I run a photography studio
SETUP: DS1821+ with 8x20TB WD Red Pros. Raid 5. I have a M1 Mac mini without a 10gbe port. I'm connecting the NAS directly to the Mac mini via ethernet.
MAIN USE: Backup 40TB of data per year. SD cards via reader on M1 Mac, transferring to folder on NAS.
SECONDARY USE: Browse Raw files, organize data, Transfer to portable SSDs for editing, transfer to portable HDDs via USB COPY as a second copy. Upload JPG files (10tb/yr) to cloud for 3rd backup.
1. Will a 10gbe adaptor on the NAS and a "thunderbolt 4 to 10gbe" adaptor on the Mac mini increase my transfer speeds? I use Sandisk SD cards (170 MB/s) with a prograde memory card reader (capable of 1.25gb/s). Or am I bottlenecked somewhere?
2. Will installing NVME SSD add any benefit for my use? I will not be using this for plex or anything like that. Just a huge central HD for my studio. It would be nice to browse files quickly.
3. Will increasing RAM do anything for me?
Any other recommendations?

I have been researching NAS devices and have been comparing synology, qnap, and other versions.

It seems QNAP offers the best hardware for the price, as well as offers rack mount and desktop devices good hardware. I have been leaning towards rack mount but wasn't sure, I want to buy a device that will last for a long time.


1. No ARM
2. 4GB up to 32/64gb
3. M.2 tiered or caching
4. 2.5 or 10gb but must be able to be upgradable to 10gb


This will be primary for NAS/storage / ISCSI/LUN, and capable to backup data offsite to another device amazon glacier, cloud provider via webdav.

If you can provide a cost-effective options to get the best bang for your buck, from any provider.

But here are some ideas,

QNAP TS-464eU-8G-US
QNAP TS-873AeU-4G-US


QNAP TVS-h474-PT-8G-US
QNAP TVS-h674-i3-16G-US

When setting up qnap 8 drives from new what is the best raid ( to be used on plex )

Hi,

Keep seeing in your video's about 10GB/s ethernet ports/adapters for NAS.

Getting confused here as what is point of 10GB/s ethernet if ISP bandwidth is 100MB/s (home user).

Sorry if such a dumb question but seems pointless spending out extra for this if never going to use it (no doubt am missing something important but just cannot see it)

Perhaps this might be a good question for you to add to your next video of' dumb questions about NAS drives'.

Regards

Stephen Jeffery

Dear NasCompares team,

I, first of all, wanted to get a NAS to improve the security of my photos and videos with redundancy and encryption.
Right now, I am stuck with slow external hard drives, so it would be beneficial if the NAS could give me a speed increase for a better workflow.

The main problem I am struggling with right now is the question of how much performance is needed for a semi-professional photo- and videographer.
I would like to edit RAW 50MP photos directly on the system, and, if possible, to do the same with 4k 10Bit 250Mbit videos.
If the video editing part is not feasible with my budget, it would be fine to have a DAS SSD for video editing, in which I could transfer the data.

What kind of NAS do I need for this use case? Do I need 1Gbit, 2,5Gbit or 10Gbit? And could a mixed storage solution help me with having lots of value storage while also being able to edit videos on the NAS?

If needed, I could build a NAS myself.

Thanks for the help,
Jan

I have a business with multiple clients. Many use Teams for meetings, but Teams only works with one business account at a time. I tried running multiple windows VMs on my mac but they eat so much ram. Would I be able to set up VMs on QNAP and use Teams on each and still be able to use my mic and webcam?

Thanks for your help

Is the Zyxel 5103 better than the ZTE

Just a quick question. Have you guys every tried to list out the files/directories (I'm using Python os.walk) against the Qnap TBS464? It takes 13 sec to perform my walk/regex tasks on the roughly 5TB of data on the NAS (all nvme, 2.5+2.5 gbe) and <2 sec walking the 9 usb spinning drives I have on a single usb3 hub (accounting for about 21TB of data, not connected through the NAS).
Completed NAS analysis in 13.797977685928345
Completed USB analysis in 1.1907272338867188

I did run the test with just os.walk...looks like the first access is VERY slow, but it does speed up if the successive process is right after it.
Completed os.walk only analysis in 13.380335092544556
Completed NAS (full) analysis in 2.7360312938690186

Am I missing some key configuration on the QNAP? Maybe some indexing capabilities? Just can't seem plausible that the NVME drives underperform the USB hub. Running over NFS, mounted drives in Ubuntu Linux.

Thoughts? Appreciate any help!

Hello Rob, hope you are doing well! I am in the process of choosing a NAS and NASCompares is a big help. I think I am going to buy a Qnap TS-464. Your video about the TS-264 made me aware of the difference between the TS-464 and the TS-264 regarding the HDMI version (2.0 vs. 2.1). I've checked QNAP's website and now I am a bit confused. In the &quot;Hardware Specs&quot; on the website QNAP says that both the 464 and the 264 come with HDMI 2.1. In contrast to this the PDF User Guide (valid for all the x62 and x64 devices) tells me that all these devices come with HDMI 2.0. Obviously, QNAP must be wrong somewhere. Do you have a better insight? Do you know what's right and what's wrong here?

Currently have a number of USB drives 10TB each and looking at consolidating everything providing backup and redundancy. I’m a photographer so have need to store and access I use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop . At the moment I don’t fully backup my Windows 10 (resisted upgrading to Win11) but user data I do. Would be useful to access photos or media from other devices

Watched your videos seen the Synology 1522+ but doing some checking around before I decide.

Look forward to hearing from you