TS-977XU HDD + SSD hybrid-structure AMD Ryzen™ 1U rackmount NAS with up to 4 cores/4 threads
Powered by AMD’s powerful Ryzen™ processor, the TS-977XU delivers high system performance with up to 4 cores/4 threads and Turbo Core up to 3.4 GHz. The TS-977XU 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 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.
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Install up to five SSDs in the 2.5-inch drive bays to enable SSD caching and Qtier for optimal system performance.
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Two 10GbE SFP+ ports provide higher bandwidth to empower applications like virtualization, 4K video editing and file sharing.
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PCIe expandability allows for installing QM2 expansion card, USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) cards, or wireless network cards.
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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.
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Scalable storage supporting virtualization, containerized apps, centralized storage, backup, sharing, and disaster recovery.
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Besides using QNAP storage expansion enclosures, you can also leverage QNAP VJBOD technology to use the unused storage space from other NAS.
Available Models
Top-class hardware engineering with high I/O expandability
The hardware design of the TS-977XU provides exceptional system performance and expandability to fulfill diverse application requirements.
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Multi-core AMD Ryzen™ processor
Featuring a 4-core/4-thread Ryzen™ 3 1200 3.1 GHz processor with Turbo Core up to 3.4 GHz.
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DDR4 2400 MHz memory
Supports four DDR4 dual-channel Long-DIMM memory modules (expandable up to 64GB). Includes 4GB RAM as standard.
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2 x 10GbE SFP+ ports
Fully supports 10GbE high-speed networks, ideal for running bandwidth-demanding applications.
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USB 3.2 Gen 1/ 3.1 ports
Supports external hard drives, printers and UPS. USB 3.2 Gen 2 provides speeds up to 10Gb/s to greatly boost data transfer performance.
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2 x Gigabit Ethernet ports
Ideal for service binding, port trunking and MPIO configurations.
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1 x PCIe expansion slot
Supports a SAS card, 10GbE/40GbE network card or a QM2 M.2 SSD/10GbE PCIe card to add greater application potential.
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Three 4cm System fans
Monitors system temperatures and automatically adjusts fan speeds accordingly.
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Five 2.5-inch SSD drive bays
Allows for installing SSDs to enable SSD caching and Qtier to enhance system performance.
Extend hardware warranty up to 5 years
The TS-977XU 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.
Learn More: QNAP warranty services
Hybrid structure for enabling SSD and tiered storage
The TS-977XU 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 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.
Learn More: SSD caching, Qtier
*SSDs and HDDs sold separately.
Dual-channel memory delivers power-smart performance
The TS-977XU supports dual-channel DDR4 memory and features four Long-DIMM slots. When using paired memory modules, the TS-977XU 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, 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 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.
Performance & reliability. Your wise choice.
The TS-977XU supports advanced business features to provide maximized efficiency and performance while ensuring 24/7 services.
Optimized performance for VMware Virtualization with iSER
With the built-in dual 10GbE ports that natively features NVIDIA® Mellanox ConnectX-4, the TS-977XU supports the iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) protocol to boost data transfer performance of the TS-977XU 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.
Learn More: iSER
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.
Block-based iSCSI LUN: Ideal choice for virtualization storage
The TS-977XU supports block-based iSCSI LUN that provides a more reliable and isolated environment than file-based LUN. Supporting VMware®, Citrix®, Microsoft® Hyper-V® and Windows Server® 2016, the TS-977XU provides a high-performance, reliable and affordable storage solution for virtualization environments, while also supporting VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX to increase performance by offloading server loading for ESXi server and Hyper-V respectively, and supporting QNAP vSphere Client plug-in and QNAP SMI-S provider with enhanced operational efficiency and management in virtualization applications.
Learn More: Storage for virtualization
High-speed VM Backup Solution
With Hyper Data Protector, the TS-977XU becomes an agentless backup tool for unlimited VMware® vSphere and Microsoft® Hyper-V VM backup. Hyper Data Protector features incremental backup, global deduplication, backup scheduling and recovery compression that provides you with a cost-effective and reliable disaster recovery plan, ensuring 24/7 operation of your services.
Learn More: Hyper Data Protector
Notes: QNAP NAS must be running QTS version 4.3.6 or later
HBS 3
QuDedup technology deduplicates data at the source, helping to reduce the time and storage space needed for backup.
VJBOD Cloud
Seamlessly connect local storage with cloud object storage to easily backup local application data to the cloud.
Build an affordable Fibre Channel SAN environment
Common Fibre Channel SAN (Storage Area Networks) devices are often expensive. Now you have more budge-friendly options to easily add your NAS to a SAN environment. Once a Marvell®, ATTO® or QNAP Fibre Channel card has been installed in the TS-977XU, you can set a Fibre Channel Target using the iSCSI & Fibre Channel app, and leverage the many benefits from QNAP NAS including snapshot protection, Qtier™ tiering storage, SSD cache acceleration and more. In addition, the LUN Masking and Port Binding features provide an additional layer of security for your data.
Learn More: QNAP NAS supports Fibre Channel SAN
All-in-one server to host virtual machines and containers
Virtualization Station and Container Station jointly introduce a hybrid approach to virtualization. No matter your virtualization needs, you can count on QNAP for complete virtualization support.
Upgrade your IT environment with QNAP's fast and affordable 10GbE Switch!
QNAP 10GbE/NBASE-T™ unmanaged switches allow you to instantly upgrade your network environment at a cost-effective price. With a 10GbE network you can enjoy blazing-fast transfer speeds, empower bandwidth-demanding tasks like virtualization, and enable simultaneous real-time access to large NAS-based files using multiple workstations (ideal for video editing and multimedia). QNAP also provides a 10GbE PCIe network expansion card for Windows®/Linux® PCs to take advantage of high-speed LAN environments.
Learn More: 10GbE switches, 10GbE LAN cards
Optimized collaboration with seamless file sharing and sync
The TS-977XU centrally stores data and files, and supports SMB/CIFS, AFP and NFS protocols for file sharing across Windows®, Mac®, and Linux®/UNIX® networks. Coupled with Qsync (a utility that turns a QNAP NAS into a safe, high-capacity data center for file synchronization) any file uploaded to the TS-977XU will be made available for all linked devices, such as computers, laptops or mobile devices. You can sync shared folders and team folders for group file sharing to enhance the flexibility of team projects and collaboration. Files can be centrally managed using File Station, including files from mobile devices and optical disc drives. File Station also allows you to mount a remote NAS, and transfer files between your NAS and public cloud services for greater convenience.
Learn More: Cross-platform file sharing, Qsync
Complete backup planning
The TS-977XU provides a reliable, flexible backup & disaster recovery solution to assist organizations in routine backup jobs with cost-efficiency and high productivity.
QVR Pro surveillance solution
QNAP’s QVR Pro surveillance solution allows you to arrange a dedicated, independent storage space for surveillance data on TS-977XU and leverage the advantages of scalability and storage manageability from QTS. With QVR Pro, camera management, storage space allocation, camera live viewing and playback is greatly simplified. You can also use the QVR Pro Client mobile app to monitor your cameras from anywhere, or use a USB webcam as an ONVIF network camera with the QUSBCam2 app.
Learn More: QVR Pro
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1. QVR Pro supports 8 free channels for surveillance monitoring (expandable to 128 channels with additional channel license purchase).
2. The maximum number of channels supported varies by NAS model, network configuration, and camera settings. For more information, visit https://www.qnap.com/go/qvr-nas-selector.
Flexible and economical storage expansion
You need an easy solution to increase storage capacity when running out of space. QNAP provides several ways to expand your NAS storage as needed to accommodate data and business growth.