{"id":65331,"date":"2025-02-04T09:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/hands-on-qsan-xcubenas-xn5104r-review\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:13:36","slug":"hands-on-qsan-xcubenas-xn5104r-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/hands-on-qsan-xcubenas-xn5104r-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands on: Qsan XCubeNAS XN5104R review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Representing the entry level of Qsan\u2019s new NAS appliance<\/a> household, the XCubeNAS XN5104R affords SMBs a small footprint storage resolution with loads of room to develop. This competitively priced 1U rack NAS presents 4 hot-swap LFF\/SFF SATA drive bays on the entrance, secretes a pair of NVMe SSD<\/a> slots inside and groups them up with 4 2.5GbE multi-gigabit ports.<\/p>\n

A quad-core 2.3GHz Intel<\/a> Xeon D-1714 CPU<\/a> sits within the driving seat and is partnered by 8GB of DDR4 which could be expanded massively to 256GB. There\u2019s room for extra community ports, because the spare PCI-E Gen4 slot accepts Qsan\u2019s dual-port 10GbE and 25GbE playing cards.<\/p>\n

A compelling characteristic of Qsan\u2019s NAS home equipment is their monumental enlargement potential, and the XN5104R is not any exception. Match Qsan\u2019s SAS3 PCI-E card and you may daisy-chain a mixture of exterior disk cabinets for a complete of 414 drives and a most uncooked capability of 9PB.<\/p>\n

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It could have a small footprint, however the XCubeNAS has large potential<\/strong> <\/span>(Picture credit score: Future)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For deployment, we loaded 4 22TB Western Digital Crimson Professional NAS drives and used the XFinder app to find the equipment and set up the most recent QSM software program. From the customized setup choice, we created a giant RAID5 storage pool and, should you set up NVMe SSDs, you possibly can assign one or each to a pool as a hybrid cache, which accelerates each learn and write operations.<\/p>\n