QNAP TVS-h874X vs TVS-h1288X NAS - Which Is Best?

[@THX_1138]

This is EXACTLY the comparison that I have wanted to see for months. Thank you!

[@piotrzet7447]

On small point. 1288x can use m.2 nvme 22110 so it's possible use enterprise m.2 SSDs like Samsung PM983 3.84TB with power protection capacitors - you can write that drive 1.03 times each day for three years (from my experience even more).

[@speedbird737]

Looking forward to this review! I have the TVS-h1688X NAS was looking to add the Intel i9 TVS-h874X to my collection due to that CPU!

[@don_farrell]

I was quite literally comparing these two options just this past week. Thanks for the video!

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[@deesto]

I’d say you only missed the fact that the 1288X can have its CPU upgraded (unofficiallly) to a W-1290, which gives you 20 threads. Personally the use of ECC makes sense, despite how painfully hard it is to acquire it. But if the 874X can fully utilise this, then all good. The TB3 is a nice feature to have, but it underperforms and is not well implemented. On top of that, it’s TB over Ethernet, and not a true thunderbolt connection. In essence, you are better off using 10Gbe over TB with the qnap adapter. It’s weird they have dropped using this though, as it was quite a selling point back when, and even more strange that they have not tried to improve on the protocol implementation. I got the 1288X back when you could get these for £1700-£2100. With the ecc ram maxed out at 128GB, and the w-1290 cpu upgrade, having watched this video now, I can’t quite say that I’m jealous much yet over the 874X. However, I do think the pcie4 implementation is a huge plus point. Means forking out more money for the pcie4 m2’s for example, but it’s a nice future proving feature indeed! In any case, it is nice to see a new video made by you on the still new-old 1288X. Time/Money permitting, can we have some more made dedicated to that unit, please?

[@sliceofmymind]

I have done that, upgraded my 1288X with the W-1290 and maxed out ECC memory. No need for anything else.

[@theroboticscodedepot7736]

Awesome comparison. I have already purchased the 1288X and I think it will serve me well for my purposes. However, if business goes gang busters and I need another NAS I might go for the h874X.

[@waynespringer501]

What's a Nickah Quid?

[@alonzosmith6189]

I am researching for a new NAS to assist my ASUSTOR AS7004T.

[@TheLDunn1]

i bought the h1288x when it launched. I got a very good price from Span at the time (before they had that issue with their website...the new website is no where near as user friendly IMO). I'm very pleased with the h1288x, however, the hacking issues QNAP have suffered in that time has taken the shine off. I was serving a website from it, but I got so nervous about the attacks, that I ended up taking my website down & restricting access alot. Security is an issue when you have all of your data on the device. If anyone is interested, for info, I got the 64GB ECC version of the h1288x at end of 2020 for £2142 (incl Vat) I added the QM2-4P-383 4xNVMe card (fitting it in the PCIe slot that the 10gbe card that came with the h1288x was fitted in, & moved the 10gbe card into the spare PCIe slot). I dropped 2x FireCuda 2TB M.2 NVMe sticks into the slots in the h1288x & 4x FireCuda 2TB M.2 NVMe sticks into the QM2-4P-383 card & grouped all 6 into a single 'data' raid. I droppped 2x Samsung SSD 860 1TB disks in as a mirrored raid for the OS to reside on. Finally, I got a QXG-10G2T-107 PCIe card & installed that in my Desktop, so I could hook up to the NAS at 10GBe I did attempt setting up twin 10GBe & use Port trunking to combine them, but didn't have the result I expected when I ran speed tests. Ideally, I need to get a swicth box with at least 6x10GBe ports, but it's fine just using single 10GBe runs between NAS-PC, NAS-Router, Router-PC

[@johntdavis9196]

Awesome video. It reminded me again just why I love QNAP's hardware, and really demystified a pair of NASes that had me pretty confused when I was trying to differentiate them. Have you considered testing whether either of these would have any issue running TrueNAS? I suspect that if it worked you'd need to rely on PCIe cards other than QNAP's, so finding NVME cards and 10GbE (and combo?) cards that fit and aren't QNAP branded might be an issue... The H874X in particular seems like a much better value than the TrueNAS Mini XL+ if it can run TrueNAS Core or Scale without any problems.

[@rolandrat4722]

I currently run 2 x h1288's with exact same spec, GTX1050ti, 96Gb ECC, my home network is 10Gbe. I also have the 674 i5-12400 for whats now basically used for snapshot/backup storage, reason being the 1288's knock it out of the park for what I use them for which is mainly VM's and Plex server (and storage obviously). I'd rather have ECC memory and the ability to have upto 128Gb, i'd rather a server cpu not a desktop in a device on 24/7, having space for 4xssd without taking HDD bays is a bonus. Ive tested the exact same VM's (migrated to each other) on both and the 674 is always slower. I'm not doubting the gen 4 stuff etc but for me the 1288's are still king in my home.

[@estusflask982]

Can you add drives over time with these?

[@DavidM2002]

Yes, I have the 874 and moved over the 4 drives from my 453A. I can now add 4 more drives one at a time as I need them. It is setup with Raid 5.

[@bagerklestyne]

@10:15 the shipping fees. At that price it had better be hand delivered over night by a supermodel.

[@Tugela60]

Yours wasn't?

[@Tugela60]

FYI, the fees are mostly import duties, not actual shipping fees.

[@LokiDaFerret]

The h874 is not as future proof as you think... It uses an expansion card to do 2 x 10gbe. So if you do as you say and buy a thunderbolt 4 expansion card then POOF you are out of expansion slots.

[@EvilTeddie23]

Dude, the h874X does NOT support ECC memory. The motherboard is crippled by QNAP to not support it.