QNAP OS 4

[Wrench00]

Wow they have really done an awesome job with the firmware.

VAAI for iscsi and NFS. Also they have added SSD cache options. I have a whole bunch of these as backup NASes and I love em.

 

[Jay_2]

Do you find thin provisioned disks on VMware are changed to thick when on a Qnap device?
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[Nate7311]

Interesting. It looks like the SSD Caching option is only on the X70, X79 units that have real Core i series processors, and definitely are the higher end ones. But that's a NIFTY feature for this caliber of a device.

 

[Wrench00]

Do you find thin provisioned disks on VMware are changed to thick when on a Qnap device?
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I haven't really looked at that.

NFS is always thin. Iscsi I never set up as thin so I don't know when I started using these they didn't support thin iscsi.

 

[Wrench00]

Interesting. It looks like the SSD Caching option is only on the X70, X79 units that have real Core i series processors, and definitely are the higher end ones. But that's a NIFTY feature for this caliber of a device.

I have about 10 of these at different clients.

The new 879 that I have now they also added 2 more nics.