QNAP TS-977XU-RP-3600-8G-US 9 Bay Diskless Rackmount NAS

Powered by AMD's powerful Ryzen™ processor, the TS-977XU-RP delivers high system performance with up to 6 cores/12 threads and Turbo Core up to 3.9 GHz. The TS-977XU-RP features a hybrid structure with four 3.5-inch HDD and five 2.5-inch SSD drive bays, allowing for enabling SSD caching and Qtier™ auto-tiering technology to greatly boost IOPS to meet the performance requirements of demanding applications. The TS-977XU-RP features two SFP+ 10GbE ports and two Gigabit ports for high-speed connectivity, providing businesses and organizations with an ideal solution for quickly deploying a high-bandwidth, high-reliability storage environment. The TS-977XU-RP also features a redundant power supply to ensure maximum system uptime.

Product Highlights

• Install up to five SSDs in the 2.5-inch drive bays to enable SSD caching and Qtier for optimal system performance.
• Two 10GbE SFP+ ports provide higher bandwidth to empower applications like virtualization, 4K video editing and file sharing.
• PCIe expandability allows for installing QM2 expansion card, USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) cards, or wireless network cards.
• Snapshots add an extra layer of protection for disaster recovery plans. You can set a custom snapshot schedule and can use snapshots to recover data from a local or remote NAS.
• Scalable storage supporting virtualization, containerized apps, centralized storage, backup, sharing, and disaster recovery.
• Besides using QNAP storage expansion enclosures, you can also leverage QNAP VJBOD technology to use the unused storage space from other NAS.

Top-class hardware engineering with high I/O expandability

The hardware design of the TS-977XU-RP provides exceptional system performance and expandability to fulfill diverse application requirements.

Virtualization Certifications Supported by TS-977XU-RP

Check QNAP NAS with Support for Virtualization application

Absolute performance with AMD Ryzen™ and up to 64GB RAM

Powered by a high-performance AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 processor or Ryzen™ 5 2600 processor with AES-NI encryption acceleration and up to 64GB DDR4 RAM, the TS-977XU-RP delivers aggressive yet power-smart performance to meet your multitasking demands. For resource-demanding business applications such as VDI, R&D, private cloud, and server virtualization, look no further than the TS-977XU-RP.

Extend hardware warranty up to 5 years

The TS-977XU-RP is backed by a 3-year warranty at no extra cost. If needed, you can purchase a warranty extension that increases your coverage up to 5 years.

Hybrid structure for enabling SSD and tiered storage

The TS-977XU-RP features an HDD+ SSD hybrid structure (including five 2.5-inch and four 3.5-inch drive bays*), allowing you to leverage the benefits of both hard drives and SSD to provide high storage capacity and high performance. Qtier™ Technology empowers the TS-977XU-RP with automatic tiering that continuously optimizes storage utilization across high-performance SSD and high-capacity hard drives. The new Qtier™ 2.0 features IO-awareness that empowers SSD-tiered storage with a cache-like reserved space to handle burst I/O in real time, greatly maximizing the advantages of SSD.

*SSDs and HDDs sold separately.

Dual-channel Memory to delivers power-smart performance

The TS-977XU-RP supports dual-channel DDR4 memory and features four Long-DIMM slots. When using paired memory modules, the TS-977XU-RP leverages the power of dual-channel architecture to boost performance. You can also customize the memory configuration (supports up to 64GB RAM) of the TS-977XU-RP, making it the most ideal and cost-efficient storage solution for environments like virtualization that contain dynamically-changing workloads.

Extend NAS functionality with PCIe cards

The TS-977XU-RP features a PCIe slot that allows for installing a 10GbE/40GbE network card, a QM2 M.2 SSD/10GbE PCIe card, or a wireless network card to provide greater application potential.

10GbE/ 40GbE adapters Supports lightning-fast throughput for bandwidth-demanding tasks such as virtualization and fast backup/restoration for an ever-growing amount of data.	QM2 card with M.2 SSD/10GbE support Add M.2 SSD caching or 10GbE (10GBASE-T) connectivity to the NAS to enjoy optimal performance.	Wireless network cards Use with the WirelessAP Station app to transform the NAS into a convenient wireless base station, allowing network resources of the NAS to be shared with multiple devices.

Performance & reliability. Your wise choice.

The TS-977XU-RP supports advanced business features to provide maximized efficiency and performance while ensuring 24/7 services.

• USB 3.2 Gen 2

  USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) provides speeds up to 10Gb/s (double the speed of USB 3.2 Gen 1) to greatly boost data transfer performance, allowing for transferring large files faster and more easily.

• Central management

  Designed for IT administrators, QRM+ provides a single-point solution to discover, map, monitor and manage all Windows®, Linux® and IPMI devices in your network, and facilitates device discovery with a graphical topology diagram.

Optimized performance for VMware Virtualization with iSER

With the built-in dual 10GbE ports that natively features NVIDIA® Mellanox ConnectX-4, the TS-977XU-RP supports the iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) protocol to boost data transfer performance of the TS-977XU-RP as VMware® ESXi storage and to reduce the CPU load of the ESXi server. iSER can provide a significant increase in performance, providing an essential tool to optimize demanding virtualization applications.

Note: To create an iSER connection with VMware ESXi, both the server and NAS require compatible NVIDIA® Mellanox NICs and switches compatible with NVIDIA® Mellanox or supporting PFC (Priority Flow Control) configuration.