Hoping you can help with best NAS to get:
• NAS will be in a quiet living room, so drive/fan noise is a big issue.
Currently I have an iMac connected to a number of hard drives, which I've slowly over the years been swapping from HDDs to SSDs, which has definitely made things much better. A faint fan hum is not the end of the world, but definitely hearing disk drives clicking and whirrling is a big problem. Does Qnap tbs-h574tx make too much noise even with heat sink attachments??
• I require a pretty large amount of storage. I'd ideally like something like an Asus Flashstor 12 Pro because at absolute bare minimum I'd want 24TB (formatted) of space and ideally a bunch more than that for expansion as in the ideal world I'd like this to be partly for media center and partly for work files (video editing and animation sequences).
• Of critical importance is for this NAS to be a top notch ROON server. I'll also use Plex as well.
• want 10gbps ethnt & good USB or Tbolt connect.

I currently have a 5 bay synology nas DS1019+ with 16gb of ram. I bought the jonsbo n5 case to build my forever Nas for PLEX and data storage. With my current setup I am having transcoding issues as about 10 people have access to my current server. looking to build a powerful nas with low to moderate power consumption. I was watching your video about not using itx motherboard in n5 case and information is so confusing about witch motherboard / processor to use. Any assistance would be apricated. thank you for your time

In your 2024 QNAP setup guide part 1 you say that you would be doing a later part covering adding additional hard drives to the NAS.
Did you ever do that and if so which part as I've been unable to find it?

Many thanks and thank you for all the very helpful videos that you've put out there

Hi

This is abrham, new to the help desk position. I was assigned to look for NAS to replace the current server we have with the following specs:
PowerVault NX3230
"Processor: Intel v3 1.9 GHz
RAM: 2*8GB RDIMM 2133MT/s
Hard Drive: 2*300GB SAS
PERC H730 / RAID 1
5*2TB NLSAS
PERC H730 / RAID 5
Network Adapter: 1*Broadcom 5720 1 Gb"

The new NAS should be more redundant and has to have a 10GB LAN network card.

Thank you in advance.

hi, I am now on my 3rd QNAP, from a 2-bay, to a TS-453A and now a TS-464, kindly reccomended by your good selves. I work from home so use it for everything, backing up my work files on the fly, Roon server, download server, and Plex. I have 3x 14Tb drives in RAID 5, 2x 2Tb SSD's running apps, and a spare 1Tb SSD on expansion card for the Roon database.

I upgraded to QUTS Hero believing it would speed things up, but the interface is EXTREMELY slow. I know I am asking a lot of it, but it is unusable at times. I tried to use the SSD's as a cache but read it was pointless, I upgraded to 32Gb of RAM, but that's not made much difference, and I'm now just thinking the processor isn't up to it.

My TS-453A is an older model, but I don't think it was this bad, so I am just asking for some advice - should I cut my losses and go for a bigger QNAP, or an Asustor AS6804T, or stick with it and figure out the problem? I just don't think it is up to the job.

I'd really appreciate your help. thanks

I have a 3 bay QNAP at the moment with 3 2tb drives running raid 5. I want to expand up to 4 drives and want to replace the really slow TS351 I have (QTS runs like a dog on this even with 16gb memory). I want to expand to a 4 bay nas but have nto got a lot of money to do it with. I am opent to ideas to perhaps NAS's which are a little older or available second hand that are 4 bay.. Ultimatly I would go for something like a TS-462/4 but costs are too high really. I hate terramaster with a passion as I had a 2 bay one of those and it was forever screwing up when an update was applied and you needed a degree in Linux to fix it or loose or your data. open to ideas to be honest for a cost effective solution. I do have an matx motherboard and intel i5-6500 on it that I could use for a server but I think I would struggle with the set up of a something like trunas for example and it's size would just be prohibative too... Regards Darren

Great channel, I find it useful!
I am thinking of getting the UNas Pro. 1 thing I really want to to self host my own photo cloud and Plex server. Is it even possible to do that? If I want to use immich, I need to can I download and use docker? how about Plex?
There is almost nobody talking about this use case. I have the basis of a unify network infratstuctre at home now, I use UDR, a unify POE switch, a unify Mesh router etc. So I thought I would try to continue with more unify gear rather than get a Synology

Hello my nactua fan stop working after a little while. 1 works one stops any way around it ?

