TS-977XU

HDD + SSD hybrid-structure AMD Ryzen™ 1U rackmount NAS with up to 4 cores/4 threads

Powered by AMD’s powerful Ryzen™ processor, the TS-977XU delivers high system performance with up to 4 cores/4 threads and Turbo Core up to 3.4 GHz. The TS-977XU features a hybrid structure with four 3.5-inch HDD and five 2.5-inch SSD drive bays, allowing for enabling SSD caching and Qtier™ auto-tiering technology to greatly boost IOPS to meet the performance requirements of demanding applications. The TS-977XU features two SFP+ 10GbE ports and two Gigabit ports for high-speed connectivity, providing businesses and organizations with an ideal solution for quickly deploying a high-bandwidth, high-reliability storage environment.

Two 10GbE SFP+ ports provide higher bandwidth to empower applications like virtualization, 4K video editing and file sharing.

PCIe expandability allows for installing QM2 expansion card, USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) cards, or wireless network cards.

Snapshots add an extra layer of protection for disaster recovery plans. You can set a custom snapshot schedule and can use snapshots to recover data from a local or remote NAS.

Install up to five SSDs in the 2.5-inch drive bays to enable SSD caching and Qtier for optimal system performance.

Scalable storage supporting virtualization, containerized apps, centralized storage, backup, sharing, and disaster recovery.

Besides using QNAP storage expansion enclosures, you can also leverage QNAP VJBOD technology to use the unused storage space from other NAS.

Available Models

TS-977XU-1200-16G (By Request)

TS-977XU-1200-32G (By Request)

TS-977XU-1200-64G (By Request)

TS-977XU-1200-16G (By Request)

TS-977XU-1200-32G (By Request)

TS-977XU-1200-64G (By Request)

Top-class hardware engineering with high I/O expandability

The hardware design of the TS-977XU provides exceptional system performance and expandability to fulfill diverse application requirements.

Virtualization Certifications Supported by TS-977XU

Absolute performance with AMD Ryzen™ and up to 64GB RAM

Powered by a high-performance AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 processor with AES-NI encryption acceleration and up to 64GB DDR4 RAM, the TS-977XU delivers aggressive yet power-smart performance to meet your multitasking demands. For resource-demanding business applications such as VDI, R&D, private cloud, and server virtualization, look no further than the TS-977XU.

Windows 2 x 10GbE Sequential File Transfer (64KB)

Read

1608 MB/s

Write

1713 MB/s

Windows 10GB File Transfer with Encrypted Volume (2 x 10GbE)

Read

1607 MB/s

Write

1447 MB/s

Tested in QNAP Labs. Figures may vary by environment.

NAS: TS-977XU-1200-4G with QTS 4.3.5
Volume type: RAID 5; Samsung SSD 850 Pro 512G* 9 (RAID 5)

Client PC:
Intel® Core™ i7-4770 3.40GHz CPU; 16GB RAM; X550 10GbE NIC; Windows® 10 64-bit; IOmeter 1.1.0 20 workers 1 outstanding, SMB throughput, 64KB, 30S ramp up time, 3M run time.

Extend hardware warranty up to 5 years

The TS-977XU is backed by a 3-year warranty at no extra cost. If needed, you can purchase a warranty extension that increases your coverage up to 5 years.

Hybrid structure for enabling SSD and tiered storage

The TS-977XU features an HDD+ SSD hybrid structure (including five 2.5-inch and four 3.5-inch drive bays*), allowing you to leverage the benefits of both hard drives and SSD to provide high storage capacity and high performance. Qtier™ Technology empowers the TS-977XU with automatic tiering that continuously optimizes storage utilization across high-performance SSD and high-capacity hard drives. The new Qtier™ 2.0 features IO-awareness that empowers SSD-tiered storage with a cache-like reserved space to handle burst I/O in real time, greatly maximizing the advantages of SSD.

*SSDs and HDDs sold separately.

Dual-channel Memory to delivers power-smart performance

The TS-977XU supports dual-channel DDR4 memory and features four Long-DIMM slots. When using paired memory modules, the TS-977XU leverages the power of dual-channel architecture to boost performance. You can also customize the memory configuration (supports up to 64GB RAM) of the TS-977XU, making it the most ideal and cost-efficient storage solution for environments like virtualization that contain dynamically-changing workloads.

