I currently have an Asustor AS5002 two bay NAS that's seems to be failing. Overall it's been ok, but I have never been able to get it to consistently do some basic functions like a share drive on my desktop computer or do computer back-ups. I'm looking to upgrade to a 4 bay NAS so I can store photos, music, 4K movies, do computer back -ups for PCs and MACs and use it as a media server. I've been leaning towards the QNAP TS-464 hoping it's able to do what my old NAS hasn't been able to do, but I'm not sure if I can take the drives from my AS5002 and put them into a QNAP.
Do I need to do anything special if I want to pull my disks from an Asustor NAS and put them in a QNAP NAS?

hello Im trying to decide what type of NAS to buy for my own personal use and maybe family use. I want to store pictures, music movies ect. and have the ability to access them from anywhere. I have looked at Synology and others but still am unsure of what I will need or what will be the best solution I have built my own computers in the past and have some working knowledge of the systems. I dont know whether it is better to build a NAS system out of old computers or buy new and ready to go system. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank, Ken

Hello NAS Compares,

For years now I have been relying on cloud providers (Dropbox, Gdrive, iClould, now Proton Drive) and local desktop storage to have some semblance of a backup solution.

I really don't produce that much data, but I would love to have a solution that is independent from my desktop storage and not so ecosystem dependent (iCloud for photo backup).

For now, I plan on keeping my NAS at home and potentially using a cloud provider for an "offsite" backup, but eventually, I may place another NAS at my in-laws for redundancy.

Any advice on hardware, setups, etc. for someone like me who really doesn't have *that* much data to backup, but wants some peace of mind?

Best,
Patrick S.

First of all, your channel is brillant.

I have a problem, I have a QNAP TS464, I've got 4k movies, I've uploaded them onto my File statiomn 5 and it appears in Plex media server, however when I view them on my 4k TV in my lounge room I can only view them in Standard Definition.

Have you covered this in one of your past youtube videos?

I have both my TV and NAS connected directly to my WIFI Router via ethernet, i'm thinking I should connect my TV and NAS directly to each other via ethernet.

Thanks for your help in advance

I bought a Qnap X431X $GB Ram. I am seeting my Qnap as per your videos. I have 4 bays incl one hot spare, You in your videos mention you will make a video setting up hot spare. I can not find that video.
Ive watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnI5rhUdjGA
& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kCS6e1ZoiQ&t=1471s
& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y34jrKeQ1Uw.

Please Help?

Kind Regards
Ormonde

I have an RT6600ac with 3 MR2200 meshed. Would it be advantageous to replace at least one of the 2200’s with a WRX560? Any advantage or disadvantage other than cost. All 2200’s are currently wireless connected and no backhaul, letting 6600 manage 5mghz-1 and -2 and 2.4.

Thanks for all your great helpful videos!

I currently have a TS-431P with a TL-D800C expansion unit.  I am looking to move my TS-431P into a standalone unit and replace it with another QNAP NAS.  Ideally I would like a new QNAP NAS that can work with my TL-D800C but also supports SATA expansion units for later expansions.  I would settle for a 4 bay unit but would prefer a 6 or even 8 bay NAS.

When doing a recent live migration I noted that it appeared that the bottle neck was my CPU as the resource manager showed it at near 100%.  I understanding doing a live migration on a RAID6 means it had to recalculate parity.  I always encrypt my volumes if that impacts the choice.

As for my use case, it is fairly straight forward.  A single user (me) uses it to hold a number of RAW images and large video files.  For my RAW images I use software that catalogues these on my PC and as a result, have previews of these images stored in a cache located on a drive local to my PC.  I do not believe that having an SSD cache on the NAS would be of any use.

I do not use anything like PLEX or the media server components.  Whilst my current network only supports Gigabit speeds, I would like to to upgrade it in the near future to either 2.5 Gbit or 10 Gbit.

As the title says, I'm looking for a shuckable 2.5 inch drive. I'm not exactly spoilt for choice here, because my regional market only has some offerings from Seagate and WD, that's it.
So my requirements are

• CMR
  
• 2.5 inch form factor
  
• Shuckable
  

Hello,
I would like to somehow merge and handle my existing streaming services into one unit, on the nas. (disney+; netflix, spotify)

Is there any addon that makes disney+ available on the qnap?
Is there any kodi addon that really makes the title visible as in case of the original environment?

Can you direct me somewhere, where exists a detailed howto description?

Hope, you can help me.
Have a good day, b.r.:
András Fodor

Hello, I'm looking at purchasing my first NAS for home backup of documents, photos, and iphone media. I would also be using it for a Plex medial server, or similar platform to stream movies both locally and remotely. Transcoding for iphone might be necessary, but not a priority.

I'm currently looking at the Synology 423+, QNAP TS-464, and the TS-453E. Do you have any recommendations between these? I know the 423+ only comes with 1Gbe ports, which I view as a bit of a downside for the future. I'm also trying to figure out which applications are included with a purchase of the NAS, and which require an additional subscription. Do you happen to have a list?

I am also debating between starting with 1 larger drive, or 2 smaller drives in a RAID 1 to give some level of protection. Thoughts here would also be appreciated. I would look to fully populate the NAS over time.

Thanks in advance