HEY MY FRIEND


Hope everything is ok with you Robbie....
I was thinking of buying a used 4bays (or bigger) NAS and upgrade the mobo..... should I buy a QNAP or SYnology (or other brand) ...which is easiest to change motherboard on ??
I want a mobo with PCIx 8x or 16x so I can install an GPU also

best regards

Andreas Wassén
sweden

Hi there!

I have had a simple HTPC running pretty much constantly for the last 10 years, maybe longer.  It wasn't much - started out as just a box under the TV with a few DVDs of mine I converted, and grew to all the DVDs, then BluRays, etc., and along the way became headless and the kids streaming from it more and more as they grew up.

Unfortunately, the box gave up the ghost on me a couple days ago, and I thought this might be the time I can finally persuade the wife (read: get permission from  ) that we should update to a more robust NAS-type system, with plenty of room to grow the storage, and maybe start backing up our PCs to it, all the photos and videos from our phones, as well as it continuing to be a streaming system.

Now, never having setup/bought/built a proper NAS device before, I headed to the NAS Compares Youtube channel to try to absorb some info about what to do... and, my goodness, there was a lot of info there!  Kinda made my head spin, tbh.  But what I came away with (rightly or wrongly), was that building my own was probably going to hit that sweet spot of still doing what I want, but maybe saving a few quid... or maybe I really liked the video with the Jonsbo N2 and N3 and just wanted to build one using that case?  

So here's the main things I want:


* Lots of drive potential so that I can easily add drives as I go (and can afford to)
* The ability to use different sized drives so I can add ones (even small ones) that I might be able to get my hands on around the house
* Emby server (like Plex) with hardware transcoding
* Supports potentially four people on the local network viewing files/stream media at the same time, and maybe a couple people remotely
* Can have docker containers running (eg, Emby, but also maybe a web server like nginx, PHP, Go, Python, so that I can run some sites/apps I'm working on, photo viewers, vpn server, or anything else that grabs the fancy)
* Be pretty forward thinking - would love to just set it up the once, and other than adding more storage if I want/need, just have it do its thing for the next 10+ years like my old HTPC

From the videos I saw, it seems like UnRAID would be a good choice for the software, and I was going to go for the Jonsbo N3.  I have a couple 6TB drives now, and would like to get them added without losing any data, so would probably set up the server first with a larger drive, copy everything to it and go from there adding the 6TB drives, and then a second large drive for the parity drive... with thought that I can then go to, say, six data drives and two parity drives.

But I find it hard to really pick hardware, and although the nascompares.com/guide/recommended-jonsbo-n3-nas-builds-for-300-500-1000 page was helpful, a lot of the prices were not as cheap as they once were?

So playing around a bit on PCPartPicker, this is what I came up with; is it totally bonkers, over the top, and I don't need anything like that at all?

Case: Jonsbo N3 (8 bays or longevity)
PSU: CoolerMaster V750 SFX (I've had some really cheap PSUs in the past burn out, but also didn't want to throw hugh amounts of cash here)
Mobo: ROG Strix B760-I (gives me two M.2 slots and 4 SATA 6Gb, and DDR5)
CPU: i5 14600K (QuickSync for hardware transcoding and iGPU)
Cooler: Noctura NH-D9L (Seemed reasonable for the CPU?)
RAM: Crucial Pro DDR5 (I know it's not ECC, but figured the DDR5 offers a little bit of extra protection built-in)
Extra SATA adapter: M.2 to SATA3.0 Adapter Card (as the mobo only has 4 ports and I want to eventually be able to use all 8 slots)
Cache drive: Crucial P3 Plus SSD 1TB M.2
HDD: 2 Seagate Ironwolf Pro's @ 16TB (one as parity, one to go as data to compliment the two 6TB drives I have)
OS: UnRAID Unleashed (figure after a year, I can either extend the license or upgrade to the lifetime one)

All in all that's about £1300, which is honestly more than I wanted to spend, but figure if it lasts my like my HTPC did, then it's only like £100/year, which makes it a lot easier to swallow.  

But being someone that's only put together desktop PCs before, maybe I'm looking at this all wrong and maybe I'm not watching enough of the videos!  But that being said; any thoughts on that list?

Many thanks!