Couple of question
I want to store my family pictures on a NAS, how much should I be worried about not having ECC?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsBg_qwGHZc
In this video the USB limit 10Gbps is mentioned as the bottle neck, aren't a lot of consumer NAS with 10Gbps have the same limitation? Just wanted to understand as I trying to makeup my mind between NAS and a DAS.

Hi, I have Proxmox cluster (3 nodes) that run k8s cluster (3 nodes) and I want to add a NAS to that party.

NAN job: Contain Proxmox backup, K8s backup, Plex streaming content (the app currently running in k8s) like 80gb movies, and my personal data like documents/pictures.
I'm thinking about 2x WD Red pro of 6TB each in raid 1.

To be clear, NAS budget is 700$ for diskless.
I'm going to order it from Amazon, but not sure which brand and model is best for now with the headroom for the next years.

Hi good afternoon!

I'm looking for advice/suggestions on a turnkey NAS for a media server and photo back up and sharing. Would be maybe 3-6 users normally (max of 8-10 if everyone in the family is remote), hardware transcoding, current media storage with 4k and blu ray and photos combined is ~ 30 tb with approximately 10tb more to be added with what's around the house. Am not opposed to having remote users get direct play clients but hw transcoding is preferred just for remote access and quite a large 4k collection, am in the process of 2.5gb around the house where NAS will be. Am not too concerned about future proofing, as it will again be for personal media collection and photo storage of grandkids and nieces/nephews (only storage, no editing). A little bit concerned about expansion so would love 144tb as a minimum. I would describe myself as tech ignorant, rather than illiterate. No real background building PCs or repair, but have used vids/user guides. Thank you so much!

Hi mate, tearing my hair out trying to get this to work over smb on my new NAS. Windows 10 and Mac OS Tahoe can access no probs but no the Zappiti which is not great as its the reason I bought the device and 3 x 16 TB HD.

I've seen you have a Synology guide but di you have a UGREEN equivalent?

I will definitely support your channel if you can fix this for me :-)

Kind regards, Stu

Hi,

My current NAS a QNAP TS-231 has died, I use it for backing up my local PC, streaming my holiday videos to my LG smart TV in FHD & 4k.
I also backup my holiday videos to Onedrive via the NAS.

I have discounted the Synology 223j and possibly 223 as they say DSM7 needs over 1GB RAM.

I am in Australia so availability is sketchy....
This is a shop near me - https://www.centrecom.com.au/nas-drives?specs=345&orderby=10
I am thinking the TS233 will be good, or would one of the Asustor ones be ok for me?

Thank

Hi,

I have bought The Terramaster F6-424 for use as a Plex server. Iv'e read all your guides and reviews which are fantastic - thanks! I would like some guidance on getting the best performance. Do do think I should install the Plex app and TOS app on one of the NVMe SSDs (I have 2 x 2TB) for the best performance for Plex? If that's the case would you suggest that I use one of them for cache or set up in RAID? Or leave both for cache?

Thanks so much,
Mark

I have a qnap ts464 and back up my pc to it using hybrid backup synce every week. My pc harddrive is beginning to fail and after i buy a new one, how can i restore from QNAP to my PC? I cant seem to find any videos or articles discussing that, they all seem to discuss restroing data to a nas

I bought a zettlabs D6 AI NAS
What I want to do with it
1/ Have file in the NAS which would consist of 50 PDF's about 76mb
2/ write a prompt in Anything LLM that only uses these PDF's to generate its answer

The introductions I have been given gives me a set up in the Docker app that when done gives meca url to use to have this task done

This has never worked
Happy to pay someone for possibly a quick job via TeamViewer

Hello, I am photographer and currently store all my images on a 8TB Lacie external harddrive which currently has around 2TB available. I am concerned that if the Lacie fails, I will loose 10 years worth of work. I am new to NAS but know that I need to invest in a NAS and was looking at Synology NASs and came across your great and helpful article comparing the DS423+ and the DS923+ systems. I learnt a lot and want to move forward. I am leaning on the DS923+. My challenge is that yes, I can order the DS923+ relatively easily but I could do with help in deciding what other items do I need. Drives, SSDs etc.

Are you able to help me? I'd appreciate also if you can direct me to your other articles and YouTube video so I can get more educated in this new field.

Thank you in advance and keep up the good work.

Best wishes
Areef

Hello,

After a few months of receiving your advice, I went ahead and purchased the Synology DS923+ (Advice below in italics).

I told my son that I should be able to take the drives out of my Synology 416j and place in the same order in the new DS923+. It should boot up without needing to do any changes. My son said not it will not work like that. Is it possible to place the drives in the same order in the DS923+ and it will come up?

One last question, my understanding is that I can replace a 4 TB drive in the unit with a 6 or 8 TB drive and I can slowly increase the size of my storage. My plan is to get a DX517 expansion for the DS923+ later.


"If your main usage is plex, a NAS with Intel CPU would be preferable. The AMD chips in Synology, does not include iGPU for hardware acceleration. So if you need to transcode, it's going to be slower, use more power, and get warmer. But it will work.
Synology does not currently offer a 4bay with Intel combined with more than 1gbps etherne