Just bought this during Terramaster's June carnival sale. Curious if the PCIe slot was actually usable or not.

Hello,

I have been following your youtube and went here from one of your links.
I am having trouble choosing components for my home network. Currently i have 1GB speed delivered to my modem and need completely new setup after that. House is 171 m2 in 2 storage brick house.

I have come to know that i want a 10GBE 16 Port switch to connect all my tv, computers and wifi accespoints to. Unmanaged switch is probably the best?. I will need some wifi accespoints - im thinking 3 should cover the area but I dont know witch to choose.

I have been looking at theese wifi 6 accespoints but maybe you know something better? (https://www.maxgaming.dk/dk/wi-fi-forstarkere/m32-eagle-pro-ai-ax3200-mesh-system-3-pack)

I will connect everything with Cat7 cables.

I will end by saying THANK YOU for offering help through your website, i truly means alot to have help.

Sincerely
Thomas Vorup Rasmussen

We use google drive and store photos/videos/movies there. Want a backup solution that will still allow others to view our content and not take up space in G-Drive. We record sports videos and share with parents so don't want to lost that ability if possible.

Hi - I know that Drobo is no more and my Drobo 5N2 is dead.  The fan runs but no lights (including the power light) come on.  I am thinking there is a 5V regulator somewhere which has failed.  The backup battery also shows some signs of damage but that is NLA.

Long term I'd like to learn more here and buy another current backup solution - possibly a QNAP or Synology.  Short term I would like to repair this Drobo.  With the disappearance of Drobo and their community support forums, what have Drobo users found is the best support forum to work through problems, share sources of supply and repair techniques?

Hello,

My name is Taylor. I've watched many of your videos an youtube and am a big fan! I'm emailing in hopes of learning from you directly. I’m currently a full time firefighter. We spend our down time at the station watching tv shows and movies. Some of the guys were complaining about all the streaming services we subscribe to. I told them I would look into alternatives. That’s when I discovered Plex and decided I wanted to learn how to host my own media server to help out the guys at the station and possibly friends and family in the future. In my search for knowledge, I went down a rabbit hole learning about different server configurations. This led me to your channel which was impressive and overwhelming seeing as how I have little to no knowledge of most of the things you talk about in your videos. I consider myself a quick learner but have never taken the time to learn these things before. If you are interested, I would love to learn from you. Please let me know if this can be

4 TB of music DSD, DSF Flac mp3.
It is not possible to configure indexing not to run.
It killed a 10TB disk
Can I set up a cronjob killing the indexing process?
And of cause trun it off, the killjob when new files added.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NXrUCK83X4&lc=Ugzb1HkxTa42vVgdsY14AaABAg

I followed this video, and in it you recommend to do a own plex user for the synology. What do i use the plex user for? When i signed in to my plex server from my TV i didn't need it.

Hi, I have a TS-453D, largely based on the Reviews of NasCompares, love your work. Love the unit also. I have purchased and installed a QNAP QM2 CARD, DUAL M.2 PCIe SSD, 10GBASE-T(1) EXPANSION CARD, Low Profile Bracket, fully aware of the limitations of the card, with respect to PCie limits on device with that card. I have 4 HDD installed and 2 nvme on the QM2 card. I have now finally got a 10GBASE-T home network. Is there anyway I can use the now unused dua 2.5 ports to boost throughput to network. From what I’ve read, it seems link aggregation only works with Nic’s of the same speed. Would I get better speeds dumping the QM2 10gbe, and getting dual 2.5 for the PCIE slot, then link aggregation the resulting 4 2.5gbe ports? I know this isn’t earth shattering, but I’m a tinkerer, and don’t want to have to fork out for a new NAS (wife won’t let me). Thanks in advance.

Will a large HDD cache 256mb vs 128mb, make a difference in a NAS that is just for media streaming? There is a significant price difference. Also, is the WDDA 3yr warning still an issue? First the SMR issue now this. What is your opinion of WD as a company? Thanx for your time and attention.

Hi there,
Long time follower and subscriber, been looking at getting a NAS for far too long now.
Will be mainly using it at home with Plex for videos so on my local network. Occasionally will be streamed to remote devices but not primary use case.
Majority of files will be 4k hdr or Dolby vision etc or highest quality and sound I can achieve is my primary goal. I’m keeping an eye on 2nd hand markets for any deals but I think I need to narrow my selection down first. At present my files are on an external HDD at 8TB but this will expand as many of the files need updating to latest/higher quality so hence guessing around 20TB to start with for storage. Happy to compromise on software if I’m getting better hardware my partner is very tech savvy and I’m getting a lot better so the performance and quality of the media is the priority if I need to struggle a bit more in set up that’s ok.
Thanks so much
Oli