Any one here uses the Qnap TVS-H1288X

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Out of the box, the TVS-H1288X doesn’t seem to have TB3 ports, so it looks like yours has a TB3 card installed.

I haven’t used this one, the 1288x. But I have a smaller one QNAP TS-453BT3. It has one 10GigE port, 4x GigE ports and 2 TB3 ports.

I routinely use it with my iMac Pro and a MacBook Pro both connected to the TB3 ports. Its pretty fast, as fast as a 4-bay RAID can be. If one system writes while the other is reading, they both slow down. Same if both are reading large files. But if both my systems are editing ProResLT or DNxHD36, the system happily ‘serves’ them both simultaneously.

So, your 1288x will work much faster since it has 8 drives.

But you will see more reliable performance with systems connected to the 1288x over 10GigE or 2.4 GigE than you will see over TB3.

The 4x 2.5GigE ports, let out connect 4 systems with 2.5GigE adapters on each, and you could expect to be able to do 150 MB/sec on each simultaneously.

The TB3 ports can be used to connect to systems that are place physically close to the unit.

Also, you have 4x 2.5″ bays where you could place 4x SSDs and make them available as cache files or sources/targets for large files like DPX or OpenEXR.

Neil

[Bob Zelin]

I install the QNAP TVS-h1288X all the time. This is excellent for professional video editing for Adobe Premiere, FCP X, Davinci Resolve or AVID Media Composer (AVID if you install Indiestor Mimiq on your workstations). You need two 500 Gig SSD drives to run the QuTS operating system, and all eight matching 7200 RPM SATA drives. You create 2 networks – a 10G network for your editing computers and the 10G port on the QNAP, using a dedicated 10G switch like a small Netgear or QNAP 10G switch, and a second 1G network for your internet access for your computers, and if you want remote access to the QNAP.

I see that you are in Sweden. I have done QNAP Systems in Sweden for Alm & Me, Broken Doll, Slutetarnara,

So This Is Why and Joel Arvidsoon.

bobzelin@icloud.com