Hi mate, came across your YouTube channel, can see you are extremely passionate about this subject and would love your help.

I currently have TB after TB of hard drives everywhere and really only looking for a great DAS solution.

I have no need to access them when I am not at home, but the DAS enclosures out there seems to be very limited.

I am looking for an enclosure that does RAID 5 internally and can hold up to 8 bays,

I have seen the OWC thunderaby 8, which gets the write and read speeds I need. But the raid isn't internal.

Any help would be much appreciated. thanks

Hello,

First off, I love your videos and I will absolutely use your links to make my purchases.

My issue is this...

For reasons that are too complicated to go into, I am suddenly in a rush to purchase the N5 Pro and I'm a NAS novice. I'm overwhelmed by all the extra things I need to purchase to make things work. I was hoping you could make recommendations based on the planned usage, which is:

- Minimum 60TB usable storage.
- Maximum practical (not Raid 1 or 10) redundancy (Raid 6?). Files are valuable and irreplaceable.
- Used primarily for storage of client files, family photos and media collection. Ideally, also as a media server (emby/transcoding), proxmox (secondary storage pool? NVME SSD?), backup of surveillance footage (originally captured and stored on Ubiquiti router), and game server (Batocera).

So what specificly would you recommend I purchase for:

- RAM (which brand? what capacity considering use cases? ECC?)
- 5x 3.5" SATA HDDs (WD Red Pro? I'm scared how expensive this will be for desired capacity)
- Which configuration of SSDs (I know the N5 Pro has some options with the daughter board or an adapter or something), and which SSD NVME drives to purchase?

I have a moderately reasonable budget but want to keep things reasonable if possible.

I can't thank you enough for being so accessible for help. So appreciated.

I received my Kickstarter CF56 Pro today and am not totally surprised getting it set up would not be smooth.

Installed the cyberdata_windows_v2.1.21_25083.exe after a couple tries. The device will bind with the app client and it suggested downloading a newer update but after checking that I want to download it, it fails with an error: error downloading update package and a bunch of code jibberish after that and then claims upgrade package is downloading but there is nothing new in the downloads folder.

When you set your prototype unit up, did you run into this and if so, how did you get around it? I am unable to complete the install nor get my account set up so I cannot update the unit's firmware beyond what was installed at the factory.

Hi, love your channel, I spend way too much time on it :-). I am looking for a simple but effective NAS for music, a few films, and plenty of documents and photos. It should not get too hot and use as little electricity as possible. I loved your reviews on Zimaboard 2 and Beelink ME Mini and was wondering if you think these might be suitable and which you might recommend, or maybe you would recommend something else? I was also wondering which VPN router you might recommend (GL.iNet Slate 7, could this be used as a home router?) to use with your recommendation. Your time and help is greatly appreciated - I will be buying the coffee. Love the channel and presentation. Excellent. Thank you.

I’ve already bought 2x8TB IronWolf drives, I’m probably going to buy a third as I think I’m going to run ZFS probably TrueNAS or maybe HexOS.

I’m looking at NAS specific cpu+mobo options (RAM prices are killer).

I’m probably going to get the Fractal Define 7 XL for all the drive bays, though it is overkill I’m justifying it as future proofing lol tho maybe I’m better of properly future proofing by getting something rack mounted idk.

I’m wanting to run Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Arr stack, Home Assistant, Immich, Tailscale, maybe NextCloud. Nothing too crazy.

Bonjour,
Je possède un DS920+ 4x8to +SSD 2*250GO.
Mauvais calcul de départ de construction et estimation, plus de place je réfléchie sur l'ajout d'un DX517 et faire un deuxième volume, ma crainte est le risque de lenteur avec Plex et ma vidéothèque ou partir sur un NAS 6 Baies .

Cordialement à vous

Dear Nascompares Team,
I need your advice, requirements are: Home NAS 2 users (couples), using SSD-only. Daily use 08:00–00:00, using it for file storage, I only play 1080p movies on Plex, Windows map network drive, no ethernet cable, all via wifi.

Prior issue: bought DS923+ (12/2023) with buzzing/coil whine from rear at power-on, which happened after almost 2 years; replacement under warranty DS923+ was worse than the one I had, coil whining louder; returned and requested refund. Tests done: fan speed changes, different sockets/rooms, stopped fans, nodrive installed, noise persisted, confirmed coil whine.

Needs: low risk of coil whine, quiet operation, long-term DSM/security support, minimal setup friction (prefer QuickConnect). Please recommend a suitable NAS for my needs. Preferably, avoid the coil whine issue.
Thank you in advance
Kind regards,
Hamza

I have a Synology NAS 418plus and need a battery backup to prevent data loss because of power cuts. Do you have any recommendations?

Hello I need some advice for a system, the goal is to have a local home server with some storage to keep family fotos and videos, run some self hosted services.
I would like to run Immich (I want to replace my google photos), n8n for small automations, NocoDB (again just for small projects), maybe plex or similar , I was thinking on using proxmox or trueNAS as SO, the connection I don't need a super fast but 2 ethernet 2.5 or higher would be nice.

Not sure about what hardware I should buy... NAS or miniPC...
Also would be nice to have at least bay 4, to expand later, first I will start with 2 disks with raid 1, no need to be fast drives.
And last less power consumption is a plus.

I'm a programmer, In my work I also need to do some sysadmin stuff, using proxmox atm, so this project is also to learn more on this level.

Thank you very much,
Tobias Cintrão

I am looking for a case or better yet and older PC that has the power to run a OMV instance with up to 6 drives. Mostly for storage of backups and media files. I am very partial to Dell computers but I haven't found an older PC that can hold 6 drives. Any help is good help