year. Seagate's AgileArray technology provides dual-plane balancing, time-limited error recovery (TLER), and rotational vibration (RV) sensors to deliver enhanced RAID performance. Included is a limited 3-year Data Recovery Service that helps you retrieve damaged data in the event of a mechanical error, accident, or natural disaster, and overall protection is provided by a limited 5-year warranty.