QNAP TVS-EC2480U-SAS-RP is the world's first unified NAS supporting Auto Tiering to deliver ongoing optimization of data across high-performance SSD, 12Gbps SAS drives and high-capacity SATA disks. Powered by an Intel® Xeon E3 CPU, the 40GbE-ready TVS-EC2480U-SAS-RP delivers exceptional performance and supports cross-platform file sharing, comprehensive backup solutions, iSCSI & virtualization applications, and more practical business functions. With the powerful QTS operating system, the TVS-EC2480U-SAS-RP performs as a reliable, scalable and unbeatable unified and tiered storage solution for businesses.

• 3,800+ MB/s throughput and 267,000+ IOPS
• Qtier Technology drives Auto Tiering for optimal storage efficiency
• Built-in 256GB mSATA modules for caching, beneficial to IOPS-demanding applications
• Scalable design, up to 1,216 TB total capacity
• Virtualization-ready, centralized data storage, backup, sharing and disaster recovery
• Backward compatible with SAS/SATA 6Gbps drives

Hardwave Spec:

CPU	Intel® Xeon® E3-1246 v3 Family 3.5 GHz Quad-core Processor
Memory	TVS-EC2480U-SAS-RP-16G     System memory: 16 GB DDR3 RAM Memory module pre-installed: 8 GB x2 Total memory slots: 4 Memory expandable up to: 32 GB (8GB x4) TVS-EC2480U-SAS-RP-8GE   System memory: 8 GB DDR3 ECC RAM Memory module pre-installed: 4 GB x2 Total memory slots: 4 Memory expandable up to: 32 GB (8GB x4) Note: ECC RAM and non-ECC RAM cannot be used at the same time in the NAS. For the information of RAM module installation and compatible NAS models, please refer to the QNAP RAM Module Installation Guide
Flash Memory	512MB DOM
Internal Cache Port	Two mSATA port on board for read caching. The standard system is shipped with two 128GB mSATA flash. For the optional mSATA flash, please visit http://shop.qnap.com/
Hard Drive	24 x 3.5-inch SAS 12Gbps, SAS/SATA 6Gbps/3Gbps hard drive or 2.5-inch SAS/SATA SSD hard drive NOTE: The standard system is shipped without hard drives. For the hard drive compatibility list, please visit https://www.qnap.com/compatibility
Hard Drive Tray	24 x hot-swappable and lockable tray
LAN Port	4 x Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet port (Expandable up to 8 x 1 Gb LAN or 4 x 10 Gb + 4 x 1 Gb LAN by installing optional dual-port 10 Gb and 1 Gb network card) Note: 1. For the optional network card compatibility list, please visit Compatibility list 2. For the information of network card installation, please refer to chapter 6 in the Turbo NAS Hardware Manual.
LED Indicators	10 GbE, Status, LAN, Storage expansion port status
USB	4x USB 3.0 port (rear) 4x USB 2.0 port (rear) Support USB printer, pen drive, USB hub, and USB UPS etc.
Buttons	System: Power button and reset button
Alarm Buzzer	System warning
Form Factor	4U, Rackmount
Dimensions	176.15(H) x 442.5(W) x 530.5(D) mm 6.94(H) x 17.42(W) x 20.89(D) inch
Weight	Net weight (NAS only) : 23.08 kg/50.88 lb Gross weight (with packing and accessories) : 28.56 kg/ 62.96 lb
Sound Level (dB)	Sound Level (dB) Sound pressure (LpAm) (bystander position): 48.3 dB (with 24 x HITACHI HUS724020ALA640 hard drive installed)
Power Consumption (W)	Sleep mode: 129.43 In Operation: 263.81 W (with 24 x HITACHI HUS724020ALA640 hard drive installed
Temperature	0-40˚C
Relative Humidity	5~95% non-condensing, wet bulb: 27˚C.
Power Supply	Redundant power: Input 90~264VAC; 650W x 2
PCIe Slot	2 (Left slot: 1* PCIe Gen3 x8; Right slot: 1* PCIe Gen3 x4)
Fan	4 x 8 cm smart cooling fan
1. Power Button 7. HDMI 2. LED Indicators: 10 GbE, Status, LAN, Storage Expansion Port Status 8. 12G mini SAS connector 3. Password & Network Settings Reset Button 9. Console 4. USB 2.0 Port x 4 10. PCIe slot x 2 (Left slot: 1* PCIe Gen3 x8; Right slot: 1* PCIe Gen3 x4) 5. Gigabit LAN x 4 11. BBU (Reserved) 6. USB 3.0 Port x 4 12. Power Connector

Softwave Spec.

