I need something more reliable than just an External Drive for storage, got alot of stuff I want to save for a long time.

Hi. I’m using a TVS-472XT w/ a TL-D800S expansion using the most recent version of QuTS Hero. I currently have 3 storage pools: Storage Pool 1 (System Pool): 4 4tb M.2 SSD’s (with an expansion card), Storage Pool 2: 4 8tb Sata SSD’s, and Storage Pool 3: 8 12tb HDD’s. I want to change the System Pool to 2 much smaller M.2 SSD’s and move the 4 4tb M.2 SSD’s to Storage Pool 2 (with an expansion card). Is it possible to do that without losing the data I have on saved Storage Pools 2 and 3 (Storage Pool 3 is a RAID 6 backup of Storage Pool 2)?

BTW, I love your website and YouTube channel. Thank you for all of the great information.

Looking to replace an Areca 8050T2 that has 5 bays as a 12Tb raid 5, 2 bays as a backup for the Raid array, and 1 bay for backing up my Mac computer. I will also be upgrading from a 2021 iMac to a new Mac Studio. The Areca is thunderbolt 2 so an older connection with an adapter, and my drives in it are 10 years old, so long overdue for replacement. I am strongly considering using SSD's for speed, reliability, noise, and energy consumption. Not sure whether I should be using a DAS or a NAS. Don't necessarily need networking, but not against it. Just want to bombproof somewhat futureproof setup for the next 10 years. Thanks.

Hey. First of all, love all your youtube videos!!
I am hesitating between the QNAP TS-453E-8G-US and the Synology DiskStation DS923+. Price is about the same on Amazon Canada. My main use would be for photo management (AI sorting, having access on the mobile app too). Also, I would love to store all my documents and open them directly in MS Office for easier modifications if that is possible. I saw your video and the fact the QNAP is locked at 8GB RAM, would that be enough for my use? Later on, I would probablt had a few cameras at my house (nothing extra). I want a good software that won't be slow and with the less noise. What would you suggest? Thanks a lot mate!

Hi, I'm looking to replace my synology nasses. I was intreged by one of your articles saying that there are nasses without OS. You name a few there. I'm looking for the best of them (and nothing less of it). Since I already have my hdd's, I want to go that route, 4 bays or higher, 2 ethernet ports (prefer 2.5 Gbps). Also, it needs to be able to have truenas, unraid and pve. Video and therefore transcoding, music and files need to be functions, and it needs to be able to get to it from the internet as well as local. What would you recommend?

Hi, Robbie, Eddie
Studio simultaneous editing 4K video... QNAP TVS-H1288X-W1250-16G is the system we have in mind. Do you still recommend it, after 3 years? Thinking about 5-6 WD Gold 18T disks in RAID 5 or 6 (?) and 4 WD Red SA500 NAS SSD. (1 or 2 TB?) Does the Qnap come with NVME installed or needed to buy separately? Do you recommend RAM upgrade? We obviously want to maximise storage but have security as well (hence RAID6)
Feel free to shuffle!
Thank you very much!
Akos

I currently have a Synology DS412+ that I use as a Plex media server both locally and remotely. I would like a new NAS that I can use as a Plex server, store photos that can be accessed remotely and as an iCloud replacement for storing documents and data. I am happy to wait for newer models if something suitable is on the horizon. I would like a NAS that has good support for MacOS and IOS. Thx

Hello, I have a quick question about the Terramaster D8 hybrid, I know slots 1/2 are used separately with their own raid function, but if set as separate disks could you control all the hard drives even SSDs in a software raid or does slots 1 and 2 specifically need to be separate from the other hard drives even in a software raid? Thanks.

Looking for advice, I have a UDM pro but I’m not using the camera section of it, I also have this synology DS 923+

I only need to add 1 cameras as my nvr is already full.

I want a 4k cam with color night vision. I saw a reolink is compatible with survalance station, or should I just go with the ubiquiti G5?

Or is there anything else better you would recommend

Hi, I have a Synology DS920+ NAS and have been searching for how best to approach backing up iPhones to it, fairly unsuccessfully (getting the message that there is not enough room on my phone to backup to iCloud, and suggesting I pay Apple for more storage - a pain when there's loads of room on my Synology NAS....). The ideal use case would be to carry out the iPhone backup direct to the Synology NAS either via wifi or USB and bypass iCloud entirely.... realise that may not be possible else that would be the first thing that pops up in a google search.
Any advise greatly appreciated as to what is possible to automate....