Hello. I just bought the DS423+ as my first NAS. What are tips tricks and essential phone apps that I need? Any help is appreciated. I have set it up based on YouTube video from NASCompares

So, essentially smart phone backup (address book, calendar) and offloading a sh!t load of pictures and videos that my wife produces in no time! Some sort of RAID and maybe if possible that takes different sizes of HDDs so I don't have to buy all of them at once to upgrade it. No plans for video streaming or gaming. Read-only mostly and 1-time writing - she doesn't want to part with ANY of her pictures. Don't know much about NAS, but would think 50/50 between drives and the rest in terms of cost.

Currently running a Lenovo Windows Server 2012 R2, with dual internal RAID boot drives, an internal 8TB SATA Storage Space with 3 drives for media/PC backups, and two external eSATA JBOD enclosures with 4 and 3 drives respectively in a 14TB Storage Pool for overall backup. Primary use case is for Plex/Sonarr/Radarr and the like, as well as multi-PC backup. 2012 R2 is EOL, and I'm trying to figure out how to update the platform to something supported and secure. Do not need Windows Server, it's just what I had and what worked back in the day (Essentials role). I've looked at TrueNAS, UnRAID, Docker, Jonsbo, UGreen, Synology, and I think I can convert the Storage Pools and install something on the server to get what I need, but I've been out of the game too long to know the best path forward. I used to be a UNIX systems admin back when it was still called that, and I've played with RPi, but Linux frustrates me compared to Windows. I would really appreciate your thoughts.

I thought you might like to know that you often send emails with the "." missing in yout website address. If people don't realise to add this they will just get an error saying your website does not exist

With regards to NAS questions I wondered if you could tell me whether Synology allows me to download my emails from Yahoo, Google etc. and then serve them to all my devices from the NAS?

I would also like to have my devices send emails (or other) things to the NAS with errors etc.

I have no interest in sending emails out via the NAS. My only goal is to read them off the NAS for all my devices.

If so, which NAS would you suggest? Preferabbly 4-5 bays as I have 5 2TB disks already. I'm aware that Synology may update their NAS products soon.

Thanks,

David

I thought you might like to know that you often send emails with the "." missing in yout website address. If people don't realise to add this they will just get an error saying your website does not exist

With regards to NAS questions I wondered if you could tell me whether Synology allows me to download my emails from Yahoo, Google etc. and then serve them to all my devices from the NAS?

I would also like to have my devices send emails (or other) things to the NAS with errors etc.

I have no interest in sending emails out via the NAS. My only goal is to read them off the NAS for all my devices.

If so, which NAS would you suggest? Preferabbly 4-5 bays as I have 5 2TB disks already. I'm aware that Synology may update their NAS products soon.

Thanks,

David

Hello, I am dealing with situation about upgrade of my home storage, used both for home apps (media backup) and small business (NVR storage, business projects storage/sync). I dont need extraordinary power, I dont need overpriced rack NAS solutions although having couple of racks at home. I started with Synology 12+ years ago, had 2 and 4 slots units, very soon upgraded to 8bay and stayed there till now. So it was 1812+ till 1821+. Now having 8x18TB Exos Raid6 in 1821+ and running out of space. I was considering another 1821+ but although fine model for me, it looks a bit obsolete these days. I wrote Synology at the beginning of this year about successor, but they simply dont care. Couple of weeks back I found 1825+ leakage so I am waiting patiently but nothing is happening, nobody knows anything. Also I hate Synology nonsense limit 108TB per volume - this obsolete limitation should have been lifted long time ago for higher models I think. Wait for 1825+ or try Ugreen 8bay? Thank you.

1) USB C Port : I read the USB C port on DXP4800 Plus is actually TB4 port but they've only enabled it on the 6 and 8 bay? Is there a way to enable this if so?

