Hello,

I have watched several of your YouTube videos and looking for a recommendation. I am primarily interested in a NAS device that can transcode 4K movies using Plex. I mostly play 4K 16-bit movies, but looking for a future proofing device.

Based on the research that I have done as well as multiple videos that I have seen, I am leaning towards QNAP TS-464. I am currently a Synology user DS-918+. Wanted to ask if there is a comparable NAS in the Synology product line that TS-464 could go head-to-head. I researched DS-920+, though the hardware is couple of years old. Appreciate your insights.

Hello,
Hope you guys are doing good. I been following NAS compare for long and watching all the videos. But now I am overwhelmed with all the information passed on, So please help me.
Need recommendation on Home NAS solution to store and access the following;
Pictures - HD / Live
Videos - HD / 4K
Games
Movies
Documents

I should be able to perform following;
upload pictures and videos over WiFi
watch Pictures /videos/ movies by connecting to TV or laptop(Windows) - if there is any hardware required please recommend
watch Pictures /videos/ movies by connecting to Phone (Apple/Android)
connect to NAS remotely
edit the document (Word, Exel, PDF, PPT)directly on NAS
This is not priority but it would be good if I have an option to play steam games (FIFA, Tomb Raider series, Just Cause series etc.)

Should boot up quickly (in seconds)
Should be able to access / copy pictures and videos in seconds rather than waiting for 2 or more minutes when connected via network cable
Should be able to save all my data incase of disk failure (preferably use Raid 6)

Hi, I'm getting confused by all the new offerings from QNAP and the upcoming Synology drives. I'm looking for the best 4 bay for Plex to handle a bunch of 1080p films and maybe even the odd 4k one. Ideally with enough punch to transcode. Is there one you'd recommend with this in mind, please?

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

Tim

Hi from Belgium!
I’m using today a Synology DS418play mainly for Synology Photos (family sharing etc…) but also for Synology Drive (Office family) and backup (Apple devices). I noticed that I don’t use a lot of CPU, but I wonder if the new DS923 would be a better choice? Or should I wait for a DS423 (maybe with Intel processor)? Can you help me with my question? Thank you, Dirk

Hey guys, Thanks so much for all your informative content. I'm a noob to NAS and have been learning from your videos, especially this past week.

I'm looking at upgrading my circa 2008 home built Q9450, ASUS p5k-e wifi, Win 7 64 desktop PC, with a pretty tight budget at the moment. I'm looking at a Gigabyte AERO 17 XE5 laptop with the black friday sales which I will probably pickup on Wed this week. On my current system I have OS & programs on a 120GB ssd and then my primary photo storage is ~4TB worth on a pair of 3TB drives in Raid 0 (so 6TB), with a daily manual backup (via Synctoy) to an internal 10TB WD Gold drive (first installed ~4-5 yrs ago). My secondary backup is external to another 10TB WD Gold attached via a usb 3 docking station. I've dabbled with Ubuntu for personal use over the last decade so was intrigued by your recent video about other uses for a nas with your talk of virtual machines and ubuntu in Qnap systems.

Since this past Spring I was determined to switch to a MAC system given how powerful and efficient the new MacBook pros are, and with a desire to be working more remotely in the near future. So even though I'm probably going to be buying a Windows 10 laptop this week (outrageous current sale prices, but also recently learned my accounting software of SAGE 50 is Windows only). So anyway, a big part of this is that I'm interested in having a storage system that is compatible with Mac & Windows primarily and Ubuntu maybe as well.

I don't currently need distance or remote access, but by Spring 2023 I intend to be visiting my parents 3000km East in Ontario where I will start a project to duplicate my family's 35mm slide collection and would want remote storage and backups for this. My regular photography work the last 10 years is to produce large prints selling from my own retail gallery (which I actually let go a year ago, & am now working from home and online). I've been photographing stitched panorama images from a 45MP Nikon D850 for the last 5 years as a new project, often incorporating 30 images at a time. Many of these are not yet processed and stitched though due to the age and slow speed of my old desktop. With a new system I expect my current ~4tb worth of data will double fairly quickly. The intent is to produce 4'x8' and larger fine art mural prints. So basically I'll be working with some quite large files in photoshop, especially once adjustment layers are added.

So for the time being I'm perhaps only looking for an external storage solution with decent transfer speeds using the Thunderbolt 4 ports on the laptop. The big conundrum currently is that I'm in a basement suite with only wifi internet access at the moment. I may move in the Spring or maybe within a year and would hope to have direct router access in a new living situation. One caveat to this is that there are a bunch of ethernet and coaxial wiring right outside my door in the furnace room with all loose wiring ends on the blue ethernet cables, one coaxial of which is labelled "office", which would be my landlords office two floors above. We're in a newly built house and I suspect the router was originally in the furnace room with about a dozen ethernet wires and a same number of coaxial routed throughout the house. The router now resides in the office two floors above. I hope to talk with the landlord about the possibility of accessing these ethernet cables in the next day or so, and would hope direct ethernet router access might be possible.

