Hello, I am approaching my data limit on my existing QNAP TS-453A (running RAID 10, with 14.10 TB usable storage, all slots filled), and I am looking to expand my storage.

Current use case is holding media for my Intel NUC to MAP it in Windows and behave as a Plex Media Server.

I am considering building my own NAS and not buying a NAS, and considering building an 8-bay NAS (RAID 5).

How cost-effective and reasonable is this for my current use case? Is a DIY NAS power consumption much more than an off the shelf NAS?

Hi. I have been watching lots of your videos especialy on the DS3622xs+. I’m using macbook pro m2 max to edit my 4k videos. I already been using DS418 however only for storage. I would like to upgrade to DS3622xs+ so that I can edit my 4k videos while connecting to the NAS via the 10gbps connection as i know it had 2 10gbpe ports. Will i be able to edit smoothly the 4k timeline without any drop frame and can scrub through the timeline smoothly with this setup? Appreciate your advice. Thanks.

Have been in the DROBO environment, but now need to move on as my Drobo5N2 is failing. Looking for advice as to the suitability of (6 bay) Synology or QNAP. Recommended NVME M.2 SSD, RAID, hot swapability for upgrade disks, etc. I intend starting with spare 10TB IronWolf and growing as data migrates and disks are redeployed from failing DROBO (currently migrating data in blocks, between each unscheduled powerdown)

Hi,
I want to by my first NAS and I decide me for the TS-h973AX with ZFS. ( after studying nascompares YouTube channel )

First step I will add:
- 2x Kingston Server Premier DIMM 32GB, DDR4-2666, CL19-19-19, ECC
- 2x OEM Datacenter SSD PM9A3 1.92TB, U.2
- 2x OEM Datacenter SSD PM893 3.84TB, SATA

Will this work fine?

How will I reach the best performance?
- one U.2 for the first system pool?
- other U.2 for the system cache?
- both SATA SSD´s for the user dataset in raid 0 for the best performance or better in raid 1 for security in mind?

In the secont step after awhile will I assembling the other 5 bay´s with Toshiba N300 for a big storage pool in raid 6, opr better in raid 10?

Thanks and regards,
Max.

Hello. I've watched your channel for several years and love it. I'm currently looking at getting a NAS for storage, virtualisation and transcoding and your videos and comparisons have been really useful.

I'm leaning towards TrueNAS and came across this company, ServerStore. They look UK based and offer a three year warranty.

https://www.serverstore.com/intel-systems/server-tower/velocitystor-4-bay-hot-swap-compact-tower-nas---truenas-core-os-pre-installed-ss-xeon-e-12/

I wondered if you'd heard of them, I can't find reference to them or their products anywhere. Might make for an interesting video

Regards, and keep up the excellent work,

Peter

I have a TS251D , Connected via Cat5 and 4 Computers all Currently Working in My Lan.
My Main PC is i9 64gb 4tb SSD .
The others are Windows 10 Pc's.
The windows 10 pc's can comumnicate with the ts251d and work with libreoffice (LO ) files stored on the NAS.
However the main pc ( Linux ) can see the LO files but spits out an error with some reference to Share Permissions or Write permissions.
With Windows 10 installed on my main pc I can work as normal with the files on the ts251d.
My Linux Operating System is WindowsFx 13.1 Cinnamon.
If I try to open an LO file in windowsfx from the file browser , I get the same error no write permissions or similar.
HELP , Please

I have a lot of data I want to protect and at the same time I have very important video files very rare movies shows that I want to play so I want capable plex server also running and at the same time I want to a lot of data and I want to protect it the problem is 923 + I do not have hardware transcoding. with 423 + I have hardware transcoding but it is not so feature rich compared to 923 + the difference in India in the cost of these two devices just 5 or 6000 INR I am also thinking of may be taking a 220 + for my videos and 923 + 4 data or I should take 423 + for both difference between 423 + and 923 + cost is not much I am very confused to what should I do

Dear Guys,
I read your blog every time that I can, above all now that I need to substitute my QNAP TE-453 Pro.
I want to migrate to Synology brand because of hackings to QNAP and to try the DSM experience.
My principal use is storage, multimedia (plex, no transcode) and a VM for occasional use.
I was focused on DS923+, I read your tests but I can’t decide.
In Synology blogs I read of users that found problem using photo station with the CPU always at 90% of usage for the GPU lack while organizing images and videos (thumbnails, …).
That’s a problem for me because I want to syncro all smartphones images in the NAS to have a centralized photo album ed use the application AI to find/organize them.
Did you had that kind of experience during your tests?
If DS923+ is not the right one, on which model do you think I should go for?
Thank you very much for the help.

Hello! I need help. I'd like to buy NAS DiskStation DS423+ and I want to use hard drives with 18 Tb capacity or above. It is better to use 20 Tb hard drives. And I don't find such drives on the compatibility page (see https://www.synology.com/en-global/compatibility?search_by=products&model=DS423%2B&category=hdds_no_ssd_trim&p=1&change_log_p=1). You have more experience than me and may be You have usefull information about types of hard drives that will work with this NAS DiskStation DS423+. Capacity 18 Tb or above.
Please share this information or your experience.

Thank you for your response.

I just sent a msg on youtube. I've got a QNAP TS-h1290FX NAS. It's the all SSD NVME flash NAS that is 25gb and upgradeable to 100G via a NIC. So I purchased three of the QNAP CXG-100G2SF-CX6 NICs that are PCIe Gen 4 and have them in 16x slots and I cannot break about 50 GB/s on iPerf and reverse direction testing is only 9 GB/s. Blackmagic Disk Speed tests top out at 3600 MB/s write and only 1200 MB/s read. So these speeds are only 10-30% of the speeds I should be seeing. I've been talking with QNAP tech support for 3 weeks and they are no help. I've tried Windows Server even and got the same results. Tried different drivers etc etc etc and Im out of ideas and need some help. Do you do consulting or troubleshooting with things like this?