I purchased a set of new 5x EXOS 6TB 3.5 enterprise drives from newegg for a great price. I installed in a new Jonsbo N4 build. After just a few minutes three of the five disks heated up to over 60 degrees (64, 63, 61) and the other two were in the mid 50s. This is with ZERO load (on but no throughput). This is seriously hot, and while the user manual states they can run at up to 60 by design I am concerned about this.
 
I tried a few old 1TB seagate drives, and those ran in the mid 30s and 40s. Much better!
 
So I went to pick up a few 6TB Seagate ironwolf NAS red drives (I already have two in my PC, so can swap those in) to replace the EXOS drives, coupled with a fancy Noctua NF-A12x25 fan to replace the measly Jonsbo fan that really wasn't putting out much of a draft.
 
I installed the fan to see how that would work out. Immediately the system is much cooler, and disks run at 35C BUT my system is now LOUD as I made a poor selection of MOBO without PWM fan support (an N5105 - I will tackle that in a separate thread).
 
So my question is this:
 
Should I go ahead and do the swap out of the EXOS drives and use the NAS drives instead and lower the fan output somehow? It seems to me that the EXOS drives are really meant to be in an enterprise server room with great cooling and super loud fans. I would imagine the NAS disks would run naturally cooler, and perhaps be more power efficient. I can return the EXOS drives easily.
 
Thoughts?

Thanks

I purchased a HKUXZR N5105 motherboard, and only just realized that the case fan speed cannot be controlled as the board only has a 3 pin connection - no PWM support. This is an issue as I'd like to save power, and keep noise low if the system isn't being used as it currently sits in my office.
 
What are my options? Is there a method of modifying the BIOS to get the fan to run at a different speed based off the total system temp (or ideally average disk temp), or should I instead just buy a different motherboard with PWM fan control support? It looks like there are a number of containers that allow PWM fans to be set based on disk temp. 

If you'd recommend a new board, any pointers to boards that have 6+ sata ports, support for 32GB RAM, and low power? My case is a Jonsbo N4 (supports mini ITX or micro ATX).
 
Thanks!

TS-453Be, bought 2019 never initialized. Already upgraded RAM to 8g, 4x WD Red 8 T drives

Two "Gigabit" ethernet ports, info sez upgradable for 10g, but does not specify if I can just upgrade to 2.5G. Is there a specific recommended PCIe card I need for 453Be?
Need PCIe adapter for USB slots as well or not?

Also, would like to add MVMe card for cacheing; is there a specific PCIe card I need for 453Be?

Budget not an issue, just want the right expansions the first time before initializing.

I am considoring selling my newly purchased 923+ and go to a 423+ instead. The issue lies when I playback certain home videos and movies as with transcoding, cpu of the 923+ gets hit hard casuing buffering. I am hosting Jellyfin on it which serves the content.

I also have two other options which include re-encode all content to a supported format by most players on my android devices and TVs or else I host Jellyfin on an external HP elitedesk micro pc with an AMD ryzen 5 2400GE which I use as a Proxmox server and 64GB Ram. The downside of having another PC running is the extra electrical cost which I can maybe mitigate by having the PC only run with Wake on Lan and switch it off when not in use (It will require teaching my parents on how to use it). Most videos are family videos as well as a library of 1080p and 4k movies which I will need to encode to x264 or compatible format. I have some x265 and old mpeg1/2 videos from an old camcorder which will need transcoding.

Going with a 42

Hello,
I would like to setup a ssd nas server, preferably synology.
I wonder is it better to use 3 disks, each 2tb, in raid 5 or to buy 2 disks, each 4tb. In case of failure of one of the disks it looks as it would be better to use lower size to replace failed one, but what are other advantages/disadvantages?
I was eyeing 2,5" SATA 2TB WD Red WDS200T2R0A as a candidate for my use.
I would also like to know your opinion about what unit to choose. I'd prefer rack unit, but its not a must-requirement. I plan to use unit in 2,5gbe networking environment so it should has 10gbe upgrade card?
I found RS1221 - are there better alternatives? How long will this product be supported by synology? Is there a chance of synology rolling 24 series unit in upcoming months?
And lastly, do you have any networking switches with 8-ports and 2,5gbe networking that you could recommend? I found QNAP QSW-1108-8T, do you have maybe better alternatives?
Thank you in advance
Regards,
Thomas

Can you recommend a 2 bay NAS that doesn't suffer from the LPC bug. I bought a QNAP TS 251 and followed you excellent series on setting it up. Great channel and great content but I could use some advice.
Regards Ron Webster

Hi,
I'm using an old asustor AS6404T, but I'm having some trouble with it and thinking about changing it for a new one. I'm currently using for archiving all my movies/tv and using it with plex and storing all my work files (not working directly, but having the storage connected to wifi). I already have 4 HDD seagate that I'm using witthout RAID. Nothing fancy but would love to be silent and powerful, thinking about having it running transmission also.
Not a super tech guy, so I like something easy to configure.

Thanks

Hi,

I'm looking to replace my Synology DS215J - With a larger 4-bay.

I'm trying to decide which model is best for my usage and with it currently being August is now a good time to buy?

My use case is:

1. Backups (2 MacBook's, 2 Windows 11 PCs, iPhone, iPad second backup aside iCloud).

2. Storage (Videos/Photos) - Mainly to free up space on my iPhone/iPad. Nothing huge there (5GB?). However, Game stream clips/highlights in 1440p60p maybe larger but this currently isn't a huge size currently just 50GB.

3. Maybe store films/movies on and stream to my LG C2 TV. However, this be a maximum of like 3 films a month if that at best.

I've been looking at the DS420+ and DS920+ - not sure if this is my route to go if so which? Or a completely different model you can recommend.

Thanks!

Hi - have an old 2 bay Synology. Has served me well. Time to expand though - need a 4 bay for storage only. Going to run my own OS (TrueNAS, Unraid, something like that). Just need storage and fast networking. Thinking Terramaster F4-424. Is that what you would recommend?

I just watched your video How to Restore, Reinitialize or Factory Reset your QNAP NAS and Drives. I have watched a number of your videos and found them very helpful. Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to help. Can you tell me how safe it is to do the reset process? Can data on the NAS be recovered by a knowledge person? I look forward to your response.