Hello Nascompares,
The background for this is I have DS920+ NAS and am waiting for a Expansion box
to be delivered with some more hard drives for me to upgrade the nas ad to use the expansion box. So my UPS will be powering the NAS and Expansion box. Here in Australia
I have solar panels and just had a solar battery installed recently.
I have the ups currently setup to shut down on power outage after 5 or 10mins. But now with the solar battery supporting the house in event of power outage. But their being a 30sec to 2mins lets say time when the nas will be using the ups.

What is the best way to set this up to work well with the ups and solar battery?
Would I be best to manually shut down the device once I am on the solar battery?
If I was not home and this happened how should I have it setup?
Thanks for any advice.
Chris

I just shucked a 12tb wd element drive and got a WD120EDGZ I want to confirm if this is a red drive or not. some google and ai chats have me worried its not. I can find a use for it if its not a nas drive. Just first time I have got a non nas drive in a wd element .
Thanks for your advice
Chris

I bought the Jonsbo N6 case from Ali Express got delivered yesterday, am planning for Home Storage for media server using Plex . I don't know were to strat

I had a Plex server Life time , looking to operate the NAS with unraid also will buy the life time plan

Desperate for advice on this back-up problem. Took your advice and wow did I watch plenty of nas videos...settled for the Ugreen 4 bay plus. Actually, it's pretty friendly to a none nas user.

Problem, how do I back it up. I think in time I should buy the smaller 2 bay Ugreen Nas as a bck up solution but for now, I need a cheap 'get out of jail free' backup to tied me over.

I have a spare pc, but cant seem to work out how to connect it to the Nas, if it's even possible..

Am I looking at a cheap usb drive for now and how big ? My 4, 4 tb drives equate to about 10tb of Nas storage so what size usb backup would I need.

Sorry if my question is daft, buty as a complete nas newbie I am finding it a tad confusing.

Thanks, keep those vids coming, love the straight forward British chat, makes me smile.

Pete

Hey there

Just wondering if tos6 is actually pre-installed on the hardware out of the box or if it needs to be installed on an hdd/ssd that I put inside the box upon receipt?

I’m sorry if this sounds like a stupid question. I’m new to all this and have just ordered the f4-425 and 3x hdds but I’m wondering if I want to keep the os off the hdds if I should also buy a small ssd to start with. (Maybe later I’ll purchase a couple more ssds for caching)

Best regards
Ritchie

Hello Robbie,

I am 71 with only a basic knowledge of computers and no knowledge of NAS systems.

I have 2 computers and 2 OLED TVs, both with nVidia Shields, which are all hard wired to my 1Gb ethernet connection. To stream Plex, I have been using one of the nVidia Shields as the Plex Media Server with an 8Tb WD Elements attached to it via USB3 for video storage. Unsurprisingly, after 4 years of daily use, this set-up has become extremely slow to access.

May I therefore kindly ask for your advice as to what NAS you would recommend bearing in mind that it will be used solely as a Plex Media Server and for nothing else.

For what it is worth, I have checked the Plex NAS Compatibility Chart and the TERRAMASTER F4-424 Pro is listed as being able to hardware accelerate transcode everything. Additionally, I have your wonderful videos to follow on how to set it up.

What do you think?

Many thanks in advance,

David

Trying to find a suitable (not classic style tower) case that can hold 4x 3.5 HDDs now, and have room to grow 4 more HDDs. CPU will be I5-13500 due to the 65W TDP and Intel 770 iGPU for six 4k to 1080p Jellyfin transcodes.

I do network engineering and consulting so this will also house several containers and VMs as well using TrueNAS.

My original intention was to go UGREEN 8800 but I really need this to last 10 years (not accounting for HDD fails)

Appreciate the advice and your content is great!

Tom in Vermont, USA.

I received my Kickstarter CF56 Pro today and am not totally surprised getting it set up would not be smooth.

Installed the cyberdata_windows_v2.1.21_25083.exe after a couple tries. The device will bind with the app client and it suggested downloading a newer update but after checking that I want to download it, it fails with an error: error downloading update package and a bunch of code jibberish after that and then claims upgrade package is downloading but there is nothing new in the downloads folder.

When you set your prototype unit up, did you run into this and if so, how did you get around it? I am unable to complete the install nor get my account set up so I cannot update the unit's firmware beyond what was installed at the factory.

Hi, love your channel, I spend way too much time on it :-). I am looking for a simple but effective NAS for music, a few films, and plenty of documents and photos. It should not get too hot and use as little electricity as possible. I loved your reviews on Zimaboard 2 and Beelink ME Mini and was wondering if you think these might be suitable and which you might recommend, or maybe you would recommend something else? I was also wondering which VPN router you might recommend (GL.iNet Slate 7, could this be used as a home router?) to use with your recommendation. Your time and help is greatly appreciated - I will be buying the coffee. Love the channel and presentation. Excellent. Thank you.

I’ve already bought 2x8TB IronWolf drives, I’m probably going to buy a third as I think I’m going to run ZFS probably TrueNAS or maybe HexOS.

I’m looking at NAS specific cpu+mobo options (RAM prices are killer).

I’m probably going to get the Fractal Define 7 XL for all the drive bays, though it is overkill I’m justifying it as future proofing lol tho maybe I’m better of properly future proofing by getting something rack mounted idk.

I’m wanting to run Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Arr stack, Home Assistant, Immich, Tailscale, maybe NextCloud. Nothing too crazy.