QuTS hero h5.0.1 | Release Notes

QuTS hero 5.0.1 brings many new features to enhance the security and improve the performance of your NAS. You can now benefit from higher shared folder capacity, LUN encryption, and much more. See What's New to learn about main features and Other Changes to learn about other features, enhancements, and changes.

Up to 5 Petabytes of Storage Capacity for Each Shared Folder

QuTS hero now supports up to 5 petabytes of storage capacity for each shared folder. With this vast storage capacity, RAID Z, self-healing, and other powerful features offered by the ZFS file system, QuTS hero enables enterprises to meet the challenges of the most storage-demanding tasks today, such as big data analysis, edge computing, and artificial intelligence, while ensuring data integrity and data availability.

LUN Encryption for Enhanced Data Security

In addition to shared folder encryption, QuTS hero now also supports LUN encryption. This enables you to control access to your LUNs to further enhance data security. When an encrypted LUN is locked, users are not allowed to connect to the LUN, read or write data to the LUN, map the LUN to an iSCSI target, or take snapshots for the LUN. Each encrypted LUN has a unique key for encrypting data and a unique password for locking the LUN.

Replace a RAID Disk with a Spare Before Potential Failure

Users can now replace a disk in a RAID group with a spare disk any time, without waiting for the system to replace it only after it fails.

Enhanced Transfer Speeds for SMB Encryption

QNAP has improved the performance for SMB 3.0 (Server Message Block) signing and encryption with AES-NI hardware acceleration. QuTS hero 5.0.1 has greatly enhanced the transfer speeds, which can provide better transmission efficiency and satisfy the demands for data security at the same time.

Windows Search Protocol (WSP) Support for Mounted Shared Folders

QuTS hero 5.0.1 now supports Microsoft WSP, which relies on the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. With WSP, users can search NAS shared folders via Windows when an SMB drive is mounted.

Support for TCG-Enterprise Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs)

In addition to TCG-OPAL, QuTS hero 5.0.1 now also supports TCG-Enterprise SED compliant HDDs and SSDs to further protect your data. A self-encrypting drive (SED) is a drive with a controller that automatically encrypts and decrypts data. Your data on SEDs is protected by an encryption key and cannot be accessed by unauthorized users even if your SEDs are stolen or lost. Thanks to their hardware encryption mechanisms, SEDs do not require CPU resources or encryption software for data protection.

Disallow USB Connections to Enhance Device Security

USB ports provide a convenient way to connect your NAS with other devices. However, this convenient accessibility can also expose your NAS to secure risks. Starting from QuTS hero 5.0.1, you can choose to disallow all USB devices or only disallow USB storage devices (such as external drives or expansion enclosures). USB blocking adds an extra layer of protection to safeguard your NAS against security threats such as viruses and malware.

Other Changes

Control Panel

• When creating users, you can now choose to force users to change their password upon their first login.

• You can now specify a custom UID for a non-administrator when creating a user or editing user settings.

• QTS now supports access protection settings for RTRR and Rsync protocols in Control Panel > System > Security.

• Enhanced firmware update features in Control Panel to provide more options and clearer notifications. You can now configure more settings for update actions, update schedule, and firmware update types.

• The default UPS policy is now set to "auto-protection mode" after NAS initialization.

• QTS now displays a warning message in Control Panel > System > Hardware > Hardware Resources when you select a graphics card installed on a PCIe slot that does not support PCIe passthrough.

• When importing users, you can now choose to require imported users to change their password upon their first login.

• QuTS hero now provides an option in Control Panel to disable the power button. This prevents unexpected shutdown when users press the power button by accident.

• You can now create a one-time power schedule.

• To prevent malicious usernames and to ensure device security, QuTS hero no longer allows usernames that contain the following characters: { } $ and the space character.

File Station

• Updated CloudConvert API to v2. File Station now supports displaying CloudConvert API key status.

• Added support for International Components for Unicode (ICU) library to enhance sorting consistency in various languages.

• Modified UI design and workflow in File Station to enhance user experience.

• File Station now displays storage information on the volume context menu (instead of the file context menu) for better usability.

• You can now select and download multiple files via a share link. You can now also preview shared files with thumbnails.

Help Center

• Enhanced the user interface design of Help Center.

Network & Virtual Switch

• Network & Virtual Switch now displays the maximum transmission unit (MTU) of network interfaces.

• The TS-x77XU and TS-x83XU models can now update firmware for their network interface cards via Advanced Network Driver.

PHP System Module

• Updated the built-in PHP version to 7.4.20.

SAMBA

• You can now enable SMB signing on NAS devices that do not join a domain.

Storage & Snapshots

• Enhanced SAMBA file transfer speeds for small files.

• QuTS hero now supports up to 5PB capacity for a single storage pool.

• QuTS hero can now dynamically adjust rebuild speeds and priority according to NAS I/O read status.

• Storage & Snapshots now supports zooming in on hardware model drawings to display component details.

• You can now set a snapshot schedule during the creation of a shared folder.

• Instead of model photos, Storage & Snapshots now displays hardware model images in 2D drawings.

• In addition to TCG-Opal, QuTS hero now also supports TCG-Enterprise SEDs. Storage & Snapshots can now display SED types.

• SnapSync now supports 2-step verification.

• Snapshot Replica now supports 2-step verification.

• You can now specify a snapshot deletion policy in Storage & Snapshots > Global Settings.

• Storage & Snapshots now also displays Snapshot Replica information in Overview > Volume/LUN.

• Improved the user interface of WORM lock delay settings in Storage & Snapshots to enhance user experience.

iSCSI & Fibre Channel

• You can now modify LUN settings even when LUNs are mapped to iSCSI targets.

Important Notes

• Storage pools created in QuTS hero h5.0.1 (or later versions) cannot be imported to QuTS hero h5.0.0 (or earlier versions).