Hi there

I moved form a Synology 10 year old NAS to this QNAP one a year ago. Steep learning curve but loving it so far. Question: QNAP customer service are a bit rubbish but essentially looking to change the sys fans and the cpu fan. sys fan can easily be changed to Noctua 92mm ones. However, I was wondering if I can change the CPU one to a 60mm Noctua as I have the i5 version, sunning full SSD's. Would it hamper performance/thermals? Basically looking for efficiency and noise reduction.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Wanted to get into a NAS for home backup - Windows and MAC and maybe Plex to my appleTVs in the house.

I just bought a DS923+ with 4 x 4TB drives. Looking back at the amazon page where I ordered it - it does not state the drives type or manufacturer. When I received it and opened it this morning I found 4 Western Digital Blue Drives - WD40EZAX drives made in January 2024.

Should I return the unit and buy one that is drive-less and then buy my own drives??? Would this be ok for a home environment??? Did I get taken - I have 30 days to return it

Thanks

Clarnece Duty

I have a Mac with BigSur OS (11.7.10) that has been connected to a Promise Pegasus R4 NAS for about 5 years, suddenly 3 out of 4 disks have failed and I'm desperate... I would like advice on which NAS to buy between Synology and QNAP with 4 disks of 4 or 5 or 6 TB each. What I ask from your experience is which of the two gives greater guarantees on durability over time. I don't care about speed or loudness but which of the two is more likely to not suddenly leave me with my ass on the ground. Thank you.

I have the DS1522+ with 2 500GB samsung SSD's. I was wondering if I would get more speed if I replaced those with 2 1TB SSD for caching. What are your thoughts on that.

Hi all, 
I am using QuTS on TS-855. I have a raid 5 with 3x16TB and I am expanding with 3x18TB. What is my best option? Note I have 2 NVMEs for system pool. SATA SSDs and NVME for cache already. 
I am seeing the options for 'Create and Add new raid group" so that is 2 raid 5's with  a 3x18T raid and  3x16TB raid 5 with stripe. This makes another raid 5, but I am not sure if the end result is a raid 50. Is it? It says my capacity will end up at 59.99TB so it is utilizing the 18TB drives fully I think.
or 
Add to existing Raid Group. Here I can choose raid 5 or 6 or TP. Raid 5 gives 71.68TB ,  Raid 6 gives 56.25 TB.  
Are the extra 6TBs from the 3x18TB lost in these these cases?

Which is the best option to not waste the extra capacity of the 18TB drives and be fast? 
Will that raid 6 and raid 50 (?) be much faster than the raid 5 expansion? 
In my case with the different drives is raid 50 better than raid 6?

This is just a home NAS with my data, pics, vid, movies for remote use, AI for photo recognition, etc with future plans to host my own web site and small game etc.   


Thanks in advance.

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Hi from Spain. , I'm thinking of setting up a NAS with 3 disks for raid 5 and another SSD/Nv2 disk for cache and Operatin system. I wanted you to recommend the right hardware. We will use it only 3 staff in a house. The NAS would want it for the following:


- File server

- Phone backups

- Pi Hole

- Emby/Plex Server

- Some docker



I would like to....



- Be quiet

- Sufficient performance



​​S​urfing at internet I have seen an interesting motherboard with integrated Itx cpu with the possibility of buying Ram Ddr4 and disk nv2. These with the features:



Celeron-Industrial N5105 NAS MOBO Mini ITX 17x17CM Soft Routing Intel i226-V B3 2.5 Gbps 4 x LAN 2 x M.2 NVMe 6 x SATA3.0 Industrial Motherboard. The model with 16 GB DD4 and 128 GB nv2 drive (224 €). The same model with 256 GB nv2 drive (238 €).



​I have a last dub about Nas operantig System, what you think is better SO Tuenas, Open mediavault or other?



What is your opinion?



Best regards​ and sorry for my english

Hi,
Looking for NAS selection advice for personal use.
Mainly store my all google photos for now, and for future as well.
Plus run WordPress development. and store my design work at home and download in my office.
I am confused between QNAP and Synology. I prefer good hardware and quite as well. And an easy to use mobile app.
Looking forward for your advice.
Thank you

Can you please advise me on how to connect a DS923+ to a PC WITHOUT any local network or internet? Like the only thing the PC and NAS are connected to is themselves. Imagine a scenario where you're trying to connect your PC to a DS923+ where all wireless infrastructure is not functional. I watched your video using the mapped drive system and ISCSI, although the video was good, your laptop was still connected to the WiFi, so the connection worked off that. I tried to do this by having an ethernet line only between the PC and NAS and by turning off the WiFi of both the PC and the NAS. I was unsuccessful, but I think I am missing something that could make it work. I also looked into creating a virtual DHCP server via my PC and making it work that way, but I couldn't do so since I couldn't find a DHCP program that was safe to use/didn't look very sketchy. Could you please advise how to do the wired-only connection or how to create a connection with a virtual DHCP safely? Thanks.
-Joe

Hi guys, just looking for some advice from you about my first NAS/PC machine build. I have already completed my research into the important component to build but want of course a real opinion from your experts. Can you please take a quick look and let me know if anything is wrong or something? I appreciate and thank you very much for your advice.

Asus ROG Strix B760-I Gaming WiFi motherboard
or
MSI MPG B760I EDGE WIFI Motherboard, Mini-ITX
Intel Core i5-12600K 12th Generation Desktop Processor
CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x32GB) 5200MHz CL40
High Speed 6Gbps Sata 3 iii Cable Sas Cable for Server
10Gtek® 10Gb PCI-E NIC Network Card, Dual Copper RJ45 Port
Crucial P3 Plus 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe Internal SSD
Noctua NH-L9x65, Premium Low-Profile CPU Cooler
or
JONSBO CR1400 V2 CPU Radiator 4 Heat Pipes 5V 3PIN ARGB CPU Cooling Fan For Intel 115X 1200 1700
M2 to SATA Adapter M.2 NGFF NVME to SATA3.0 Expansion Card
JONSBO N2 ITX Mini NAS Server
JULONGFENGBAO SFX Micro 600W PSU

I am currently building a Terramaster F4-424 to advance my current system. It will have (2) 8 TB HDD and (2) 12 TB HDD. I will be using the system mostly for Jellyfin server that will be used for sharing with about 8 different households. It will also have a couple other services used for just my home like file backup of the phones.

My biggest question is I don't know what size m.2 SSD cache to use. The system comes with 2 slots. Should I spread the cache size over the 2? Meaning if I need 2TB of cache size is it better to use (2) 1TB sticks or is it the same performance to use (1) 2TB stick?

If half of my NAS is for a Jellyfin server, is the SSD cache going to be that helpful?? I imagine it will be good for quicker loading of the jellyfin metadata for all the households but how much space is that really going to take up? 1 TB seems like a huge amount just for metadata cache mostly?