Paralysis through analysis: Asustor Flashstor 6 FS67 vs CWWK i3-N305.
Flashtor: Intel Celeron N5105 Quadcore; 6 x M.2 x 1 NVMe PCIe 3.0 drives; 2 x 2.5G lan; turnkey setup; w/ software; Est price w/ 3 x 2TB drives ~ $800
CWWK: Intel i3-N305 8 E-Core; 1 x M.2 x 4 NVMe PCIe 4.0? accepts expansion card to 4 x M.2 x 1 NVMe drives; 4 x 2.5G lan; roll-your-own setup w/ unraid; No software; Est price w/ 3 x 2TB drives ~ $650

Information on PCIe version of CWWK - may be incorrect. Would like NAS to be able to run MS SQL Server Express in Docker container, but that may be wishfull thinking with either choice.

I would like some feedback on software upgrades. I presently own an old Netgear Nas that I can no longer use because Flash player end of life was 2020 and I have not been able to find anything that will allow me to use it. I also owned two different Lenovo Nas that because of software I also can no longer use.

What is the life expectancy of software updates on the Synology DS220+. It seems that for what I will be using it which mostly photo storage and management for family use, this product seems to fit me best but I do not want to end up with another brick that I can no longer use because of lack of software upgrade ability.

Thank you in advance, looking forward to your response so that I can make a final decision.

Thanks again and have a wonderful day.

Roberto

I current have a Synology DS211+ (MARVELL Kirkwood 88F6282
1.6 GHz/512MB/DSM 6.2.4-25556 Update 7) ~10 years old

Nothing wrong, but I would like to proactively replace it.

Mainly used for streaming videos (non-transcoded) on my home LAN to either Infuse on my AppleTV or Kodi on my Firestick. Mainly 1080 but a few 4K creeping in now, which can cause a bit of buffering.

Also used for backing up my docs/photos, although I've only just realised that I could backup my whole Google workspace, which I think would be a step forward. These in turn are backed up to Synology C2 (but not the videos).

I might like to add some surveillance to supplement/replace my Arlo system. Maybe 4-5 cameras max.

Guessing there's no point in SSD's - I currently have a mirrored pair of 2TB HDD's and would probably go for a pair of 4TB, although if I do some housekeeping on my videos I could use my existing HDD's for a year or two.

Thanks, Peter

Hi!

My team and I are looking for a portable NAS storage system. We want to be able to transfer footage from cameras to one system that ~4 editors can edit from at the same time.

Ideally, this system would be small enough to bring with us on shoots.

Let me know if you have any recommendations.

Thanks!

Dear NASCompares

Thank you for your great work to the NAS community. I have recently came across your channel and they are all but excellent content on NAS.

My use cases are as follow:
1. Back up two iPhone backup data (256GB x2)
2. Back up with remote access to ever growing photo library for my kids (1TB atm, growing ~50GB per year)
3. Store and remove access to kids media including story sound tracks, pictures, videos (3TB atm, growing ~ 200GB per year)

Interested in DS923+ because of the new CPU and I don't plan on setting up a Plex (unless necessary to play back those kids videos/sound tracks/images via hardware transcoding?). I am interested to explore Dockers/VMs but I spent hours looking at some use cases and at this point, just don't feel I have a real need for this.

I'd prefer 4-bay for future upgradeability but looking at my storage growth, I might as well buy 2-bay now and a different model in the next upgrade cycle.

Advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi

Question for you, Is there any Made in Taiwan IP POE Camera that can be viewed on a mobile phone App and recorded on an NVR?

In Taiwan, the solution is from TPLink VIGI. But it's China comapany concerning the security compliance.

There's another company Spotcam TC1-P, the solution is uploading to Amazo cloud, if network outage the video would save to SD card. Free monthly charge is only uploading 24 hours. I asked the Spotcam CS, my camara is mounted on 5.5 meter high. If I would like to check the image need to use leader to take it out. Spotcam doesn't support local NVR.

Regards
Jeff

Hello, I follow your you tube videos with interest but am wanting a question answering if possible please ?

I have a QNAP TS-673A with 6x 10Tb drives running QuTS Hero, quite happily, i have since just bought a TS-453A and would like to know if i can put QuTS Hero on that or am i stuck with the QTS because ideally i want to run ZFS as i do on my 673A

Many thanks and keep up the great videos and shame you can shoot the gulls to keep em quiet!

Michael Crawforth

I'm planning to use NAS for :
1- backup and access anytime my personal encrypted files .rar
2- family photos and videos anyone can access anytime
3- store drivers for my pc and laptop maybe some light game . ps1 and ps2 games . many
4- maybe will upload videos or movies can anyone access and watch movies or videos I upload anytime , Plex or like netflix
please note . first time will buy NAS . above just planning to use
please guide me best available option 4 bay
Synology vs Asustor vs Qnap ?

In the process of moving data from DS216+II to DS1522+. I understand that the folder structure on the drive requires at least one "Shared" folder.  On my old drive years ago I created one called "shared" and then regular folders for photos, video, and music; (all at the top level).  On the new drive  also created a shared folder (again, called "shared") but for some reason I created the other three folders as sub-folders under the shared folder. Note: I am the only user with no plans to set up other users or groups.)

Hello, I’m very happy to have found you, because I need to finally upgrade my storage systems and want to make sure that I am getting the right system to grow into over time for the best price. It’s a lot to wade through. Both my husband and I are professional photographers so I’d like to ultimately combined our catalogs and one safe space. Thank you!!!