Top-class hardware engineering with high I/O expandability
The hardware design of the TS-977XU-RP provides exceptional system performance and expandability to fulfill diverse application requirements.

Hybrid structure for enabling SSD and tiered storage
The TS-977XU-RP features an HDD+ SSD hybrid structure (including five 2.5-inch and four 3.5-inch drive bays*), allowing you to leverage the benefits of both hard drives and SSD to provide high storage capacity and high performance. Qtier™ Technology empowers the TS-977XU-RP with automatic tiering that continuously optimizes storage utilization across high-performance SSD and high-capacity hard drives. The new Qtier™ 2.0 features IO-awareness that empowers SSD-tiered storage with a cache-like reserved space to handle burst I/O in real time, greatly maximizing the advantages of SSD.
*SSDs and HDDs sold separately.

Dual-channel Memory to delivers power-smart performance
The TS-977XU-RP supports dual-channel DDR4 memory and features four Long-DIMM slots. When using paired memory modules, the TS-977XU-RP leverages the power of dual-channel architecture to boost performance. You can also customize the memory configuration (supports up to 64GB RAM) of the TS-977XU-RP, making it the most ideal and cost-efficient storage solution for environments like virtualization that contain dynamically-changing workloads.

Extend NAS functionality with PCIe cards
The TS-977XU-RP features a PCIe slot that allows for installing a 10GbE/40GbE network card, a QM2 M.2 SSD/10GbE PCIe card, or a wireless network card to provide greater application potential.

Install a graphics card for GPU-accelerated computing
Graphics cards are optimized for graphical calculations and transformations, but require significantly more power than other hardware. The TS-977XU-RP provides a 300 watt power supply and a PCIe slot that supports low-profile AMD Radeon™ or NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics cards that do not require additional power. Installing a graphics card can boost performance of applications such as video editing, 4K video transcoding, imaging processing in QTS and the performance of virtual machines via GPU passthrough.

Performance & reliability. Your wise choice.
The TS-977XU-RP supports advanced business features to provide maximized efficiency and performance while ensuring 24/7 services.

USB 3.1
USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbps) provides speeds up to 10Gb/s (double the speed of USB 3.0) to greatly boost data transfer performance, allowing for transferring large files faster and more easily.

Central management
Designed for IT administrators, QRM+ provides a single-point solution to discover, map, monitor and manage all Windows®, Linux® and IPMI devices in your network, and facilitates device discovery with a graphical topology diagram.

Optimized performance for VMware Virtualization with iSER
With the built-in dual 10GbE ports that natively features Mellanox® ConnectX-4, the TS-977XU-RP supports the iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) protocol to boost data transfer performance of the TS-977XU-RP as VMware® ESXi storage and to reduce the CPU load of the ESXi server. iSER can provide a significant increase in performance, providing an essential tool to optimize demanding virtualization applications.

Block-based iSCSI LUN: Ideal choice for virtualization storage
The TS-977XU-RP supports block-based iSCSI LUN that provides a more reliable and isolated environment than file-based LUN. Supporting VMware®, Citrix®, Microsoft® Hyper-V® and Windows Server® 2016, the TS-977XU-RP provides a high-performance, reliable and affordable storage solution for virtualization environments, while also supporting VMware VAAI and Microsoft ODX to increase performance by offloading server loading for ESXi server and Hyper-V respectively, and supporting QNAP vSphere Client plug-in and QNAP SMI-S provider with enhanced operational efficiency and management in virtualization applications.

All-in-one server to host virtual machines and containers
Virtualization Station and Container Station jointly introduce a hybrid approach to virtualization. No matter your virtualization needs, you can count on QNAP for complete virtualization support.

Virtualization Station
Virtualization Station allows you to run multiple Windows®, Linux®, UNIX® and Android™ virtual machines and access them via a web browser or VNC (Virtual Network Computing). Businesses can run virtualized server applications on a single NAS without the need for additional physical servers.

