QNAP partnered once more with AMD for the TVS-x73 NAS series. The NAS is fitted with an AMD Embedded RX-421BD quad-core APU, these have a 2.10 GHz base and up-to 3.40 GHz boost paired with up-to 64GB ... QNAP TVS-x73 series NASis once again AMD powered
+1 complete overkill.... 2x PCIe Gen3 x4, 2x M.2, 2X 4K HDMI.... how much this thing costs?! ... well, I really don't want to now....
Did they run out of cool features to talk about? I don't know if this is going to be a seller of a such a high end device.
I don't get it - who is this targeting? It's a media NAS but it has features that no media receivers can utilize (like 10Gbps Ethernet). You're basically just buying a PC that is even more limited than a XB1 or PS4. If you can replace the OS with your own, you might as well have just bought a regular PC (and paid less as a result). It has features that, even if the Ethernet bandwidth could be saturated, would not be used. Such as M.2 - what's the point of having 64GB of RAM when you need a SSD for cache too? I'd rather spend that money toward a handful of SSDs in RAID. Also, why did they stop there? They implemented all these features, made something that is probably going to cost well over $1500 (without even being fully equipped...) and yet they went with AMD? I'm not complaining - clearly AMD made something that was good enough. But Nvidia specializes in embedded devices and Intel likely would've had something more power efficient. But, good for AMD I guess, I'm glad they got the contract.
seen a few boards(on-line) based on that SOC, some say : DPX-S440 AMD® Embedded R-Series Gaming Platform http://www.advantech.com/products/s...s440/mod_b9f1ce76-71c4-4f93-a36c-da8282e1ed1a Or http://www.quixant.com/news/quixant-returns-to-mgs-macau-2016
