Hello everyone,
since the TVS-h1688X is already out for over 5 years now, I am hesitating to buy this model in fear, right after I would get it, a successor to it would be announced within the next 3 years.
Especially because the model still cost 3.7k € that’s quite some money for an old horse.
Since there are no informations either on the qnap pages or the web I try this way to ask directly and hope the qnap employees are reading this.
Greetings
The device was introduced early 2021, so close to 4 but not more than 5 years old.
I have a 1288X and it’s VERY capable, nothing I miss.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I do not reference on the release date of QNAP but on the Hardware inside of it.
Since the CPU has been released in Q2’2020, the hardware is about to be 5 years old soon.
QNAP promised us that staff would swing by from time to time(in contrast to the old forums) , maybe marketing could tease something (only QNAP would know)
this perhaps 
None than the TVS-h1688X would suite my needs in storage capacity.
I already own a DS2415+, but it’s a bit weak on CPU performance and the next gen NAS from Syno is not even better. Additional frustation added with their toshiba labeled overpriced garbage as “certified” drives.
That’s the main reason for me to look for another NAS in the near future, it is still running but the problem for me is because of my docker containers running, the hard drives cannot switch to hibernate, even when I select an usb stick as docker container storage, the main program is installed and running on my hdds.
Thats why I am looking for a solution like h1688X to stay on the same drive size, while having the system running on ssd or nvme drives to minimize the power usage with the drives that can hibernate if not needed and use the ssd as cache storage for recent stuff.
I’m already using all 12 x 4tb disks and nearly reach the full capacity, I am running out of space in the near future but because of the btrfs+ I’m using actually, its big shit for me when I have to replace it, the next gen NAS from Syno doesn’t support that anymore.
Shouldn’t have switched from Raid 5 to btrfs, but sounded like some good idea later drive size changes…
And of course, a full ssd drive wouldn’t fit my needs, 8tb ssds are too expensive.
On QTS and QuTS the system is always installed on all internal drives, without intervention via SSH every read or write from/to the system will keep all drives on .
That would be absolute shit if it were like that.
I hope you are wrong and the system will only be installed to the drives I select.
Also, my Syno did that too but when I do not run any docker, the drives are switching to hibernate and the system only keeps on running in RAM Mode.
I am not wrong… test it for yourself
cat /proc/mdstat on any QNAP system will reveal the ext OS and swap partitions (no matter if the data is ext or ZFS based)
i do not own a qnap, so i cannot test anything there.
Well here is the output of my 1288X (running QuTS)
2 x internal NVMe
4 x 2.5" SATA SSD
8 x 3.5" SATA HDD
[~] # cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath]
md322 : active raid1 sdg5[7](S) sdf5[6](S) sdh5[5](S) sde5[4](S) sdl5[3](S) sdk5[2](S) sdj5[1] sdi5[0]
31868416 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU]
bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk
md321 : active raid1 nvme1n1p5[2] nvme0n1p5[0]
32916992 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU]
bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk
**md13 : active raid1 nvme0n1p4[1] sda4[140] sdg4[139] sdf4[138] sdh4[137] sde4[136] sdl4[135] sdk4[134] sdj4[133] sdi4[132] sdd4[131] sdc4[130] sdb4[129]**
** 458880 blocks super 1.0 [129/13] [_UUUUUUUUUUUUU___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________]**
** bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk**
**md9 : active raid1 nvme1n1p1[140] nvme0n1p1[1] sda1[128] sdg1[139] sdf1[138] sdh1[137] sde1[136] sdl1[135] sdk1[134] sdj1[133] sdi1[132] sdd1[131] sdc1[130] sdb1[129]**
** 530048 blocks super 1.0 [128/14] [UUUUUUUUUUUUUU__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________]**
bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk
unused devices: <none>
Well ok you are running multiple raids but I can’t see that on every raid the OS is installed and get run by them.
Would be logical truly, windows, linux and co also only using one volume to be run, not multiple at once, this would cause problems if the system is installed and runned parrallel over multiple volumes.
md9 and md13 have as many members as the 1288X has slots(including NVMe)…is it dawning now?
I gave the amount of slots and marked in in the code, short of a song and dance routine, no idea what else you need
What I actually really desire is what the topic says, an information about of if QNAP will release something new in the near future.
I don’t know how we drifted apart from that this much.
And I’m not as deep inside the linux stuff, whatever reports you are giving me from the shell, I have no idea how to process this information for me to be helpful in my first question.
Then you have to wait for QNAP to reply…Or just open a ticket with them, because only they would know.
Yea, thats why i said i hope they are reading their own community here.
ts-1655 exist
Well, the Atom powered 1655 is not really a successor, it’s a newer but much lower powered 16 bay unit
Uuuuh, hello my dear. 
Presentation already next week.
I’m excited to see the specs and release date.
Hope they upgraded their cooling solution to some lovely quiet fans.
