QNAP 108TB TVS-h1688X 16-Bay NAS Enclosure Kit (6 x 18TB) 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.

Engineered to deliver high performance and reliability to commercial and enterprise NAS environments, the 18TB Red Pro 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal NAS HDD from WD is well-suited for multimedia and creative pros, medium to large businesses, and commercial and enterprise NAS systems. Able to work in RAID-optimized NAS systems with an unlimited number of drive bays, this 18TB drive operates using a SATA III 6 Gb/s interface, a 512MB cache, and a rotational speed of 7200 rpm, which all help to ensure uninterrupted data transfers with a rate of up to 272 MB/s. This drive also features high levels of reliability, with 600,000 load/unload cycles, < 1 in 10¹⁵ non-recoverable read errors per bits read, a workload rate of 550TB per year, dual-plane balance control technology, and 2.5 million hours MTBF. Shock protection is provided by a multi-axis shock sensor and WD's NASware helps increase system compatibility, allowing Red Pro drives to be more easily integrated with your existing network infrastructure.