So I just ordered the 672XT with 6 20 Tb Seagate Ironwolf Pro HDDs, Two Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 2TB NVMe M.2, 32 Gb RAM upgrade. I'm going to connect this directly to my Mac Studio through Thunderbolt 4 (3) and have it connected to the Ethernet in my office which is likely only 100Base T. I'll be doing video editing on my Mac Studio and I'm hoping to do remote video editing from home on my 16" MacBook Pro with M2 Max. I want to configure the HDDs in either RAID 5 or 6 (recommendation?) and use the 970 EVOs in RAID 1 for Caching. For video editing, is this the best setup? What are your recommendations? And are the 6HDDs and 2 970's One big storage pool? Or Two pools? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hello! My name is Ty. I'm with a film/TV prod company and appreciate what you do.

Recently, we upgraded to Synology for main stuff and took a bunch of DROBOs offline, along with the HDDs in them(perfectly fine and work). I was wondering if there a way to turn an old DROBO (5n, 5D, etc...) into a simple "external drive enclosure"?
Or better yet into a 3rd party RAID capable "external drive enclosure"? Like, just clearing all DROBO software.
We have several Drobo cases/"chassis" just sitting here and the HDDs do go with them but we really want to get out of the Drobo software side. Do you know if this conversion is even possible??

Alternatively, we'd just buy some OWC drive enclosures but want to save the money. We'd use them as backups btw.

Hi, Please help, im trying to replace multiple external hard drives on my computer that hold thousands of images, i use these in conjunction with Adobe lightroom and photoshop. I'm trying to find an affordable easy to use storage system, im not looking for an all "singing and dancing" nas and will readily consider an older one thats been discounted , thanks for your help on this . John.

Hi, I have a dead DS918+. It doesn’t have any blinking blue lights, and it’s just dead when I press the power button – have bought a new power adaptor and I’m currently waiting for it to be delivered.

In the event my 918+ is not reparable, I’ve started researching the updated versions of the 4-bay NAS (i.e. 920+ and 923+) to replace my 918+ in hopes of just doing a HDD migration to get everything up and running again.

My current HDD configuration is:
Bay 1: 16TB Ultrastar WUH721816ALE6L4
Bay 2: 4TB IronWolf ST4000VN008 (SC60)
Bay 3: 16TB Ultrastar WUH721816ALE6L4
Bay 4: 12TB ST12000NE008 (EN02)

I’ve checked the HDD compatibility lists for 920+ and 923+, and 923+ doesn’t seem to support my Ultrastars?

Is it possible to migrate my HDDs from 918+ to 923+ even though the HDDs I have HDDs that are not on the compatibility list for the 923+?

Given my use case (Synology drive for files, WebDAV, LAN streaming) would it be better to opt for an older 920+ or 923+?

Hi guys- Love your videos and I've learned a lot. Thank you!

That said, I'm not confident in choosing components for my 1st NAS without direction from people who know what they are talking about.

Use cases are photo backup, multi device access, and personal cloud. I currently have 5TB of photos spread between two 3TB hard drives. I retired this year meaning more photography and more storage space.

I'm willing to spend more for SSDs because I would like it to be as quiet as possible. I’m thinking of five 2TB SATA SSDs.

Security is a priority so even though I like the sound of a more open system I’d probably steer clear of QNAP without some assurance their issues are overblown.

I'm 70 years old and I've been playing with computers since the 1980s but no formal training. I did build a PC years ago.

Can you tell me which NAS to buy, which drives to populate it with, and which RAID to set up?

I have many 4TB and 5TB and External Esata storage ...want to put them all in 1 single storage and connect it using the USB 3.2 Gen2 10G port or Thunderbolt 4 port.
my laptop is Precision 7760 Workstation with XION cpu and 64gb ram.

want it to for storage of Photos-Video-Documents-video editing etc..

please advice ... I am looking for the QNAP TS-464 with thunderbolt ..but not released yet. the storage minimum 4 bays ... and up ..no problem if it 8 bays ..

Hello All 


I am facing an issue with playback from my jellyfin server on the F423. 

I watched your video on Youtube and followed the instruction, went to the extra step of installing ModBase1. 
   
I was able to access the libraries, compile and do everything except actually playing any files (tried from the browser and the app on google TV). 

I get this error "This client isn't compatible with the media and the server isn't sending a compatible media format."
   

after that i tried to disable hardware acceleration, made no difference. 

I am running the latest version of TOS 5.1

The only thing i can think of is:
in the jellyfin server app it says " Setup the Ffmpeg path to /usr/local/ffmpeg51/sys/bin/ffmpeg"
   
when i go to the ffmpeg there is nowhere to setup up that path. 
also worth mentioning that in the Modbase1 app it notes " ModBase1 is not available in PATH", and i click on add to path, it still dispalys the same message. 

I have zero experience with linux, Just bought this NAS, followed your tutorial on how to set it up. 

Would really appreciate the help if you have the time. 

Edit 1: Under the playback of the web interface of the jellyfin server there is an option to specify the folder for " FFmpeg path:"

I tried using this "  /usr/local/ffmpeg51/sys/bin/ffmpeg " 

but unfortunately got also an error " We're unable to find FFmpeg using the path you've entered. FFprobe is also required and must exist in the same folder. These components are normally bundled together in the same download. Please check the path and try again."
   

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On the 100K sub announcement you mentioned "...and soon, on Patreon." I'm a Patreon user and would prefer to support you guys through that platform so that I don't have to create a KoFi account.

How soon is "soon?" ?

Cheers.

Just wondering, with all the great work you both do, is there any other ways we can help you other than financially. Is there ways we can contribute to helping you produce great content?
I'm sure you have most of it covered, but if there are ways we can also help to support you in the back of house maybe there are some of us that can contribute.

Any recommendations for a 200TB NAS?