I've been searching for a review for the T9-450 for months and still cannot find one. I keep checking back here hoping you'll put one up as I do appreciate your thoroughness. Is this thing worth it? Can that board support 9xSATA and 2xNVMe AND 2xSFP+ all at the same time? In all that I've seen about TOS I would likely wipe it and put TrueNAS on. Would be a bonus to have information on that as well.

Thanks for all the great content and education!

I would like to replace my old Synology DS 216j with the new DS 423+. I am planning to use 3 or 4 12TB WD Red Plus drives in the DS 423+. Of the "unofficial" 3rd party memory modules you have tested what is your best recommendation to expand the useable RAM of the DS 423+? Am I on the right track? Thanks in advance for your help.

I recently bought this motherboard CPU combo.
ASRock J5040-itx - Intel Quad-Core Pentium Processor J5040 (up to 3.2 GHz)

8 or 16 GB of Ram

I also have two - WD Red 2TB NAS Internal Hard Drive - 5400 RPM Class, SATA 6Gb/s, SMR, 256MB Cache, 3.5" - WD20EFAX. ---these drives were bought 9/2019 and used in the My Cloud EX2 Ultra.

This is to be used as a home NAS, mostly just to store files. I plan on using TrueNAS

Questions:
1) is that MB/CPU enough? Ram?
2) are these drives worth reusing?
3) if I can use them, I'm thinking about buying 4TD drives. Can I use them with the 2TB drives I already have? Or is it better to but only use 4TB drives.
4) I have an older 60GB 2.5 SSD. I'm thinking about using as a boot/OS drive. Is this OK? I have other SSD drives of larger sizes. Just trying to make use of this drive.
5) I may add two more Sata connectors through a pcie x1 card. Is this OK to use or is this not advised with TrueNAS?

Greetings,
in mid 2015 my Hifi Dealer installed the following NAS
QNAP TS-451 Desktop NAS-System 20TB (4-Bay, 4x 5TB WD Red)
where I keep my HI RES Music files worth plenty of money. That's why it's on RAID 6.Now I'm running out of capacity and my question for you today is : Should I replace the hard drives with bigger ones, or should I go for a complete new NAS because of better CPU performance etc.
Would it also make sense to just get a new one and run both NAS ?
Thanks upfront for your reply, I highly appreciate it.
Best regards
Robert Gmerek

Greetings,
in mid 2015 my Hifi Dealer installed the following NAS
QNAP TS-451 Desktop NAS-System 20TB (4-Bay, 4x 5TB WD Red)
where I keep my HI RES Music files worth plenty of money. That's why it's on RAID 6.Now I'm running out of capacity and my question for you today is : Should I replace the hard drives with bigger ones, or should I go for a complete new NAS because of better CPU performance etc.
Would it also make sense to just get a new one and run both NAS ?
Thanks upfront for your reply, I highly appreciate it.
Best regards
Robert Gmerek

Hi. I am looking to buy my first NAS. I don't know much about this stuff, nor do I know how to make modifications to one that I buy (like adding extra memory and stuff). The main purpose of the NAS will be to use it as a Plex server. I bought three 14TB WD Red Plus drives already (to use in a RAID 5 setup), and now need to find the best NAS for me. Most of my files are of Anime in .MKV files that have multiple Audio formats and Subtitles, and a lot of them are 1080p (some 4k) and HEVC coded. Based on your videos, I think the QNAP TS-464 would be a good one, but you also mention that Synology has the better software that is easier for beginners, so would the 423+ be better than the TS-464? Note I care most about being able to stream all of my files (from anywhere in my house or somewhere else). What NAS would you recommend for what I want and that will play all the files I have (doesn't have to be the 464 or 423+)? Thank you.

Started setting up my NAS following your QNAP NAS Setup Guild 2022... but I've noticed my HDDs in the NAS never idle... is that normal?

Good morning ... EXCELLENT Youtube videos!!! A couple of questions (if I may). I currently have a Qnap TS-269L with 2 3TB drives that I use for photo backup (amatuer photographer) and as a "server" for documents, little music, and littler video. Without doing enough research, I purchased 2 8TB Seagate Ironwolf dives to replace the 3TB's. They're not on the Qnap approved list and my 269 is quite old. I've convinced myself to purchase the TS-462. From Qnap tech I should be able to take the 2 existing 3TB drives from the 269 and install them in the 462, then replace the drives 1 by 1 to the 8TB. However, on Qnap's website, there is a caveat that says if the raid was created before a certain firmware, it won't work. Any advice? Does this sound like a logical upgrade? Hoping to take advantage of my "free" 2.5gbe connection on my ISP modem and motherboard

Thanks in Advance
Cheers

PS VERY happy with my current setup, hasn't given me a moments issue!

After watching all your videos, I decided to purchase the QNAP T464 and am watching the "QNAP NAS Setup guide 2022 #1 video and I got stuck on min 41, mirroring my nas onto my local machine, you video looks like your entering the windows security password, so i entered my login details for it says I can't access.

I think this is a MS windows security issue, what am I doing wrong here?

I have adminstrator rights

I thought you might like to know that after carefully assessing your “setting up your Qnap for the first time” vids, I’ve spotted a gap in the knowledge you’ve provided.
I’ve also identified this gap from an email chain on the Qnap forums.

When trying to transfer all your old nas data to your new Qnap nas via HBS 3 active sync mode, you left out mention of the idiosyncratic issue with the sync set up of the source folder: for whatever odd reason Qnap have chosen, if you attempt to browse to find the folder you want, the whole of HBS3 will hang, requiring a reboot of the whole machine.

You must manually type in the source folder path, only after which will the system find it and present you with a dialog to choose the actual folder or sub folder you wish the act as source.

This is on QTs 5.0.1.

I’ve currently solved this problem on my new TS-664 and ammerrily syncing all my data from old Drobo as I write this.

My thanks again for your really helpful videos!