Attain quad-port Thunderbolt 3 connectivity by installing two QXP-T32P expansion cards in the PCIe Gen 3 x4 slots. Two 10GBASE-T and four 2. 5Gb E LAN ports accelerate virtualization, intensive file access, large backup/restoration tasks, and media transfer. PCIe slots allow for installing 5/10/25/40Gb E adapters, QM2 cards, or graphics cards to increase application performance. 4K media playback and real-time transcoding; directly output videos to an HDMI display (up to 4K @30Hz). Supports virtual machines and containerized apps, centralized storage, backup, sharing, disaster recovery, and storage expansion. Cloud storage gateways realize hybrid cloud applications by working with the cache space reserved on NAS to ensure low-latency data access to the cloud. The high-capacity TVS-h1688X features a powerful Intel Xeon W processor and allows for installing two QNAP QXP-T32P Thunderbolt 3 PCIe expansion cards (sold separately) to attain four Thunderbolt 3 ports, making it a perfect match for Thunderbolt -equipped Mac and Windows users for high-speed media collaboration. The built-in 10Gb E and 2. 5Gb E connectivity supports Port Trunking and failover to further satisfy bandwidth and reliability demanding business applications. Running the ZFS-based Qu TS hero operating system, the TVS-h1688X supports block-level inline data deduplication and compression, near-limitless snapshots, real-time Snap Sync, and read/write cache technologies, helping your business achieve reliable service-level agreement performance, from creative workflows to file server, virtualization server, and efficient file backup and recovery applications.