Hi Guys,

Love your videos and they are so helpful. That being said I have a question.

I am building a new house and will be putting CAT 6 cable throughout the house. I would like to set up a NAS system that will allow me to play backed up native 4K movies from a NAS to my 4K OLED tv (Ethernet port & wiFi 6 available) and sound from Denon AVC-X4700H receiver. The NAS will also be used for Data backup, photo/video storage. I will be a sole user of the NAS so wont be any multiple uses needing to use the system at once.

My Network will consist of a Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE and FS Network Switch (S3150-8T2FP, 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet L2+ PoE+ Switch, 8 x PoE+ Ports@130W, with 2 x 1Gb SFP, Fanless)

Is a HDMI out on a NAS required to play back native 4k smoothly or can this be done via the LAN?

Can you recommend a NAS that will allow me to do all of this OR is this a case of wanting to have my cake and eat it too?

Thank in advance and looking forward to your reply.

Regards,
- Lang

Hello, thank you for the awesome content and reviews. It is really appreciated.

I have read some reviews from Amazon on the nextorage having quality issues and failing a few months in. Have you had the same issues? Or have you heard of anything like this?

I'm trying to determine if: Nextorage, Firecuda 530, SN850/850X, or the Samsung 980 pro might be the way yo go with a heatsink from the factory and the stock ps5 cover or the aftermarket sorbent heatsink.

My biggest concern is quality and heat.

Thank you!

Hey guys I hope you are all doing well. I need a little help with a change I want to make on my NAS

NAS: TS-653D (QTS 5.0.1.2173)

4 x 4TB disks in RAID5 (Slots 1 - 4)

Single storage pool 8.5TB unallocated

1 Thin Volume 7TB free

I would like to permanently remove the disk from slot 4 to use for another purpose. Is there a way to safely reduce the storage pool to achieve this?

Hi there,

I have a basic Synology DS220J with a pair of 10TB drives in it - one for an SMB share, the other for backup snapshots of that share.

I've secured a couple more of the same 10TB drives and was hoping to run RAID5 or similar with a hot-spare - so I'm looking for a NAS in the UK currently on sale that ideally has:

- 4x 3.5" bays
- SSD cacheing (M.2 so that it doesn't use a 3.5" bay)
- 2.5GbE networking, (or 2.5GbE-compatible 10-Base-T networking)

I've read a few of your recommendations in FAQs and unfortunately most of the recommendations are no longer on sale. As someone who likely has a good knowledge of what's the best deals going in realtime, are you able to recommend anything?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

Hello I'm a music producer I use a mac and I want to buy a nas to store folder and have a daily backup of my mac files .
What do you think about Synology and app drive to make a daily backup?
Wich is your suggestion?

My best regards

Hello

I am looking for some advice on Nas's and your channel has been a great help.
But i want to ask a question that I don't seem to have a answer to.

While i know having a nas and mirroring the data across two drives or using
hybrid raid where you can lose a drive and recover the data is not a back per say.
But allows for you to be able to carry on and not lose data.
BTW by hybrid i am thinking of the raids that let you mix drives of different sizes.

What is the situation if its not the hard drive that dies but the hardware of a NAS that dies
Be it synology , qnap or terramaster. How do you get data back? Is data just lost?
Can drives be put in a normal computer or a usb hard drive dock and data be read normally.
Or if its in a raid or just straight mirror its written in such a way it can not.

I was thinking of getting a TERRAMASTER F4-423 because that was what you used with unraid.
If you have suggestions on other terramaster models for unraid please advise id love to see
other models that could do the unraid install.
As my understanding of unraid was the data is written in such a way a drive can be taken out
and just read on a normal computer. Would this be the case in a nas setup or is it just
if you built a PC and setup unraid.

Sorry if i have talked to much and asked to many questions. Any and all help you can provide would be great.
Regards
Chris from Australia

BTW NAS's down here cost way too much

I have a TVS-672XT with an ASUS GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU and want to be able to directly stream 4K movies using PLEX in HD Station. [OK, so first problem was that only the QNAPClub PLEX Media Player worked, and now QNAP has made that non-functional, requiring reversion to an older driver, but I diverge.] I added the Nvidia driver, set the Resource use to QTS Mode, enabled the PCIe GPU for priority use, and still... PLEX does not use the card. Am I missing something? I have found different compatibility listings which say the GTX 1050 Ti does and does NOT support HD station, but my experience so far is that it does not.

I have digitized an extensive Blu-ray/4K collection and my objective is to use the NAS HDMI PLEX direct stream output to view the movies with the same quality that I get from my 4K player. Can the TVS-672XT ever do this, or do I need an entirely different NAS/GPU combo? I could use this NAS for photography and purchase a new NAS, but with that expense will need some assurance that it will indeed output 4K movies via HDMI without constantly lagging and buffering.

Any advice? I've seen other people with similar questions, but not many clear solutions.

Hey guys love your youtube chanel! Great Work!


I want to know your opinion. I have a 2 person household, and i would love to have a NAS that i can store my family photos and stream some plex. it just one user at time because my wife dont know how to use NASes. What synology model do you recomend me? Its worth to get DS220+ or will DS220J enough? or maybe DS218play?

HDD speaking my plan is ton get a 4TB now and another later. No RAID config needed cause i already implemented a 3.2.1 rule of my important documents.

I am not sure how to connect my qnap TS 873A to my router, modem
to my computer
Thank you

Hi,
I'm looking for a NAS for home use mostly for data backup, personal cloud, media library, Plex and some VM use (Docker, Home Assistant etc).

I've been looking at the DS920+ but then found out that the DS1522+ is due to be released soon and it looks like a substantial upgrade. However, I've since watched your comparison video and as you say the saving in outlay can be used towards HDD, SSD and RAM upgrade. I've been burnt with an older model NAS before, which soon became a useless paperweight.

Am I overthinking this, should I just go for the 920 and upgrade it?
Should I pay the higher cost and opt for the 1522, knowing it will last longer?
Or, address there other options to consider instead (Asustor or QNAP maybe)?

Thanks for any help or advice,

Simon