One of the pillars on which the prosperity and competitiveness of our country is based is undoubtedly the sector manufacturing. Europe has established itself as one of the main manufacturing powers in the world, thanks to its recognized excellence in multiple segments. The manufacturing sector not only contributes significantly to the national GDP, but also represents a driving force for innovation, employment and exports.
In order for manufacturing enterprises to maintain and strengthen the competitiveness in an increasingly dynamic and technologically advanced global context, it is increasingly essential to adopt modern solutions for management and data storagein the context of research, development, design and production activities.
QNAP explains that it is no longer feasible to store data with decade-old tools. In order not to leave on the field that competitive advantage that could be counted on until some time ago and, vice versa, to conquer new market sharesit is essential to use products that allow you to modernize the infrastructure.
Data storage in manufacturing: a critical role
Data storage in the manufacturing sector plays a crucial role for several reasons. Taking into consideration the production process, the data generated provides essential information to monitor and optimize operational efficiency, product quality and customer satisfaction. Data collection and analysis allows companies to identify market trends, anticipate consumer needs, and quickly adapt their manufacturing strategies in response to changing market conditions.
The data management in the manufacturing sector it presents unique challenges, due to the complexity of the production processes, the variety of data generated and the need to integrate heterogeneous systems. Therefore, it is essential to embrace advanced data storage solutions, capable of ensuring the security, reliability and accessibility of information, as well as compliance to the regulations.
The volume of information that companies are called upon to process has grown dramatically and in many cases, unless the infrastructure has been updated recently, it often happens that the solutions fordata storage are not up to the task.
The data storage products and services as well as the network infrastructure used in manufacturing companies may no longer be sufficient to support modern workloads. Your configuration may not be able to handle the growing amount of data. The current ones workloadFurthermore, they require high performance and fast response times; the needs for scalability and flexibility are increasingly felt, so much so that legacy solutions may not be adaptable to sudden load peaks or changes in the size of the company.
With the growing threat of security breaches and increasing attention to the issue of data protectioncompanies must offer concrete guarantees and protect themselves from any accident.
High-performance ZFS-based all-flash storage: the high-performance QNAP TS-h1090FU NVMe NAS
QNAP, a leader in the systems industry NAS (Network Attached Storage), boasts the presence – in its catalog – of a product like the TS-h1090FU, a high-level full flash solution designed to meet the needs of high-performance storage for a wide range of applications.
Il NAS TS-h1090FU is a 1U rack-mount device that offers full flash NVMe SSD storage based on the ZFS file system, with support for U.2 NVMe PCIe Gen 4 and SATA 6Gbps SSDs, ideal for low-latency file servers, virtualized workloads, and 4K streaming /8K.
One of the distinctive features of the TS-h1090FU is storage full flash NVMe, which offers performance taken to the extreme ensuring the maximum possible efficiency in terms of costs. Thanks to 10 SSD slots U.2 NVMe Gen 4 x4, TS-h1090FU ensures very high IOPS values in 4K random read/write (300,000-330,000 IOPS) with ultra-low latency.
The QuTS hero operating system, based on ZFS, supports the deduplication e compression inline of data, improving SSD durability and providing a high performance-to-cost ratio for all storage arrays all-flash.
Hardware features and advanced connectivity
An advanced NAS like the QNAP TS-h1090FU relies on processors AMD EPYC second generation. Users can choose models that use up to EPYC chips equipped with 16 cores and 32 threads, with clock speeds up to 3.3 GHz. RAM DDR4 ECC can go up to 1TB.
Overall, therefore, the QNAP NAS provides immense computing powerusable for multi-tasking functionality and confirms itself as an ideal choice for high-performance applications (i.e. HPC, virtualization and 4K/8K media).
With 25 GbE connectivityTS-h1090FU accelerates virtualization tasks, multimedia file transfers, large object storage and more demanding backup/restore tasks.
The slot PCIe Gen 4 at high speed allow you to possibly add adapters to further increase application performance. Furthermore, the NAS supports the creation of virtualized environments multi-tenant and is compatible with the main virtualization technologies.
Best NAS for Small to Medium Manufacturing Businesses: TS-h3087XU-RP
The QNAP TS-h3087XU-RP is a system hybrid storage high performance designed to meet the needs of modern companies, a solution particularly suitable for manufacturing realities.
The NAS is equipped with a processor Intel Xeon E-2300, supported by DDR4 ECC memory up to 128 GB. The device’s architecture is hybrid because it combines the use of large hard disks with high-performance SSDs, to ensure an optimal balance between performance and costs.
With 24 slots for 3.5″ SATA 6 Gb/s hard drives and 6 slots to accommodate 2.5″ SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs, the NAS TS-h3087XU-RP supports SSD caching to improve workloads, ensuring fast access to critical data. And you can see the results, because in 4K random read/write, performance can exceed 1,000,000 IOPS.
With dual connectivity With high-speed 10GBASE-T and 2.5GbE, the TS-h3087XU-RP offers unmatched performance for virtualization, intensive file access and backup/restore tasks.
High-speed PCIe Gen 4 slots allow installation of 10/25GbE adapters, QM2 cards or Fibre Channel to further increase application performance.
The ZFS-based QuTS hero operating system and SnapSync functionality
TS-h3087XU-RP runs the operating system QTS hero: The ZFS file system ensures flexible storage management, complete data protection and optimized performance. With internal data deduplication, nearly unlimited snapshots, real-time SnapSync and QSAL (QNAP SSD Antiwear Leveling), this NAS ensures reliable and secure storage.
SnapSync is a key feature offered by QNAP for its devices, designed to synchronize data in real time between two NAS systems. This technology is extremely useful for backup, disaster recovery and corporate data protection.
Thanks to QNAP SnapSync, users can activate the real-time synchronization between two NAS, ensuring that both systems contain the same latest information. This means that any changes, additions or deletions of files on one of the NAS are done immediately replicated on the other.
Since synchronization occurs in realtime, in case of data loss on one of your NAS, you can quickly restore data from the backup NAS system, without losing important information. For this reason, SnapSync is an efficient way to back up critical data, even according to the schedule of administrators and users. Furthermore, it allows the manufacturing company to do business-as-usualeven in the case of IT disaster.
In the article focused on the immutability of data, we saw in detail how SnapSync works to activate data backup and benefit from safety copies distributed between NAS remote.
QSAL detects the lifetime of SSDs at the RAID level automatically and regularly, in order to prevent the simultaneous failure of SSDs, thereby improving data protection and system reliability.
Complete solution for data backup and recovery
In addition to the ability to take advantage of SnapSync, the TS-h3087XU-RP NAS supports a wide range of applications for…