Powered by a 2.1 GHz AMD RX-421ND Quad-Core processor, which can be boosted up to 3.4 GHz, and 4GB of DDR4 RAM, which can be upgraded to 64GB, the TS-673 6-Bay NAS Enclosure from QNAP is a high-performance and energy efficient system that provides two PCIe 3.0 x4 slots that can accommodate M.2 SSD caching/10GbE connectivity, a wireless network card, and an entry-level graphics card to boost performance for 4K video performance. The TS-673 allows you to flexibly deploy a wide range of applications with a more affordable budget.
Network connectivity is achieved using four Gigabit Ethernet ports. When two 10GbE cards are installed in the PCIe slots and used simultaneously, read speeds are supported up to 2190 MB/s and write speeds can reach 1775 MB/s. When transferring data with 10GbE and volume encryption, read speeds max out at 2169 MB/s and write speeds go up to 1714 MB/s.
This 6-bay enclosure natively supports 3.5″ SATA III hard drives, and 2.5″ hard drives and SSDs are also supported using included 2.5″ drive flat head screws. There are also two M.2 2260/2280 SATA III SSD slots. In order to enhance data transfers, SSD caching is supported on all six drive bays and both M.2 slots. Using the four 5 Gb/s USB 3.0 Type-A ports, this QNAP NAS can be connected to other devices, allowing you to easily transfer large media files and expand NAS storage. With a separately sold SAS PCIe expansion card and mini-SAS cable, this NAS can be expanded via two UX-800 or four REXP-1000 Pro expansion enclosures. Additionally, the TS-673 is validated with AES-NI and FIPS 140-2 AES 256-bit encryption, helping to prevent sensitive business data from unauthorized access and breaches.
QNAP has also engineered this NAS to also support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60, each of which offers data redundancy, performance, or a combination of both. For those who do not require a RAID, JBOD and single disk modes are also available. Included is a a power cord, two Ethernet cables, two M.2 heatsinks, two flat head screws for M.2 SSDs, and eighteen flat head screws for 2.5″ HDDs. Protection is provided by a limited 2-year warranty.
Genevieve Simonis
Verified Purchase
aside from the product being awesome. I am in Australia and for me the value and time out reached any thing I could have purchased in Australia. Even with duty, taxs and exchange rate it was cheaper and delivered in record time
Bo Jacobson
Verified Purchase
I just upgraded my 5-year-old QNAP NAS with a new QNAP TS-673 NAS to hold my photography images. My Canon R5 (also from B&H) generates 50MB RAW files and my original NAS was slower to transfer the files to LightRoom. The TS-673 is a lot faster and virtually instantaneous when I grab a file from my network-attached storage. I run RAID 1 which means that every file is automatically copied to a separate NAS hard drive to avoid loss when a hard drive fails. Barring my wife taking a hammer to the NAS, there is virtually no chance of losing a photo from equipment failure. My previous QNAP drive experienced a drive failure (actually a warning) and all I had to do was insert a new hard disk into the enclosure. The QNAP operating system automatically formatted the new drive and copied the files to it. The entire time the NAS was preparing the new drive, I had full access to the system as the NAS automatically switched to the backup drive. It’s not if a hard drive fails but when. If you value your pictures, store the images on a NAS drive. You never have to remember to backup the files as it’s all done automatically for you.
Janet Lebsack
Verified Purchase
QNAP rocks, solid and pro made hardware and apps–set it and just keep up with updates. Nice M.2 slots for cache, memory expansion and PCIe slots for that future 10G Nic or anything else we may want to run–users love it. Thanks B&H as always for being there 😉