Hi mate, came across your YouTube channel, can see you are extremely passionate about this subject and would love your help.

I currently have TB after TB of hard drives everywhere and really only looking for a great DAS solution.

I have no need to access them when I am not at home, but the DAS enclosures out there seems to be very limited.

I am looking for an enclosure that does RAID 5 internally and can hold up to 8 bays,

I have seen the OWC thunderaby 8, which gets the write and read speeds I need. But the raid isn't internal.

Any help would be much appreciated. thanks

I have an old 8 bay Drobo device I want to replace, what is the best unit to upgrade to? Is there a unit similar to the old Drobo. I’m overwhelmed with choices. I especially like the Drobo because it kind of set itself up and I really didn’t have to to anything but replace defective hard drives. I’m looking to replace this unit before it dies… it running on a windows 11 pc. Any guidance or a specific unit I should get, please tell me… I’m not a tech nerd, I just know how to plug and play and follow directions. If something goes wrong I might be in trouble trying to figure out what went wrong… is there something easy to plug and play, that has some easy to follow set up instructions and support videos?

Actually this is more of some feedback for you. I recently purchased a UGreen DH2300 NAS, which at first sight seemed great. However it it was missing Docker and it continually was contacting somewhere in China. After a few weeks of use it now seems to be faulty as it will not boot and only displays UGREEN banner. I had two new Toshiba N300 drives installed. Anyhow, although customer services is really responsive, they cannot arrange a pickup until 2nd January 2026 as their Customer Services are shut for 3 week. As this device is new it may be worth monitoring long term reliability

Been wanting to get the UGREEN DH2300 but currently only have a single ironwolf pro 6TB (ST6000NT001), and will be getting another one to work in Raid 1. It is however, not on the compatibility list on the official site, so I am quite hesitant to make the move. Any advice or thoughts?

Hello,

First off, I love your videos and I will absolutely use your links to make my purchases.

My issue is this...

For reasons that are too complicated to go into, I am suddenly in a rush to purchase the N5 Pro and I'm a NAS novice. I'm overwhelmed by all the extra things I need to purchase to make things work. I was hoping you could make recommendations based on the planned usage, which is:

- Minimum 60TB usable storage.
- Maximum practical (not Raid 1 or 10) redundancy (Raid 6?). Files are valuable and irreplaceable.
- Used primarily for storage of client files, family photos and media collection. Ideally, also as a media server (emby/transcoding), proxmox (secondary storage pool? NVME SSD?), backup of surveillance footage (originally captured and stored on Ubiquiti router), and game server (Batocera).

So what specificly would you recommend I purchase for:

- RAM (which brand? what capacity considering use cases? ECC?)
- 5x 3.5" SATA HDDs (WD Red Pro? I'm scared how expensive this will be for desired capacity)
- Which configuration of SSDs (I know the N5 Pro has some options with the daughter board or an adapter or something), and which SSD NVME drives to purchase?

I have a moderately reasonable budget but want to keep things reasonable if possible.

I can't thank you enough for being so accessible for help. So appreciated.

Bonjour,
Je possède un DS920+ 4x8to +SSD 2*250GO.
Mauvais calcul de départ de construction et estimation, plus de place je réfléchie sur l'ajout d'un DX517 et faire un deuxième volume, ma crainte est le risque de lenteur avec Plex et ma vidéothèque ou partir sur un NAS 6 Baies .

Cordialement à vous

Dear Nascompares Team,
I need your advice, requirements are: Home NAS 2 users (couples), using SSD-only. Daily use 08:00–00:00, using it for file storage, I only play 1080p movies on Plex, Windows map network drive, no ethernet cable, all via wifi.

Prior issue: bought DS923+ (12/2023) with buzzing/coil whine from rear at power-on, which happened after almost 2 years; replacement under warranty DS923+ was worse than the one I had, coil whining louder; returned and requested refund. Tests done: fan speed changes, different sockets/rooms, stopped fans, nodrive installed, noise persisted, confirmed coil whine.

Needs: low risk of coil whine, quiet operation, long-term DSM/security support, minimal setup friction (prefer QuickConnect). Please recommend a suitable NAS for my needs. Preferably, avoid the coil whine issue.
Thank you in advance
Kind regards,
Hamza

I have a Synology NAS 418plus and need a battery backup to prevent data loss because of power cuts. Do you have any recommendations?

Hello I need some advice for a system, the goal is to have a local home server with some storage to keep family fotos and videos, run some self hosted services.
I would like to run Immich (I want to replace my google photos), n8n for small automations, NocoDB (again just for small projects), maybe plex or similar , I was thinking on using proxmox or trueNAS as SO, the connection I don't need a super fast but 2 ethernet 2.5 or higher would be nice.

Not sure about what hardware I should buy... NAS or miniPC...
Also would be nice to have at least bay 4, to expand later, first I will start with 2 disks with raid 1, no need to be fast drives.
And last less power consumption is a plus.

I'm a programmer, In my work I also need to do some sysadmin stuff, using proxmox atm, so this project is also to learn more on this level.

Thank you very much,
Tobias Cintrão

I am looking for a case or better yet and older PC that has the power to run a OMV instance with up to 6 drives. Mostly for storage of backups and media files. I am very partial to Dell computers but I haven't found an older PC that can hold 6 drives. Any help is good help