Featuring an AMD Ryzen™ V1000 series V1500B quad-core processor and 10GbE/ 2.5G bE 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 and 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.