Firstly...thank you for your support, advise & website.
Your you tube channel is great.

I am a home user looking for a 2 bay (or 4) NAS with approx 8tb min per drive. Home devices are full, portables full and cloud full. I want to unload devices of photos etc.
Use is mainly back up photos, video and files, IOS & windows files.
I like the sound of Synology (am open to others) and would appreciate some direction..so many choices and options.
I am not a business and not really needing all the options of software available.
I am reasonably capable tech wise on the prosumer profile.
I get an idea then watch a different review and get turned about.

Cheers

Is it possible to buy just Qnap’s QuTS hero software and run it on a home built nas?
I haven’t found this information on their website, and I don’t want to create an account just to ask them that. Maybe you know?
I like their software, I like ZFS, I like RAID10, I like Quts more than TrueNas Core (Core is a bit complicated, and heavy on the hardware resources), but I don’t like Qnap’s choice of hardware. I would like to run my own hardware with QuTS hero. Is this possible?

Dear sir / Madam,

I work as a photographer for a professional football club and use a 4G MIFI router to send my photos from the stadium during football matches to my client. Could you advise me which 5G MIFI router I could buy the best for this type of work?
Thanks for your response!

Hi Guys,
Last week my 5N box died so now I have the two drives looking for a new home.

I have tried searching to see if it is possible to simply buy a QNAP or Synology and simply place the existing drives in and migrate / copy to new new drives.

I am using MAC.

If you could be so kind and let me know it would be very much appreciated.

Kind regards

Mark

Hello,
im buying my first NAS and photos and videos are critical. I hoped to upload them to the cloud and only keep the thumbnails on my device. When i want to look at them their originals are downloaded and can be edited (amateur level) or i can stream them compressed to my device to simply enjoy. This would absolutely require a good filter system as well as good text, image and people recognition to work for me. >11k Vid/Pics (100GB)

Additionally id like to run backups / email clients/ file sharing and maybe a minecraft server (10ppl + plugins) or some projects on it

Im tech savy enough to write simple code or understand enough to set up the server myself, but mainly I don't fancy having to take care of it for the years to come (+overburdeneding myself)

Original idea: Orange Pi5+ (8 cores (4p+4e) plus 6TOPS NPU) for processing. Software: trueNAS + Nextcloud as a base and build up the rest from there =300€

QNAP &Co.: rel. poor performance (maybe to weak)

prebuild y/n?

I recently installed some extra RAM on my QNAP TS-453D (yes I'm aware the recommended max is 8gb) and once I restarted and was nsure checking the resource monitor to ensure it was being recognised properly I noticed that it was showing a cache of over 3gb - is this usual? also is there any guide on how to clear cache and/or trace what is causing such a huge cache to accrue? I've included a screenshot of the resource monitor for reference.

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Currently have a QNAP TS-543 pro, works well does want I have wanted, Jellyfin, and file storage.

Things have changed I now run a company and need more would really like 1 or remote windows 10 or 11 desktops (so Virtual machines)

The 543 pro even on win 7 and office 2019 has too much lag.

Budget is £600 - £700

The another £800 to £1000 for 48 TB of drives

Any ideas?

I'm building my first NAS. I've decided on the main components, but not on the drives that I'm going to use, and i'd like some advice on that.
I'm building with the Jonsbo N2 case.
16GB 3200mhz RAM
Celeron J6413 processor
128GB M2 SSD for the OS

I want to use it as a backup storage (leaning towards TrueNAS scale), media server (Jellyfin probably, Plex if Jellyfin is too complicated), Bittorent RSS downloader, Pihole if possible (haven't looked into that), and most importantly when it comes to drive selection: I want to attach 3 wireless NVR cameras with ZoneMinder.
If possible, I want zoneminder to analyse and just save footage on the NAS when movement is detected in specified zones. However, i have no clue if the footage needs to be written to the NAS first to be able to analyse it as that would stress the drives a lot more.
I want to add 5 drives to my NAS, and I'm a bit in doubt between classic NAS drives like the Ironwolf or WD Red, or surveillance drives like the WD purple. What would you all recommend going for?

Hi All,

I didn't see this covered in the forum and was getting a lot of different info from Google so I figured I'd reach out here. 

Background: I've got a Synology 1621+ that I use to manage media for a small production company. I have media synced to Backblaze for offsite storage and the 6 drives are in a raid 10 config for additional protection. 

The plan: I intend to get 6 completely new drives (larger capacity than the current drives) and make a new volume to start from scratch. I would take the current volume made up of the 6 drives, remove them entirely, and store them safely somehow. This way, if I needed something from that original volume, I could just plug in all the drives and I'd have the original media. That means I don't need to pay to restore anything from Backblaze.  I've read up on backing up and restoring the Synology configuration and intend to do that so I'm not starting from scratch with the Synology unit

The question/s:

• Is there a proper way to "retire" a volume before removing them?
  
• If I did need to restore something from the original volume, popping them all back in would allow instant access as if I never replaced them correct? No restore/repair process?
  
• Should I restore the configuration settings or am I better off starting from scratch?
  
• Is there a better option I'm not thinking of that doesn't involve an expansion unit?
  

Dear NASMasters,

I am about to buy a new NAS replacing my old DS213j. The old one was never a powerhouse, with 2x3TB WD RED it lasted for almost 10 years. And I hated it because it was so slow, furthermore in the last few years it always freezed when a big package was downloaded via DownloadCenter. Sometimes it restarts itself... don't say a word...

I decided to upgrade. I use it as photo storering place, a download (seed) server, and a video and music center for my library. I never used any other media center software, once I tried Plex, but it never was configured well. 

My tool for playing music and video are up-to-date, so I don't have to convert usually my files. As a fileserver I connect to my NAS with my TV, and the TV (or my Dune player) plays HDR or Dolby Vision movies on its own, my HiFi plays what I need. 

I am also thinking on adding some IP cameras to my home, so that is why I thought I have to go 4-bay solutions. As I read many articles and saw many videos, I think DS423+ is my choice. But as I never used Plex or never needed to convert videos to stream, I become uncertain about DS923+. I just need a file to be pushed to the network, my other devices will do the rest, if a new video format comes in, it is easier to buy a new player. DS923+  gives more adventages in network and file-handling side (more futureproof) than DS423+ with a 4-year old processor, but video abilities. 

Anyway my idea is to put my old 3TB drives to a new system, and when it is ready add a new drive to the pack, and I will have the possibility to later add/replace some more HDDs. 

So what I need a NAS for? Downloading and storing films, music, sharing them on my network, for photo storage and maybe for ipcameras. 

But the question is which DS to choose for my usage. 

Thanks in advance.