Infinity Vault Q6 | QNAP TS-673A 6-Bay Desktop NAS | Ryzen Embedded V1500B

As a firm grows, its file server fills with years of project files, drawings, scans and imaging archives on drives of 12TB and larger. At that size, surviving one drive failure is not enough: a large drive can take many hours to rebuild, and a second failure in that window can take the whole pool with it. Infinity Vault Q6 is a six-bay desktop NAS for engineering, architecture, accounting and medical practices of about 10-40 users that have outgrown a four-bay unit, with two-drive fault tolerance from day one and no server rack needed.

Genuine QNAP NAS appliance supplied, configured and supported by Infinity Computers. The QNAP TS-673A runs an AMD Ryzen Embedded V1500B (4 cores / 8 threads, 2.2GHz) with 8GB of DDR4, expandable to 64GB with ECC memory support. Six hot-swappable 3.5-inch SATA bays (2.5-inch SATA SSDs also supported), two M.2 2280 NVMe slots for SSD caching and two 2.5GbE ports are standard, and two PCIe Gen3 x4 slots mean a 10GbE card can be fitted with a second slot still free. An internal 250 W power supply, 10Gbps USB-A and USB-C connectivity complete a 180 x 264 x 280 mm desktop tower.

Base configuration includes the QNAP NAS appliance. Storage drives are sold separately. Order it diskless for drives on QNAP's compatibility list for the TS-673A, with the pool built on your drives in an included remote session, or add a Seagate IronWolf Pro pack of four or six drives that we check, test, build into a pool and burn in before shipping. Six-drive packs are built as RAID 6, RAID 10 or, under QuTS hero, triple-parity RAID-TP: six 12TB drives are 72TB raw and 48TB usable in RAID 6. Four-drive packs leave two bays free for growth. 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.

QNAP QTS 6.1 is installed by default, with SSD caching and Qtier auto-tiering for the M.2 slots, snapshots, Hybrid Backup Sync 3, Snapshot Replica, Qsync team folders, Qsirch search and Qfiling. QNAP's Hyper Data Protector adds agentless backup of VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines without extra licence fees. QuTS hero (ZFS) is available at no charge if chosen before setup, adding self-healing checksums, inline compression, WORM folders and RAID-TP; 8GB meets QNAP's minimum, but QNAP recommends 16GB or more when running several apps, and inline deduplication needs at least 16GB (memory upgrades are quoted). Changing the operating system later erases all data.

Choose the Q6 over Infinity Vault Q4 when you need six bays and RAID 6, memory headroom to 64GB with ECC, and two expansion slots instead of one. The Q4 is smaller and has integrated graphics with an HDMI output, which the Q6 does not. If the NAS belongs in a network rack or needs redundant power supplies, Infinity Vault Q8 Rack uses the same processor in a short-depth 2U chassis.

Every Q6 includes Infinity Ready setup: inspection, QNAP warranty registration, a bench test, current firmware, alerts, our security baseline, an as-built sheet and a 30-minute remote handover. Options include a QNAP 10GBASE-T or SFP+ 10GbE card, a CyberPower 1500VA UPS with automatic shutdown, memory and ECC upgrades (quoted), and services for file shares and permissions, snapshot and 3-2-1 backup planning, directory join, secure remote access, data migration and yearly Vault Care. RAID 6 keeps the pool running through two drive failures, but it is not a backup: protection against deletion, ransomware, theft and fire needs snapshots plus a copy on another device and 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.