Extend NAS functionality with PCIe slots

The TS-977XU features a PCIe slot that allows for installing a 10GbE/40GbE network card, a QM2 M.2 SSD/10GbE PCIe card, or a wireless network card to provide greater application potential.

Supports lightning-fast throughput for bandwidth-demanding tasks such as virtualization and fast backup/restoration for an ever-growing amount of data.

Add M.2 SSD caching or 10GbE (10GBASE-T) connectivity to the NAS to enjoy optimal performance.

Use with the WirelessAP Station app to transform the NAS into a convenient wireless base station, allowing network resources of the NAS to be shared with multiple devices.

Performance & reliability. Your wise choice.

The TS-977XU supports advanced business features to provide maximized efficiency and performance while ensuring 24/7 services.

USB 3.2 Gen 2

USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) provides speeds up to 10Gb/s (double the speed of USB 3.2 Gen 1) to greatly boost data transfer performance, allowing for transferring large files faster and more easily.

Central management

Designed for IT administrators, QRM+ provides a single-point solution to discover, map, monitor and manage all Windows®, Linux® and IPMI devices in your network, and facilitates device discovery with a graphical topology diagram.

Optimized performance for VMware Virtualization with iSER

With the built-in dual 10GbE ports that natively features NVIDIA® Mellanox ConnectX-4, the TS-977XU supports the iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) protocol to boost data transfer performance of the TS-977XU as VMware® ESXi storage and to reduce the CPU load of the ESXi server. iSER can provide a significant increase in performance, providing an essential tool to optimize demanding virtualization applications.

Note: To create an iSER connection with VMware ESXi, both the server and NAS require compatible NVIDIA® Mellanox NICs and switches compatible with NVIDIA® Mellanox or supporting PFC (Priority Flow Control) configuration.

Block-based iSCSI LUN: Ideal choice for virtualization storage

The TS-977XU supports block-based iSCSI LUN that provides a more reliable and isolated environment than file-based LUN. Supporting VMware®, Citrix®, Microsoft® Hyper-V® and Windows Server® 2016, the TS-977XU provides a high-performance, reliable and affordable storage solution for virtualization environments, while also supporting VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX to increase performance by offloading server loading for ESXi server and Hyper-V respectively, and supporting QNAP vSphere Client plug-in and QNAP SMI-S provider with enhanced operational efficiency and management in virtualization applications.

High-speed VM Backup Solution

With Hyper Data Protector, the TS-977XU becomes an agentless backup tool for unlimited VMware® vSphere and Microsoft® Hyper-V VM backup. Hyper Data Protector features incremental backup, global deduplication, backup scheduling and recovery compression that provides you with a cost-effective and reliable disaster recovery plan, ensuring 24/7 operation of your services.

Notes: QNAP NAS must be running QTS version 4.3.6 or later

Build an affordable Fibre Channel SAN environment

Common Fibre Channel SAN (Storage Area Networks) devices are often expensive. Now you have more budge-friendly options to easily add your NAS to a SAN environment. Once a Marvell®, ATTO® or QNAP Fibre Channel card has been installed in the TS-977XU, you can set a Fibre Channel Target using the iSCSI & Fibre Channel app, and leverage the many benefits from QNAP NAS including snapshot protection, Qtier™ tiering storage, SSD cache acceleration and more. In addition, the LUN Masking and Port Binding features provide an additional layer of security for your data.

All-in-one solution for hosting virtual machines and containers

Regardless of your virtualization needs, you can count on Virtualization Station and Container Station for comprehensive virtualization support. Coupled with Network & Virtual Switch app that boosts interoperability between virtual machines, containers, QNAP NAS, and other physical devices on the network, allowing you to flexibly allocate physical and virtual network resources to simplify network deployment.

Run multiple Windows®, Linux®, UNIX®, and Android™ virtual machines and access them via a web browser or Virtual Network Computing (VNC). Businesses can run virtualized server applications on a single NAS without the need for additional physical servers.

Experience LXC and Docker® lightweight virtualization technologies, and download apps from the built-in Docker Hub Registry®, import or export containers, and create multiple microservices.

Upgrade your IT environment with QNAP's fast and affordable 10GbE Switch!

