Tuesday, July 11th 2023
QNAP Officially Releases QTS 5.1.0 NAS Operating System
QNAP Systems, Inc. (QNAP) today officially released the QTS 5.1.0 NAS operating system that includes major enhancements for storage applications, services, and management to address IT challenges. With QTS 5.1.0, QNAP has bolstered its industry-leading 2.5GbE, 10GbE, and 25GbE-ready NAS solutions, providing suitability for SMB multichannel to drive boosted network performance for demanding workloads.
"Our focus in QTS 5.1.0 was optimizing performance and cloud management, with an aim to help organizations resolve performance bottlenecks and also maximize operational efficiency from cloud management toolsets," said Tim Lin, Product Manager of QNAP, adding "we also want to acknowledge the valuable feedback submitted by our amazing QTS 5.1.0 beta testers, as it helped us put the finishing touches to this official release."
Key new features in QTS 5.1.0:
"Our focus in QTS 5.1.0 was optimizing performance and cloud management, with an aim to help organizations resolve performance bottlenecks and also maximize operational efficiency from cloud management toolsets," said Tim Lin, Product Manager of QNAP, adding "we also want to acknowledge the valuable feedback submitted by our amazing QTS 5.1.0 beta testers, as it helped us put the finishing touches to this official release."
- File Station improves file management and searching: The new File Station user interface allows users to quickly find files that have been recently uploaded, accessed, and deleted, while also finding files via rich search/sort functions powered by the full-text search engine Qsirch.
- SMB multichannel for full throughput and multi-path protection: SMB multichannel aggregates multiple network connections to maximize available bandwidth with higher transfer speeds - especially ideal for large file and multimedia transfer. SMB multichannel also provides network fault tolerance to prevent service interruption.
- Supports AES-128-GMAC for SMB signing acceleration: QTS 5.1.0 supports AES-128-GMAC signing acceleration (only in Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11 clients) that not only greatly increases data signing efficiency over SMB 3.1.1 but also enhances the CPU utilization of the NAS system - providing the best balance of security and performance.
- QNAP Authenticator supports passwordless login: The QNAP Authenticator mobile app is available for setting up two-step log-in process to NAS accounts, including time-based one-time passwords, QR code scanning, and login approval. Passwordless login is also supported.
- Delegated administration improves management productivity and data security: NAS administrators can delegate 8 types of roles to other users with specified permissions to management tasks and NAS data. For growing organizations, role delegation helps ease management workloads without sacrificing data access controls.
- Automatic RAID disk replacement with spares before potential failure: If potential drive errors are detected, the system automatically moves data from the affected disk in a RAID group to a spare disk, before the data on the affected disk is completely corrupted. It prevents the time needed and potential risks of RAID rebuilding, thus system reliability is greatly improved. QTS 5.1.0 integrates more HDD/SSD health check tools, including S.M.A.R.T., Western Digital Device Analytics, IronWolf Health Management, and ULINK DA Drive Analyzer.
- Improved drive health analysis and failure prediction: ULINK DA Drive Analyzer leverages cloud-based AI to predict drive failure. Now it comes with an advanced user interface that allows users to clearly identify drive information in each drive bay/slot, life prediction score, and drive data upload logs. The DA Desktop Suite, available for Windows and macOS, helps you monitor several devices for multiple users.
- Monitor and manage multiple NAS using AMIZ Cloud management platform: AMIZ Cloud, a centralized cloud management platform, can remotely monitor not only QuCPE Network Virtualization Premise Equipment but also QNAP NAS. It enables remotely monitoring NAS resources and system status, conducting firmware updates, and batch install/update/start/stop of apps. For organizations with multiple sites or branches, IT staff can easily manage multi-site devices from a single place.
- Add a Hailo-8 M.2 AI module to boost smart surveillance with much lower total costs: By adding a Hailo-8 M.2 AI acceleration module to a QNAP surveillance server, AI recognition performance is boosted by increasing the number of IP cameras for simultaneous analysis for QVR Face facial recognition and QVR Human people counting. This QNAP-Hailo joint solution helps maximize your investment compared to using the same quantity of expensive AI cameras.
1 Comment on QNAP Officially Releases QTS 5.1.0 NAS Operating System
/ - root - only 250MB for root filesystem? Really? With over 90% of usage constantly and breaking constantly because /var/log is on the same partition? WTF????
/tmp - 64MB for tmp??? Jesus Christ!!! Are we still in 90's??? Again - some 3rd party tools are breaking due to overfill of this partition
/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA - mount of main storage??? /mnt/ would be to obvious.
/mnt/ext - it is not your main storage - just to confuse more users - someone knows what is this crap?
QNAP can't even provide proper find tool with "atime" switch to make cleaning /tmp and /var/log more easier? No tmpwatch either.
QNAP system is just crap. It was last time I bought it. Kodi and its plugins breaks all the time because of this crappy filesystem layout. Reboot takes ages. CLI is hell, nothing works properly, you won't find anything in the spaghetti of symlinks. Someone who customized Linux for QNAP is just crazy, for someone who is familiar with Linux QNAP is just garbage where you have to learn everything from the beginning and nothing makes any sense. You can't even make such simple thing like configuring to start Kodi automaticaly after reboot - you have to do it manually from GUI.
Just after reboot, doing nothing, the load on system: 22:03:34 up 10 min, load average: 1.60, 2.06, 1.16
QNAP is resource hog, even at idle the system has huge load. Dozens of unneeded daemons running in background. Amount of system defects is so huge it just makes me want to throw away this crap.