Dear NASCompares Team,

Happy Monday!
I recently came across your channel and found a lot of helpful information.
We are a lab of cancer researchers and I wanted to reach out for specific advice regarding our scientific use case.

Use case:
Scientific instrument with 10Gb RJ-45 interface, capable of generating a maximum of 60TB of sequential data over three days.

Constraints:
Budget approximately $6K
Should have storage capacity for 60TB of data with redundancy
Must have HIGH sequential write speed for 10Gb network input
Drives should have high workload rating, with equal read/write ops (50:50)
NAS needs to be small and have quiet operation
User friendly hardware and software

After careful survey of the Synology Tower Servers, Accessories and Compatibility list, below is what I thought could be appropriate :
Synology DiskStation DS1821+
Synology D4ES01-4G
Synology E10G18-T2
SSD write cache: RAID 1 Synology SNV3410-800G (2 drives)
HDD: RAID 10 Seagate Exos 16TB (8 drives)

Would like to know if the above components and configuration would meet the 10Gbps input rate or if we need to have a different solution stack.

Kind regards,
Suhas Srinivasan, Ph.D.
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Department of Dermatology
Affiliated with: Program in Epithelial Biology and Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes
Stanford University | School of Medicine
CCSR 2155b, 269 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA 94305

I am about to purchase a NAS and need some advice. I have 3 8 Bay QNAPS and want to move to a Rack. mount.

Hello

First thanks for your site and youtube videos. Great and informative videos.

I am interested in a Plex Server , looking for 4 or 5 bay nas. Will do look to do data back up for 3 laptops. As well as storing my tv show and movie collection. The only thing is i have a collection of WD Green and a few WD Blue drives. This is how i have stored my files other than some on the portable drives. I want to re use some of the blue or green drives for now till i can either replace them with red drives or replace with other blank green or blue drives. Now as i am in Australia i know the costs will be up their but i am curious your thoughts. Also I would like to run unraid on the nas if possible. Or could i be better doing a DIY nas based on desktop/ server hardware. Thanks for any advise.

Hello,
I wanted to ask some questions about ssds because I am not too well versed in them and you look like almost know everything about them. I am planning to get an ssd for my ps5 and I saw your videos about them but the pricing here is slightly different. Right now i can get:
Corsair mp 600 pro lpx 1 tb with heatsink for 141€
Firecuda 530 1tb wit heatsink for 169€
Samsung 980 pro 1tb with heatsink for 182€
WD SN850 1tb with heatsink for 193€

I am planning to get Corsair because it is the cheapest one and the questions I have are:
Is the price jump to the more expensive ones worth it?
And in one of the videos I saw you talking about updating ssd firmware while ssd is plugged in the pc for better performance while in ps5. Do all ssds have firmware that can boost their performance or only select ones like SN850 that you were talking about in your videos.
And one last question is it perhaps worth waiting for release of new ssds for either price drops on older ssds or getting one of the new ssd when they get released like corsair mp 700 or samsung 990 pro?

Thank you for your time and your advice

Discovered an issue when upgrading router, It took some head scratching but probably shouldn't have. As a result of the QLocker breach I put some IP range rules in place in QuFirewall which was all good until I upgraded the router. The NAS appeared in the network of the new router but was not available via Q finder, IP address, ping from either the router or cmd prompt. On re starting the NAS I was able (briefly) to see and log in to the NAS via the new router and to carry out a quick inspection of error reports, these highlighted two points (1.) that an adapter had been shut down also a virtual switch (2.) that QuFirewall doesn't fire up instantly so leaving the NAS albeit briefly without protection. It was an IP range issue that caused the problem, QuFirewall was barring evrything other than 192.168.1../24, no problem for the old router which had an operating range 192.168.1.1- 192.168.1.149, but the new router was operating 192.168.0.. . Had to reinstate the old router, change the QuFirewall accepted IP range which when applied locked me out, re-instate the new router (hoping I'd got it right) and log in from that network. It sounds obvious when I write it but wasn't while I was scratching my head wondering wtf was going on. Hope this can help some other poor unfortunate, thought you may want to know about it. Cheers

Thank you so much for recording the how to set up a Synology NAS videos. I watched them several times and my DS1522+ just arrived today. I did get an odd message when I was creating the Pool. A message came up that my HDDs were not compatible. I bought 5 Seagate IronWolf 4TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – CMR 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 5900 RPM 64MB Cache for RAID Network Attached Storage – (ST4000VN008). These are what Amazon had as frequently purchased when getting the DS15222+. The set up allowed me to continue setting up the Pool and I set up a couple Volumes.

My question is are these drives OK? I did reach out to Synology via chat and they said I would not have been able to set up the Pool if they were not compatible. I trust you more!!

I am interested in your opinion. Should I return them? Any advice would be great! If I should replace them, I would appreciate your recommendation on what 4TB drives I should get.

Thanks again for the awesome videos on YouTube!

This would be my first NAS system. I’m looking for secure media and file storage for myself and my extended family who live all around the USA. We currently rely on iCloud for image and video sharing and remote access to files but want to have some thing that is not just accessible to people without iOS devices. Would also like something more secure and private. This would serve as a central device that stores files for several families so having room to expand is important. Have done some baseline research and I’m interested in Synology as as it seems to have good use ability and security. My question is whether or not I need to invest in one very robust machine that would allow for storage all on its own or for added security should I have two identical systems that are separated geographically. Not afraid to invest in something that would allow me to go a few years without the need to upgrade.

I am looking for a NAS Drive to use as a Plex server and Media archive storage for freelance videography projects.

Is it possible to have drives for separate use cases and not diminish the Plex server capability.

Any resources to digest or advice is much appreciated.

Thank You
Ahmed

Sorry, can't seem to find an answer online

Have synology ds920 with 4 8tb drives, using synologys format, but running very low space. Use 90% for plex.

Is it cheaper, & possible to invest in 1 16tb, & keep other 3 8tb drives. Or, invest in the dx517 expansion, & purchase another 8tb, with other empty, & eventually upgradable empty drives

1 16tb nas drive is much cheaper than the expansion unit, & another 8tb.

*16tb drives sell on ebay for same amount/cheaper than 8tb drives on amazon. Dispatched from China. Good deal, or likely defective, fraudulent copies?

Hi. I’m upgrading from ds220j to Ds220+ and I’m looking for advice regarding best options. I intend to migrate using hyper backup so I can change to btrfs. I’m also looking to upgrade memory from the outset (crucial branded). Can I install memory before first switch on or should I wailt until new NAS is initialised / raid built? Any thoughts on using hyper backup in this way? Currently only have about 600gb data to migrate. Thanks