Container Station
Container Station integrates LXC and Docker® lightweight virtualization technologies. You can download apps from the built-in Docker Hub Registry®. It supports container import/export and permission settings. It’s easy deployment, portable, and efficient.

Host multiple virtual QTS systems on a single NAS
Based on Virtualization Station, vQTS allows for creating isolated virtual QTS systems to provide benefits for resource segregation, multi-tenant environments, and flexible application deployment. vQTS can also help optimize power usage, costs, and physical space. You can host multiple independent QTS systems on the TS-977XU-RP, while each virtual QTS can be used by different departments and teams with their own privilege settings and application environments, realizing greater business flexibility in management and applications.

Upgrade your IT environment with QNAP's fast and affordable 10GbE Switch!
QNAP 10GbE/NBASE-T™ unmanaged switches allow you to instantly upgrade your network environment at a cost-effective price. With a 10GbE network you can enjoy blazing-fast transfer speeds, empower bandwidth-demanding tasks like virtualization, and enable simultaneous real-time access to large NAS-based files using multiple workstations (ideal for video editing and multimedia). QNAP also provides a 10GbE PCIe network expansion card for Windows®/Linux® PCs to take advantage of high-speed LAN environments.

Optimized collaboration with seamless file sharing and sync
The TS-977XU-RP centrally stores data and files, and supports SMB/CIFS, AFP and NFS protocols for file sharing across Windows®, Mac®, and Linux®/UNIX® networks. Coupled with Qsync (a utility that turns a QNAP NAS into a safe, high-capacity data center for file synchronization) any file uploaded to the TS-977XU-RP will be made available for all linked devices, such as computers, laptops or mobile devices. You can sync shared folders and team folders for group file sharing to enhance the flexibility of team projects and collaboration. Files can be centrally managed using File Station, including files from mobile devices and optical disc drives. File Station also allows you to mount a remote NAS, and transfer files between your NAS and public cloud services for greater convenience.

Complete backup planning
The TS-977XU-RP provides a reliable, flexible backup & disaster recovery solution to assist organizations in routine backup jobs with cost-efficiency and high productivity.

Windows and Mac backup
Use the license-free QNAP NetBak Replicator utility to back up/restore Windows® files, alongside Time Machine® support for Mac® devices. It is easy, fast and convenient.

Hybrid Backup Sync
Consolidates backup, restoration and synchronization functions (using RTRR, rsync, FTP, CIFS/SMB) for easily transferring data to local, remote and cloud storage spaces as a comprehensive data storage and disaster recovery plan.

Snapshots for Volume & LUN
Snapshot is essential for NAS data protection, and its block-level feature makes it a dependable method for protecting data in the face of the growing threat of ransomware. The TS-977XU-RP supports up to 256 snapshots per volume or LUN, and maximum 1, 024 snapshots per NAS.

VM backup
With high performance, potentially huge storage capacities, integrated virtualization solutions, and support for snapshots that record the state of the system at any time, the TS-977XU-RP are perfect for backing up virtual machines.

QVR Pro surveillance solution
QNAP’s QVR Pro surveillance solution allows you to arrange a dedicated, independent storage space for surveillance data on TS-977XU-RP and leverage the advantages of scalability and storage manageability from QTS. With QVR Pro, camera management, storage space allocation, camera live viewing and playback is greatly simplified. You can also use the QVR Pro Client mobile app to monitor your cameras from anywhere, or use a USB webcam as an ONVIF network camera with the QUSBCam2 app.

Flexible and economical storage expansion
You need an easy solution to increase storage capacity when running out of space. QNAP provides several ways to expand your NAS storage as needed to accommodate data and business growth.

VJBOD
Use VJBOD (Virtual JBOD) to expand your storage capacity by using the unused storage of other QNAP NAS. Up to 8 QNAP NAS can be mounted as local disks on the TS-977XU-RP

Upgrade RAID Capacity
Hot swap lower-capacity drives with larger-capacity drives so that your QNAP NAS can grow with your business.

