I have watched all of your NAS videos and recommendations and cannot make up my mind on best option for my needs. Requirements for my consulting business with 2 main users. Along with using the solution for my astrophotography hobby where I create 100’s of large image and video files that get processed in special software, including image, video processing.

In one astro session I can create 1TB of data. Once processed only 25% of the data remains but access to the data for future reprocessing is needed so the storage ideally needs to be fast and not the bottleneck.

An all SSD NAS or combination HDD and SSD might work.
Thanks
Adam Hofmann

I know Synology has an app where you can back up your iPhone pictures to the nas. Do you know of any other NAS brands that offer a similar app for this?

I'm still looking for a nas and thinking synology (great software, poor hardware) or terramaster..
thanks
Alan

Want to replace google drive (with ability to have it download to all computers), google photos (with ability to see/delete duplicates and keep highest quality image), back up 5 computers, 6 smartphones, backup whatsapp, plex server at 1080p and use home assistant with z-wave.
A few questions
what is the best raid setup, im thinking 6?
is ZFS or BTRFS that important?
ARM vs x86?
I was thkinking about the following
QNAP TS-464-8G-US and I would buy an upgraded ram module (and probably buy direct from western digital with 4 8tb drives, it comes to around 1k)
or
Synology DiskStation DS423+ using SHR.

Other thoughts were
QNAP TS-410E-8G
QNAP TS-453E-8G-US
QNAP TVS-h474-PT-8G-US
Synology DiskStation DS923+
ugreen nasyn DXP4800 plus
ugreen nasyn DXP6800 pro
terramaster F4-424 regular or pro
Asustor AS504T
Asustor AS6704T

I don't think I need much TB, I want to centralize my data so as not to have duplicate data and to easily create backups and manage my data better so that I can work with multiple devices with Adobe Lr from one place.

Thank you for your awesome reviews. When my old TS251D died, your review on the TS364 was extremely helpful. I have been running this 3-bay system successfully for a couple of months now and I am pretty happy with it. Now I would like to add SSD storage. I am looking for 4TB in each drive, but I want a good balance between performance and price. Do you have any suggestions for a specific make and model?

I need some help understanding if my particular use case needs to worry about Plex Hardware Transcoding and if I NEED to buy a NAS with Graphics Support on the CPU, or if I can get a NAS with a Ryzen in it. My name will primarily be a Plex server (I have Plex pass) that I'm going to use almost exclusively on my local home network. I would like to have the option to watch remotely on my phone or tablet, but I know I’ll rarely if (ever use) that feature. I do have a lot of HVEC/x265 files, but none of them are 4K. Most are 720, but I'm starting to download my files in 1080p, hence wanting to switch from a 4tb USB HDD to a NAS. Im relatively certain my current Roku smart tv can natively play HVEC/.265 via the Plex app but im not positive and i dont really understand how to check. Given that information, do you believe I need an intel CPU NAS, or would a Ryzen NAS work just fine for me?

I currently have a DSM923+ with 4 x 4 TB drives installed using RAID for 12 TB available space. I have been using HyperBackup and external USB drives for backup. Like many others have reported, the user experience with this option is fairly bad. Is the practical experience of users that if I added a second NAS at some other location for backup purposes, my experience would be truly less painful? Recommendations on configuration? Can I just buy a simple 1/2 bay NAS with a single 16 TB drive?

I run a home made truenas on a supermicro xeon-d itx mobo with 6 sata ssd's and built in 10gbe

It works but it's quite power hungry compared to the more modern chips and runs quite hot. And while nice I don't really care about the IPMI.

I'm seeing so many nas focussed itx mobo's on your channel and others and it's really bewildering me that they waste all those lanes on 4 x 2.5gbe instead of 1 x 10 gbe (i get it if you're doing vm's but many of these are marketed as nas boards)!

Are you aware of any boards that support ECC, low power chip, on board 10gbe, and mITX?

I know i could stick in a nic but i'd rather use the pcie slot for something else like an HBA.

Thanks!

I have a Synology DS1522 and I have enabled encryption. I am attaching a WD 10 TB external USB for backup with that being encrypted as well. I am trying to run the backup but it appears I'm locked out, even though I'm signed in. Where do I go from here?

Error message:
No permission to access the shared folder usbshare1 on the destination. Please contact the destination administrator to grant access permissions to the task owner admin.

Help please! Thanks in advance!!!

Dear Sirs - advice needed.

I have a 12 year old buffalo NAS, that has been our home photo / video storage for that time. Its been great, but software is old, and my wife is unable to upload her photos from her phone. I need to download them to my computer then copy them up. She then complains that she is unable to view them or gain access to them!!!

I really need a NAS which operates like a google drive / dropbox, which enables me and my wife to easilly store photos and videos in one location.

Ease of setup and maintenance and use is king.

Thanks in advance

N