The next-generation TVS-AIh1688ATX AI NAS is purpose-built for AI-driven image recognition and enterprise workloads. Powered by the high-performance Intel® Core™ Ultra processor with integrated compute, graphics, and neural processing units, it delivers stable performance while offloading AI inference tasks from the CPU. This reduces power consumption, improves efficiency, and accelerates intelligent image analysis. With its combination of robust processing power, large storage capacity, and flexible I/O expansion, the TVS-AIh1688ATX enables businesses to deploy a reliable storage solution while keeping budgets under control.

• Up to 36 TOPS AI performance

  Integrated CPU, GPU, and NPU accelerate AI image applications, enabling faster facial and object recognition.

• 12+4 hybrid storage

  Equipped with 12 SATA HDD bays and 4 U.2 NVMe / SATA SSD slots, balancing massive capacity with high-speed performance.

• Standard 2.5/10GbE, upgradeable to 100GbE

  Expand via PCIe cards to 25/100GbE, ideal for virtualization, intensive file access, media transfer, and high-speed backup/restore tasks.

• Built-in Intel® Arc™ Graphics

  Delivers outstanding graphics processing and compute performance to accelerate AI inference, media transcoding, and multitasking efficiency.

• Petabyte-scale expandability

  Connect multiple QNAP JBODs to flexibly scale with business growth and store massive datasets or backups.

• Thunderbolt™ 5 expansion support

  Optional Thunderbolt™ 5 PCIe card boosts workflows for professional multimedia editing.

Powerful Intel® Core™ Ultra processor with up to 24 cores

The TVS-AIh1688ATX is powered by the next-generation Intel® Core™ Ultra processor, delivering a major leap in multitasking performance, AI computing, and energy efficiency. It accelerates AI inference, multimedia processing, and virtual machine workloads—providing a smarter storage platform with higher performance and lower power consumption.

• CPU

  Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 24-core (8P+16E)/24-thread processor (Up to 5.6 GHz); with built-in Intel® Arc™ Graphics

• Memory

  DDR5 ECC (Error-Correcting Code) RAM, up to 192 GB (4 x 48 GB)

Up to 36 TOPS, accelerating AI computing and image recognition

The TVS-AIh1688ATX combines powerful CPU, GPU, and NPU resources to deliver up to 36 TOPS of AI performance. Optimized for the QNAP AI Core engine, it supercharges NAS image recognition workloads—making applications faster, smarter, and more efficient.

• Accelerate QuMagie AI photo recognition

  When importing a large photo collection, AI recognition is significantly faster—smart album categorization completes sooner.

  Image recognition

  77% faster

• Speed up QVR Face Insight recognition

  The TVS-AIh1688ATX can complete facial recognition in just 0.2 seconds, while also supporting more camera streams for analysis.

  20 cameras for real-time attendance management analytics

• Enhanced people counting

  QVR Human provides real-time counting data and analytics. The TVS-AIh1688ATX empowers more cameras to perform people counting concurrently.

  24 cameras for real-time analytics

Advanced Intel® Arc™ Graphics

With high-performance Intel® Arc™ Graphics, the TVS-AIh1688ATX delivers efficient and powerful image processing. It handles high-resolution video and photo workloads with ease while supporting seamless multitasking.

DDR5 ECC RAM

The TVS-AIh1688ATX is equipped with DDR5 ECC memory for server-grade stability, working seamlessly with its powerful processor to maximize overall system performance. With support for up to 192 GB of memory, it easily handles memory-intensive workloads and complex multitasking applications.

High-speed U.2 NVMe /SATA SSD slots to tackle performance demands

The TVS-AIh1688ATX features four 2.5-inch SSD slots that support high-performance U.2 NVMe PCIe Gen 4 x2 SSDs (up to 32 Gb/s per slot) or economical SATA 6Gb/s SSDs. By pairing with ultra-fast U.2 NVMe SSDs, it significantly boosts performance for latency-sensitive and intensive workloads such as AI applications, virtualization, and multimedia processing.

• Enable SSD caching

  Accelerates random read/write performance (IOPS) and reduce latency.

• Configure SSD storage pool

  Boosts data transfer speeds and access efficiency.

• Configure SSD system drive

  Use U.2 SSD storage pool as system drives for QuTS hero, greatly improving metadata management and database efficiency for overall system performance.

Standard 2.5/10GbE, expandable to ultra-fast 100GbE

The TVS-AIh1688ATX supports multi-port high-speed networking to meet enterprise demands for large file transfers, high-speed backup/restore, and running multiple virtual machines.

• Built-in 2.5/10GbE ports

  Two 2.5GbE and two 10GBASE-T ports, supports Port Trunking for higher bandwidth potential and network redundancy.

• Scalable to 100GbE

  Empowers organizations to tackle the most demanding, performance-intensive applications.

