Greetings Guys,

I currently have 2 (1TB) drives on my PC that I store my audio compositions on. When I upload them to my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), they can be a little slow to load due to the size of the files (the virtual instruments).

I haven't gotten a NAS yet, but I would be looking at getting three (4 TB) drives with the 923+. I wasn't sure if getting the SSDs with the 923+ would help speed up the process of loading my files back into my DAW, or if I should get an SSD hard drive inside my PC instead to make it quicker and more efficient to load these files back into the DAW.

Thank you so much!
Cory

Hi! I really appreciate your content on YouTube and have learned a lot from your videos! I'm looking to invest in a QNAP TVS h 874-i5 and 8 18TB Toshiba drives as well as SSD cache. Im running a film production company. I'm writing to toy about advice on what you think is the best connectivity solution.

Our old and slow Sinology NAS we are sing today have 10GB/s connectivity but to really take advantage of the higher speeds going forward I was thinking about either going to sfp28 25G or preferably to thunderbolt since we all are using Macs.

But the issue is that I cannot seem to find any info about h874 s compatibility with Tunderbolt expansion cards. Nor can I find any good solutions for an sfp28 - Thunderbolt converter that doesn't cost 1500 Pounds. Do you know more than me about the Thunderbolt compatibility of the new Qnap NAS? It feels a bit like a dealbreaker to not allow TB connectivity on new NAS:es. I would really appreciate you help and knowledge! Thanks in advance!

Hi.

I got tho das arrays, 40 tb lacio 5big, 12tb promise pegasus,
Im tired of the noise, I fear for reliability and I don't generally like any of them.

I want flexibility, speed and network options for remote access and client clouds is very appealing.

My though is to get an ssd raid, 32 tb for in the room always on storage, 6 bays populated in raid with my existing ironwolf pro 8tb disks and two 16tb bays with maybe exos for raid 1 archives.

Like I offload to the big raid (6 bays), work from my ssd's (which should also hold all my librarys, expansions, plugins and all that stuff that is kind of a part of my system) and the archive (two bays) could probably have som automatic backup pattern from the raid.
I'm thinking 8bay.

I've been looking int nas solutions for a long time and I can't find what I need, which way to go. Synology or qnap.
I'm happy for suggestions and guidance. Budget is also in consideration of need and common sense, but I want to get it right.

Can you explain how it works when you plug it in to the NAS.

Have as6704t works great using 8 tb drives

Hi, Thanks for the wonderful review of the DS1823xs+ with all the detailed information!! I've just bought one and want to install the hard drives now. I know that the compatibility list is somewhat small and it is stated everywhere that you can still use ANY harddisk, you will just get warnings. Thus, I trie to use several EXOS 20TB drives. It's a 64bit architecture, so should easily be able to handle 20TB.
When starting the DS1823, it will be found in the network, but you just get a screen with the message that NO hard disks are found in the NAS. I reduced also the number to just one drive and tested it in different bays, no change.
Do you have maybe any advice what to do now?? many thanks!!! best wishes

Hi,
I really appreciate the work you have done to make it easier for people like us to understand NAS. Your comparison videos are spot on and it gives a lot of information.

I currently have a DS 920+ which is working without any issues. The only major bottleneck for me is the 1Gbe port and the slow read/write speeds. I am thinking of upgrading. My major use-case is Media Server. I also sometimes use plex. I am looking for future proofing, so that I don't have to worry about it for next few years or so. Do you think DS1522+ is a better upgrade for me or a DS1621xs+? Or should i just stick with my DS920+ and wait for Synology to come up with a better hardware NAS?

Thanks in advance,
Bhanu

hallo,

ik heb een Qnap 2 bay NAS aangeschaft. Ik wil daar twee hdd in plaatsen om alle foto en muziek bestanden op te slaan en iedereen die toegang heeft tot mijn thuisnetwerk de mogelijkheid bieden daarvan gebruik te maken. Daarnaast wil ik de NAS ook via een externe toegang bereikbaar maken, dus op een ander fysiek adres toch data kunnen bekijken. Ik wil de disks in RAID 1 plaatsen zodat disk 2 een kopie is van disk 1 en dus een backup is. Of kan ik beter een externe disk koppelen aan de NAS en daar de kopie van disk 1 op zetten. Moeten beide HDD in NAS gelijk zijn ( dus bijv. WD/WD en 4Tb/4Tb) of mag bay 1 een WD zijn en Bay 2 een Seagate Ironwolf.. Als WD red, is dan CMR beter dan SMR?

vr gr Jacob

Hi. I have bought at qnap 664T having seen lots of your videos. I am trying to migrate my Plex database and I can’t find the metadata location on my qnap device. I have accessed the file structure using winscp but that’s as far as I have got

I have watched your migration video that covers synology but that doesn’t help me navigate to the qnap folder that I need to Move my metadata to.

Are you able to help me locate it please? Thanks you

I have approx 1500 DVDs, and I am looking to transfer these onto a home server and access them as described in your videos. I don't know where to begin; if I hazard to guess, then I end up going through the typical engineering rabbit hole of paralysis through analysis syndrome or making one of the eight mistakes. I have watched many of your videos and read many of your online documents. Thank you so much for all of your effort in making the videos and online content, it was a help, but that paralysis is creeping in.

Mostly the system will be for the DVDs and movie/show content. I have a few computers and would like them to share files and backups.

Again, many thanks for your time.

Chris Rock - yeh it's my real name.

Hello there. I'm wanting to get a NAS, and I'm looking at getting a Synology 923+ with 2 WD Red Pro drives in maybe the 10-14TB capacity range (leaving the other slots for future expansion if I ever need it. This is likely overkill for me, as realistically, I'm wanting to store my music collection of a few TB, a few TB of photos, and have space for a small business I'm planning on starting (likely some graphics files), but possibly a SQL database.
I'm wanting to set it up in the extra room of our apartment, which doubles as an office/guest room.
I'm a bit concerned about the noise, but I'm assuming I can either shut the NAS down if we have a guest over, or that I can enable some low-power/idle mode for when it's not in use. Does this sound problematic to you from your experience? I haven't had a NAS before, so don't have really anything to base it on (I did have a first generation Drobo). Any help or advice would be appreciate.
Thank-you,
Chris