Hello Rob,

Firstly lel me thank and congrat you. I cannot tell how useful I am finding all your blogs and videos.

I have recently started on this NAS great world and decided to move forward with my first one.

Basically I would be using it for back-up, (PLEX) Media Server & download manager but I do not discard extend my views and leverage all the possibilities I might have within this price range NAS.

Upon doing some research I would like to go for a TS-453B (I found it at 605€). Originally I was thinking about a TS-453Be but I found the TS-453B at same price :-O.

My main concern comes with the PLEX media server topic. I got a quite new LG OLED C9 TV as the main (if not only) device to watch my media so from my understanding I should not be really worried about trasncoding since the TV supports a huge variety of formats.

I am quite picky with the image quality so I would like to keep on watching my media in 4k UHD (ideally 10bits H265 & H264). Not to mention the audio, which I would love to keep on enjoying in Dolby ATMOS.

Looks like not a big deal since, as mentioned above, the TV should support all of that via PLEX client app (over a 1Gbps network) and enabling Direct Play/Stream. However, something just stoppped me from buying the TS-453B... subtitles. I watch my movies in English with Spanish subtitles and I would like to keep it as such. I read that Plex needs to transcode so to insert the subtitles, so at this point I am just worried that the transcode feature of the TS-453B would be a pain when tryint to reach those image formats natively supported by my TV.

So, basically:
1. Shoudl I wait for a TS-453D (whenever it comes and expecting that the price range will be similar)?
2. Am I making an issue on something that can be easily solved? (I read Plex Pass supports subtitles download)
3. Which HDD would you recommend? I got an eye on quite basic ones (3TB ST3000VN007 Seagate IronWolf / 3TB WD30EFRX WD RED) but not sure if I should go for higher rank ones with more than 64MB cache

Thanks in advance!

1. When planning for a local, automatic NAS-to-NAS backup configuration for a Plex-capable system, does mixing NAS brands (Synology and QNAP) impose any limitations or problems, regardless of which brand is the backup?

2. If the NAS backup is later relocated to an off-site location, does this change the siutation? ...and is it easy to do this?

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Hi Rob ,

I am a fan of you in your youtube review. I actually bought the QNAP TS-453A partly on your review.


Right now I have a TS-453A with 8 GB and certainly cannot cope with what I like to do.



1. Can this unit accept standard RAM (say Crucial) so that I can upgrade it 32 GB. Can the existing 2 x 4GB be used with 2 x 16 GB RAM?

2. I intend to use the server for container technology. Will this be able to work with this use-case with 40 GB ram. The container will act as say a git server, plex server, linux server.

3. Can the container have 64-bit machine, that is the cpu must be 64-bit registers?

4. Have tried using the integrated Radeon for calculations?

5. I you have not, do you think it will work for the above use-case ?

6. Is this unit fast enough to stream 4k video files. The TS-453A I have cannot do the job.

As I am about to pull the trigger on this a speedy answer will be much appreciated!!


Cheers, Ric

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I want to update RAM on my new Ts-251D

2 Questions
1) Can I only upgrade upto 16GB?
2) if yes, do I need to get 8 X 2 like https://www.newegg.ca/crucial-16gb-260-pin-ddr4-so-dimm/p/0ZK-0070-00010?Item=9SIAFETB754461

OR can I buy 1 X 16GB

https://www.newegg.ca/crucial-16gb-260-pin-ddr4-so-dimm/p/0RN-0005-000Z4?Description=CT16G4SFD824A&cm_re=CT16G4SFD824A-_-0RN-0005-000Z4-_-Product

Can I upgrade or 32GB? as they have that option too?

Hi

I am looking for a professional advise please

I already have 2 laptops at home, yet none have enough HDD space of course to back up my data, specially movies, so now what i am looking for is long-term solution for my data storage where i dont have to worry about losing data after some time, and strong transcoding for 4k movies to show on my tv.

I have been considering many options, and find that NAS is better solution, however, i am annoyed with the fact that NAS considered a laptop as well and i already have 2 laptops

do you recommend having buying NAS device? or you can suggest different solution?
And if NAS. which one is the best for streaming 4K movies on my TV, preferably 2 bay one.

Many thanks in advance for your help.

cheers,
Karim