Robbie, being "newish" to the NAS world, I have immersed myself in your videos. I'm learning but have long way to go before I feel confidence in what I am doing. My business and serious hobby involves video production/editing and digital photo processing in a home office environment. I've been using a couple of DAS units (G-Tech 9 TB G-Drive and a 4TB solid state drive) through the Thunderbolt 3 ports on one of my HP Z-Book workstations, but I'm running out of room. That has led me to explore the world of NAS. I'm looking to build a storage system that will last me for some time (I hitting max on my DAS in about two years). I made some purchases before I found your videos on purchase advice. I have not yet installed anything and need help on whether I should make any changes/exchanges before I do.

I have already purchased a QNAP TS-932PX and have purchased five Seagate Exos X18 16TB HDD to put in the upper bays and two WD Red SA500 to handle caching (trying for 10GbE network with a good amount of storage for the future). One of my main objectives is to be able to edit video (probably 4K now that I would have space) from my NAS from two workstations (both HP Z-Book workstations with Thunderbolt 3 ports). My photo library is over 100K photos (yes, it needs culling!) Other uses are a 30K record database that is extremely important in my business. I would like to be able to stream finished videos to a projection screen A/V system on another floor of my home and have the ability to easily stream to clients outside my home office.

I'm thinking I could have chosen a more appropriate NAS box. One this box does not have Thunderbolt ports (I thought it did) and runs on an Annapurna Labs AL324 quad-core 1.7 GHz CPU. Your comments in your review of this unit made me think this box is more for file storage than online video editing. I want video editing speed and ample storage in a collaborative video editing environment. With these five 18TB hard drives and two 500 GB SSD's would there be a better choice - the TS-h973AX perhaps? How much and what type of memory would you recommend? Would you recommend an NAS that has Thunderbolt ports for direct input from the workstations or do I just take care of that through the network? What's the best way to connect my two workstations to the network? They each have two Thunderbolt 3 ports, one HDMI port, two USB 3.0 ports, but NO RJ-45 ethernet port. How do I connect these workstations to the switch for max throughput?

I would appreciate your recommendations for a switch. The NAS and two workstations would be good for 10GbE connectivity. However, the rest of the network doesn't need that speed (printers, video projector, smart TVs, wife's computer that needs access to photos, iPad, 2 Samsung phones, etc.)

Finally, my internet modem & router are on a completely different floor from the home office. Right now I connect wirelessly, but I'm at the end of my range. How can I improve my wireless or should I go to the effort to install a cable back to the cable router? Or would it benefit me to run the internet cable-in down to my office (a lot of work!). Right now my internet connection is through RJ6 and not fiber optic. Someday fiber will come into our neighborhood, but I'm not holding my breath on that.

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Which graphic card do I need for a QNAP TS-h886
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I am setting up a QNAP TS-230 with 2 4TB drives configured RAID 1. It's been smooth so far (largely thanks to the NAS Compares videos) but I've gotten to the Volume set up part and need some info. I have both Mac and PC devices that I plan to use. Mac specifically to do a time machine backup and PC for backup and general storage. I tried researching what, if anything, I need to do especially to make the NAS work with both those but the info I've been able to find has just confused me.

Best, Ed

I'm getting a healthy dose of buyer's remorse from my recent purchase of a QNAP TS-230. I bought it for home use because it seemed easy to setup, I wanted to access some data from outside my home (this was an important feature), it was the right price, and a lot of sites recommended it as a good entry level NAS. However, while researching a particular configuration item, I am finding a LOT of comments and explanations about how atrocious the QNAP security is and that the only true way to protect data on this device is simply to not connect it to the internet at all (which defeats said important use case I had).
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- Is QNAP security, in fact, seriously flawed such that there is no QNAP configurable way to secure it while still making it internet accessible? (Without creating and managing your own IT infrastructure with in your own firewalls, vpns, etc.)<br>
- What other home-NAS solution could anyone recommend I look into to get a truly securable NAS that I would be able to access from outside my home?<br>
- Is there something that I'm not seeing or considering here that would make me *not* pack this thing up and send it back straightaway?<br>
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I appreciated any opinions, pointers, or assistance.
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Best
EM

As stated above, I am considering a Synology SHA dual RS1221 setup.
My question is - is it an absolute must or just how important is it to use only synology drives (and memory)
can i use Seagate drives and Kingston memory?
The $$/GB difference is very substantial.
any advice and/or input would be appreciated
I really like the system but the drives (and accessories) makes the price substantially more - could be a deal breaker for me
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I have a new Synology ds220+ and have loaded Plex Media Server. I've left the default settings in place and uploaded some mp4 movies. I have a fairly recent LG B9 TV where I've installed the Plex client app (again default settings).
Whilst playback works immediately I'm not convinced the performance is optimum. There seems to be an audio sync issue and occasionally small degradation of the image (although this isn't too significant.).
Im new to this and have no prior knowledge of what performance to expect but assumed that as everything is current standard that it might be better than this.
I'm using WiFi to communicate between nas and TV but this is operating at speeds of approximately 150mbps.
Could anyone advise on whether this is 'normal' or have I made a newbie error?
Thanks

Why is it that if I check the "Secure sign-in" option for my QNAP TS-453mini NAS I get a Windows warning that the site is unsafe and if I over-ride the warning to log on, the address bar shows a "Not Secure" warning. The warning says that the security certificate points to myqnapcloud.com.
How do I correct this?
Thanks, Geoff

Do you know if it is possible to move a Digital Ocean droplet out of the cloud and onto a Synology DS918+ NAS?

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