Hi, fantast channel with plenty of information. I currently have amazon prime photos backed up to my laptop. I was wandering if there is any way I could automatically backup prime photos to any particular Nas drive?

Hi all

Is the QXG-10G2T-X710 supported on the TVS-H74 series?

I'm running into a problem where it's only getting to the Booting... stage and then freezing. Take the card out and everything works fine, albeit without the 10Gbe.

According to the QNAP datasheet it says it should work on any QNAP NAS with a free PCIe card slot and the TVS-H74 has two!

Thoughts? Was this a bad idea to get two 10Gbe ports on a TVS-H74 for a bit of future-proofing.

Thanks in advance...

I currently have a QNAP TS-251D 2-Bay NAS. I purchased it 2.5 years ago. I put all of my entire music catalog and several DVDs on the server. About 10 months ago, it was attacked by ransomware. I chose to wipe everything. I found the QNAP to be really difficult to set up (not super tech-savvy). I've been looking for a replacement that is easier to set up and transfer files to. I primarily use PLEX as my interface.

Hello,

I stumbled upon the NASCompares videos back in the spring when I started looking at home NAS solutions. At first I wanted the ds920+,I had it in my head that Synology NAS were the most secure and &quot;the best&quot;. When the 920+ went on sale, I started watching NASCompares to learn more, but the ds1522+ had just come out and I couldn't decide. To my surprise, wife gave approval to get the DS1522+, and I decided to sleep on it, and by morning was out of stock. Then I mulled over getting the 920+ anyways because it had the Celeron... but then the 920+ went out of stock too. In any case since I couldn't decide which NAS I wanted, and now having consumed an unhealthy amount of NASCompares videos... I still can't decide. In the meantime I instead decided to collect drives on sale so I'd have something to start with if/when I decided. I currently have 3 WD Red Plus 10TBs I picked up on sale, thinking RAID5 would give me 1 drive failure of headroom. << by the way... THANK YOU FOR HAMMERING HOME THAT THE NVMe's ARE FOR CACHING ONLY... I was so excited to think I could slap in a couple sticks and have crazy fast storage.

There's a lot of fluff below, but here's my [current] intended use for a NAS:
1) Consolidating & deduplicating ~20 years of &quot;backups&quot; stored on piles of USBs, old 2.5&quot; laptop drives, externals, etc.*
2) Have somewhere to store uncompressed disk images of our various laptops/desktop (so I have somewhere to compress them)
2.5) ie Original disk images of our machines, as well as images of my grandparents' laptops
2.5.5) Restoring dd images of windows installs seems hit or miss, whereas ddrescue images work every time, but can't be compressed until the data is &quot;rescued&quot;.
3) I'd like to be able to tinker around with VMs and have a device to teach myself Docker.
4) Eventually replace my Arlo security cams with POE cams, (so store rolling days||months of video)**
4.5) I'm not sure if I'd purchase Synology licenses to run their cam solution (esp if the embedded Ryzens don't have integrated graphics), currently leaning towards maybe a future Blue Iris nuc.
5) I DO NOT plan on running Plex, however with our first child on the way I'm sure we'll start accumulating baby vids/pics.
6) Future upgrades, disappointed the 1621 only comes with 4GB RAM, assume that will be the earliest upgrade. At some point I'd also want to drop in the NVMe's to benefit from r/w caching... but again will have to save my pennies.

* I'd love to be able to afford to back up the NAS with cloud backup... with so many TBs it's unaffordable, but I think could be deduplicated to a more manageable size.
** this project is even further out because I have zero ethernet cable run in the house (currently operating on TP-Link Deco x20 mesh), I also have no switching equipment, so it'll be a while before I can even take advantage of link aggregation. See also, $$$$.

Fluff:
Subsequently I watched a bunch of videos, including the lack of integrated GPU, transcoding head-to-head 920+ vs 1522+, and it made me start doubting the 1522 has enough horsepower. I wanted it because on paper, it appears to have a teeny bit more hp than the 920+, but when you consider onboard graphics then it goes out the window. I also liked that it came with 8GB of ram and was more upgradeable, but 2c/4t processor for $699 seems pretty underwhelming. I started looking at the ds1621+ instead, since it has the Ryzen V1500B with 4c/8t cpu. Which would give me more power for tinkering around with VMs and/or Docker (but again... lacks onboard gfx for VMs).

