Hi,

I really like the look of the QNAP TS-464 due to the hardware specs but obviously extremely conscious of the repeated security issues that QNAP in particular seem to run into. Allowing for the fact all systems will have a baseline risk, with QNAP is it a case of they're flat out more at risk or only if you open them to remote access and specifically if you do it without changing default admin passwords?!

What I'm mostly after is local storage to compliment my OneDrive cloud photo backups, local Plex server (mostly only up to 1080p) and obviously as general storage (damn you MacBooks and un-upgradable SSD!!). Obviously appreciate anything you say will only be advice and ultimately the risk is my decision.

Love the YouTube channel by the way! Super helpful for a not fully techy who does a bit of dabbling like myself!

THanks

Lee

Hi, I've been watching your videos the last couple of days to learn about NAS systems and checked out your website and thought I just give it a try.

FOLLOWING SCENARIO

Goal & the setup will be:
1 PC for gaming only
1 PC for streaming & recording only
1 PC for cutting, rendering and uploading videos only (plan: a cutter can access this PC even online via AnyDesk and create and upload videos while the streaming PC still can be used to stream and record new footage at the same time)

Th recording PC only has only a single 2.5GbE port, but we want to buy an Intel X550-T2 PCIe (or should we get something different?) card for this PC so it has 10GbE. The gaming & editing PC both already have an extra 10GbE port on the IO panel at the back of their motherboard.

The recorded footage going to be up to 6-10 hour long (a full Twitch livestream) and around 1 TB huge 1440p or 4K video files (H.264 codec) and recorded with OBS Studio.

We don't want to stockpile footage forever so 10-20 TB would more than enough for the NAS. The raw footage will be deleted after the finished video has been uploaded to the YouTube channel. So speed when accessing/transferring the files is the most important part and especially a smooth playback for video editing. So just as an example on how we think: If 10 TB can be faster than 20 TB we would rather take 10 TB storage. But 10 TB is the minimum on storage space.

Internet Bandwith:
1000 GBit/s Download
400 Mbit/s Upload
Ping: 1ms

To summarize this up:
We want to record with OBS Studio up to 1TB huge and 10 hours long 1440p/4K (H.264) with one PC directly to the NAS server and access this footage as fast possible (1025MB/s with 10GbE?) from a second editing and rendering workstation. 10 TB of storage space is enough. 20 TB would be nice, but not necessary if 10 TB are faster or so. The budget is basically unlimited, but we don't want to spend more on what we need.

Thanks for any advice. I really appreciate it.

Best wishes

What Nas would you choose??
Thanks in advance for answering.

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Hello,

I've been watching and reading a lot of the contemt you guys have put out. Thank you very much for your work!

I'm close to purchasing my first NAS and I'm in the same situation as many other people: wondering if I should buy a Synology DS920+ or wait for the DS923+.

I've watched the videos and read the articles you've published about this and I have some questions.


If the DS923 indeed comes out with the Ryzen CPUs which don't have hardware transcoding. what is that going to prevent me from doing, compared to the DS920+?

Is transcoding only relevant if I want to watch media outside of the house (where I have the NAS)?
Can't the transcoding be done purely by software? Doesn't the Plex server do this, for example?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best,
Luis

I have 4 x 16TB NAS Drives and need a NAS that I can use at home and put these NAS Drives into them.

I require it to store files and media files, possibly to use for Plex built-in to the NAS, and I require a backup locally onto another NAS. So I guess I need 1 NAS that supports backing up to another NAS, possibly the same brand so that it can have built-in NAS Backup technology to back up data from one NAS to the other at midnight everyday over my network.

Hi,

Just got a DS920+ and been following your guide on setting it up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRRcGoXhLLQ).

I don't see in the video how to setup the internet access to the box. Your videos talk about a later video that will explain that, but I haven't been able to locate it. Could you send me a link for this please?

Great site and videos, been really helpful.

Kev

Hi.

I just read your article about SSD cashing.
We are now waiting for DS923+ release and we consider adding ssd cashing for our company.

We have several employees that are often searching for certain file in our database.
Database we need to access fast, is a database that contains tens of thousands small files such as small - few hundreds of kilobytes size - 3D models, pdf files, drawings (CAD environment), small excel files and such.

So I wonder if adding M2 NVMe cashing will make all those little files fly to the cash of NAS and alow us to search for them much quicker. We use 1GBe network, but as mentioned before the files are rather small, and we waste most of the time searching for them, not openning or saving them.

My question is: will SSD cashing in this case help?
We currently use SSD sata Synology NAS with no cashing.

Best regards
Maciej Czeszewski

Hello,
I'm looking to run win98 SE on vm manager, because I have an old PC that I'm afraid might die out soon
Is there any step by step guide I can use to help me install it on my synology
Furthermore, my above mentioned old win 98 PC has a COM port that holds a license dongle which allows me to run a very much needed old software on it
So my point is that I need not only for the win98 vm to run on my synology but also be able to connect the license dongle through a COM to USB adapter to the synology in order to be able to use the old software on the win98 vm.
Note: I am in no way a computer expert so please keep things very simple if possible
Hoping you can help,
Thanks in advance,
Marwan

Hi,

Looking for a security system for Home & Business. Need to catch someone keying my car repeatedly.