So from watching your videos, and due to my current budget with a coming laptop purchase (~$1500CAD max after the laptop), I was initially looking at the TR-004 to have a 24TB worth of data Raid 5 (4 x 8TB drives) set up as a temporary DAS solution, backing up to my current 10TB drives in the docking station for the time being. In Spring I could upgrade to a NAS with 24TB worth of data as a primary data storage and then use the tr-004 connected to it as a DAS primary backup. Then maybe get another small 2 or4 bay NAS as the secondary remote backup to be kept at a local friends house connected to her router. Then when I'm at my parents digitizing slides, I could be storing them as well as backing everything up remotely between Ontario and BC.

If I'm interpreting all this new NAS knkowledge I've been taking in the last week is correct, the above described layout should be viable I think, assuming I get myself some direct ethernet router access. But maybe I'm misunderstanding some fundamental things about NAS. I'm very much a noob.

My main reservations are with the age of the TR-004 and it's slow transfer speeds and SATA II internal connections. I saw it was to be upgraded with the tr-104c around 2020 but those planned units were cancelled. With it being limited to max 200 Mbps transfer speeds, I'm wondering if it would make sense to just get myself another 10TB HDD in an enclosure for the next few months accepting the slow speeds (I could use a temp working file on internal SSD for editing, then save to external), and then upgrade in the spring to something like the newly released TVS-h674 or 874 (maybe these are overkill for my use case though??) when I have a bigger budget.

I would prefer to start spending on hardware with current technology (ieTVS-h674) and decent upgrade possibilities, given how long I've kept my current hardware going for. Hence the reservations with the TR-004. This is an extreme case though as I likely wouldn't be waiting another ridiculously long 14 years to upgrade my main system. It's silly that I have, but it's just what's currently happened. I have been looking around to upgrade for years now, but the finances and timing just didn't work out. I'd expect to keep this new Windows laptop for maybe 5 years, but would like to compliment it with a 14" Macbook pro next Spring or Summer if upgraded models come out. A few years ago I started using a motorcycle for photography trips and could see myself driving cross country by bike to do the film digitizing in Ontario and the 14" MacBook looks nice for that situation especially.

Thanks so much for your time. I hope this all makes sense, but please let me know if you need any clarification.

Thanks,

Brian

Which drives do you recommend I install in my intended purchase of a DS720+

I plan to use the DS720+ as a home media storage and backup system.

Hi there,

I'm a videographer/Photographer, incredibly lost and overwhelmed by the options in the DAS space.

I want to just bite the bullet and get a terra master D5-300, put x5 6tb drives in it, and run it as raid5. But I'm getting nervous thinking the price point is too good to be true. If a drive did fail, I'm nervous to trust their raid5 rebuild and also am nervous about how reliable their customer support it. If I go this route, with the money I'll save, I'll buy an 18tb G-drive (or similar) as a backup, so no matter what I'm safe.

Alternatively, I could bite the bullet and get a G-raid shuttle, most likely the 24tb version at raid5. OR I could do OWC thunderbay4, but softraid makes me nervous. Or could go the 2-bay route with a g-raid 36tb/Lacie 2big and run it as raid1. (Could also do terrmaster 2bay)

I'm looking for advice on how reliable terra master is and what the raid5 risk is compared to lets say the g-raid shuttle.

Last question. If I did go a 2bay route, lets say with terramaster, and ran it as Raid1 with x2 18tb drives. How difficult/unrealistic is it to rebuild an entire 18tb drive should one fail. And if one fails, that doesn't matter anyways right since I already have an entire copy? I could make do with 18tb of available space need be. Would prefer more space though.

thank you so much for your help in advanced.

Was planning on upgrading a Synology DS418Play to DS422+ which never arrived and now its not clear if there will be a DS423+ model? Can you clarify if this model will be released or has it been cancelled?

With the DS923+, Synology seems to be moving away from the home media server market so it seems like the best current option is QNAP TS-464? I've been with Synology for greater than a decade but the TS-464 specs seem to be an upgrade over the Synology DS920+ and DS923+, other than the ECC memory or ~150 optionsal 10GbE card.

Hello, I currently have a DS920+ Nas with 4, 4TB drives, and Synology RAM DDR4-2666 Non-ECC SO-DIMM 4GB (D4NESO-2666-4G) . My RAID configuration is SHR1.

I'm looking to replace/upgrade one of the drives to a 16TB. When I went to purchase I saw 2 different kinds and wanted to insure I get what is compatible with the other 3 remaining drives.

Descriptions:
Current drives - Seagate IronWolf Pro 4TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 128MB Cache for RAID Network Attached Storage, Data Recovery Service – Frustration Free Packaging (ST4000NE001)

Replacement options - Seagate IronWolf Pro 16TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – CMR 3.5 Inch SATA 6GB/S 7200 RPM 256MB Cache for Raid Network Attached Storage, Data Recovery Rescue Service

Or
Seagate IronWolf Pro 16TB Enterprise NAS Internal HDD Hard Drive – CMR 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache for RAID Network Attached Storage, Rescue Services - FFP g (ST16000NTZ01)

I will eventually replace/upgrade all the remaining drives. Whats the difference and which should I choose to go with in your opinion?

Thanking you in advance

Hi,

I was considering buying the Synology ds920+ over the ds418 for my home office to share files and pictures to cellphones, home tv and work computer. I also wanted to back up pictures from cellphones on to the drives instead of paying Google for storage.

I wanted to keep with intel chips over amd due to their reliability and lack of overheating issues.

Would you believe this is a good solution or should I be consdering the latest and greatest dsxx23+ solution?

I have no reason to add cameras as that is on its own system.