Is it possible to stop the disk from optimizing?

I currently have 4 drives x 4 TB that are SMR and I used to have RAID6 on them, I formatted them to have SHR-2 on them, but the process is taking way too long.

I want to stop the process and get rid of the SMR drives and replace them with CMR drives, but I need to get the data out of those drives (they are accessible but incredibly slow, so I just want to stop the optimizing disk for few hours to copy the data out and then throw the drives away)

So I was wondering if its possible to stop optimizing the disk while still keeping data on them?

I have an old QNAP that I use as a Plex Server. However, it doesn't handle 1080 files very well. I'm planning on purchasing a new NAS and was wondering if I can connect the old NAS for file storage. Can I pull media from the old NAS to the new NAS on the fly and use the power of the new NAS to watch Plex movies in 1080/4K? Or, do the video files have to be on the new NAS?

Good evening,

First, thank you for the time and effort to explain the different brands, highlighting Pros and Cons of the different manufacturer's.

I want to buy my first NAS. In basic to provide storage for iPhone backup, other hdd’s with backup on them, redundancy in backup (at least one drive failover). IT knowledge is mediocre. I am considering a Synology NAS, 4 bay; like the DS920+
My question is the following: if I now make a setup of 3 times 10 TB for day to day use and backup and leave one bay open for a feature surveillance drive, is that something that is to be advised? Or should I populate all 4 bays due to backup and expand the nas in the nearby feature and make the expansion a dedicated surveillance setup?

Would love to hear your advice. Any more tips that I should take into consideration?

Best Regards,

Mark

Hi there you awsome nascompares,


I am looking for some advise about type of NAS I am looking for:
the situation:

my father in law is a video and photo enthusiast. he has several external hdd's laying arroud in a total of about 6 TB.

he creates allot of videos with his drones and camera's and mixes those videos together and stores them. He also likes to it to use it like an video/photo player on lcd in living room.

requirements:

- expandiblity I guess
- 400-650 diskless.
- 6TB no but growing
- so expandabillity.
- easy os to learn.
- HDMI for 4K (nice to have for video playing directly to tv).

my idea was get an 2-4 bay nas with with m2 ssd slot for caching. polulate it with 1 or 2 slots left for expandabillity. so slam an 8 TB in raid 1 a 3 or 4 bay.

myself I have the qnap 332x. I have some experience on linux, but do not want to be his helpdesk for daily use. therefore I want a solid easy os, and support from a vendor instead of a community.

my first bet was synoligy because of their reputation of the OS. but they all lack HDMI.


my first tought was the following:
synology 920+ (but expendabillity is expensive and no HDMI).
qnap ts-364 (4k 30Hz and a bit noisy for the living room).

qnap ts-464 (checks all the boxes, but is not released in europe)

did I overlook someting?

and which drives to take?

youyrs thankfully,
Robert Lemke

Hi, I like the look of Nord VPN's Meshnet service but I can't see any online tutorials for running Nord VPN on a qnap NAS. I use the QVPN app to connect to a Nord VPN server account for downloads but meshnet seems to be an feature within the Nord VPN app. In order to get that running on a QNAP could I just try the 'Install Nord VPN on Linux' route or is that likelyto screw up my NAS ?

Thanks

Keep up the good work.
Hope the donations campaign is going well.

Hello,

Firstly, thankyou so much for all of your youtube video content, you are really leading the way in this field.

I am looking to build a NAS system for multile video editors (2-4) to use symultaneously to edit 4k footage in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.

I have created a spec based on the information your videos suggest.

£2,206.29 QNAP 1288x (need 1 of these)
https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/41151-qnap-tvs-h1288x-w1250-16g/

£386.13 18tb Seagate Ironwolf Pro NAS Hard Drive (need 4-8 of these). Used for storage
https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/40264-seagate-st18000ne000/

£102.20 QNAP QXP-T32P Thunderbolt Expansion (need 2 of these)
https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/42448-qnap-qxp-t32p/

£75.17 Thunderbolt 3 cable 2m (need 4 of these)
https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/34349-qnap-cab-tbt320m-40g-lintes/

£831.09 WD 2TB SSD (x4). Used for editing on
https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/38935-wd-wds200t1r0a-4ssd/

£99.74 WD 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD (need 2 of these). Used for cache.
https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/43690-wd-wds100t1r0c/

My idea is to use the Iron Wolf drives for storage, the SSD for editing current projects on, and the M.2 NVME SSD for cache. All in RAID 6.

