When it comes to packaged NAS hardware, QNAP is leaps and bounds ahead of the competition. These two examples help prove the point, the TS-h1290FX 12-bay NVMe NAS and the TBS-h574TX 5-bay SSD NAS are some of the coolest NAS designs in the market. The 12-bay system even has a ton of power, with the AMD EPYC CPU, plenty of DRAM and 25GbE on the back end. These units even support GPUs, which is pretty slick - we'll show this NAS running AI workloads in an upcoming article and video. The 574TX is innovating thanks to its support for E1.S enterprise SSDs. While this is less a performance story with 10GbE and Thunderbolt 4 as the primary data access paths, the system design is amazing in its own right. Sure, you can build your own NAS on server hardware and if you're a homelabber or have the right support in place, that's a great option. But for small businesses or system integrators who need easy to manage systems in the field these are amazing units.