Decided to put my network to use and make a home Plex server using the QNAP TS664-8G-US with 6 30TB Seagate M drives, as I have over 3000 movies and around 90 TV Series. I am just wondering at this point if it sufficient to go RAID5 or, with this many drives, should I go RAID6? Or something completely different.

Using each, how much HDD space can I expect to have (aprox)?

Thanks for the help. Love the YouTube channel, as I watch everything relevant to my needs.

Looking to have a home NAS to store, and stream from - music, video (films and old TV series), ebooks.

Hardware: music and video seem to take a considerable amount of space, so size (and expandability) important. Also backup - bigger space means bigger backup space needed. Starting to sound expensive!

Software: believe software like Jellyfin can stream music and video (?), but I need ability to run 'Docker' on NAS. Calibre I think has ability to be installed remotely.

Queries/recommendations:
Hardware: thinking a bought (rather than 'build it yourself' system, but which make & models? Synology seems to be restricting HDD types; still worth considering, or are there better alternatives?

Software:
Installing/configuring software like this, and especially the 'network' side (all port numbers!), confuses me - are there any guides that can help? Is it a case of scouring YouTube? If others can do it, it can't be that difficult!

Any advice / pointers welcome.

Thank you!

Hi

I currently have a QNAP TS-453A-8G which has served me well (pun intended) for the last few years. Running 4 4tb seagate ironwolf drives. One of the drives has decided to start failing and I was going to replace all 4 as they are a good age now, however I'm wondering whether to just replace the whole system at the same time. 

Main usage at present is as a media server for plex and a backup repository for phone and other desktops (win/lin). I was considering trying to use as  a roon server but see on the roon page they tend to use nuc style systems for that with more ram and more capable cpu. Other new uses would be with home automation.

Things are a bit slow at the minute (navigating the nas through portal as is the maintenence of apps) and may improve with a refresh (maybe) however media serving atm is flawless.

I was considering something with a bit more kick and with m.2 availability, the ability to transcode would also be useful. I'm not sure I have the patience for DIY but it's not completely off the cards.

Cheers in advance

V

Hi, I just received my N5 and really wanted more than 2 M.2 drives, so purchased this adaptor
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BHWN7WKD

but alas, I can only see 1 of the drives on there. Any suggestions for a card that works, at least 2 more M.2 drives.

Many thanks.

Dear NAS Users,

I am simple home user who currently backup laptop to an external hard disk and iphone to iCloud using paid subscription. The laptop backup to external hard disk is quite irregular and the need more icloud space keeps on increasing and i dont want to shell out money on the costly icloud.

I was looking for different alternatives to make automated backups of laptops and iphones for my whole family and settled with NAS as my best alternative.
I am aware NAS cannot backup an iphone as an icloud, but i can use NAS to backup photos through NAS and for actual backup of iphone guess i still might have to use a small amount of icloud space or do backups over wifi using the laptops which backup to NAS automatically.

With this being said, after some considerable research I was convinced to use synology DS725+ as it offers decent hardware where I can use to start with SATA HDDs and later on I can also expand to SATA SSDs or NVME SSDs for storage. Also it offers good amount of ram expansion. Also DSM seems to offer a well mature, user friendly and competetive backup options for photos and laptops etc.

But my problem with DS725+ is that synology now supports only synology HDDs/SSDs/NVME 2 SSDs whereas WD and Seagate are way more superior in the HDD/SSD market and trustable and has competitive pricing. Also if i want to upgrade RAM, I need to buy from synology. This I am not comfortable with.

Can you please advice me which other NAS has good hardware as well as proper software for the above needs which will be supported long term.

Also, is it possible if i build a custom NAS and use TRUE NAS, will my requirements be solved and will I get long term support?

If you have other advice for my requirments, those are also welcome. Thanks in advance.

Thanks and regards,
Adi

I can't find a single video online demonstrating video editing with the Asustor FLASHSTOR 12 Pro Gen 2 (FS6812X). I can see people talking about it but no one has used it. I don't know why that is. Can you tell me how it actually performs when editing videos and also how it would work?

I have four DROBO, 5-Bay NAS drives, two of which are ethernet and two that are USB 3.1.

I want to transition just to ethernet, but I’m only interested in two NAS Devices.

I want to consolidate everything into two separate NAS configurations. I’m just having a hard time figuring out what kind of build I want. One of the devices I want to be HDMI capable as I have transferred all of my DVD and Blu-ray discs into digital format that I wanna fit on one of the NA devices.

The second device I want to dedicate to photographs and just back up data storage. I’m interested in a RAID-5 configuration.

I have the discs already so I’m looking for a diskless configuration.

We are a small single-campus college and have been using a 4-bay QNAP TS-453Be 2TB drives Raid-5 for some IT storage, but mostly we leverage it as a repository for software package deployments and upgrades (PDQ Deploy).  Our budget, and the cost of storage, is the primary reason we wouldn't just use a VM.

I'm looking for recommendations for a replacement, budget-friendly (Not cheap) replacement.  We don't need a huge amount of storage, but I would like to get better speeds than 100mbps. It seems like SSD for caching would help.  I'm not experienced with that setup.  I'm not sure what size/specs the ssd's should be, if that is the way to go.

We occasionally do large transfers.  Our largest custom software package that we'd deploy domain-wide would be Office 2024.  The rest are usually upgrades of custom packages, or GPU drivers which can suck.  We have 400 PCs but rarely need to push large packages all at once. 

TLDR: Budget-Friendly, QNAP, better concurrent throughput

Thanks

Hi, I purchased an ASTOR AS5304T in 202o Order ID: 78553
I now require additional storage space. Please can you advise on the best way forward?

By the way, the system to date is still working flawlessly.

Colin

Hi,
Watched your video from 6yrs ago about upgrading DS1019+ from 8GB to 16GB.
I stream a lot of movies and tv shows that I have on my NAS.
Most are in .mkv format and are mixture of some DVD, mostly bluray and but increasingly more 4K.

I wanted to beef up my NAS by carrying out a little TLC and as it is no longer in warranty I was going to upgrade the memory, however as it has been 6yrs I was curious if 16GB was the max. It would appear that is the case but I was not sure if that had changed in 6yrs