QNAP 10GbE/NBASE-T™ unmanaged switches allow you to instantly upgrade your network environment at a cost-effective price. With a 10GbE network you can enjoy blazing-fast transfer speeds, empower bandwidth-demanding tasks like virtualization, and enable simultaneous real-time access to large NAS-based files using multiple workstations (ideal for video editing and multimedia). QNAP also provides a 10GbE PCIe network expansion card for Windows®/Linux® PCs to take advantage of high-speed LAN environments.

Optimized collaboration with seamless file sharing and sync

The TS-977XU centrally stores data and files, and supports SMB/CIFS, AFP and NFS protocols for file sharing across Windows®, Mac®, and Linux®/UNIX® networks. Coupled with Qsync (a utility that turns a QNAP NAS into a safe, high-capacity data center for file synchronization) any file uploaded to the TS-977XU will be made available for all linked devices, such as computers, laptops or mobile devices. You can sync shared folders and team folders for group file sharing to enhance the flexibility of team projects and collaboration. Files can be centrally managed using File Station, including files from mobile devices and optical disc drives. File Station also allows you to mount a remote NAS, and transfer files between your NAS and public cloud services for greater convenience.

Complete backup planning

The TS-977XU provides a reliable, flexible backup & disaster recovery solution to assist organizations in routine backup jobs with cost-efficiency and high productivity.

Use the license-free QNAP NetBak Replicator utility to back up/restore Windows® files, alongside Time Machine® support for Mac® devices. It is easy, fast and convenient.

Consolidates backup, restoration and synchronization functions (using RTRR, rsync, FTP, CIFS/SMB) for easily transferring data to local, remote and cloud storage spaces as a comprehensive data storage and disaster recovery plan.

Snapshot is essential for NAS data protection, and its block-level feature makes it a dependable method for protecting data in the face of the growing threat of ransomware. The TS-977XU supports up to 256 snapshots per volume or LUN, and maximum 1,024 snapshots per NAS.

With high performance, potentially huge storage capacities, integrated virtualization solutions, and support for snapshots that record the state of the system at any time, the TS-977XU are perfect for backing up virtual machines.

The new QVR Pro surveillance solution

QNAP’s new QVR Pro surveillance solution allows you to arrange a dedicated, independent storage space for surveillance data on TS-977XU and leverage the advantages of scalability and storage manageability from QTS. With QVR Pro, camera management, storage space allocation, camera live viewing and playback is greatly simplified. You can also use the QVR Pro Client mobile app to monitor your cameras from anywhere, or use a USB webcam as an ONVIF network camera with the QUSBCam2 app.

Note:
1. QVR Pro supports 8 free channels for surveillance monitoring (expandable to 128 channels with additional channel license purchase).
2. The maximum number of channels supported varies by NAS model, network configuration, and camera settings.

Flexible and economical storage expansion

QNAP provides several ways to expand your NAS storage as needed to accommodate data and business growth.

Connect up to 8 REXP-1620U-RP/REXP-1220U-RP* or up to 2 UX-1200U-RP/800U-RP expansion enclosures. Use the QTS Storage & Snapshots Manager to easily handle NAS capacity expansion.

* A SAS storage expansion card is required to use REXP-1620U-RP / REXP-1220U-RP expansion enclosures.

Use VJBOD (Virtual JBOD) to expand your storage capacity by using the unused storage of other QNAP NAS. Up to 8 QNAP NAS can be mounted as local disks on the TS-977XU

Hot swap lower-capacity drives with larger-capacity drives so that your QNAP NAS can grow with your business.

Install your NAS hard drives into a larger QNAP NAS and retain all your existing data and configurations.

More Productivity Applications

A popular web automation service for combining QNAP NAS and mobile devices/apps to customize NAS applets.

Centrally manage and switch between different email accounts, back up emails to the NAS, and safeguard email security and personal privacy.

Enable remote access through NAS browsers to access local LAN resources without going through complex VPN setting.

Use the NAS as a central management platform to manage multiple QNAP NAS across multiple sites, monitor system logs, and manage NAS updates and maintenance.

Simplify file access, NAS management, multimedia entertainment, surveillance, and download tasks on mobile devices with QNAP mobile apps.