Hello there, I'm Russ from Malaysia, and I'm a big fan of your YouTube channel! I'm new to the NAS and Server world, currently using an i5-6500 attached to a mining motherboard to hoard data. The specs aren't impressive, but they get TrueNAS up and running.

However, I plan to ditch that i5-6500 for a smaller footprint NAS. Here are my future thoughts:

I plan to build one myself.

I stream PLEX at 4K to my TV downstairs.

I hoard photos from the past 20 years.

I hoard other data as well.

My TrueNAS is near the attic, attached to a LAN router. It’s not the best setup, but computer parts are expensive since we live on an island. The internet is decent (300MBps).

My current setup:

Photo dump

i5-6500

ASUS BTC motherboard with 4 SATA ports and 4 SATA extenders

1x Kingston 128GB boot drive

1x 512GB drive

1x 60GB drive

The irony is my main data is hosted on my main PC running on Windows:

2x 1TB on Spaces

1x 2TB on normal

I'd love to hear your thoughts and recommendations on buil

I have an old DS1813+ with 8 drives that I need to upgrade. It is way too slow. It is running SHR with two drive fault tolerance. What would be my best option for a faster (better processor/more memory) that would be the least hassle to migrate to? I also don't want to spend an arm and a leg if I can avoid it.

Thanks

I am looking to set up a personal cloud system for my family and myself, I have a large amount of historical data from my work histry that i do not need to access every day, however I do need to access it infrequently for reference purposes or for templates. I am currently carrying around 2no. 1TB hard drives with this information.

Further to this both myself and my wife have a considerable amount of Photo's on our phones and tablets we would like to archive but have the ability to access when we need to.

Thank you
Barry

Hi thanks for highlighting the issues, and ways to check. You have documented the vanilla commands, but you showed a Synology specific check, with much longer commands, that are undocumented. Could you share, please? There was also a commented raised on that video:

"14:50 that's not aggregation, grep is mostly a text search and here it filters the output of smartctl to the lines like Power_On_Hours, which is just plain SMART data.
since the SMART data has been reset on affected drives, doesn't that make this command useless for figuring out if you got scammed?"

You said you would investigate - did you get a chance.

Thanks, again

John

I'm looking for a NAS solution to replace Google photos and amazon photos.

This is just for photo storage backup, with the ability to check the photos on my phone.

I used OpenMediaVault in past on Raspberry Pi 4b with 4TB SSD drive but it’s not ideal to use with MAC. I want to use something like Synology NAS but it’s always seem to be out of my budget.

I would appreciate, if you give me your expert opinion on it.

Thank you.

1-I need to Upgrade my storage from 3 to 4 tb HD drives, so is a change to Sata Ssd going to improve performance ?

I have already used a 2.5g ethernet card in the Pci slot and my whole house network is 2.5 gb switches with 10gb backbone between an the 251B is used solely to serve HD music using MinimServer. No other apps  are used.

Advice would be very welcome...WTomP

it really sucks you are making all these videos for members only and sayig screw it to the regular people. and to have crappy videos for non members. i think me and my family will unsubscribe now. thanks for the years of good videos with sound advice.

I am considering a Synology DS1522+ as my very first NAS and am looking for a simple/idiot's guide book to setting up a NAS before I make the purchase. Is there such a book anywhere?

I've looked at the NASCompares videos which explain HOW to setup but need to know pros and cons before making decisions e.g. deciding how to divide storage space, any pitfalls using iSCSI, can sizes of LUNs and iSCSI be changed without deleting the data etc.
Thanks

Mick

NAS for Backup

Need to backup Synology 1621xs+ to second nas,

1621xs+ running with 4 16TB hdd. May add 2 more hdd some point in the future but not soon.

Currenlty have 20TB data with 26TB free.

Prefer backup nas to be synology probably a plus (+) model . Debating if I need 4 bay or 5 bay. Looking at DS423+, 923+, 1522+, or 1621+.

I have 4 Western Digial Red HDDs i could put in them. 1-!4TB, 2-8TB, and 1-6TB i can use in the backup nas.

All my computers are Macs.