Hello,

I have a small business as a photographer and have been using the Drobo 5D3. I loved that it was so easy to get it up and going from my Mac and it has worked flawlessly for years. I am looking for a similar replacement and I'm hoping for the simplest solution for storage as I really don't need it for anything else. I am not on a network. I have used just over 50% of 14T at present and might need a bit more. Since I don't understand how these storage devices work, can you please suggest something easy that would work for me? As well, what would be the best method of transferring the data form the Drobo to the new storage system?
Thank you for your assistance.

Hi. Need some advice of buying my FIRST NAS storage. Would like to hear your suggestion what NAS best to by by the end of 2022 on my budget between 300-600£ ? would be great to get few options from you .Thanks.

Hi, am thinking about buying my first NAS to move my Plex server to a new Synology DS920+ with four Seagate Ironwolf NAS 8tb HHD. One problem is I cannot afford the NAS and all four hard drives at once. I would like to by the NAS and one 8tb HHD and add the others as I can find deals. So, my question is will I be able to switch from Basic to RAID 2 then to RAID 5 without losing all my data as I add drives. Thank you for any help.

I have a DS1520 with 5x16TB (in SHR) and was gifted a DX517 which I also added 5x16TB (in SHR). I have storage pool/volume 1 on main unit and wanted to use the DX517 storage pool/volume as a full incremental back-up destination so whenever I make file/folder changes on the 1520 this updates the 517 back up.
My questions:
1. Can you Back-up to a second pool/volume on a DX unit?
2. Which is the best software/package solution for the incremental back-up option?

Hi Robbie,

Thank you for your review videos they are very informative and straight to the point.

I am looking for a desktop NAS for the following use cases:

- Watch 4K films streamed to AppleTV, Iphones, Ipads (I have a SSL based VPN into my home network in the event I would like to stream over the public Internet when I am out)
- Backup Iphone videos and pictures
- Host Virtual Machine with Steam running on those VMs to be able to play games remotely
- Host Virtual Machines for work testing (Active Directory Domain Controller, Network Access Control servers etc.)
- Games will be streamed via Steam play (there is an app on AppleTV which lets you stream from any Steam machine)

My current LAN is:

- Cisco Meraki full stack, firewalls, switches and WiFi 6 APs

My thinking is to purchase QNAP TVS-872XT-i7-16G, starting with 1x 16TB disk and no GPU in the PCI slot. Then in next year spend some money to fill in additional hard drive bays, more RAM and procure dedicated GPU to run more advanced games.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks,

Alek

Hi Robbie,

as always, love the show.

Recently I upgraded from the 1821+ to the 3622xs+.  I got a great deal buying the unit new on ebay for $2,200 so I couldn't resist at that price point.

I was using (7) 16 TB Seagate EXOS drives in a RAID 5 array and added (2) more 16 TB Seagate EXOS drives for additional capacity and for conversion to RAID 6 to protect against 2 failed drives.  Essentially I added 1 drive for expansion and 1 drive for redundancy.

The question I have is this.  I am currently running the RAID conversion and expansion processes and it looks like it is going to take 4-5 days.  Is the unit actually picking up and laying down each file one at a time since it has to create a second set of parity data and the stripes and block sizes will have changed since I am both expanding the volume pool and converting the RAID from RAID 5 to RAID 6.

THanks,
James.

Dear NAS compares-team,

I found your website via your great youtube channel which I think does a phenomenal job on explaining everything around NAS which is the reason I wanted to ask you my question.

Since I moved into my own house I have a 19" rack in my cellar where all network cables go together and are patched into a 24 port 1GBit switch. In this rack my router also finds its place as well as a Synology DS216play. Unfortunately I messed up back in the days when I bought it by setting up a Raid 0 configuration with two 2TB drives which are now 70 % full and one drive starts getting sector errors. With this setup it's impossible for me to just switch drives and be good to go. Since I want to have more bays to be prepared for future events and only a two bay system can be installed in the rack due to space problem I thought of getting a RS based synology station into this rack with new drives, backing up everything from the old station and selling it to a decent price.

Yet I am still confused which way to go since the only rack based systems of the current lineup fitting in my rack would be the RS422+ or the RS1221+ due to its shortened form factor.
As for my use case I currently have all my music, videos (most of them ripped DVDs but more on that later), pictures and data (disk images of old computer games and from GOG) and backup data from MacBooks etc.. Since your videos showed that the processor in a RS422+ isn't quite suitable for media streaming I hesitate in buying it and I thought the RS1221+ is just overkill and way too expensive for my use case. If I'm not mistaken the DS1522+ is more upgradeable but has more or less the same processor and therefore the same problem with media streaming I am also uncertain on whether this device would be a good choice. The only device I saw fiting my needs was the DS920+ which is of course a bit old and I wanted to check at least what was on synologys event on the 27th of October. My problem with the DS920+ besides not being the latest device is the form factor which could cause space problems in my rack and I therefore thought of the RS422+ again. To what degree is the media usage still viable on this rack and when should I consider of rather getting a different device? Maybe I have another chance of moving my data from the current device to just a 8TB HDD and wait for a suitable NAS in the future?
I do hope my question is worth your time and you can help me finding a suitable solution.

Best regards from Germany
Ulrich Schlecht

Hi,

Any ideas where I can buy this card QXG-10G1TB single channel 10GB RJ45 Copper NIC PCIe.
Thanks.

I am wondering on the best bundle for my planned NAS, mostly for Plex with some other minor add-ons.

I'd like to get either 6 or 8TB drives and am trying to decide amongst the various flavours of WD & Seagate. Am I better off compromising on storage for the up-spec HDD models?

Planned usage is mostly for Plex at home (replacing a purpose -built PC) with some light usage for some other services like backup and photos etc.

My Plex library is (at least 20Tb) and is a mix of mostly 1080p, 720p and 4K content. Most 4K movies are compressed to 4-6Gb size with HEVC encoding.

Hello, 

I have a QNAP QHORA-301W and a QNAP TS653-D.  I recently purchased a QM2-2P10G1TB. Ihave been using one of the two 10GbE ports on the Router to connect to one of the 2.5GbE.

Lately, I have been thinking on adding some cameras to my NAS, and since me and my wife use the NAS to work at the house, I wanted to improve the connection between the NAS and the Router to 10GbE. So I bought a QM2-2P10G1TA and was planning to use it for the connection and also for to add a couple of 1tb cache SSDs...


but now I'm wondering how much that cache will bottleneck the 10GbE connection between the NSA and the Router.. will it be as bad as the previous connection of 2.5GbE or even worse?

if that's the case then i will pass on the cache... but if it's not as bad, I think i can accept a little bottleneck on my 10GbE to gain the advantage of having Cache.

thanks a lot!

Gabe