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Hi,

sorry to message you but Ive been a laughing stock on the asustor forum.

i recently bought an Asustor AS6302t after reading the very good reviews from your website. (cheers very good youtube vids)

however I think ive been duped... (probably my own stupidity)

i wanted a nas with hdmi , due to my logic i thought if i connect the nas via hdmi to my LG smart tv i can watch movies stored on the nas via hdmi... so in my logic it wouldnt be streaming over local network.

mny setup is as follows.

emby server installed on nas

my movies copied to nas

emby library is pointing at my movies.

the asusstor portal is installed on nas and when connected via hdmi i can see protal on my LG tv

i installed emby on the portal.

i can connect to the nas but its obviously streaming over my internal LAN

sorry for long message...

youre probably laughing at this stage..

If my nas is connected to my tv via hdmi, shold the movie be piped down the hdmi NOT sctreaming over the network... or have i totally got my logic back to front!?

cheers

iain

Hi Mr Andrews,

We are currently using a Synology DS215+ (bought in 2015) with 2 pcs of HGST DESKSTAR NAS HDD , 3.5" 4TB 7200RPM 64MB 3
CACHE SATA HDD. The disk usage is currently at 30% on RAID 1. We are using an external HDD casing with another 4TB HGST DESKSTAR NAS HDD as backup. The NAS is getting a little slow for our liking.

The HDD are working fine and the DSM shows them as "Normal".

We are using the NAS to store documents and PDF/CAD drawings. No multimedia (FHD/4K/8K), VM, surveillance required at the moment.

Do you have any recommendations to upgrade this NAS?


BTW, we are a SME (small-medium enterprise).

PS: Resource monitor showing swap in/out data as 0 kb/s (in and out) , Total: 2Gb, Used: 109.6 MB, Utilization: 5%.

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I am looking for something with 4-9 bays total. I really want 4-6 of 3.5 drives with the ability to add ssd's(2.5 or M.2) for caching. I do not need to have 10GbE.

This will mainly be used as a multimedia NAS for video. I am looking for the ability to stream 4k(direct play with Kodi) and would like it to be able to transcode 4k(Plex) if it is needed. I currently have a Terramaster F4-220(Intel Celeron J1800 dual core with 2GB of DDR3) and it struggles to direct play 4k and it will not transcode it at all.

I would prefer DDR4 for memory(assuming it would add longevity to the device) but it is not a requirement if you do not think it is needed for a multimedia NAS.

From the little I have seen/demo’d I prefer QNAP OS over Synology but am open to either.

If you have any suggestions please let me know, I am new to NAS' and still learning. Thanks again.

Hi, I want to set up my own cloud storage for photos, music and video. I need the device to sync / backup various devices iPhone, Android phone, galaxy tablet, iPad, W10 laptops. I want to be able to map drives for simple drag and drop of files. I also want simple app and web access for when i am out over the internet. Video to TV either WiFi, HDMI. Finally the reason for 4+4 is that i want 4GB and I want to back it up in case of hardrive failure so im thinking two bay. I want my partner to have access over apps / internet, i also want to share folders with other for either collaboration or view only. I have looked at WD and Synology and struggling to asses if they will do what i want

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The statement was made in this article about the thermaltake wp200 case has the capacity for 60 drives. Please enlighten me...do you have any links on this? Or other information?

Thanks for the time
William

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