By adding 2 of the TB3 expansion cards this gives me 4 TB3 ports on the back of the unit. I then plan to have 4 IMac computers plugged directly into those TB3 ports.

2 questions:

Would this give me the best read and write speeds (and ultimately smoothness in editing for all users)?

Would i get better performance by buying a 10gb switch and a 10GB ethernet to TB3 adapter for each machine? Or would this effectively be the same thing using TB3 cables directly into the expansion cards?

Thanks in advance.

Ash

Does anyone know the email address for Trung Tan, the CEO of QNAP.
Following major issues with QTS 5 latest update I would like to advise him of the ongoing issues with QNAP support and updates and see if he can address some of the problems.

Hi there!

Thanks for your last answer regarding SSD-Caching.
I have my Qnap TS-673A up and running now. I upraded it with 2 PCIe cards: QXG-10G2TB and QXP-W6-AX200.

The 10 GBe Card goes directly into my workstation and i works very well with my PC having a static adress on the installed 10GBe card. Speeds are fine and filetransfer works.

Until i switch on the Wifi6 card in the Qnap. Suddenly the transfer speeds drop from 300 MB/s to 24 MB/s. It took me a moment till i realised what the problem was.
The Qnap takes the Wifi connection as a default connection and routes my filetransfers over my router back to the Qnap.

I did some hard searching on the net, but like its often times the problem, im missing the right search terminologies.

How do i have to setup the Qnap so the Wifi connection can be used for firmwareupdates, etc. and remote access, but everything that i sent or read (for example editing from an NLE) from the Qnap over my 10GBe connection on my workstation gets sent over the 10 GBe connection of the Qnap?

Help would be much appreciated! All the best Juri

Hi,

I looking at building a NAS system for home and use as a software engineer. I am thinking of the DS1522 with 5x4TB Iron Wolf Drives or 3x8TB

Reasoning:
1. Current data requirement for home use is relatively small about 4TB. The business use which is the driver for this is unknown but looks to start at 2-Tb. With SMR I will have 10TB for expansion over the next few years.
2. The business use is I have some large datasets to do analysis on. My idea is to leverage using docker to run analysis tools in the background on the NAS.
3.In post pandemic world being able to access data remotely is key. Cloud or NAS are my two options. Looking at NAS as an option, would need to be two-factor auth on encrypted drives to protect GDPR sensitive data.
4.at most 2 two people would be accessing the NAS at concurrently, so 1GB/s ethernet is fine.
5.Would the AMD 1500 CPU with say 16GB. Processing data would would be quite heavy assume 50% of the NAS resources but would need to be continuous. I could easily leave 4GB for NAS use.
6.I am Mac user I don't want to become a NAS expert so the easier to maintain the system the better. Using docker containers being the only task I would want learn in great detail.

From the looks of it all this is doable. Is the DS1522 a good choice. I think any 4/5 bay would be fine as long as it had reasonable memory, the more powerful the CPU the better could even leverage a GPU if it supported CUDA.

Good day,
I am a photographer that works by myself. No staff.
My setup current setup is:

MacBook Pro 2019 16" last of the intel chips, 32 GB Ram

G-Tech EV 2 bay JBOD 1 TB each bay.

First drive is for photos for the current year

second drive is for backing up OS and is swapped monthly of location

Newer technology toaster voyager S3
Drive is the backup of ingested photos to the above G-Tech drive. Also, I swap it out to access past year's photo drives.

CalDigit 3
I can connect the G-Tech (1st gen TB), toaster, speakers, and external monitor (NEC PA272W 2560x1440. Yes, it is old as the hills) to my laptop.

This is my first adventure dipping my toe into a NAS/DAS system.

I am looking to upgrade my current CalDigit TS 3 Plus to the new CalDigit 4 and replace my G-Tech two bay with a new NAS/DAS 4 bay box that can be a minimum of 8-10GB for now. (room to grow) Caldigit TS 3 and G-Tech will become a secondary workstation more than likely.

My idea is to set it up by running RAID 1 or SHR with two to three drives, one as a rotating backup or one drive backup to OS using Superduper.

Hoping the CalDigit 4 with the new 2.5Gbe connection will play nice with the NAS/DAS box.

I'm not looking to connect to the outside world for now, maybe later. I'm lucky to have 20MB where I live in Ecuador. We are way behind the times. FYI.
By moving up to a NAS/DAS am looking to have easier access to a more extensive portion of my past work in Capture One's catalog. I do not need to access my images from outside my office for the time being.

My take from your YouTube channel, it sounds like Synology DS418 or DS420+ may be my best choice for expandability and software.

Cheers~
Kevin