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The TVS-x82T features advanced hardware for greater efficiency, including built-in SATA M.2 SSD, 2.5” SSD slots, compartmentalized smart cooling, and tool-less HDD installation. QNAP’s Qtier technology empowers the TVS-x82T with auto tiering that helps continuously optimize storage efficiency across M.2 SSD, SSD and SATA drives, and these different storage media can be configured as independent partitions for different applications to ensure a sufficient throughput level for every application. With multiple network ports, it allows applications to use dedicated interfaces to meet network traffic distribution requirements.

QNAP currently provides various apps on QTS App Center for managing multimedia files, including Photo Station for browsing and sharing photos, Music Station for playing and sharing music, and Video Station for collecting and organizing video files. Most QNAP NAS models now support HDMI output for using HD Station that allow users to watch videos on YouTube™, enjoy music on Spotify®, and browse online content through Google Chrome™ or Mozilla Firefox®. QNAP will continue to enhance these apps to offer users the best possible multimedia entertainment experience.

Hybrid Backup Sync is also a hybrid cloud solution that provides multiple ways to create customized job plans for data preservation, including data backup from an external device to a QNAP NAS, or from one NAS to several local, remote and cloud storage. Hybrid Backup Sync supports a variety of options for data backup and synchronization, including USB one-touch backup and remote synchronization via RTRR, Rsync, FTP or CIFS/SMB. Hybrid Backup Sync supports various cloud services, including Amazon® Glacier, Azure™ Storage, Google Cloud Storage™, Google Drive™, Microsoft® OneDrive®, Dropbox®, Amazon® Cloud Drive, Yandex® Disk, Box® and Amazon® S3/OpenStack Swift/WebDAV compatible services. Hybrid Backup Sync enables users to establish a comprehensive disaster recovery plan for important data stored on their QNAP NAS.

QIoT Containers is an extension to QNAP’s robust Container Station that supports LXC and Docker® containerized apps suited for microservices-based architectural patterns as applied to IoT systems. With QIoT Containers, QNAP is launching multiple containers (including Ponte, Node-RED, Kafka, Dashing, Freeboard, Redis, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, and MariaDB) that can be used to define private IoT stacks on QNAP NAS. QIoT Containers reduces the expenses of relying on public IoT cloud platforms and provides the easiest, most convenient, and highly-configurable IoT stack for developers to accelerate development with low time to market.

Using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, QNAP NAS users are able to access an intuitive desktop computer experience with a complete set of productivity and entertainment applications. Selecting the latest Ubuntu release also enables developers to take advantage of, and create applications using the snap packaging format, providing users both more secure, and reliable services for desktop, server, mobile, and IoT devices. This universal app format is particularly popular on Ubuntu Core, the embedded version of Ubuntu, opening the door to a world of IoT apps on QNAP NAS.

TAS-168/268 is the world’s first NAS-Android Combo. Supporting QTS & Android dual systems that share the same storage database, the TAS-168/268 allows users to simultaneously access media files and documents from either system. With a compact mini-tower design, the TAS-168/268 comfortably fits in homes and small offices/workspaces. Coupled with up to terabytes of storage capacity and 4K (H.264 & H.265) HDMI-out, the TAS-168/268 is the optimal budget-friendly multimedia NAS with unlimited app applications for modern digital lifestyles.

The TVS-871T solves a major headache for photographers and high definition video producers – how to manage content ingest, editing, sharing, and backup within a single networked device. The new TVS-871T is the world's first hybrid NAS/DAS/iSCSI IP-SAN that offers direct storage access with two Thunderbolt 2 ports, full NAS functionality through Gigabit/ 10GbE network connectivity. With 8 hot-swappable drive bays, the TVS-871T can pack a whopping 64TB of in-unit storage with blistering-fast transfer speeds up to 20Gb/s. The unit's storage can be expanded via QNAP's TX expansion unit series, which provide up to a jaw-dropping 448TB of raw storage.

QNAP NAS supports DLNA Media Server to perform as a powerful streaming machine, and the Qmedia on Roku platform streams media content from QNAP NAS via DLNA protocol, allowing users to enjoy their media collections on TV through HDMI-out. Integrating the Media Library from QTS, the Qmedia leverages the same user interface to provide users with consistent browsing experience.

Unlike conventional NAS that come in heavy and sometimes unwieldy boxes that are too big and noisy for being an integral part of a digital lifestyle and living room, the silent & modern HS-251+ NAS inherits the innovative design that won its predecessor the iF Design Award 2014, and perfectly fits alongside HDTVs, stereos, A/V receivers and game consoles.

New apps and features in QTS 4.2 includes,