2) m.2 NVME Slots: I read a review that said one is 3X4 and the other is 4X4. NAS Compares says 2 x 4x4 m.2 NVME slots. For the 8 bay review it states one is Gen 4x4 the second slot is Gen 4x4 but has been downgraded to Gen 3x2 or 8G transfers. The 3rd slot for the operating system is Gen 3x1 slot...Can't see any info on Ugreen website.
Do they have to be the same to create a raid with the two SSD's? Should I save money and buy the lower generation SSD?

3) SSD Cache vs Pool:
With the 2xNVME Slots, is it either cache or create a storage pool? (READ ONLY caching ~or~ READ/WRITE CACHING?) You can’t use Write Caching on its own? Read/Write caching requires two separate drives?

Can you get around that by Read/Write caching on one SSD (by partitioning it into separate volumes) and create a storage pool on the other SSD?

Hi Guys,

I followed your QNAP Jellyfin install (the easy way) and I want to know how I can update the application without losing metadata etc.?

Do I need to uninstall or just install the new version over the top?

I have done a bit of googling with no luck as most people are using docker or container station.

Also thankyou for all your videos, love your work. Helped me a lot in choosing a NAS for home. Spent a lot of time using your videos for research.

Landed on at QNAP TS-664. Safe to say I am out of my depth but learning every day thanks to you.

Cheers.

I am looking to upgrade from a WD PR2100 and would love your recommendations!

My primary uses are Plex, photo storage (I have approx 150k photos in raw format that I edit in Lightroom, Photoshop, Luminar and Topaz tools), video storage and editing with Vegas Pro video editing software, and general PC file storage.    

I have decided to go with a 4 bay NAS this time round and have it narrowed down to the following choices:
ASUSTOR AS5404T, QNAP TS-464, Terramaster F4-424, Synology 423+.

My new PC motherboard supports 2.5 GB Ethernet so down the road I'll upgrade the switch this NAS will plug into as well - thus having support for 2.5 GB Ethernet in this NAS makes sense to me. ... no need for 10 GB Ethernet support though as no other devices in my home support it.

From the numerous reviews I've come across, I am leaning towards the ASUSTOR for the hardware features / value but am wondering how stable the sw platform is.  Given that QNAP is 2+ years old now, is the hw becoming dated?  Terramaster may have similar sw concerns as ASUSTOR? Synology seems to have the best sw platform, but is perhaps the weakest from a hw point of view (don't think it supports 2.5 GB ethernet either).  But Synology might be the most secure (I think the other 3 got hit with ransomware over the past few years)??

I am generally comfortable using computers and IT in general, but I want to spend my time editing photos, and watching my Plex movies not solving and debugging NAS IT issues so ease of use in the software environment is important to me.  As noted above though I have fairly basic NAS needs though - I won't be installing a bunch of security cameras, or running virtual machines so perhaps the software provided by all of the vendors will suffice for my needs.  

Any suggestions folks can provide me on the above would be hugely appreciated!!

Finally, one additional question, with any of the above NAS devices, is there sw available such that I can back up my iphone and iPad to one of these four NAS devices instead of using iCloud?  Similarly, would my wife be able to back up her Google Pixel phone to one of these NAS devices instead of using her Google Drive?

Many thanks in advance for your help,
Gary

Dear NAS Compares,
I don't have a NAS and have never had one. I'm a movie enthusiast and have over a thousand of movies that are around 20-160GB each. I have an Nvidia Shield, that is now locally fed with my media files via local 20TB hard drives. At the moment I love Kodi, but I also have gotten a Plex Lifetime contract with a NAS in mind.
I also have a small amount of personal files that I'd also like to back up.
In my ideal situation I have a NAS that I can expand every time I'm reaching my storage limits. Therefore, I'm thinking of having a 8 to 12 bay NAS and fill it up slowly with 20TB drives. I'd like to start with 3 drives RAID6.

I always thought Synology was the place to go, but now I'm reluctant because of their new harddrive policies. Now I don't know what kind of device to get nor the type of hard drives.

I'd like to be able to download from news groups and torrent sites and be able to access my files in 4K on my Shield. 2 People max.

Can you help me? Best regards! Niels