Operating System QTS 4.2 (embedded Linux)	Disk Management QNAP Flexible volume Thin-provisioning with space reclamation supported Online Volume Expansion Online Storage Pool Expansion (via QNAP RAID expansion enclosure) Single Disk, JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 RAID Hot Spare and Global Hot Spare Online RAID Capacity Expansion and Online RAID Level Migration Bad Block Scan and Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T. Bad Block Recovery RAID Recovery Bitmap Support
Supported Clients Windows Server 2003 onward, Apple Mac OS X onward, Linux & UNIX	Power Management Wake on LAN* Internal Hard Drive Standby Mode Scheduled Power on/off Automatic Power on after Power Recovery USB and Network UPS Support with SNMP Management
Supported Browsers Microsoft Internet Explorer 10+ Mozilla Firefox 8+ Apple Safari 4+ Google Chrome	Access Right Management Batch Users Creation Import/Export Users User Quota Management Local User Access Control for CIFS, AFP, FTP, and WebDAV, Subfolder Permissions Support for CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP, and Web File Manager
Multilingual Support Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish	Domain Authentication Integration Microsoft Active Directory (AD) LDAP Server LDAP Client Domain Users Login via CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP, and File Station
File System Internal Hard Drive: EXT4 External Hard Drive: EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, FAT32, HFS+	Web Administration Multi-window, Multi-tasking based System Management Movable Icons and Personalized Desktop Smart Toolbar and Dashboard for Neat Display on System Status Smart Fan Control Dynamic DNS (DDNS) SNMP (v2 & v3) Resource Monitor Network Recycle Bin for File Deletion via CIFS/SMB and AFP Automatic Cleanup File Type Filter Comprehensive Logs (Events & Connection) Syslog Client Firmware Live Update System Settings Backup and Restore Restore to Factory Default Mobile App Qmanager for Remote Monitoring
Networking TCP/IP (IPv4 & IPv6: Dual Stack) Quad Gigabit NICs with Jumbo Frame* Failover Multi-IP Settings Port Trunking/NIC Teaming (Modes: Balance-RR, Active Backup, Balance XOR, Broadcast, IEEE 802.3ad/Link Aggregation, Balance-TLB and Balance-ALB) Optional Dual-port 10 GbE and 1 GbE Network Expansion Cards* Service Binding Based on Network Interfaces* Proxy Client, Proxy Server DHCP Client, DHCP Server Protocols: CIFS/SMB, AFP (v3.3), NFS (v3), FTP, FTPS, SFTP, TFTP, HTTP(S), Telnet, SSH, iSCSI, SNMP, SMTP, and SMSC UPnP & Bonjour Discovery USB Wi-Fi Adapter Support	File Server File Sharing across Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX Protocols: CIFS/SMB, AFP, NFS, FTP/FTPS, HTTP/HTTPS (Web File Manager), WebDAV Windows ACL Advanced Folder Permission for CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP Shared Folder Aggregation (CIFS/SMB)
Security IP Filter & Policy-based Automatic IP Blocking Network Access Protection with Auto-blocking: SSH, Telnet, HTTP(S), FTP, CIFS/SMB, AFP Encrypted Access: HTTPS, FTP with SSL/ TLS (Explicit), SSH/SFTP (admin only), Encrypted Remote Replication (Rsync over SSH) CIFS Host Access Control for Shared Folders Antivirus Protection FIPS 140-2 Validated AES 256-bit Volume-based Data Encryption** AES 256-bit External Drive Encryption* Importable SSL Certificate Instant Alert via E-mail, SMS, Beep, and LCD Panel*	File Station Supports ISO Mounting (Up to 256 ISO Files) Creates and Sends Download Links for Sharing Public Files with Expiration Time and Password Protection Drag-n-drop Files via Chrome and Firefox Browsers Photo, Music, and Video Preview and Playback Empowered by Built-in Transcoding Technology File Compression (ZIP or 7z) Advanced Search Mobile App: Qfile for File Browsing and Management
Powerful All-in-one server
FTP Server FTP over SSL/TLS (Explicit) Concurrent Connections: Max 256 Passive FTP Port Range Control FTP Bandwidth & Connection Control Supports FXP & Unicode	Syslog Server Centralized Log Monitoring and Archiving Immediate Email Alerts Supports Log Filtering
