b.
Tighten the screws.
7.
Power on the NAS.
Installing Expansion Cards
The TS-2888X supports selected expansion cards, some of which require QNAP PCIe brackets. QNAP-
branded expansion cards purchased from the company website are shipped with the brackets necessary to
fit all QNAP NAS models.
Slots 1, 3, and 5 provide the bandwidth of PCIe Gen 3.0 x8 when slot 2, 4, and 6 are not in use. Slots 1, 3,
and 5 only provide the bandwidth of PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 when an expansion board is installed in slot 2, 4, and
6. For details on slot numbering, see
Some expansion cards may occupy two PCIe slots.
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