QNAP TBS-h574TX All-Flash NASbook Review

Peter Donnell / 8 months ago

Performance

With the NAS logged in you can easily select which drives you have and choose how you want to configure them. We set up ours in RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 6, and Raid-TP, which is as simple as ticking the drives, ticking the mode, and letting the RAID rebuild. Again, with this being a fast CPU and SSDs, the rebuild time is extremely fast compared to a traditional NAS, taking just 5-10 minutes, while my 5-bay HDD NAS can take a couple of hours.

We used this NAS for our editing, and honestly, we will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, as it’s exactly what we need. The speed of this NAS is insane, and from our usage, it felt just as fast and responsive as any of the fastest flagship internal SSDs we have on our systems.

RAID 0

It’s no surprise that the drive felt snappy, as it managed to saturate the 10GbE connection in every RAID configuration. I was a little sceptical given that the M.2 drives we’re using are only 3500mbps drives when the M.2 we use in our desktops are anything from 8000-12000mbps. However, in any RAID configuration, the combined speeds of these drives are enough to give us 10Gbps read and write, which is simply amazing.

RAID 5

RAID 6

RAID-TP

CPU Usage

This is the graph showing the CPU usage of this drive during the file transfers, with the network pushing 10GbE, the CPU barely showed even the slightest blip, it barely used any memory, and the NAS continued to run very quietly.