Migrate to a New NAS
Install your NAS hard drives into a larger QNAP NAS and retain all your existing data and configurations.

Attach Expansion Enclosures
Connect up to 8 REXP-1620U-RP/REXP-1220U-RP* or up to 2 UX-1200U-RP/800U-RP expansion enclosures. Use the QTS Storage & Snapshots Manager to easily handle NAS capacity expansion.
* A SAS storage expansion card is required to use REXP-1620U-RP / REXP-1220U-RP expansion enclosures.

Specification

Product
Product id	694097
Brand	QNAP
Partnr	TS-977XU-RP-3600-8G
EAN/UPC code	4713213518274
Warranty (months)	36 months
Storage
Storage drives installed	N
Number of storage drives supported	9
Installed storage drive type	N
Supported storage drive types	HDD & SSD
Supported storage drive interfaces	Serial ATA II, Serial ATA III
Storage drive sizes supported	2.5, 3.5 "
RAID support	Y
RAID levels	0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, JBOD
Online RAID migration	Y
Online RAID expansion	Y
RAID rebuild	Y
Hot-swap drive bays	Y
Supported file systems	FAT32, HFS+, NTFS, ext3, ext4
Bad block scan	Y
Processor
Processor manufacturer	AMD
Processor family	AMD Ryzen 5
Processor model	3600
Processor frequency	3.6 GHz
Processor boost frequency	4.2 GHz
Processor cores	6
Processor threads	12
Memory
Internal memory type	DDR4
Internal memory	8 GB
Maximum RAM supported	64 GB
Memory slots	4
Network
Ethernet LAN	Y
Ethernet LAN data rates	10, 100, 1000, 10000 Mbit/s
Ethernet LAN data rate supported (max)	10000 Mbit/s
DHCP client	Y
DHCP server	Y
Jumbo frames support	Y
iSCSI support	Y
Wake-on-LAN ready	Y
WLAN adapter supported	Y
Dynamic DNS (DDNS)	Y
Ports & interfaces
Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports	2
USB port	Y
USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-A ports quantity	4
USB 3.2 Gen 2 (3.1 Gen 2) Type-A ports quantity	1
Fiber ports quantity	2
Fiber optic connector	SFP+
Design
Chassis type	Rack (1U)
Cooling type	Active
Product colour	Black
Number of fans	3 ventilator(en)
Fan diameter	40 mm
LED indicators	Y
Performance
Type	NAS
Device class	Small & Medium Business
Backup function	Y
Backup features	Cloud, iSCSI LUN
Buzzer	Y
Multilingual support	Y
Snapshot	Y
Web-based management	Y
Share folder	CIFS/SMB
S. M. A. R. T. support	Y
Hot spare	Y
System log	Y
Access Control List (ACL)	Y
Reset button	Y
On/off switch	Y
Built-in iTunes server	Y
Built-in FTP server	Y
Browser supported	Safari 7+, Chrome, Internet Explorer 10+, Firefox
Security algorithms	256-bit AES, FIPS 140-2, HTTPS, SNMP, SNMPv3, SSH, SSL/TLS
Software
Operating system installed	QNAP Turbo System
Operating system version	4.3.4
Windows operating systems supported	Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8
Mac operating systems supported	Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra, Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra, Mac OS X 10.14 Mojave, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Server operating systems supported	Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016
Power
Power supply location	Built-in
Power supply unit (PSU) capacity	300 W
Number of power supply units	2
AC input voltage	100 - 240 V
AC input frequency	50 - 60 Hz
Fan voltage	12 V
Weight & dimensions
Width	482.6 mm
Depth	505.54 mm
Height	43.3 mm
Packaging content
Cables included	AC, LAN (RJ-45)
Number of screws	52
Operational conditions
Operating temperature (T-T)	0 - 40 °C
Operating relative humidity (H-H)	5 - 95 procent