Featuring an amd Ryzen? v1000 series v1500b quad-core processor and 10GbE/2.5GbE connectivity, the 9-bay TS-h973AX packs a high-capacity hybrid storage infrastructure into a compact physical footprint. With five 3.5-inch sata 6Gbps drive bays, two 2.5-inch u.2 NVMe ssd slots (Slot 1 & 2 support both u.2 NVMe and sata SSDs ), and two 2.5-inch sata 6Gbps ssd slots, the TS-h973AX can benefit from ssd caching to boost IOPS-intensive applications. With the ZFS-based QuTS hero operating system, the TS-h973AX ensures data integrity and supports block-level inline data deduplication and compression, near-limitless snapshots, and real-time SnapSync to satisfy mission-critical file servers, virtualization servers, collaborative video editing, and efficient data backup and recovery with business-class performance, job reliability, and lower overall cost. Install high-performance u.2 NVMe PCIe Gen 3 x4 SSDs or sata 6Gb/s SSDs in the dedicated ssd slots for cache acceleration and improved rand