I have four DROBO, 5-Bay NAS drives, two of which are ethernet and two that are USB 3.1.

I want to transition just to ethernet, but I’m only interested in two NAS Devices.

I want to consolidate everything into two separate NAS configurations. I’m just having a hard time figuring out what kind of build I want. One of the devices I want to be HDMI capable as I have transferred all of my DVD and Blu-ray discs into digital format that I wanna fit on one of the NA devices.

The second device I want to dedicate to photographs and just back up data storage. I’m interested in a RAID-5 configuration.

I have the discs already so I’m looking for a diskless configuration.

We are a small single-campus college and have been using a 4-bay QNAP TS-453Be 2TB drives Raid-5 for some IT storage, but mostly we leverage it as a repository for software package deployments and upgrades (PDQ Deploy).  Our budget, and the cost of storage, is the primary reason we wouldn't just use a VM.

I'm looking for recommendations for a replacement, budget-friendly (Not cheap) replacement.  We don't need a huge amount of storage, but I would like to get better speeds than 100mbps. It seems like SSD for caching would help.  I'm not experienced with that setup.  I'm not sure what size/specs the ssd's should be, if that is the way to go.

We occasionally do large transfers.  Our largest custom software package that we'd deploy domain-wide would be Office 2024.  The rest are usually upgrades of custom packages, or GPU drivers which can suck.  We have 400 PCs but rarely need to push large packages all at once. 

TLDR: Budget-Friendly, QNAP, better concurrent throughput

Thanks

Hi, I purchased an ASTOR AS5304T in 202o Order ID: 78553
I now require additional storage space. Please can you advise on the best way forward?

By the way, the system to date is still working flawlessly.

Colin

Hi,
Watched your video from 6yrs ago about upgrading DS1019+ from 8GB to 16GB.
I stream a lot of movies and tv shows that I have on my NAS.
Most are in .mkv format and are mixture of some DVD, mostly bluray and but increasingly more 4K.

I wanted to beef up my NAS by carrying out a little TLC and as it is no longer in warranty I was going to upgrade the memory, however as it has been 6yrs I was curious if 16GB was the max. It would appear that is the case but I was not sure if that had changed in 6yrs

I had an old POS WD 4 x 4TB NAS that decided to die. Now, everything is running in my home server (Proxmox + TrueNAS Scale)

Thinking about buying either a complete solution (6 to 8 bay QNAP, Terramaster or Synology) or DIYing a new one on my own.

Regardless of the solution I pick, I was planning on buying 3 x 8TB drives to start and grow from there as needed, which means adding a drive from time to time.

I heard this is very stressful on the other drives, takes a lot of time and in some instances is not advised. Is this the case? Should I save more and buy all drives at once?

With your experience, which is the best NAS solution for a plan like this? QNAP? Synology? Terramaster? TrueNAS Scale? Unraid?

I think I would prefer to build something in the Jonsbo N3 or N5, but I am concerned about the limitations of DIY NAS software when it comes to add more drives and expand the pools.

Hello Gentleman - I'm hoping you can help since I can't find an answer to this anywhere in Synology or on the web from what I can see. I'm in the process of considating my medical files movies, tv shows etc. from iTunes and other sources into synology. Is there any script I can run that will give me just a simple list of names/titlas of the files I have in a folder so that I can ultimately take that list and enter it into a look up table so I can compare what I have and have moved?

I hope this is clear with what I'masking here but I haven't been able to find a thing to be able to get this out of my 920+ but it seems like something that should be easy to do?

Thank you for the time on this!

Rob

Hi team, thanks for previous advice. You are the best. I have a QNAP T664 with 6 x 6TB HDD's in raid 5 config. I still have my previous T653D unit which does not have any HDD's installed. I would like to increase my storage capacity by upgrading the size of my HDD's while retaining all of my current data. I was thinking of using 10 or 12TB drives. My questions is how to go about this? Can I replace one drive at a time and let the system rebuild the drive before moving onto the next drive, until all six are replaced? Or do I load up my T653D with the new drives and then copy all of the data from the T664. Once the data has been copied I would need to move the drives from the T653D and place them into the T664. I hope this makes sense. Your advice would be most welcome before I commence this task.

Regards - Mark from Australia.

I bought the QNAP ts 473a to get a home nas. Left synology because they were getting to business focused. I am still finding the nas approach requires IT maintenance from me. Should I have just gone with home server and storage. Can I convert the QNAP to home server? It seems using container is clunky and just more maintenance.

Hello, I've already tried everything - synology support, my ISP support, tried all home configuration, LAN speed is ok like 200-300MB/s, but remotely goes down even below 100kB/s, my internet speed is 900/900mbs and it really works on my computer. My friend has ds923+ and just to try he gave me his link to download and transfer from his NAS is +50MB/s. I connect my (and I setup his nas the same way) via ddns (synology.me). I even bought ugreen dxp4800 plus and the speed remotely is similar. Can you help me somehow? Thank you
Shema

Hey Mate,

been loving your thoughts on the Orico CF1000 - wondering what your thoughts are in comparison to something like the DS918+ that I'm already running, in particular in relation to Plex, which we're heavy users of.

How do you go about installing Plex on the Orico? Is it a Linux shell that you install via, or would the use case to install it with Docker? The OS Orico are using is a bit of a black box to me at this stage, vs Synology with their modified Linux implementation.

Bang for buck, it's definitely there compared to other Intel-based systems with that drive capacity, and I'm IT savvy (not terribly afraid of Docker), but the family acceptance factor is highly desirable.

Cheers,

Andrew