Need to transition out of Drobo

Hi Guys,
Need your help.
In our family home I have built a pretty sophisticated homenetwork (atm 1GBit/s only) with Proxmox running 10-15 VMs and 2 Docker hosts with 20 Containers and still growing.
I also host my own AD with File-/Printserver, and a DMZ for external-facing APPs is in the works (NextCloud, Bitwarden planned).
19" Rack is in the basement, currently without cooling. In the future a deeper server rack with cooling is planned.
I have an old Qnap TS 419P (4x2TB) sitting on top of that rack, that I currently only boot up for running backups once a week.
Apart from being iSCSI-Target for Proxmox backups, it has our family photos, videos and filedump.
Currently backed up to a WD MyBook that is unfortunately not offsite but residing upstairs ;-).

I'm looking for a NAS that is somewhat future proof (option 10Gbit-SFPs would be nice) and at least Docker capabilities to shift some load off the proxmox.
Also being able to serve as storage to run remote(Prox-)VMs on it.
Thanks!

Hi, Looking at NIMBUSTOR 2, Drivestor2 Pro, DS220+.
Purpose is to backup devices and play photos and videos from camera to NAS to devices. So 4k playback is wanted. Liked the Drivestor2 but worried about customer support and quality of product based on Amazon reviews. Synology seems to be better software and quality but device old. Can't decide on the best nas as I don't want something buggy or support stops and it becomes useless like WD, Seagate NASes. 2 bay with RAID 1 is preferred.

I recently replaced my 4x4TB HDD by 4x8TB HDDs on my TS-453B RAID5. After thatd, I realized I originally created my system volume as a "4k bytes per inode", which limits max storage to 16TB and, therefore, prevents the RAID from being increased up to the available 21TB (Trully disappointed and angry at myself)
At this point I have the new 4x8TB HDDs limitted to my former capacity (10TB) with no option to revert them back to the 4x4TB.
I would like to hear your advise on what approach to take to leverage my new 4x8TB HDD. At this point, I am considering to buy a new NAS (TS 664) to migrate to. Yet, that would pose to re-create all my services (Plex, 12 x dockers, QVR Pro,...).
Can you suggest any better approach which could minimize all this admin work?
In an ideal world I would like to just migrate the HDDs to the new NAS but that would not solve the volume storage limitation.
Many thanks in advance

I am debating about the new qnap NAS the ts 1655.
what are you saying ?
please help me

Is DS1522+ worth if cost 35% more money than DS923+ in my country?

Hello together

I need a replacement for my drobo 8D. Generally I was very satisfied with it, but I need more storage and Drobo no longer makes the impression of a future-proof brand ...
My system has just under 90TB and is almost full. At the moment I'm working with Thunderbold 3 and 1TB SSD cash and I'm very happy with it (except for the cable length). For the future I would like a system that can be expanded well. I like to work with the Seagate Iron Wolf pro hard drives - that's why I'm a bit critical of Synlogy's one brand mentality. With the Drobo I always appreciate the easy management and the use of different sized HDDs. I have looked at Qnap systems - but their website is a bit confusing ...

I would be very happy to receive a recommendation and advice from you.

Many thanks and best regards
Daniel

Hi

Thanks for all your video, that helps me a lot to understand and select which nas i need but i have a question.

I'm looking for the QNAP TS 264 but i think that 2 bays will be not enough for a long time keeping.
I checked the QNAP TS 464 but it less powerfull than his little brother.
So if I buy the TS 264 and in the future, add an extension like the TR 002 is this setup working well and more powerful than the TS 464 itself ?
Is there a lost or performance for RAID 1 with an extension ?

Thanks in advance for your answer and sorry if i made mistakes in my message i'm not english.

Quentin

Rob,

I just purchased a $6K DELL Precision Workstation and I was told by Dell that their motherboards are now using the TPM chip to run Windows 11 Pro. Therefore this system cannot access my Local Network of Synology NAS since it insists on requiring me to sign in to Microsoft with my account email and a 6 digit PIN #.

The recent release of 22H2 is what made everything change.

It has something to with Certificates that come from the MS Azure Active Directory. I've spent a week trying to get his resolved with Dell only to have them take the system back and send me a Win 10 version.

Anyway I wan wondering what you know about this, and whether Synology is going to offer help. I can still access the drives though a browser, but its stated as NOT being secure.


Read about it here: Mandatory Microsoft account sign-in

https://tinyurl.com/2n9knt2o

Hi ...
Newb1e .. sorry if the questions are stupid? -

A single user of my system

1) I have DS1515+/Apple Studio and thinking about Link Aggregation to improve data transfer, so many switches out there any recommendations? and the BEST MODE to go for??

2) DS1515+ has 4 x LAN ports - At present one is connected to my modem, Can I connect another DIRECTLY to the ethernet port of the apple studio at the same time as aggregation etc etc

3) Is there any/better alternatives out there ...

Thanking all you geniuses out there - remember I am a newbie