TS-1685 Internal M.2 Slots

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I was considering upgrading the current DataVol1 (system) RAID on my TS-1685 from the RAID one 2.5" SSD drives where it currently resides to a RAID on two of the internal M.2 slots that this NAS has available.

The documentation that I have found indicates that these M.2 slots are nothing more, speed wise, than a standard SATA drive wrapped in an M.2’s “clothing”. If that’s the case, and I have to assume it is, to what purpose were those M.2 slots good for other than more available drives?

If I want speed on the system volume, it looks like the only solution is to install a PCIe expansion card in this NAS and populate it with NVME drives.

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Those are SATA M.2 slots, 6 of them, correct. You could RAID those M2 slots together to form your system volume… it should easily exceed 10GbE speeds that way.

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Good to know and thank you. I’ll consider doing that rather than investing in a QNAP NVME expansion card and disks.

Just to be certain, can I install M.2 NVMEs in these six slots or do I have to find specific M.2 SATA drives?

Thanks again!

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It will have to be M.2 SATA disk, NVMe will NOT work.

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TS-1685 is a model from about six years ago. You can add support for NVMe M.2 SSDs by using our QM2 PCIe expansion card.

Alternatively, you can consider our current models that support M.2 NVMe. You can find more information here:
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Thanks!

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Thanks Steve. Yes, my “stable” of QNAP NAS systems is growing quite old. I still have an old and reliable TS-459 PRO II, a TS-879 PRO with an ungraded processor, a TS-831X and this TS-1685. I am retiring both the TS-879 and the TS-831X and have purchased a newer TVS-874T that does take the NVME drives as you suggested.