Is it possible to start with TRAID and at a later date migrate over to RAID 5?  I'm currently using two salvaged 6TB's and tomorrow I will be adding two 4TB's.  I'm not sure of the health of the two 6TB's (running a SMART test on them right now) so I will probably replace them with two more 4TB's at some point.

I am looking to upgrade my home NAS. I use it for backups, file storage, but primarily as a Plex server.

At the moment I have a basic 2 bay setup - Synology DS223j with 2 x 8TB drives on SHR. It's OK.

I want to upgrade to a 4 bay (or more) enclosure to try future-proof my setup and give me room to expand.

I want to stay Synology if at all possible.

From what I can see Synology have moved away from Plex-friendly enclosures.

What is my best option?

I'm looking to use it as a second back up for my movies, book and magazines and music. Documents, photos.

I give up! Searching & searching, I want o 19" rackmounted switch with poe+ (6 for powering cameras), 10gbe rj45-ports (at least two of them), and to remove my old switch also 24 port switch. Can not find any good switch but cost too much, there must be some options out there for this solution. To put even more demands, It does not need to be managed, and could also be fanless. Too much demands perhaps, but this is what I want.
Any idea although this is not a nas-request, I have already a Syn RS422+ with 10gbe card..
And, thx for all the wonderful youtubes I watch!!

Love your output, which led me to a 224+ which I love. It runs 2x16tb IronWolf Pro and I am happy, but, have also acquired another 2x16 IronWolf Pros from someone who has changed horses and gone a different route, so was thinking of 4225+ or even 9225+ for best leverage of hdds. Until the little bombshell of 2 days ago. My in use pair of HDDs in the 224+ might, if I read things correctly, go straight into a 4 bay successor, but the new, currently spare pair of HDDs might not. What to do? I could stay as I am with no cost but 2 unused HDDs, go for the 4125+ or 9225+ or even go for a 923+ Interesting problem hence this message. Many, many thanks and pls keep up the content. Love it!

I want to set up a new F8 Plus in 5 drive R5 or TRAID config. The bootloader & OS takes up space on 2 of my NVMe drives reducing the overall pool size. I'm using all 4TB drives and have 3 slots free. Does it make sense to install a smaller drive, perhaps 1TB for the bootloader and keep all of my 4TB drives free for my RAID array? This still leaves me 2 slots for future expansion. This is brand new and I have no data so I can rebuild it if warranted.

Thanks,
Dave

P.S. Love your videos, they helped me decide on which NAS to get and are helping me set it.

I was searching for topics on this but I see 'm not finding them, or overlooking.

HD prices are high (for my perception), when a disk fails a bigger disk hurts financially more than a small one outside of warranty. I'm not a company with a big budget. In this use case I'm aiming for just one (future maybe max 2 volumes)

How are more smaller or less bigger disks or (still raid5/ SDR-1 even maybe 6 SDR2 ) in the balance if i need to invest in more expensive NAS with way more bays. I'm looking for my replacement Syn412+ which has the 4 disks occupied in Syn SDR1.

Basic question is : Is it from your perspective better to invest in a way more expensive NAS with more bays, or accept the restrictions with less bays and bigger drives with higher replacements costs if they fail. (backup regime etc in place)

I have been investigating an updated replacement for an EOL NetGear RN422 initially acquired back in 2019 !

I have a TS-670 with issues and would like to lift and shift all drives (see Storage) to the QNAP TS-h973AX-32GB. Can this be done easily without loosing data? Do not want to reformat or loose the data... Thank you.

Andrew D.

Morning all,

Whilst still deliberating whether to but a new system, and if so, which system/manufactruer, I’ve just noted in the last 24 hours or so that the prices on the UK UGREEN NAS site have gone up a good 10%, the 8 bay unit now being £1430 as opposed to £1300, the NVME device £1030 instead of around £870 I think it was..

Amazon.uk still selling under old prices…

Tarrifs in action?