Looking at buying the QNAP HS-264.  I want to place it in an area where hardwiring will not be possible. Is it very complicated to add wifi to it?  If not, would you recommend a direct wifi dongle or a mini wifi router with ethernet out?   I understand the wifi will impact it's speed but for it's application, this won't be an issue.

First up I love the reviews! I am looking for something to store video files for my media library. I want something with NVME drives (up to 4) and 10Gbe. I can't seem to find anything that is "just right".

I would have been happy for the moment to have something that would just enable a portable SSD to connect to my network, but I have a UniFi DMSE with no USB port. Is there something that you could suggest?

Hey guys, I have a Synology DS918. I replaced a 10TB drive with an 18TB drive using the instructions on your site. I ran the Degraded process and let it run over night. Everything looked to go well. The drive shows on my DiscStation and shows as healthy. I now see 16.4 (the new one), 9.1, and two 18.2 drives. I replaced two 10TB drives with 20TB drives using this process before (the two 18.2s) with no issues. My system is still only showing 34.9TB though. I am not seeing the increase in space though. I restarted the Synology, but its still showing me 34.9TB. The new drive is a ST18000NT001-3NF101. Did I miss something? Always appreciate your help, thanks!

Important part is to be able to structure the photos, so that I can have groups of albums shared differently between different user (e,g. people in different parts of the family). I would like to be able to provide access and send a link to a folder of albums, rather than having to do each folder individually.

Hi

Can I attach a 3rd party DAS to the Ugreen DXP6800 Pro using TB3?

Thx

I bought a DXP 4800 by mistake I meant to get a 4800 plus initially, my server cannot handle 4K content remotely and am wondering if there is a way to plug in an external GPU to have the ability to have hardware transcoding? Otherwise I was going to look into the 6800 PRO as an upgrade, any help would
Be appreciated.

Hi all,

sorry for my english (Italy here).

I have a Terramaster F4-423, a 4 HD + 2 SSD bay NAS using TOS 5.1 os with 20GB of no-ecc ram (4gb + 16gb).
There is an internal USB port with the original TM pen drive connected to and another free usb external port.
It contains the following drives: 1TB SSD, 2TB HD, 3TB HD, 8TBHD, 18TB HD, all of them formatted in BTRFS.

I'm a very newbie with nas; I never set up a RAID and I roughly know what it is.
I set up every drive separately as a single drive with it's own storage pool.
I set up a couple of rsync scheduled backup of the shared folders I care more to an external drive.

I know I am renouncing to redoundancy and I have many fragmented shares, but it's ok to me: I have very little data I care of (photos and docs) and I want to use all the available space.
Also I love to be able to hot-extract a drive and connect it to an usb port of my pc accessing all the data it contains.

On this NAS I use:
- a web server supporting mysql and php
- dockers
- Plex
- Jellyfin
- qBittorrent
- Virtualbox

I am considering to replace the TOS operating system and I read some pages about and I went to the following possibilities:
1. TRUENAS SCALE
2. UNRAID
3. OPEN MEDIA VAULT

Truenas scale seems the best choice but it seems more difficult to understand, and I am a newbie; also it seems to me, as for what I understood, that I am stuck with ZFS and so I couldn't extract a drive and connect to a linux pc accessing it's data easily.
Also it seems to require ECC memory.
Also I couldn't understand if it's possible to keep all disks separated or I have to make some sort of raid.
Also seems a parity disk is needed, possibly the more sized one.

Unraid seems a better solution for me as it natively support docker and virtualization.
But it's not free and a lifetime license is expensive.
Also I still have not understood if I can keep all disk separated. The hot-swap with my pc seems possible as it supports the same file systems as TOS.
But it seems not have user GROUPS.

OMV seems ok, but maybe a little simple to do all the funcionalities I listed before; for example I don't know if it can provide a web server or some virtualization.

Any suggestion will be appreciate.

TY

I have been struggling with a decision on what to do about NAS at home. Currently I hang aa TerraMaster DAS off my Openmediavalut server. This is not an ideal solution in my mind. One of my main hangups with current NAS offerings is the sheer cost of a frame and OS.

Today I found a vid on the Synology 1522+ While it's more reasonably priced than other options, I don't know if it's the right solution.

Hardware Haven present an alternative in a Lenovo P520. So I don't know if I drop $229.98 for - Lenovo ThinkStation P520 Workstation 1X 3.70GHz W-2135 64GB RAM No GPU/ HDD/ OS. And build my NAS with TruNas or Unraid.

Hi
I would like a Nas to store Videos and data also possibly connect to my TV to play the movies.

I was thinking of the Asutor Drive store 4 Pro v2 4bay possibly Ironwolf or WD Red plus 3.5.
What do you think.

Is raid easy to set up?

Your help would be appreciated.

Best wishes
Eric T

Is it true that the status LEDs on the DX4800 Plus no longer work with the TrueNas installation?
There are some projects on Github that have created a workaround using a cronjob.