QNAP TS-2888X-W2123-32G

All-Inclusive computing solution: Integrated storage, computing, and development platforms

The TS-2888X combines performance, computing, and high storage capacity with U.2 SSD drive bays to meet versatile application demands with maximized cost-effectiveness.

From file storage, multi-workstation collaboration, image rendering, to post-production, the TS-2888X can satisfy all your video production needs. The TS-2888X can serve as a highly-reliable, high-performance collaboration file center, greatly improving your team’s productivity and allowing you to focus on creativity and work quality.

Build your own render farm

Slow rendering is a big issue for 3D animators and filmmakers in the creative professional industry. Because rendering is a time-consuming and workload-heavy task in the video production workflow, it can significantly impact project progress. The number of CPU cores and clock speed in the rendering server hardware plays an important role in rendering. To support resource-demanding rendering demands, the TS-2888X features powerful Intel® Xeon® W processors with excellent computing performance and high storage capacity. The TS-2888X can also host virtual machines and containers to run render management systems, such as OpenCue and Deadline from the NAS. Coupled with workstations using Maya, 3ds MAX, Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects, the TS-2888X realizes optimized collaborative rendering workflows.

CPU, memory, and GPU

Video editing and rendering largely rely on CPU cores and threads. The TS-2888X is equipped with Intel® Xeon® W processors with up to 18 cores and 36 threads, features up to 512 GB memory, and supports up to four high-end graphics cards.

Multiple virtual machines

Use Virtualization Station to create multiple virtual machines on the TS-2888X for dynamic render nodes, and flexibly allocate CPU computing resources to the render nodes running different rendering tasks.

On-the-fly video editing with 25GbE high-speed network

In the fast-growing content creation industry, the high-capacity TS-2888X is your ideal 4K media center. Users of Final Cut Pro® (Mac users) and Adobe® Premiere Pro® (Windows users) can centrally store, access, and share video materials on the TS-2888X via SMB protocol for highly collaborative projects. By using the PCIe-based 25GbE adapter (QXG-25G2SF-CX4), the TS-2888X can fully take advantage of the 25GbE network performance to accelerate file transfer and tackle team collaboration productivity challenges in the fast-paced media industry.

25GbE / 10GbE network

Install network expansion cards through PCIe slots to increase network performance for bandwidth-demanding applications, such as online video editing and massive file transfer.

Storage and drive performance

High-capacity storage can significantly accommodate RAW files and 4K/8K videos. Hard drive performance influences not only file access speed, but also network performance. The TS-2888X features hybrid storage architecture that provides more flash to balance performance and capacity requirements.

The best companion for Mac Pro®

Expedite AI machine learning applications

Train your AI models with QuAI, and accelerate deep learning inference with OpenVINO™

QNAP’s exclusive QuAI enables data scientists and developers to quickly build, train and optimize machine-learning models running on QNAP NAS. The combination of system and software helps reduce time and complexity for AI environments setup and maintenance. The Intel® OpenVINO™ (Open Visual Inference and Neural Network Optimization) helps to fast-track development of high-performance computer vision and deep learning into vision applications. It enables deep learning on hardware accelerators and easy heterogeneous execution across Intel® platforms, including CPU, GPU, FPGA and VPU. The OpenVINO™ toolkit allows you to optimize and verify trained models developed by the TS-2888X before inferencing, and economically distribute computer vision solutions leveraging AI.

Comprehensive support for AI frameworks

Optimized system for AI

U.2 SSD for data preprocessing

Data preprocessing can have high memory consumption that potentially impacts system performance. To offload preprocessing workloads, you can install up to four U.2 SSDs in the TS-2888X.

Collect massive training data with Download Station

Machine learning requires a large set of data feeds. The QNAP Download Station can help organize downloading tasks for massive training data. For example, you can create and schedule download tasks with Download Station to compile images from Open Images Dataset automatically.

IOPS-optimized storage to boost AI workloads

SSD caching accelerates IOPS performance and reduces storage volume latency, providing many benefits for the metadata-intensive, small file I/O requirements of AI workloads. Qtier™ technology can also empower the TS-2888X with auto-tiering to help strike a balance between performance and storage.

Learn more: SSD caching, Qtier

Making AI accessible to your business blueprint

Create multiversion snapshots

Record your system state any time with snapshots. You can easily keep track of the data and system state at any time, and mitigate the risk of losing important data. In the event of malware attacks or unwanted changes, your stored data can be quickly reverted and restored to a specific time point with snapshots to ensure data continuity.

Learn more: Snapshot, Mitigate the threat of ransomware

Backup and sync easily

Creating videos and AI datasets is time-consuming, so losing these files can be catastrophic. QNAP HBS can prevent such disasters from occurring with its comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution that can efficiently assist organizations routine backup jobs. You can easily synchronize data in TS-2888X with multiple third-party cloud services or other storage devices to ensure double protection, schedule backup jobs for onsite and offsite backups, and quickly restore data when needed.

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-2888X, 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.

Leverage the M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD to U.2 Adapter

Install one or more QDA-UMP adapter in the TS-2888X to maximize PCIe bandwidth utilization in a cost-effective way by using M.2 SSD instead of expensive U.2 SSD for optimizing data-intensive applications. It can also boost IOPS performance when configuring SSD caching. Users can monitor drive health and manage SSD usage from the QTS Storage & Snapshots Manager.