Built-in high-speed connectivity

The TVS-AIh1688ATX features built-in USB 4 Type-C ports and an HDMI™ 2.1 output. These interfaces provide high-speed direct connections and local display output without additional configuration.

• ➀ High-performance external storage / expansion enclosures

  Connect high-speed external storage or expansion enclosures for bandwidth-intensive workloads, enabling fast data access and scalable capacity expansion through direct connections.

• ➁ External storage cxpansion

  Connect external storage devices to extend system capacity and simplify data growth without additional configuration.

• ➂ Direct computer connectivity

  Directly connect laptops or workstations (Mac / PC) for large file transfers, backup operations, and efficient data exchange workflows.

• ➃ Local display and operation

  Connect a display for local monitoring, content playback, and on-site system management when operating the system locally.

PCIe expansion options

Equipped with three PCIe Gen 4 expansion slots, the TVS-AIh1688ATX delivers double the bandwidth of PCIe Gen 3. Users can install a wide range of expansion cards to tailor the system for specific workloads.

• High-speed network cards (10/25/100GbE)

  Increase network throughput to meet the demands of high-bandwidth applications such as 4K/8K content creation, multi-user access, and virtualization.

• Storage expansion cards

  Support PCIe or SAS storage expansion cards to connect external JBOD systems and build large-scale storage architectures.

• QM2 expansion cards

  Add M.2 SSD cache or additional 2.5GbE / 10GbE connectivity to accelerate data access and improve overall system responsiveness.

• Thunderbolt™ 5 expansion card

  Extend PCIe high-bandwidth capabilities externally through a Thunderbolt™ 5 expansion card, enabling advanced direct-attach use cases such as high-performance peripherals.

Flexible expansion to petabyte-scale storage

The TVS-AIh1688ATX can be daisy-chained with multiple high-performance QNAP SAS-interface JBOD expansion enclosures. For example, by connecting eight 16-bay TL-R1620Sep-RP JBOD units, you can add up to 128 additional drives—eliminating storage capacity concerns as your data grows.

Reliable offsite cloud backup

Hybrid cloud made simple with myQNAPcloud One

QNAP’s myQNAPcloud One is an integrated cloud storage solution that supports both file and object storage, making it the ideal cloud backup destination for TVS-AIh1688ATX. Data transfers are completely free, while team members can remotely access, sync, and share files anytime, anywhere.
The TVS-AIh1688ATX also supports 20+ major public clouds, ensuring near-LAN access speeds for seamless cloud sharing and multi-point synchronization.

QuTS hero operating system

Designed for enterprises, the QuTS hero operating system adopts the highly reliable ZFS file system to provide utmost data integrity and stability for mission-critical storage. QuTS hero further optimizes SSD performance and endurance to meet businesses’ stringent demands for performance and reliability. 

• Automatic repair of corrupted data

  ZFS supports self-healing for silent data corruption, automatically detecting damaged data to ensure data integrity.

• Data immutability

  Defend against ransomware by creating a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) folder to prevent data from being overwritten, modified, or deleted, while also enabling immutable backups.

• Power failure protection

  ZIL (ZFS Intent Log) protects against potential data corruption caused by power failure by safeguarding unwritten data.

• Data reduction

  Inline data deduplication reduces storage consumption for maintaining optimal disk capacity.

• Prevent simultaneous SSD failure

  The patented QSAL algorithm automatically and regularly detects RAID-level SSD lifespan to prevent simultaneous SSD failure, avoiding RAID crashes and data loss.

AI-powered enterprise search

• Build a smart knowledge hub with RAG Search

  TVS-AIh1688ATX integrates the Qsirch search engine with RAG technology, cloud-based large language models (LLMs), and generative AI. This enables precise natural language searches across vast NAS file content, while generating summaries and actionable insights.

• Full-text search

  Searches for files based on file name, content, title, metadata, email title and body text, file path, and more.

• Document preview

  Preview the content of unopened documents, view keyword-relevant paragraphs, and check out a few relevant sentences related to the file subject.

• Image search

  Search for images by color or object. AI OCR recognizes and enables capturing text from images.

• At-a-glance file distribution

  Stay informed of storage utilization and distribution of data and files stored on the TVS-AIh1688ATX via charts and analytics.

Transmission

• SMB signing acceleration

  Enable SMB signing to facilitate secure SMB file transfer, while QNAP’s exclusive algorithm greatly increases data signing efficiency and data transmission performance.

Assessment

• Security and risk assessment

  Security Center proactively detects NAS status and unusual file activity, and offers instant protective measures.

• Centralized notification management

  Centrally manage system events and alert notifications via Notification Center to stay up-to-date with NAS status.

• Block malware attacks

  Malware Remover regularly scans your NAS. When detecting malware attacks, infected files are immediately blocked and removed to ensure NAS security.