Hello Team,

Great platform you guys have here. Very appreciative for the support you provide to all of us.

Could you point me in the right direction. I'm looking to build a NAS and after lots of research, I need some assistance.

Use case:
- Store 10TB of existing photos and videos. We're onstantly adding more.

- Have remote access to be able to transfer photo and video whilecon vacation. Our devices (cell phones and sd cards) fill up quick.

- Be able to edit photos and videos from nas.

- Store Blue Iris recordings. Which is currently running on standalong HP workstation. With 2 nic cards. 14 cameras.

- Explore and experiment other features on the nas.

Currently, we have a Jonsbo N3.
Budget $400, not included drives. Based on research will (cpu) i3-12100 and (mobo) H610i be a good combo.

What hardware do you recommend?

Thanks.

I want to upgrade the Synology DS416Play to a future-ready NAS.
Photos, music and phonevideos.... everything plays in Plex, for all my devices, where I and my family can reach them. I immediately came up with the heaviest one currently available, the QNAP TVS-h874T-i9-64G.... but do I need this? I would love to, but do I need it? From this Synology, the processor is too minus and when analyzing or running multiple tasks at the same time, the server falters and fails as well. Up to a reboot. So analyzing, scanning and playback of 1080p and 4K must run extremely smoothly. The DS416Play is a 4-Bay. Internal storage of 4x 10TB WD102KRYZ. These drives I want to keep, fairly new. Also the 3x 14TB external drives dangling from it need to be on internal storage. So an 8-Bay and a heavy model should do the trick. Any recommendations of brands and models within the aforementioned price range?

I have a TS-233 and using MARS to download 90k+ photos from google photos and upload to onedrive with hbs3. I am finding it clunky as it is uploading the hidden MARS folders to onedrive and blowing the storage, and viewing the photos with qmagie is really slow.
I am hoping to also backup about 5K iCloud Photos and make the local viewing a lot quicker and wonder if I need a more powerful nas that can run docker images or vm's to enable straight forward photo syncing from both cloud services?

Hi
Your channel is amazing, very descriptive, informative and just helpful in every way.

I cant tell you how nice it is to hear these tutorials on YouTube from a fellow Englishman as opposed to all the yanks out there


I was wondering if you could help me put together a hardware list (pcpartpicker) for my new plex media server to service my family (10 people in total, usually on average 6 people utilising in one go) as well as a network storage for sharing files and backup in my small home office with 2 additional people having to access at any one point locally

I would like the system to run docker for other work needs (testing and sandpit environments)

I was looking at something similar to the QNAP TVS-H874-I9-64g
I know its a 3.5k machine

However i was wondering if you believe possible to get similar performance from a custom build keeping pricing below 1500£

If yes what would be your selected parts (would you reckomend IPMI, hot swap, intel, integrated graphics etc )

I would like to make my own NAS/cloud utilizing my Minisforum MS-01 with TrueNAS OS. Im not sure the best route on how to add storage to the device. Should I just use what is available internally (2 8TB NVME with 2.5" 8TB) or can I add some type of DAS (Terramaster U5 Hybrid)/external enclosure to expand my options.

Thank you in advance for your help. Please help me save sleepless nights and wasted money.

Cheers,
Elliot

My Synology 1513+ is displaying the flashing blue light of death. I have tried everything I see online to reboot it with no luck. My friend had the same thing happen to his 1513+ about the same time, coincidently Synology did a DSM update so I wonder. Anyway, it is an old device and I gotten many years of good service from it. Also, my main backup is the DS1821+ and I was using the DS1513+ for deep backup. The DS1513+ has five 10TB WD100EFAX drives in it which I would like to redeploy and wonder if they would work in the DS1522+? I know that the recommended drive is the newer WD101EFBX but would rather not waste my existing drives. The drives are only 4 years old and were working fine.

Thank you for your answer and the channel, it is appreciated more than you might know. Say hello to the seagulls from your fans in Georgia!

I am "considering" doing a Home Media server or NAS I guess, to house movie's, tv shows, music video's, music and such. I have Audials One Ultra 2025 (I have never used it) and additionally will use Jellyfin or Plex (never used them either), to manage/filing the media collection.

So what are the best Home NAS devices for a $700 or below budget??

Thank you,
Mike

Did you hear about the Aoostar WTR Max 8845? Its a 7 bay NAS with an LED screen on the front. They said Q1 2025.

Hello, I was looking up some information on Terramaster set-up the other day and saw someone mention that you could install a single m.2 drive into the terramaster (F4-424) with no additional HDDs and do all of the TOS set-up and then come back and put in the drives and set up the storage pools later. I haven't seen anything else about that online especially with any kind of "this is how you do it". Before I try this with my unit (still waiting on ram and one of my m.2's to arrive) I was wondering if this is a. possible to do and b. a bad idea even if it is something I can do. I would like to use one m2 for the os and all apps and the other for caching. Thanks in advance for all the help you give to the community! Adam

Love the NAS advice videos - really great!


I would really appreciate advice on best size drives to buy from NAS forum.

I am thinking of buying Synology ds1522+ NAS.

Currently have ds 223+ with 2 2 TB drives nearly full in raid 1. Old but works well.


My Aim is get new set up that's is not too noisy as in home office and scalable - at least raid 1 and preferably raid 5 or even 6.

To Use Synology Office, Plex & other apps plus data backups.

Are 10 or 16TB sata drives much noisier than 8TB's ( x 2 drives in a nas)?

To start me off with a new NAS 1522+, I was wondering about either 2 x 8 TB Seagate wolf Pro drives or possibly 2 x 10 or even 2 x 16 TB drives

(Minimum I would need would be 2 x 4TB).

Or 3 x 4 or 8 or 10 TB sata drives if better for raid 5.

Would be really grateful for advice as pretty new to NAS and latest options.

Excuse giving lots of options. Hope you can help.

Thanks, Paul