Memory for QNAP small-business NAS — the TVS-673, TVS-873, TVS-673e and TVS-873e towers, the Thunderbolt TVS-h674T and TVS-h874T, and the TS-h business models.

This tier is where the memory decision gets genuinely consequential. SMB units run QTS or QuTS hero, and QuTS hero is ZFS — it uses RAM as its ARC read cache, and it wants substantially more of it than QTS does. Add snapshots, deduplication, Virtualization Station, or ten people hitting the array at once, and memory becomes the ceiling on what the box can do long before the drives do.

The ECC question splits this tier. The TVS-673 and TVS-873 towers take non-ECC SODIMM. The TS-h and enterprise-leaning models take ECC UDIMM or ECC SODIMM, and on those ECC is not optional — it's what makes ZFS's integrity guarantees meaningful, since a checksum can't protect data that was already corrupted in RAM. QNAP's part numbers mark it: EC in the middle means ECC, and -SO / -UD give the form factor. RAM-16GDR4ECT0-UD-3200 is 16GB DDR4-3200 ECC UDIMM.

QNAP part numbers stocked across this tier, from 4GB to 32GB, in DDR3, DDR4 and DDR5.

Check your model's maximum supported memory before ordering — QNAP publishes it per model, and it varies more than you'd expect within the same series. Send us the model and we'll confirm the capacity, the slot count and whether it needs ECC.

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See also: QNAP SOHO NAS Memory · QNAP Enterprise NAS Memory · QNAP NAS Memory Cross-Reference