I have a Drobo 5D3 that has 5-5TB drives that I only use for time machine. 2tb internal on my Mac and 16 TB external drives that I backup, all through time machine. Don't have a need for NAS but after watching hours of video I think the Synology DS1522+ is a good fit. Not sure if you can configure without NAS support. Also considered the OWC Thunderbay 8, nut not a fan of Softraid and the fan noise. Might have to replace my 5 HGST 5TB NAS drives but I thought I would try it with them and see what happens. Thanks, Tom

Hi there I just watched your video on video editing on a NAS. I own a small production company and want to offer editors all over the world the ability to download content from my NAS or edit on it.

I would love talking to you about my options. I felt like your video was great but I didn’t really know what to get at the end of it.

Do you have a list of things I could buy and set up? Thanks!!!

Devin

Hi!

First, thank you for your great videos! I bought a QNAP TS 664. I followed your guide, except that I put in a 4T SSD. I added 4 Iron Wolf Pro drives (8 gig each). When the setup process was complete, I ended up with one big pool. The entire SSD is rolled into it. I assume that there is some way to specify when I want programs on the SSD. But, there is no space to set up the caching. Is there a way to free up SSD space or do I have to start from scratch?

Second question: I run a small start up. Our apps are container based. It had not occurred to me that they could run locally as opposed to a site like Digital Ocean. They run on my PC, but I need to give customer access. I had not considered doing it myself because of fault tolerance. Do you think that if I bought something like the QNAP TVS-h874-i7-32G-US 8 it would be better for this purpose?

Thanks!

We have two parts of our business that we'd like to setup to store and share files. The first is AutoCAD Revit files. Our designers will be sharing and working on design files stored on NAS. Then we have a large amount of TB of video files. We have a YouTube channel and we'd like a place to store and access these files both on location but also remotely when traveling. Our current project Final Cut files will be stored locally and then moved to the NAS once complete. However, we occasionally need to access older files for a current project.

Trying to figure out best NAS for my use. I just had an old Buffalo Linkstation die on me and need to replace. Mostly use for photos, videos (both home video and movies converted from DVD and Bluray), and music storage. Also backup home documents, receipts, etc. Looking for probably two bay but open to four bay. Don't need more than 10tb but would like to use Raid 1 so I have backup.
I've been comparing Synology DS723+, Asustor Lockerstor2 Gen2 AS6702T and a couple of others. All I am really doing is confusing myself. I have 1200 Mbps Internet from Xfinity with an ASUS ZenWIFI AX Mesh system. What route would work best for this? Seeing these units go in the $450 range without disks is well within my price range. Also what disks would you recommend?
Thanks in advance for any advice you ma be able to offer.

Hi
Im looking for the best media (only media) NAS that runs H. 264/H.265/ AVI and MKV files via a network onto multiple smart TV's although not all at once. I currently have a 2 bay Synology NAS that holds everything else and am quite happy with it but, there is not enough room (HDD space) nor spec on the NAS to run the video (ripped DVD's etc) from my collection.
I do not have an unlimited budget and was looking at the Synology 220+ using video station but, am now unsure as there seem to be many other options that are (maybe) newer in spec and release date and better priced but I'm just confused to be honest.
Please advise
Thanks
Steve

I have a TS-870. It is full to with 8x4tb drives.
I want to setup snapshot but it tells me that I can't because something is not correct with my storage pool (don't recall the error). It says I have to move my data, recreate the storage pool then repopulate.; that is my initial delima.
My idea for a solution, since I am already full. is get QNAP TL-D800C 8 Bay.. with 4 - Seagate 16TB Exos X16 7200 RPM 3.5-Inch Enterprise Hard Drives.
Create NEW raid on the new Expansion and copy the data to the new raid. then recreate the storage pool with the original. I would like to move the data back but that is later. One of my issues is when I was trying to copy a small amount of that data as a test, it tool A LONG time. More time than I have. Would connecting the QNAP TL-D800C provide me better speed that the network connection? Also so do you still recommend the QNAP TL-D800C? And lastly, Will my TS-870 be able to handle QNAP TL-D800C 8 with 8 x16TB drives. (eventually)

I have several Synologies (is that the correct plural form?) and this question is in regard to the setup of my DS1821+
 
I have 5 disks installed in a SHR2 array.
 
I’m now thinking about buying into the Surveillance Station for 10 cameras.
 
My thought is that I would like to have the video stored on SSDs that I will buy (Micron 5400 MAX is the front contender at the moment).

Dockers in the future and the current logserver can also be write intensive, and other reasons are why I would like to have the SSD array to be the "boot" array and where all applications and data will be stored by default.
 
So I’m thinking/wondering if the following would work?
 
If I remove my current 5 disks from the NAS.
I put in the (SATA) SSDs and create a new volume and install and configure the system.
 
Is there a way to import the array that I have on my 5 disks and retain the data, this would practically make this array the second array in the NAS?
 
I don’t want a kludge solution that will probably be possible by running some (many) shell commands.
 
So the question is if anyone has tried this and know that it is officially supported?

I read and watched your reviews on various NAS devices which ultimately helped my decide on the Asustor 6704T, great stuff and many thanks!

My question is: I remember seeing on one of your reviews a comment about setting up the M2 SSDs to run in RAID 1 (mirror) for data security.
With this in mind my thinking is 4 hard disks (2x 10Tb new HDDs, and 2 older, existing 6tB HDDs I already own) which will be setup as 2x RAID1 (mirror) for data security, as well as 4x 1Tb Samsung M2 SSDs.

The Samsung M2 SSDs I was planning to setup as 2x 1Tb RAID1 mirrors; one for the ADM OS/software and one as a cache.
Is this a sensible setup? Data security is most important. I won't be using this NAS as a file or media server, only for backups.

So I have installed an Intel X540-T2 10Gbe card in my desktop PC and it connects to my QNAP 453Be (with 4 x Ironwolf 14TB drives and a 10Gbe PCI card installed). I was configuring Jumbo Frames but can't match the 2 devices. The nic offers 9000 MTU but the NAS offers 9014 MTU. Is that a match? Are they supposed to be exactly the same numbers? Doesn't seem to be an option to directly enter an umber in either case - just select from the drop-down box. File transfers work OK - 235MB/sec from a single HD and 280MB/sec from an SSD. OK for single drives and I hope to get better when my second QNAP NAS is wired into the 10Gbe network.