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Saturday, June 10th, 2017
- QNAP at CES 2017 - Thunderbolt 3 and Xeon D NAS Units, Residential Gateways, and More
- Thecus Announces $130 and $200 Entry-Level NASes For Home Users
- Commercial NAS Operating Systems - Exploring Value-Additions - Part I
- Commercial NAS Operating Systems - A Comprehensive Overview of Core Features
- QNAP Expands Thunderbolt NAS / DAS Lineup with TVS-x82T Series
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| 9:00a | NVIDIA Releases 382.85 WHQL Game Ready Driver
With enough updates to fill another plate, NVIDIA is here with another driver update. This round continues release 381 with driver version 382.85, hands us some fixes, and prepares us for Dirt 4 and Nex Machina, both of which are being released this month. Starting with bug fixes, V-Sync should now work with NVIDIA Fast Sync. This means that users will no longer experience tearing caused by no frame rate limit. In Aerofly RC 7 corruption from enabling shadows should now be fixed, and for games running the Tombstone engine there is a fix for corruption caused by a driver update as well. Bringing up the end of the list, using multiple displays with SLI should work out now, as a secondary display should no longer remain blank when switching from Clone or Extended mode to secondary-only display mode. Coming up first in Game Ready support, Dirt 4 is the latest in Codemaster’s very long and very comprehensive portfolio of racing games. With this week’s successor comes a new state of the art for graphics in dirt racing. In NVIDIA’s writeup of Dirt 4 this level of detail will call for a GeForce GTX 1060 while playing at 1080p, a GTX 1070 for 1440p and a GTX 1080Ti to maintain 60 FPS in 4K. Though NVIDIA notes that with MSAA disabled the GeForce GTX 1080 is able to exceed 60 FPS in 4K as well. Our other new release gaining support this week is Nex Machina, which looks to me like a merging of Geometry Wars, a bullet hell shooter and the entirety of a modern game engines demo reel. To put that in English, this looks fun. While not the stretch for realism made by Dirt 4, NVIDIA still gives stiff hardware recommendations for Nex Machina. This time we still see the almost standard recommendations of the GeForce GTX 1060 at 1080p and the GTX 1070 at 1440p, but this time we hop down to the GTX 1080 for 4K. In addition to the preceding updates, NVIDIA has also added or update SLI profiles for Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, Little Nightmares, Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds and Transformers Online. Anyone interested can download the updated drivers through GeForce Experience Drivers tab or on the NVIDIA driver download page. More information on this update and further issues can be found in the 382.85 release notes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12:00p | QNAP Launches TS-1277 NAS Powered by AMD's Ryzen CPUs: 12 Bays, 64 GB DDR4, Starts at $2,299
QNAP demonstrated its upcoming 12-bay NAS devices at Computex 2017, including most notably models powered by AMD’s Ryzen processors. The NAS will support HDDs and SSDs in various form-factors and will start at $2,299. In addition, the company is prepping 6-bay and 8-bay NAS featuring AMD’s Ryzen CPUs that will be more affordable. The QNAP TS-1277 series NASes are powered by AMD’s Ryzen 7 1700 or Ryzen 5 1600 CPUs with eight and six cores respectively, and come with up to 64 GB of DDR4-2400 DRAM. All the systems use four GbE ports to connect to networks and have eight 3.5”/2.5” bays as well as four 2.5” bays for various SATA storage devices. As you'd expect for a NAS, there's a multitude of RAID options available, with the NAS hardware able to tap the large number of drives here for RAID 50/60 operation. In addition, the NASes feature two M.2 slots (up to M.2-22110) for SSDs that can cache frequently used data. Meanwhile, the TS-1277 has one PCIe 3.0 x8 and two PCIe 3.0 x4 slots, and thus can be upgraded with QNAP's QM2 PCIe cards, which offer options such as 10GbE networking and additional M.2 slots. For those who needs to have access to the TS-1277 from a local PC or to a DAS, the NAS has two USB 3.1 ports (Type-A and Type-C) and five USB 3.0 headers (Type-A). As for power, the TS-1277 is equipped with a 550 W PSU and can handle all kinds of HDDs and SSDs (as long as they are compatible with SATA-6G and do not require management by the host) as well as almost any graphics card in the PCIe 3.0 x8 slot.
The 12-bay TS-1277 NAS will not be the only model based on AMD’s Ryzen CPUs from QNAP. Along the high-end SKU, QNAP will also introduce more affordable solutions featuring six and eight bays: the TS-677 and the TS-877 with 250 W and 450 W PSUs, respectively. As for feature set, all QNAP’s TS-x77 NAS will run the company’s QTS 4.3 OS and will support the same capabilities as other NAS from the manufacturer.
QNAP is the first NAS manufacturer to start using AMD’s Ryzen processors for network area storage. AMD’s CPUs traditionally have strong integer performance, making them a good fit for NAS tasks. Meanwhile, the high core counts of the Ryzen CPUs also enables QNAP to position their TS-1277/TS-877/TS-677 NASes for hosting virtual machines or containerized applications. During a conversation at Computex, QNAP also mentioned that the prices of AMD’s Ryzen processors (relative to its rivals) were also a major factor in their decision to use Ryzen CPUs for NASes.
QNAP plans to start selling its AMD Ryzen-based 12-bay TS-1277 NAS in late July. The top-of-the-range model with a Ryzen 7 1700 and 64 GB of memory will cost $3,099, a slightly cheaper SKU with the same processor, but 32 GB of DDR4 will retail for $2,599, whereas the most affordable configuration powered by AMD’s six-core Ryzen 5 1600 will be available for $2,299.
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