Backup Station Remote Replication Server (over Rsync) Real-time Remote Replication (RTRR) to another QNAP NAS or FTP Server Works as Both RTRR Server & Client with Bandwidth Control Real-time & Scheduled Backup Encryption, Compression, File Filter, and Transfer Rate Limitation Encrypted Replication between QNAP NAS Servers Desktop Backup by QNAP NetBak Replicator for Windows Apple Time Machine Support with Backup Management Data Backup to Multiple External Storage Devices Synchronizes with Cloud Storage: Amazon S3, ElephantDrive, Symform, Dropbox, and Google Cloud Storage Third Party Backup Software Support: Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis True Image, ARCserve Backup, EMC Retrospect, Symantec Backup Exec, LaCie SilverKeeper, etc.	Print Server Max No. of Printers: 3 Supports Internet Printing Protocol Print Job Display and Management IP-based and Domain Name-based Privilege Control Supports Apple Bonjour Printing
iSCSI (IP SAN) iSCSI Target Multi-LUNs per Target Up to 256 Targets/LUNs Combined Supports LUN Mapping & Masking Block-based LUN Thin-provisioned LUN with Space Reclamation supported Online LUN Capacity Expansion Supports SPC-3 Persistent Reservation Supports MPIO & MC/S iSCSI LUN Backup, One-time Snapshot, and Restore iSCSI Connection and Management by QNAP Finder (Windows) Virtual Disk Drive (via iSCSI Initiator) Stack Chaining Master Max No. of Virtual Disk Drives: 8	Database Server Built-in MySQL Server Web-based Management via phpMyAdmin
Server Virtualization & Clustering VMware vSphere (ESX/ESXi 4.x, 5.x) VMware VAAI for iSCSI and VAAI for NAS vSphere Plug-in Citrix XenServer (6.0) Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Supports Microsoft ODX QNAP SMI-S provider for Microsoft SCVMM Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering	RADIUS Server Centralized Account Management and Authentication for Network Access Supports 802.1x Security Authentication TFTP Server with PXE Booting (Read-only)
Virtualization Station Support up to 8 Virtual Machine (32GB RAM is required) creating to run an operating system such as Windows, Linux, Unix. VM import from Virtual Appliances VM export into a virtual appliance in OVF / QVM format VM clone VM snapshot HTML5 based shared remote console	VPN Server Secure Remote Access: PPTP & OpenVPN VPN services Remote Access to Other Resources on Local Network Max No. of Clients: 30
Storage Plug & Connect via Windows Qfinder by QNAP Create and Map Shared Folders Create and Connect to iSCSI Target/LUN	Surveillance Station Supports over 1,400 IP Cameras Includes 8 Free Camera License Up to 80 Camera Channels via Additional License Purchase* Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) for Advanced Video Search Visual Aid by E-map Surveillance Client for Mac Mobile App: Vmobile (iOS and Android)
myQNAPcloud Service Private Cloud Storage and Sharing Free Host Name Registration (DDNS) Auto Router Configuration (via UPnP) CloudLink for Remote Access without Complicated Router Setup myQNAPcloud Connect for Easy VPN Connection (Windows VPN Utility)	Antivirus Supports ClamAV (free) and McAfee (optional purchase ) virus scanner. Protection against Viruses, Trojans, and Other Threats Free Virus Databases Update on Manual or Scheduled Basis Multiple Scan Tasks (Max: 64, Concurrent: 5) with Custom Folder Selection and Scheduled Scanning Email Notification upon Task Completion or Virus Detection Quarantines or Deletes Infected Files
Qsync Syncs Files among Multiple Devices through the NAS Option for Not Removing Files on the NAS during Synchronization Selective Synchronization Shares Securely with SSL Team Folder Shares Files by Links via E-mail Uploads Photos or Videos to Qsync Folder Automatically via Qfile Restores Files from Network Recycle Bin File Name Conflict Policy Option for Filter Settings Privilege Control for Qsync Users Supports Windows & Mac OS	APP Center Add New Features by Online Installation of over 90 Official and Community Software
Web Server HTTP/HTTPS Connections Built-in MySQL Server Web-based Management via phpMyAdmin (QPKG) Virtual Hosts: Max 32	Add-ons (The actual available software add-ons may vary depending on the NAS platform)
* This feature may vary according to different models. **  The data encryption functions may not available in accordance with the legislative restrictions of some countries. Design and specifications are subject to change without notice.