Afternoon NAS Compares team, I have stumble upon your videos through a friend's recommendation. Your reviews are pretty good depicted, have important and necessary specs even for me, a non-as technological person like probably a lot of your followers. I will learn more, I am learning more, I will get better!

Here I have a question I do not seem to find an answer. What level/type of internet bandwidth should I have to support the DiskStation® DS423+, for a 4 person team minimum, maximum 7-8 people, sharing files, software and using it in a business setting.

I was told I need to check on that prior to purchase the gadget and I do not know what is it I need to have/improve internet plan we currently have in order to support the diskstation's functionality. Any suggestion? Recommendation on where to look at? or answer will be very appreciated.

Thank you,

Lidia D.

I own the DS214play. I mainly use my NAS to stream music files (FLAC and WAV). I also use it to do long-term storing of pictures and some videos. I keep most of my videos and pictures in Google Drive, though. I also keep a few important text, Word, Excel and PDF files, but not a lot of them.

So, my question is, keeping in mind that I mainly use my NAS to stream HiRes music files, would my best upgrade option be to go to the DS220+, DS224+ or the DS723+?

I have 1 Gig home network, wired CAT5e.

Thanks.

Cheers!

Hi everyone,

 First time poster here.

I have currently a 453D (4x10Gb, RAID5, business data lives on there and some more used picture files, separate backups on external drives) and need more space exclusively for picture files (photographer here, tired of external drives).

I am thinking of getting a TR 004 with 4x16 GB  - in the end. To be a bit more cost-effective I am thinking of doing 2x16Gb on Raid 1 on the Tr004 for now and later add 2 more 16 Gb's to switch to Raid 5.

And I've seen that when you do it software controlled (separate pool) over the NAS it switches automatically to RAID 5 , software controlled...BUT
my question is
if someone knows how it would work if I wanted to use the switches (hardware raid) on the TR 004...???


do I set it in the beginning there (expansion) to RAID 1 or JBOD ? 
and how would it work when I add 2 drives later to switch to Raid5...
do I switch there (expansion) to Raid5 and on the NAS or only on the nas and leave Tr004 at (?? Raid 1/JBOD) or will there be a conflict??


reason for asking is that somewhere on the youtube channel it was mentioned that utilizing the hardware raid on the TR 004 takes a bit computing pressure away from the NAS but not sure if the raid switches on the expansion would interfere/cause trouble with whatever the nas thinks it should be.

any help appreciated
thanks
Wolfgang

Hello, I like to store my photos and other personal information that i can access it remotely. Specially for photos, wish to view them on iPhone. I also like to store videos in Plex so can view them on my home TV.
I am not a power user, so like to purchase a system that is easy to setup and use.

Hi, I'd appreciate advice on a NAS to replace photo cloud storage (android and apple) as near the free limits, have one eye on the future (3 kids) and control over my data. Basically after seamless back-up from mobiles, minimal dragging and dropping, instant access. Saw Synology is well reviewed, as well as coping with iPhone backup and whatever other documents etc we might need. Seen enclosures + disks near budget. I'm an average home computer user, could probably cope with the set up but wasn't clear if I'd got the wrong end of the stick, or whether any better/cheaper options. Tbs of storage are overkill currently but expecting to use half as a mirror. Also wasn't sure about any issues with a mesh network - have Vodafone router (wireless turned off) and a Linksys mesh, presumably can plug into any ethernet port? Thanks for your help

Looking to purchase a Nas for home use, main use would be for Backup of Photos from family mobiles, Plex (90% home use maybe a few remote users and odd one whilst traveling)

Would be looking for it to be a Homelab with maybe 1 or 2 VM's

I have been looking at the following.

Qnap tvs 474
Flashtor 6 or 12 (cost of storage putting me off)
asustor lockstor 8
Synology 1621+

Chas

Hi Rob

Just upgraded to QTS 5.1 today and according to to QUFirewall the number of access denials has gone through the roof today... Over 6000 in the last 12 hours.

WTF is going on?


Rob

Hi there!

Great review on the TS-462! (https://nascompares.com/2023/03/06/qnap-ts-462-nas-review/#QNAP_TS-462_NAS_Review_-_Internal_Hardware)

I just got myself a TS-462 and I want to add an SSD to it just for the OS and config.

What I've seen on the board are 2 white connectors, one near the SSD and a smaller one near the DDR4 slots. Therse connectors don't seem to be mentioned in the Qnap documentation (or anywhere on the Internet for that matter).

Do you know if they're fan power connectors for active SSD heatsinks (although it does not look like one that you might have on a regular PC motherboard), Serial or anything else?

Thanks in advance!

Currently I have a 216+. I have been waiting to upgrade for th 923 but it isn't great for video at the moment (plex,etc). Prime day has 1522+ for 549 us and the 923 for 480. Are these a decent upgrade? Or is it worth waiting or to spend a little more? Or should I consider qnap? I use this for house backups, photo sharing and editing, video also, I want to use it for a few cameras and a doorbell. It has been a Google drive replacement.

Also would a additional small nuc pc or small nas be better to just run plex vs have it all in one box?

I have an existing DS1819+ using 6 x HAT5300 8TB and and 2 x Seagate IRONWOLF 8TB all in one volume running SHR-2.

My questions is can this be migrated directly to a DS1823xs+ knowing 2 of my disks are potentially not supported and also knowing SHR is not supported on the XS series.

The changing of disks I can deal with by upgrading them before migrating but what about RAID type, from what I am reading I can't migrate from SHR-2 to RAID6.