Dear Team!

I am a basic home user who used a WD my Cloud (6 TB) to back up my pictures. However, the device died and now I am forced to change my device.

I have been recommended the Synology 723 (by the data recovery shop that is retrieving my data). but feel it could be a bit overkill just to back up my pictures and media (i don't even use Plex).

from the Nas Compares videos I feel Synology may be a good way to go because of the software and ease of use.

I also think a 2 bay would be suitable and I would set it up for mirroring for a backup?

I would be grateful if I could get advice on what would be a good setup as well as what hard drives I should use.

The key is something that will be still suitable in a few years. I don't want something that will be outdated next year.

I would be grateful for your help. thank you

Adam

My requirements are for Home environment 6 to 8 TB for Personal files and media and some extra storage for 30 days of recording for 5 mixed wired and wireless cameras.

I was about to go with WD 4bay 24 TB but hesitant. waiting for your input and recommendation.

Thank you very much in advance guys.

Rob -

Bought a QNAP HS-453DX-8G on your recommendation three years ago, and love it. Problem is, the power pole right outside our facility was hit by lightning, and the “surge” came in through the ground connection, which fried everything connected via copper (100bTX or 1000bT) including the QNAP. That’s one of the challenges of living in the “lightning capital of the world” (Florida). Nonetheless, I’ve replaced the MBs on several PCs and the HDDs were completely unaffected — the PCs booted right up, afterwards.
Now my question: I’m going to buy another QNAP HS-453DX-8G, and I wonder, should I just transfer the SSDs into the brand new unit, then turn it on? Or should I perform any intermediate step(s)? I can virtually guarantee that the old unit was not writing, or even being accessed, when the lightning hit. Thanks, keep up the GREAT work!

in your opinion what is the best 1U 4bay NAS available today. Intended use is 90% file storage (remote & local access), occasional VM and Plex uses.

Thanks so much!

Have you seen the new all SSD unit out?
has the 6 and 12 unit link to the 12 here
https://www.asustor.com//product?p_id=80

Looking to replace current SAN infrastructure (based on Dell R720xD which uses Fusion-io 3.4TB PCIe Gen 2x8 card and 4 SSDs, and 5 x 1TB SATA HDD )

Used to as ISCSI target for Microsoft Hyper-V cluster running 15 VMs of various workloads, mostly no much.
CIFS Storage for all users and other data
Raid 5 ( 1TB disks) for backups of all the above

Nodes and R720 have dual 10GBe with iWarp RDMA over Chelsio NICs

Main drivers are:
better IOPS (thinking M2 NVME), but equally important is to lower the power usage!
Kit is old now, 12 years

Prefer buying a solution like QNAP, but if only way to make affordable is to do DIY, then will

Apart from which hw to purchase, i could do with recommendations on disk layouts to support the two distinct workloads types. i.e. number of each disk type and RAID levels

Many thanks

Have a DS1621+ with 2 drives (14tb available memory total) and have added a 3rd drive (another 8tb drive) but am not finding any way to add this drive to the current pool. Running a PLEX server with 1 pool/1 volume in raid 0, but the only options that the storage manager are giving me are to 1./ Assign a hot spare, or 2./ create a storage pool. What do I need to do to be able to add more drives?

Hi, I've been watching your channel extensively as the main source of knowledge as I embark on the idea of purchasing a NAS to back up my entire photo library (20+ years), whether it is iPhone photos or DSLR.

I'm looking for a robust solution that will allow me to access that entire lib from my iPhone, and if possible use the Apple Photos app (very doubtful about that one), whether I'm in the US, or on the other side of the planet!

I've been looking at QNAP and Synology but am having a truly hard time deciding which brand and then which model would be right for me.

Thank you infinitely for any advice and recommendation!

Hello
love youre youtube cannel

i have 2 kingston m.2 nvme drive as a raid 1 as my bootdrive. I have bought 2 wd sn700 and i wonder how i replace them. do i just replace one att a time? and give the nas time to rebuild that drive. I have a ts-h886 nas

have a great day

I've been watching your videos, very helpful. I still have yet to figure out one issue. When I purchased my Terramaster, it seemed easy to share files over the internet with others. That's what it sounded like anyway. Come to find out, I can't figure out how to do so. I'm still paying for transfer sites when one of the main reasons for going with a NAS was to allow my clients to access the folders I give them access to; allowing them to download their files. I can't seem to find a video, chat, help or any info out there that talks about this. I.E. I have a folder with images in it that I want to deliver to the client. How do I get a link crated for that folder that is on my NAS drive and send it to my client for them to click and download the files? I would love to stop paying additional transfer sites like DropBox when the Terramaster NAS claims it can do the same thing. I'm not a programmer and hope that there is something simple I am missing. Any info would be AWESOME!