Hi , Appreciate the help. I need to get a nas. I need backup and to edit from home and office on premiere pro. 2 days a week I will be accessing the files from work, 3 days I'll be at home.

Generally editing 4k video.

I have a Thecus n2520 that has been sitting in a closet, unused for years. Just pulled it out and factory reset everything. The original OS doesn't appear to be loading fully when trying to access different areas of the UI. What does load is super slow, probably due to the intel atom inside. It appears there is no manufacturer support due to age (which is to be expected at ~10 years old) .
Is it better to scrap it and build/buy new or is there an alternate solution that can be loaded on to it?

Thanks in advance

I recently purchased a Synology DS 423+ along with 2 x Seagate IronWolf 4TB ST4000VN006.
This was all I could afford at the time.
I have them in a Synology Hybrid RAID
I now wish to populate the 2 empty bays in my NAS.
I want to add 1 to the SHR Volume 1 and 1 to a 2nd volume for Surveillance.
The ST4000VN006 are still available or there are ST4000VNZ006 drives for a similar price.
(4TB are between £95 and £110 each)
Which of these - or even some other drive - would you recommend please?
TIA.

Hello, my current NAS is connected to an Nvidia Shield with a LAN cable. From there I go via HDMI cable to a Denon AVR-2400h. From there the picture goes to a Samsung OLED TV. I watch a lot of 4K Movies and also 265 HEVC with Atmos and Dolby True HD. Transcoding to a mobile phone or other device is not necessary. I only watch via TV. I need a NAS with about 90 TB of space (5 or 6 bay). Which NAS (if possible from Synology) would you recommend? Thank you very much for your answer.

I have 7 Seagate Ironwolf pro 14tb drives.
I tried to add an 8th 14tb drive but the nas refused to accept it.
There seems to be a firmware change from SN03 to SNA3.

can you help?

Hello,

I've discovered your youtube channel back in 2021 when i was looking for a NAS to store my media library. I saw you recommended a DS920 and that is the one i bought, loaded it up with seagate exos 16TB drives. after a year or so i bought the expansion unit because i was running out of storage. Placed the same drives in the expansion unit. But now i have the same issue once more.

Now i am not sure what to do, build a standalone that is upgradable, throw the 920 and the expansion unit out and replace it with something else or add another nas as a network drive to the ds920.

The only use i have for the server is to run plex. The media files are max 1080p remux, i do not have a lot of streams at the same time because i have a limited upload speed 5MB/s. This will probably change in the future, but i'm not planning on more than 5 streams at the same time.

I would prefer a quiet nas, not to a noisy server psu.

My budget is flexibel.

Thanks for your time.

Best regards
Niels

Hi NAS compares,

I am planning to buy Synology NAS DS723+ and i am having some doubts in that

1. Can i use M.2 SSD for storage without using any SATA SSD or HDD.(buying Only m.2 SSD for everything like OS installation multimedia storage)
2. Can i use regular SSD instead of using NAS SSD.
3. Can i use other brand SSD.

Would prefer USB 3.2 Gen 2 or Gen 2x2 but Thunderbolt is an option. Hardware RAID 5 with 4-8 bays

I'm a photographer and just want large storage (25tb+) with the fastest connection possible so i can edit direct from a DAS while still having redundancy. Is there any DAS or similar you could recommend. I use a windows pc and any help is greatly appreciated.

Hello everyone,

I am a newbie that is super confused and frustrated. I have already setup up my NAS but the process is not going smoothly and I feel like the more I try to research how to fix things the more complicated and overwhelming all the technical details are getting.

To Start - I setup a Qnap TS-464-8G-US with 2 seagate exos 20TB drives. I am using this set up with Jellyfin just for a home media server for my movies and photos. My process is basically to use MakeMKV to create a MKV file of my movies and put them directly to my NAS with no handbrake compression. I did the basic setup straight off of Robbie's Qnap and Jellyfin set up videos and that part went splendidly. But I now have 3 really big follow up problems/slash questions. I have tried to research these issues but it's like going down a rabbit hole of technical details I can not mentally process. I am not trying to become a tech wizard. I just want to stream my own movies instead of paying Amazon $4.99 every time I want to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off! 

1 - This part I might have frakked up. After I had uploaded 3 MKV files and the system acquired all the meta data files I saw they were all just jumbled together so I tried to organize the movies using different folders for my movie categories. Then the next day they were all moved around and it took a minute to find but it looks like they got put into snapshot folders. I deleted all the folders and files I made and tried to reload the movies but they still keep moving to snapshot folders. 
1Q - Can someone please link me to a video about how to Organize the files in Qnap File Station and how to keep snapshot from moving them around?

2 - I think this is related to the snapshot issue but Jellyfin is also duplicating the movies in the main movie window. I created collection folders and the movies are NOT duplicating in there. But it looks like everyday a new snapshot is created a new duplicate movie icon appears in the main movie folder. Sometimes I can delete the duplicates and sometimes the system will not let me. I can't go through and delete endless duplicates every time I open Jellyfin. Especially once I get hundreds of movies in there. 
2Q - How can I stop Jellyfin from duplicating movie icons? Is it related to snapshot? Do I need to turn Snapshot off?

3 - This part is question and recommendation request. So after I ripped my 3rd movie my external disk drive decided to crap out on me. I grabbed another basic Bluray read and write drive from Amazon but it wont open any of my disks now. When I try to open them in MakeMKV it just keeps failing. I've tried with an old version and the current version of MakeMKV but it just wont do it. I tried to look this up too but the variables are so vast that I couldn't hone in on a good answer. In fact I came across a whole new thing about flashing drives? I've never even heard fo that before.
3Q - Do I need a specific type of drive to open Blurays in MakeMKV? Is there a difference in older drives that works better? What the heck is flashing a drive and do I need to worry about that? 


Thank you to anyone that read this whole thing and is able to answer any of these questions. I appreciate the help.

BK