Greetings Friend,

I am looking to buy a QNAP TVS-h874.

I am trying to narrow it down between the i7 and i5 model. I do plan to add a GPU.(p4000) and a 10gb NIC to either.

NAS tasks...
- PLEX
- VMs
- Docker Apps
- File repository

Any advice would be helpful.

Good night.

Is it possible to play games via a NAS. I am on a ship where I have to watch my power consumption because the power is supplied via batteries on the ship.
Now I have a very heavy gaming desktop that requires quite a lot of power from the batteries. At home I have a small Qnap nas the TS-230 for plex mainly. If it were possible that I could play games via a NAS. Which NAS/setup would you recommend to me.

Yours sincerely
J.D.Hoogerdijk

I have a QNAP NAS that I would like to use an iSCSI LUN on, and I would also like the drive to be accessible on another PC for backup amongst other things. Is there a way to do this? Obviously I could use a standard network share for both PC’s but as I’m using it to store the users profile it needs to be available before that PC finishes recovering from standby which it doesn’t always achieve

Hello. I have been watching your videos on you tube and have been loving their content. I am coming up to speed quickly on NAS setup thanks to your insight. Thank you a ton for your work.

I have purchased a QNAP TS-473A for my home and will use it as a file server / media server / fun toy. I am 90% setup but the last step has me stuck. I would like to add a 10 Gig ethernet adapter and also add a video card. I purchased your recommended EDUP 10 gig nic card and I also have an MSI GTX 1050 ti GPU on hand as well. The problem is both of these will not fit at the same (the video card takes 2 slots). I am not quite sure the best way to go. I am willing to buy a different video card (is there a good one slot low profile card I should look at?) or I could get a different 10 gig solution and use the USB-C port perhaps for connectivity? I am not sure what the best combo here is. Money is not infinite but I don’t mind spending a little to get the best working within the physical constraints the

Hi I’m currently using an old Wd Mycloud 2 tb that is unsupported with plex server on my Mac mini m2 pro.
I’m now looking to buy a new nas and have 2 or 3 3 tb Wd red hard drives spare.
I’m unsure which brand to go with Qnap 464 or the synology 923 or maybe something similar I download videos to a hard drive then transfer currently to the Wd Mycloud watching on a Sony android tv via the plex pass which I have paid for the premium service.
Any help would be very appreciated so I don’t throw my pounds at the wrong thing.

Thanks Adam.

I want fast access, will also use to store short videos of street events. I have a movie library 80 movies and growing. I have a 4 bay NAS but only want 3 dives in the raid config. I have a 10 TB drive, can I add three 8 TB drives and setup raid 5 and only use 8TB from the 10 TB drive. I want to have an isolated 2 tb secret drive. Is this possible and what do you recommend for the disk drives for fast access with me using Plex to show my movies.

Good Day Sir.

I own a small wedding videography business. I currently own 5 WD 18TB Ext. HDDs for backup and multiple LaCie HDDs (3 copies). I came across NAS and thought of buying one.

Intended use of NAS:
1. I want it to be my backup solution and I thought of RAID10 so that I will have 2 copies of my data. 3rd copy will be stored on ext hdd.
2. Initially I will add 4 drives as required for RAID10, then I will add more later as my budget grows. My question here is, is it possible to add HDDs without loosing data in RAID10?
3. Should I buy now with Thunderbolt 4, so that transfer rates between my NAS and my PC would be fast.

I have limited knowledge of computer hardware and would really appreciate your suggestion. At first I was thinking about DAS however, didn't get much of information about it. I would consider DAS but I found it with NAS I can share data with my clients without uploading to cloud service.

Looking forward for your reply.

Thank you

Dear Nas Compares,

Following your nice videos and interesting articles I decided to buy an Asustor Lockerstor AS6702T. It will arrive tomorrow.

I came from a previous experience with Synology ds213air bought in 2013. Very disappointing for the slow performances.

I am an expert Linux user and want to use virtualisation features and NextCloud.

I would like to ask you what is your opinion about installing one single supplemental RAM module of 16 Gb that I already have or to buy two 8Gb modules to improve the virtualisation capacity.

I thank you very much for any time you will decide to dedicate answering me.

This NAS would be located on our network in another building to provide an archive location for mostly video files. I will be manually backing up my edit SSD's (16TB) at least weekly. A video server on our network will also use the NAS as an archive location and will periodically backup old videos automatically. Our network is currently 1GbE but I could see it being useful to have the ability to move this NAS closer to my edit station and potentially edit directly off it with a dedicated 10GbE port. If that increases the cost significantly though, I would probably prefer to stick to something that is solely used for archive purposes and spend the money on that. But if it fits in the budget of $3100, it might be useful to include.

We have mainly stuck to Synology in the past, although if there is a significant benefit to going with another manufacturer, we would be open to it.

Which NAS has the best app to back up andriod phones