Giveaway: QNAP TS-932X NAS & Seagate IronWolf Drive Bundle
by Ryan Smith on September 12, 2019 12:30 PM ESTWe’re back this week with another giveaway, this time courtesy of Seagate. After giving away some of their new Ironwolf 110 SSDs a couple of months back, this month the company has decided to up the ante. Rather than just giving away the SSDs, this time the company will be giving away a complete NAS setup, comprised of QNAP TS-932X-2G 9 bay NAS, as well as one of each of Seagate’s IronWolf Pro 16TB HDD and Ironwolf 110 240GB SSD.
Starting things off, we have QNAP’s TS-932X-2G, a business-class NAS. This is one of the company’s compact 9 bay NASes, sporting 5 3.5-inch SATA drive bays along with another 4 2.5-inch SATA bays. The NAS is designed particularly for tiered storage, with the 3.5-inch bays being ideal for HDDs, while the 2.5-inch bays can hold SSDs (or in a pinch, 2.5-inch HDDs). Under the hood, the 932X is based on a quad core ARM Cortex A57-based SoC, the Alpine AL-324, which runs at 1.7GHz. This specific model comes with 2GB of DDR4 pre-installed in the single SO-DIMM slot, though it can be upgraded.
In terms of I/O, the NAS comes with a trio of USB 3.0 Type-A ports, among other things. But perhaps the most interesting feature here is the NAS’s Ethernet support: a pair of GigE RJ45 ports, along with a pair of 10GigE SFP+ ports. Owing to its business-focused design, QNAP has opted for SFP+ ports, which means that the NAS can be equipped with any of several different flavors of 10GigE depending on what kind of cabling you’d like to use. The one downside to this is that it means the ports aren’t actually usable without buying a transceiver, so there’s an additional cost (10GBASE-T transceivers are ~$50) before 10GigE is actual usable.
QNAP TS-932X NAS | ||
TS-932X-2G | ||
CPU | Model | Alpine AL-324 (Cortex-A57) |
Cores | 4C | |
Freq. | 1.7 GHz | |
Encryption Acceleration | 256-bit AES | |
Memory | Speed | DDR4, one SO-DIMM slot |
Capacity | 2 GB, single-channel | |
Bays | 5 × 3.5" 4 × 2.5" |
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Storage interface | SATA 6 Gbps | |
Ethernet | 2 × GbE 2 × 10 GbE SFP+ |
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Audio | 1 speaker 1 × 3.5mm audio out |
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USB | 3 × USB 3.0 Type-A | |
Other I/O | Copy button, buzzer, LED notifications, etc. | |
Dimensions | Height | 183 mm | 7.19" |
Width | 225 mm | 8.85" | |
Depth | 224 mm | 8.8" | |
Power Consumption | Standby | 21.66 W |
Operating | 42.15 W | |
OS | QNAP QTS 4.3 | |
MSRP | $599 |
Seagate IronWolf HDD & SSD
Meanwhile from Seagate, we have a pair of IronWolf drives from them. For mass storage, the company is including their top capacity 16TB IronWolf HDD. A recently launched product from the company, the 16TB IronWolf is a helium-based 7200 RPM drive, and the highest capacity IronWolf drive from the company to date. As part of the IronWolf family it’s specifically designed for use in NASes, incorporating the necessary sensors and low-vibrational design to best handle being packed in tight with a number of other actively running HDDs.
Seagate is also including one of their IronWolf SSDs as well, the 240GB version of the IronWolf 110. The drives, based on 3D TLC NAND with sustained performance numbers of 560 / 535 MBps sequential reads / writes, support a relatively hearty 1 DWPD endurance, despite the usual read-heavy scenarios that NASes drive. This makes them well suited for use as cache drives, which is exactly what Seagate is going for in this giveaway with the QNAP NAS.
Seagate Ironwolf 110 Series Specifications | |||||
Capacity | 240 GB | 480 GB | 960 GB | 1920 GB | 3840 GB |
Form Factor | 2.5" 7mm SATA | ||||
NAND Flash | 3D TLC | ||||
Sequential Read | 560 MB/s | ||||
Sequential Write |
345 MB/s | 535 MB/s | |||
Random Read | 55k IOPS | 75k IOPS | 90k IOPS | 90k IOPS | 85k IOPS |
Random Write |
30k IOPS | 50k IOPS | 55k IOPS | 50k IOPS | 45k IOPS |
Idle Power | 1.2 W | ||||
Active Power | 2.3 W | 2.7 W | 3.2 W | 3.4 W | 3.5 W |
Warranty | 5 years | ||||
Write Endurance |
435 TB 1 DWPD |
875 TB 1 DWPD |
1750 TB 1 DWPD |
3500 TB 1 DWPD |
7000 TB 1 DWPD |
The giveaway is running through September 27th and is open to all US residents (sorry, ROW!). You can enter below, and you can find more details (and the full discussion) about the giveaway over on the AnandTech Forums.
Source: AnandTech Forums
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chaos215bar2 - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
My free Twitter advertising is not worth a minuscule chance at a $1200 prize. QNAP, Seagate, and AnandTech can do better.anactoraaron - Friday, September 13, 2019 - link
Exactly this. I've quit all social media. It's toxic garbage. Tweeting and retweeting about this product gives them nothing. No one on that platform cares about this product. Guess I'll have to wait for these giveaways to go back to commenting on the article to be able to win again.jabber - Monday, September 16, 2019 - link
I gave up on Twitter a few months ago. Too many Nazis.PeachNCream - Friday, September 13, 2019 - link
Maybe setup a throw away social media account for free stuff? I have heard of people that do that kind of thing and I've even thought about it myself, but I just find the idea of social media so off-putting that I'm reluctant to even make scarecrow accounts for situations like these.Jorgp2 - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
>as well as one of each of Seagate’s IronWolf Pro 16GB16TB
Ryan Smith - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
Thanks!romrunning - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
The fix is in! The Winner has already been determined back on June 20, 2019, per the Terms:WINNER DETERMINATION: Potential winners will be selected by Sponsor in a random drawing on or about June 20th, 2019 from among all eligible entries received. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. Sponsor’s decisions with respect to winner determination are final and binding.
DanNeely - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
The terms also say you're only allowed 2 entries, but the form lets you enter 3 times. Gleam is turning into such a garbage fire...tekeffect - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
I follow and it doesn’t show a entry. You need a better system. This is frustratingTrevorH - Thursday, September 12, 2019 - link
If you put the comment about USA only at the top of the article then the rest of the world could save themselves 15s of scanning the rest of it to find out that we're not eligible in the first place.