Infinity Vault Q8 Rack | QNAP TS-873AeU-RP 8-Bay 2U NAS | Ryzen Embedded V1500B

Many offices keep their NAS on the floor of the network closet: easy to knock, hard to keep cool, and running on a single power supply. Infinity Vault Q8 Rack moves that storage into the rack beside the switch and firewall, with eight bays for RAID 6 and a hot spare, and redundant power supplies that keep it running if one fails. It suits clinics, law firms, schools and multi-site retailers with a four-post network rack or cabinet.

Genuine QNAP NAS appliance supplied, configured and supported by Infinity Computers. The QNAP TS-873AeU-RP is a 2U short-depth rackmount whose chassis is only 297.4 mm deep (QNAP), built around an AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B (4 cores / 8 threads, 2.2GHz) with 4GB of DDR4, expandable to 64GB with ECC support. It has eight hot-swappable 3.5-inch SATA bays (2.5-inch SATA SSDs also supported), two M.2 2280 NVMe slots for SSD caching, two 2.5GbE ports, 10Gbps USB connectivity and one PCIe Gen3 x8 slot for a QNAP 10GbE card. Redundant power supplies can be fed from two circuits or two UPS outlets.

Base configuration includes the QNAP NAS appliance. Storage drives are sold separately. QNAP ships the unit without rails, so every rack install needs one mounting choice: the QNAP RAIL-B02 rail kit, supplied and fitted by us, for racks with 443-815 mm between the front and rear posts; or, for shallower cabinets, the RAIL-S02 short-depth kit or a fixed shelf (both quoted). Seagate IronWolf Pro packs of four or eight drives are checked, tested, built into a pool and burn-in checked before shipping: eight 16TB drives are 128TB raw, 96TB usable in RAID 6 or 80TB with a hot spare. Raw capacity is the combined size of the drives; usable capacity is what remains after RAID protection, before file-system overhead and the snapshot space we reserve (20% of the pool by default). Capacities are in decimal terabytes; the NAS reports binary units (TiB), which read about 9% lower.

As shipped with 4GB, the Q8 Rack runs QNAP QTS 6.1: SMB, AFP and NFS sharing for Windows, Mac and Linux, Active Directory and LDAP permissions, volume and LUN snapshots, iSCSI LUNs with VMware VAAI and Windows ODX support, Hybrid Backup Sync 3, Hyper Data Protector VM backup and HDP PC Agent for Windows PCs. QNAP's ZFS-based QuTS hero and RAID-TP need at least 8GB of genuine QNAP memory, and inline deduplication at least 16GB; memory upgrades are quoted before setup.

Choose the Q8 Rack over Infinity Vault Q6 when the storage belongs in a rack, needs redundant power or needs eight bays; it uses the same processor and ships with less memory. Infinity Vault Q12 Rack adds a Ryzen 7 processor, 32GB of DDR5, built-in 10GbE, ZFS by default and a 5-year QNAP warranty, but needs a full-depth rack.

The Q8 Rack is sold by quote. We confirm your rack's post depth, power feeds and airflow by phone or photos, then confirm availability and the rack-ready price; on-site delivery and installation in Niagara, Hamilton and the GTA is recommended for populated systems (quoted). Every unit includes Infinity Ready setup, our security baseline, alerts, an as-built sheet and a 30-minute remote handover. Options include QNAP 10GBASE-T and SFP+ cards, memory upgrades (quoted) and services for file shares, backup planning, directory join, remote access, UPS shutdown integration and yearly Vault Care. RAID keeps the NAS running through a drive failure, but it is not a backup: it does not protect against deletion, ransomware, theft, fire or the loss of the NAS itself, and snapshots stay on the same drives. Keep a second copy on another device and one off-site. The appliance is covered by QNAP's 3-year manufacturer warranty (bundled accessories for 1 year), and Infinity Computers adds the configuration and lifetime technical support.