Good Morning!
I have a Drobo 5C with 5x2tb inside right now...

As drobo is no longer a viable company, I am concerned with keeping all my tax/pay/backups on this system in case of hardware failure of the unit itself.
I love the fact it is basically self-maintaining, but I am looking for a newer system to replace it.
The new system can be either attached directly to my router, or to a computer I use specifically to share out the DRobo...
I would love to be able to re-use the drives in my drobo as well

What are your thoughts?

I have a gaming laptop with a limited storage space. And games keep on getting bigger. 100GB+
After watching dozens of videos about NAS and DAS I kind of see the TerraMaster D5 Hybrid and D8 Hybrid as most likely candidates. (any other good competitors for these DAS?)
My idea is to use the Raid 1 on 2 (either 4 TB, or preferably 8 TB) SSD's and keep all my photos, videos and other important stuff.
All 4 NVMe SSD's (either 2 or 4 TB depending on price) would be for gaming.

And if it's D8 Hybrid, the last 3 slots would be most likely software Raid 0 for 3 4TB SATA SSD's. for whatever else I might need it for. (E.g. games, programs, movies etc.)

Or is there a better way to expand the storage for gaming?

Thanks for answering my earlier question. I have a general question - for $1500 maximum, what would you say the best NAS would be for using Plex and it's associated tasks (transcoding, etc.). I would also be using this server as a file server to backup files from my computer and related network devices. Thanks so much! (the $1500 would include any addons/upgrades)

Regards,

Hi everyone at NASCompares.
I'm really interested in acquiring a NAS for my home. Mainly as a Plex server for watching movies in 4k at the best resolution and quality and storing photos or documents. Any clue what could work?
Thank you for all your work and knowledge.

Hi,
I've asked you guys for advice once before but it was a year ago.
Now when I finally can afford the system I felt the need to ask you again and I got some followup questions as well.

I was recommended to use QNAP TVS-H674-I5-32G
For my home system.
Used for streaming transcoding media, long time storage and home cinema system.
If you don't know any other new servers that would work better then I'll stick with this one.
The hard drives I'm thinking of using 3x of
Western Digital Red Pro WD8003FFBX 8TB.
2 mirror drives and 1 as backup, if that's a good way to go about it?
Something I've been thinking about is if it's possible to use an nvme ssd to store the system files and software in for a quicker respond? And the hdds for all other media, an example of nvme below
WD Red SN700 1TB NVMe SSD

WD red drives in general seem to be reliable and rarely break. Seems to be a good option.

Thanks fot all advice you can give me.
regards, anton

I followed your Youtube video on setting up Surveillance Station using same schedule etc, but it doesn't appear to be actually recording anything as when I go the the Recordings page and select Recording List it gives a message "Please go to IP Camera and check the recording schedule to see if you have activated video recording."
The cameras I am using are Reolink E1 Pro and they are streaming RTSP and working fine when I hit the Test Connection or look at them on the Monitor Station.

In terms of best for using as a Plex server, would you recommend the Synology DS1522 (or different model better) or would a QNAP TS-873A be better. I would like it to be future-proof and optimal as a Plex server that will need to do some transcoding, but mostly internal (inside home).

Hi,

I have a QNAP 253BE and it has served me well for years! I have just given it a bit of upgrade and boost today by adding some SSD's. I'm just setting it back up and not sure if I am configuring it in the best way...

The NAS only serves film and music media. The only apps I use are Emby server for films and a Plex server for music. Also have SABNZB+ installed. That's about it. How would you configure my set up?

QNAP 253BE
16GB RAM
2 x 4TB Seagate Ironwolf Hard Drives
QNAP QM2-2S-220A expansion card
2 x 2TB Western Digital Red SA500 SSD's

I have just set up both SSDs as the system (raid 0) and then the HDD also as raid 0 for media archive. My thinking behind this was have the SSD's for system and apps, along with new downloaded content and then HDD as the main media store. Looking in the NAS admin and options now available to me, should I have gone for...

1 x SSD as system and app drive, 1 x SSD for cache and HDD for media archive.

Would this improve things even further? Currently it's now performing loads better on SSD's than previously on just HDD. Would adding a cache make much difference for me? Media files are always large files and the NAS only has 1 or 2 devices connecting to it at the same time.

Also would the expansion card bottle neck having both the cache and system running through it?

Anyways, I thought it was a good time to ask the pro's before I finish up the set up. It wouldn't be a major job to start again and reconfigure the setup.

Let me know what you think.
Cheers
Stu

I'm looking to buy a NAS. I have a 7 gig fiber line with 10 gig wired switches setup at my house, with 3 - quad band wifi7 routers. I'm looking to setup the NAS at my house primarily for a Plex server, and a desktop/laptop backup. I've narrowed the selection down between two. Either the Qnap TVS-H874T(with the i9 and 64 gigs of RAM) or the qnap TVS-H1688X. Which one of these would you purchase, or, is there another one that you would recommend? Thank you!

Hello lads, thanks for all your work and knowledge!

Would you recommend the TS-432X-4G as a good NAS for parking/ archiving large video projects from edit suites as well as light editing work?
I need to upgrade asap.

Thank you!