Hi,
I’m planning on building my own DIY NAS
Using: - Jonsbo N5 case
- ASrock TAICHI Lite x870e mono
- AMD Ryzen 9600x
- Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120SE cooler
- I’m looking for a Corsair PSU with more 4 Molex connectors.
- A Samsung Gen4 or Gen5 M.2 SSE as a boot drive.
- 32GB or 64GB Kingston Server Premier ECC ram
- M.2 to SATA adaptor or SAS PCIe card
My questions is as following:
- What kind of cables do I need?
- how do I know how Powerful PSU I need?
- How long Molex cables?
- I’ve see several videos warning against using Molex (fire hazard, frying the HDD connected to it) thoughts?
- On the Jonsbo there is both Molex and SATA power connectors on the hard drive backplates. Do I need to use both? If not, which to use?
- Do I need extra “grids” the other places I install fans? Like the 3 that is supplied with the Jonsbo?
- If SAS PCIE card (extra SATA connections). Should I get a RAID or HBA card?
- Anything else I have forgot to include? Extra fans (front or side panels)?

Hi I was hoping you would do a review of https://www.olares.com/ because I saw it and the only reviews are not in English. It seams like a fun system.

Hi Robbie, I want to start off by thanking you for your excellent videos. There is not enough room for me to share my thoughts. I am most definitely willing to pay you for your professional guidance.

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I currently have a TS-251D and i'm in need of a 4bay as i have maxed out my drives.

I know you don't have a crystal ball but in your honest opinion when do you think a Successor to the TS-464 will be released. Do you think next year or two years time as i saw the video at Computex and it was suggested QNAP are working on something. I would hate to buy now if it will release early next year.

Many thanks and best regards.

Hi,

Could you please recommend a USB-C to Ethernet adapter that can do up to 5Gbps speed, supports jumbo frames up to 9K and if possible, supports MAC address passtrough. The last one is not essential but can be a bonus.
Max budget £70.
If not available, will there be a new model from established suppliers?

Kind regards

Leslie

Can you please clarify. If I update my ds216 play to a DS925+ can i unilise my 2 existing 6tb disks and then add a further two disks and expand the volume if the 2 additional disk are synology

Thanks

Dear Robbie,
I’ve been a long-time subscriber to your channel and always find your builds and reviews both compelling and incredibly helpful. I’m reaching out for a bit of advice if you don’t mind.
I’m a British expat currently living and working in Vietnam, where I run a small business operating between the UK and Vietnam, specialising in fresh produce consultancy. While our data storage requirements aren’t huge, we do need a reliable and secure setup—especially with Vietnam’s e-invoicing requirements and compliance obligations.
To cut a long story short, I’ve built a relatively simple setup so far (which might give you a bit of a chuckle), but I’m now looking to consolidate and improve it. I’m particularly interested in building a dedicated DIY NAS using True NAS SCALE (Community Edition).
Here’s my current setup:
1. Two Office PCs – Both are ASRock Mini PCs using AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, each with:
o 64GB RAM
o 1TB NVMe (OS)
o 2TB NVMe
o 2x 1TB SATA SSD
(Yes, it’s a bit overkill for direc

I currently have a TS-133 and am looking to upgrade. I’m torn between the TS-432x and the TS-464. I have no interest in containers or VMs as my server handles this. Only really looking for file storage and streaming media/games from it (steam games loaded via NAS). Sometimes I feel the TS-133 can chug a bit, I find the CPU to struggle when inside QTS and not even transferring. I do like the idea of low power ARM though. Any advice would be appreciated.

I’ve watched quite a few of your videos. Many thanks!!! I first discovered you when trying to install TrueNAS on an old QNAP w/o video-out, which was successful.

Anyway, lately looking to build another DIY NAS and thinking about mITX just for flexibility of being able to migrate the board between various cases. You also seem to have an affinity for ECC, but many of the boards you are reviewing lately don’t have it.

I’m looking for a mobo that supports ECC and is similarly featured to the CWWK boards you’ve reviewed. It seems like the only one you’ve reviewed recently that falls into this category is the Gigabyte Aorus board that comes in an HL8 which you sorta criticized because of its single NIC and the fact that it uses one of the NVME to get all 8disks connected. Do you have any further thoughts? Can you confirm that CWWK Q670 board actually supports ECC if you find an AMD 7735HS CPU? I might just end up with the Gigabyte board.

Looking for the best cards that work this card, for use in a Synology 4017xs+

Many seem better/better priced than the Synology cards - What do you recommend?