Hi! I have followed your reviews of the WTR Max from Aoostar with great interest. Seems to be a good fit for my needs. However, Aoostar seem to never have it in stock, only occassionally offering pre-sales of certain configurations. I am curious why this may be the case. Sales tactics? Lack of parts?

Hi Gents! I have a Synology DS212J (2012) and doing rsync/hyper backup jobs to a QNAP TS-231 (2015). Running an SHR volume in the DS212J with two 3TB drives. QNAP, been running each disk as separate volumes, each receiving a Hyperbackup rsync weekly, and then a multi-version backup as well nightly. I keep the TS-241 in other location in house and pop out one of the drives to keep off site and rotate them periodically. Mostly family photos/videos, family documents like financial/medical. I have also been considering cloud backup for an easier off-site backup. Synology C2 might be the easiest thing and cost about the same as Backblaze for 2TB storage, with backups approaching 2.5TB. 1 drive failed on QNAP, and 1 drive getting read errors now in Synology, seems like time to consider upgrade, to take advantage of snapshot replication/ransomware protection. Looking at ds923/5+ ds423/5+. Would like to backup kids PCs as get to college, iphone photo backup, and do Synology photos. Thoughts?

I am seeking advice on the best upgrades for my Synology DS918+. My primary use is hosting 30-40+ containers, and the current bottleneck is RAM. I do not use Surveillance Station or Plex on this NAS>
I have concerns about RAM upgrades causing data corruption due to the CPU limitations of this model. I am also open to considering M.2 upgrades if they would be beneficial for my container-heavy workload.
What are the most reliable RAM and M.2 upgrades for the DS918+ to improve performance for containerization without risking data integrity? Or should I get a new NAS/Hardware instead of pushing DS918+ to the limit?

Hi. Read your article regarding unofficial memory upgrades. Just got my RS1221RP+ a couple days ago but yep, only 4gb of memory installed. I'm interested to know how the gear will react if I installed the two 32gb Kingston memory modules. I have never exceeded the listed capacity of a piece of equipment and being able to do this would be a real plus. My son is putting together a AI system that requires a large amount of memory & being able to allocate half of the 64gb of memory into a vm for him would be ideal. I am by no means a hardware expert but seems installing non-ecc memory would defeat the internal process programmed into this NAS but, if it is still a good option as indicated by at least one persons comments then I'm willing to go at it as well. Let me know if you would please.

There seems to be a workaround now so you can use non-Synology brand HDDs. Take a look at this video: https://odysee.com/@Carey:0/Synology-Unlock:f

Which is better of ts 464 and ts 464eu

How do you preserve file creation dates when copying files between a Synology and Mac?

Dear @NASCompares . Since you have done such elaborate reviews of the FS6812x Gen 2, I have gone and bought the 12 bay model. However, to my big dismay, I cannot seem to be able to attach to my TB PC using the USB4 ports. Asustor seems to say on reddit that this kind of connection is not (yet) supported. May I kindly ask how you have managed to get that working please? Also, my 10G network is in great shape (which is to say that I get 10Gb speeds between my other devices) but the top speed I am getting from the 10G connections to this unit is around a weakish 600MB/s. Even when I set up a 4 disk Raid0 just to make sure that there are no bandwidth limitations re the SSDs. Any ideas how this can happen? Your tests seem to indicate that higher speeds are totally possible. PS: I am using Gen 4x4 4TB SSD drives from Samsung and WD. On internet. If you can enlighten me I'd be really grateful. Thanks.

Hi. What’s the recommended specs for a single shared folder with mainly movies. I currently have a truenas box and infuse in an Apple TV to watch but I’m looking to reduce to a smaller nas box. Any suggestions regarding the brand and the specs for each

Hello,
I currently have a Raid5 in my PC, its been running on 5x 6TB WDC WD80EFZX-68UW8N0 drives.

I finally hit the storage wall and without too much research, bought an additional 3x 6x TB drives WDC WD80EFPX-68C4ZN0 drives.

Only to discover, my Motherboard has 8 Sata ports, but only 6 can support the Raid. Furthermore, I attempted to just add 1 of the new drives, only to be told by the Intel RST software that the volume cannot be extended because the number of clusters will exceed the maximum number of clusters support by the file system.

So i now have a delemar as you can imagine. At this stage I am thinking of backing up the data, and then re-building the raid into a NAS, but my concern is the Qnap TS-873A is somewhat 4+ years old now, and at $2.3k australian, seems a bit rough. Really hope you can provide some guidance on what the best ladder is to climb out of this mess. Further more the retail i bought the 3x HDD, has a terrible returns policy so now I'm stuck with them (1k