Hi, 1st time NAS buyer with four primary use cases looking for advice.
1. Backup data (documents, files)
2. Backup photos from phones of all family members (Preferably good organization capabilities like FACE AI and Object AI)
3. Plex/ Jellyfin media server for local streaming
4. Docker support for self hosting services.
I prioritize good reliable software and services.
Thanks in advance for your advice.

I want to share my FLAC music files with my music streamer via my home network
I do not need RAID
The "originals" of my files are stored on the cloud.
The NAS is just a local storage device.

Candidates that I can see are
Synology Ds-124
QNAP TS-133
Have I missed something?

Do you see any clear benefits for my specific and modest use case ?

Thanks for any advice that you may have.

Hello, I've started reading and watching your videos and they are detailed and great, thank you!
I had some questions.
My primary use case is backing up photos and videos from my phone, sharing them with friends and family globally. Also storage of my important documents, files, resumes, taxes, stuff like that.
Also, what I'd like to do is have my brother in another state have a NAS that we can back up to each other for catastrophic loss mitigation.
I do not anticipate streaming content from it, as I dont even quite understand how or why someone would do that. If not using a DVD/Blueray, nor Netflix/streaming platform, where and why would you stream content? Something illegally downloaded? I don't do that.

Looking for advice what sort of hardware you'd recommend focusing on VERY COTS products. Like a used Dell 3050 MT or XPS 8900 or something Dell/HP that can be bought used, cheap.
If i'm not editing and streaming videos, do I NEED SSD for chache?

I have aprox 60 TB of data on a Google Drive, that I wish to self host, so that I doesn't have to pay approx. 150 dollars a month, for Google's service

So this request is just to see what it will cost to move my data back in house

Best Regards

Cannot connect to my device using my known username and password

I have 4 computers (windows), an android tablet and 3 iPhones. My main objective will be backups and some media sharing.
Some dockers to "play" with and some VM's

Hi there
I have a Qnap TS-473A nas that I am using for a plex server.

I have a plex pass and I cannot seem to get the system to utilise the GPU for transcoding.

It spikes the CPU usage to 97% and the GPU sits at 0%.

I have a Nvidia GA107 ( RTX 3050 ) which has the latest drivers and on the qnap website says it’s compatible.

I have also set the GPU to QTS mode.

Please explain ! Hah

Thanks

I am wanting to build a home server with the idea of running a Proxmox server running multiple VMs include:
- True NAS Scale for a home NAS running RAID 5
- Plex/Jelly Fin server
- running multiple VMs for various home lab learning environment i.e. building a mock AD environment / test various OS / docker environments / pfSense. Just anything that i want to dip my toes into
Here is my currently build so far:
Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case
Motherboard: MAXSUN Challenger B760ITX D5 WIFI DDR5 LGA1700
CPU: Intel Core i5-12400 2.5 GHz 6-Core Processor
OS Drive: Crucial P3 Plus 1 TB M.2
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB
CPU cooler: Noctua NH-L9i-17xx 33.84 CFM CPU Cooler
HDD: Western Digital Red Plus 4 TB 3.5" X5
PSU: Corsair SF600 (2018) 600 W 80+ Platinum
Additional features:
1. Silverstone ECM28 1x NVMe (M Key) 1x SATA (B Key) M.2 SSD to PCI-E
--- potentially running another m2 drive for a cache and to connect the 5th HDD
2. TP-Link TX401 10Gbe PCIe Network Card
Can anyone give some advise on if they would change anything?

Hi, can you suggest a NAS that's PCIe4+ for storing files?
I was considering putting in 4*4TB nvme's inside, so I have plenty of space.
I was toying with the idea of a 4 nvme card to go into a pcie slot but not sure if my MSI mobo will do the 4x4x4x4 required.
Any recommendations would be most welcome.
Thanks, Nick.??

Crystal ball time:

My concern is future proofing what I already have.
I have a DS1821+ with 1 x DX517 (11 disks installed). Should I invest in a second DX517 and say a E10G30-T2 (dual RJ45 10 Gigabit).
I want to preserve the "non Synology" disk support but am concerned about being orphaned by a future version of DSM.

Regards,
Mark