I will soon be purchasing my first NAS and NASCompares & the YouTube videos have been invaluable. I'm not TOO technically minded, but I do use an Ubuntu Desktop as my primary computer and am an Android phone user. Though I was originally considering Synology, I now (thanks in large part to NASCompares) feel that QNAP is a better fit for me. I will have 4x12TB Seagate NAS drives and was planning on either the TS-453D (with 8GB) or the DS920+. I will primarily be using it for Plex and also storing massive amounts of photos & archive videos. I would very much like to use CrashPlan for small Business which seems to generally work on both. The comments under this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dZaTRKfETg seem to indicate that it may no longer be a working solution for CrashPlan on QNAP, but this video indicates that CrashPlan will work on Synology using Docker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8OMN08VQ6A -- will that same Docker solution also work on QNAP via Container Station?

Western Digital has regular red, red plus, and red pro hard drives. As a regular home consumer, I bought some WD RED PRO's at a really great price during Prime day and I notice it's a 7200. I couldn't find it on Synology's compatibility list for the ds1621+ or ds1821+. Three questions as I am totally new to this:
1. Could they still work and be used with those Synology NASs?
2. Is 5400 better than 7200 in HDDs?
3. If you were me, buying a NAS for the first time, what would you recommend?

Hello. I am fairly new to NAS drives but being doing a fair bit of research so far. I was homing in on a Synology or Qnap then had a thought to build my own but then you don't get the benefit of Synology or Qnap software - what can you use instead to have all the various Apps you can get on a pre brought NAS like CCTV apps etc. Cost though is important. I would like to start out with a 2 bay. 2-4gb RAM and install some seagate hard drives 3TB each for starters. I will be using it home to back up files, docs, pictures etc and operate my 3/4 camera cctv system on it rather than use a NVR and avoid having to run the cctv cams through a home pc, which I would have to keep on 24/7. The NAS (whichever brand or self build) would be hidden in the loft connected to power, home network via ethernet. The cctv cams (Ankke or Hikvision turrets). No need for NAS to access loads of movies at this stage, although at some point would like to consider plex etc. Any recommendations please on which NAS?

I´m looking for a Synology NAD with two bays capable to transcode HD video as a Plex server. I saw mixed reviews on the DS220j and DS220+ series. Any advice is appreciated.

I will be looking for a new Synology rack mount NAS in the first quarter of 2021. I have a a DS3615xs offering ~87TB available storage (10 x 12TB drives RAID 6). About 50TB is in use. That machine runs a Plex server offering movies, TV, music and audiobooks. It also runs Cloud Sync to copy data to Google Drive, Hyper Backup to backup to a DS1010+ every six hours via Rsync, Cloud Station, and Synology Chat. The DS3615xs has a number of CIFS shares on it as well as an NFS datastore for vSphere. It's connected via 10G Ethernet.

I want to replace that unit with something higher-performing, newer, and rack mountable, since all my servers and most other devices are now in a rack. The DS3615xs would sit on top of the rack and serve as a backup target or node in a two-node Synology cluster, if possible.

I am looking for 10G connectivity, M.2 NVMe caching and good performance with NFS and iSCSI as shared storage for a vSphere cluster.

Can you assist with a recommendation? Thank you.

Synology Web site does not show DS920+ as capable of 4K transcoding yet it's showing the DS918+ is shown cabable 4K transcoding. Thought the DS920+ is more up to date than the DS918+ so am a little confussed. Is this true ? If it is true what should what I go for instead ?

I recently purchased a QNAP 453D for a great price. I have installer 4x4TB. I also bought a QM2-2S-220A to hold a pair of M.2 SATA SSD Expansion Cards. I have a series of questions ... thanks in advance for your responses.

NAS Purpose:
-File server for home businesses - nothing special.
-Plex for watching a various movies on home tv ( 1 4K TV) most movies are 1080P
-Photo organization (likely QuMagie App - but I have not played with it yet ) (200 K photos)
-Backup for various devices.
-VMs but not for the foreseeable future.
-Surveillance down the road.

How to configure SSD
Should I run them the 2 SSDs as 2 RAID 0?
In using Cache why would I ever configure RAID 1?
How much cache? How much for storage/Apps?
What Apps should I install on the Application Volume if any? for QuMagie? Plex?
I plan on buying 2 x 500GB. Should I consider going to 1 TB? what questions should I be asking myself?

Thanks for your help, I look forward to adding value to site.

I have 2 WD RED PRO 6Tb and a QNAP TS-253D. Are the drives compatible with SED encryption? I'm asking the question because they don't have PSID number. I'm affraid not to be abble to restore them in case I forget the password. I don't care to lost the data.I want to be sure to be abble to factory restore them.
Thank you

Hello

I currently have a DS414 that I want to replace. I hesitate between the DS 920+ and the TS-453D, I want to keep my disks (4X WD Red 4TB WD40EFRX).

The Qnap seems better equipped:

- 2.5 Gbps vs 1 Gbps network

- 1 pci-express port vs 0

- Max ram 32 GB vs 20 GB

For the Os I know DSM well and like it (simple and stable). QTS looks better provided in settings which I like but is it also stable?

The 2.5 Gbps network interests me even if it requires some modifications (compatible switch and router) and makes me prefer QNAP.
I wonder if my hard drives allow me to take advantage of this speed?

What do you think ?

thank you in advance

I am Having a little difficulty choosing a NAS. My use cases are for For backups, Business file services, surveillance, downloading hard copy movies to NAS for plex, and scanning personal pictures and photographs. I live in Canada Ontario if that helps you with your search. The file services portion is the most important however we still want a NAS that can consistently do the other things. our budget like listed above is $800 CAD to $1400 CAD $1500 CAD being ABSOLOUTE max. this price is not including the price of the drives as we will slowly build up the # of drives. I really hope you can help just like your videos helped me choose out our first NAS. BTW we need anywhere from 6-8 drive bays
Thanks,

Konrad