Petabyte storage solution

Petabyte-scale storage:
On-premises storage for enterprise applications

High-performance, easy-to-use, affordable. In the face of exponential data growth, businesses can rely on high-capacity QuTS hero NAS and compatible JBOD systems to build future-proof data storage centers with in-built data protection, performance, and scalability.

Why QNAP for petabyte-scale storage?

QNAP is the world’s foremost storage innovator and is trusted by enterprises, science research institutions, and media production companies worldwide. With great performance and scale-up flexibility, QNAP provide solutions for every usage environment ranging from high-performance computing to simple archival storage.

Major enterprises

Backup data
Science and AI

Big data
Media production

RAW files
Large facilities

Surveillance recordings

Petabyte-scale storage within your budget

While hard drive capacities continue to increase, per-byte costs are steadily decreasing. QNAP is committed to supporting cutting-edge hard drives and other technologies, assisting you in achieving high levels of scalability and reliability at reasonable costs.

Get petabyte-ready!

From HDD to NVMe

Implement reliable storage solutions with scale-up flexibility and agility against system failure. Here are several configurations to meet petabyte-level capacities.

Recommended configuration for

1 PB storage

Future-proof yet economical petabyte-scale storage solution.

Create a bespoke solution

	Models used	Number of drives
NAS	1 x TS-h2287XU-RP	HDD: 16 SSD: 6
Expansion card	2 x QXP-820S-B3408	－
JBOD enclosure	4 x TL-R1620Sep-RP	HDD: 64
Total drives		HDD: 80 SSD: 6

1. At least 128 GB RAM is required for the NAS.
2. Each line indicates up to 48Gb/s SAS connection. QNAP recommends multipath routing as above.

Recommended configuration for

2 PB storage

Greatly balanced with performance, capacity, and cost-efficiency.

Create a bespoke solution

	Models used	Number of drives
NAS	1 x TS-h1677AXU-RP	HDD: 16
Expansion card	2 x QXP-3X4PES	-
JBOD enclosure	4 x TL-R2400PES-RP	HDD: 96
Total drives		HDD: 112

1. At least 128 GB RAM is required for the NAS.
2. Each line indicates up to 16Gb/s connection. QNAP recommends cascading units as above.

Recommended configuration for

3 PB storage

The simplest scale-up solution for growing data.

Create a bespoke solution

	Models used	Number of drives
NAS	1 x TS-h2490FU	U.2 SSD: 24
Expansion card	3 x QXP-3X4PES	－
JBOD enclosure	9 x TL-R2400PES-RP	HDD: 216
Total drives		HDD: 216 U.2 SSD: 24

1. At least 256 GB RAM is required for the NAS.
2. Each line indicates up to 16Gb/s connection. QNAP recommends cascading units as above.

Recommended configuration for

4.5 PB storage

Supercharged storage solution for major enterprises and science research institutions.

Create a bespoke solution

	Models used	Number of hard drives
NAS	1 x TS-h2490FU	U.2 SSD: 24
Storage expansion card	3 x QXP-3X4PES	－
JBOD enclosure	12 x TL-R2400PES-RP	288
Total hard drives		HDD: 288 U.2 SSD: 24

1. At least 256 GB RAM is required for the NAS.
2. Each line indicates up to 16Gb/s connection. QNAP recommends cascading units as above.

Maximize storage utilization

Single folder with up to 5 PB capacity

The ZFS-based QuTS hero NAS supports up to 5 PB capacity for individual shared folders, enabling organizations to tackle storage-demanding applications such as big data analysis, edge computing, and AI analysis.

Learn More: QuTS hero operating system
S3-compatible object storage

Make your NAS perform as object storage with QuObjects. Achieve greater performance and fast local connection speed compared with cloud services.

Learn More: QuObjects