QNAP Preview the TS-328 3-Bay NAS at CES 2018

QNAP have put on a show at CES 2018 with a host of new NAS and AI related hardware being released throughout the year. Today I want to focus on the rather unconventional 3-bay NAS server, the QNAP TS-328 (TS-328-2G and TS-328-4G). We are all familiar with 1-Bay, 2-Bay and 4-Bay NAS systems, their advantages in terms of overall capacity and RAID options, but this is the first 3-Bay Hard Drive NAS I have ever come across. So, is this just an experiment to get attention, or is this worthy of your attention?

The QNAP TS-328 arrives with the Realtek RTD1296 CPU. This processor has grown in popularity these last 6 months as we have seen it featured in many popular Synology and QNAP NAS devices. It is a surprising chip, 2ndonly to the AMD Ryzen, in getting peoples attention in 2017 and now in 2018 we are going to see it more and more in the IT sector. This 64bit Architecture CPU is a quad-core 1.4GHz chip, that supports AES-256bit encryption, 4K Playback and transcoding of h.265. Installed in the TS-328, it can provide RAID support of RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5, as well as comfortably supporting the QNAP QTS 4.3.4 platform.

You will need to give things like virtual machines, Plex and large-scale rendering/editing tasks a miss with this unit, but it can easily support and perform modern NAS tasks in the home and SMB market with ease. All these processes are supported by a further 2 or 4GB of DDR4 memory (2133Mhz). These specs will easily provide you with a stable platform for common QNAP NAS software as:

Download Station for HTTP, BT, FTP and NZB downloads

Photo Station, Video Station and Music Station support, as well as large-scale thumbnail generation

The QNAP App center, with hundreds of apps

All the mobile applications for iOS and Android, such as Qfile, Qvideo, Qmanager and more

A host of applications for backing up, syncronising, backup and more

Apple Time Machine Multiple Image Support

Snapshot support

Surveillance with the use of IP Cameras and the QNAP Surveillance Station Application

What are the Specifications and Release Date of the QNAP TS-328 NAS?

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Brand New Chassis

3x HDD Bay

Internal Installation – No Hot Swapping

Realtek RTD1296 1.4 GHz quad-core processor

2GB and 4GB DDR4 Memory

RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 Support

4K H.264 and H.265 Media Support and Hardware Transcoding

Snapshot Support

One-Touch USB 3.0 Copy Button

Rear Speaker

IOIOI Port

Audio Out

Single Rear Controllable Fan

Dual LAN

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