The 1621+ is way more than I was originally willing to spend at a msrp of $900. So I started looking at hardware to build my own. I started with what was supposed to be a &quot;budget&quot; build and realized it was way more powerful than any of the NAS I was considering (and then black friday/cyber monday sales dropped the price even more), currently ~$710:
https://newegg.io/44d51ef
So I did a budget one, currently ~$650:
https://newegg.io/aee9937

^could get a lot more HP, but then I realized that's a lot of hardware for running TrueNAS, and if TrueNAS was the OS then I wouldn't be able to run Blue Iris on it. >>> &quot;maybe I should start with a NAS, and then can get a windows NUC to do Blue Iris at some point, and refocus on finding a NAS&quot;

As of this post, at least in the US, newegg has the DS1621+ on sale for $899.99 + $180 off coupon code, bringing it to the lowest ever price (after checking price history here) of $719.99 before tax. So I ordered it, not wanting to miss another sale, and figuring if a new NAS sale popped up, I have &quot;holiday returns protection&quot; until Jan to return it. I'm still not sure if I want to build my own box or stick with [what I believe to be] the Cadillac of NAS with Synology.

Lastly, I had planned on using the 3 disks I have so far for RAID5, but only recently started seeing the (quite old) posts about how RAID5 is dead... and RAID6 should be too. Like anything the answer is &quot;it depends&quot;. I was trying to research RAID penalties, understanding that RAID5/6 have write penalties, but was more interested in how they stack up against each other for reads. That's where I started reading &quot;no one should be using RAID5 and 6 anymore&quot;.

Point is, given the above, will the ds1621+ I ordered give me years of great performance? Will Synology continue providing updates and support for this 2 year old device? Should I build my own?

Thanks!!!

I have the Mellanox CX312A ConnectX-3 EN Dual Port 10gb Ethernet MCX312A Low Profile Card working in a Synology DS1821+

Will the same low profile card work in Synology RS3621RPxs ?

I have my eye on this one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304708036069?hash=item46f203a5e5

Hello,

Is a review of this unit coming up soon? I have been holding off till I see your review.

Thanks.

Doug

Hi
I have recently deleted a folder on my nas

They say that there is a recycle bin but I cant find it

Any ideas

I am using TOS 4.2.32

Hi, big fan on the YouTube channel. I run a small business and currently run all our files off OneDrive/SharePoint. I am getting to the point where 1TB of OneDrive space is getting low and thinking I need to either archive or just replace it all together. Looking for advice on the best NAS software to replace OneDrive. We all have home PC’s and sync a seperate drive in our PC’s to the OneDrive. Synology Drive looks to be a direct replacement with the same features. Does QNAP have a similar product and would you recommend it over the Synology?

Thanks
Chris

Hi,

Many thanks for the informative videos detailing the tests and recommendations.

Would your team have any experience with cloning disks in a RAID5 array (QNAP) that have IO errors onto new disks to replace the faulty disk? Is it possible to clone to a new disk and replace the faulty disk without destroying the RAID array?

The reason why the cloning is required is due to multiple new disks reporting IO errors (even though bad block scans clear the error, those errors appear again).

Any advice or help would be appreciated as searches on the internet around the subject is inconclusive.

Kind regards.

I already bought four (4) 20TB WD red drives and two (2) 1TB IronWolf 525 SSD's. I would like to do 10GbE video exiting over the network. I noticed the 108TB limitation. Do you know if that includes the parity drive space? Is it formatted space or raw space? If I eventually use (6) 20TB drives in SHR1 will I be over the 108TB limit? Is it worth it to go dual 10GbE in the 6 bay or am I never going to saturate that much bandwidth with this configuration on large 4k and 6k video files?

I am currently running a DS918+ SHR1 which backs up to a DS418+ located at my parents house (in case my house burns down). They each have (2) 14TB drives and (2) 8TB drives. I also have (2) additional 8TB drives sitting in a drawer. I bought a DX517. My plan is to take the (2) 14TB drives out of my DS918+ and swap them with my (2) 8TB drives in the 418+. That will give me (4) 14TB drives in the 418+ as offsite backup. I can put all (6) 8TB drives in my DS918+ with the DX517 for an at home offline backup.

I am not in a huge rush but I would like to get this done in the next 3-4 months. Is there a DS1623+ or DS1823+ on the horizon? Will they support a volume larger than 108GB if I upgrade the RAM to 32GB's? I would be willing to entertain the idea of a DS1623xs+ if that's what it would take.

The DS1621+ is on sale for $719.99 at B&H right now compared to the DS1522+ at $699 and not likely to be discounted for a while. The DS1621+ has less RAM so upgrading that would be an added expense. I'm assuming I would need at least 8GB's of RAM to ensure smooth transfer speeds over 10G. The quad core in the DS1621+ is clocked slower than the dual core in the DS1522+ but it has twice as many PCIE lanes. Can I saturate a single 10G ethernet port with this configuration let alone dual 10G? I know large file sizes of uncompressed 6K will take its toll. Will more RAM and the dual 1TB SSD's help mitigate this? Is the DS1621+ better than the DS1522+? Sorry for vomiting so much information and questions at you.