Hi,

Hope all is well in your part of the world at the moment - we're in lockdown so the perfect time to sort a few issues out on the NAS.

I have the QNAP 451A, with 2 x 6TB in raid 1, and 2 x 2TB in a separate in raid 1.

6TB is used for media storage - movies TV etc. This is accessed throughout the house by a number of Kodi devices as well as any PC on our home network - very handy in the current situation with a house full of teenagers.

2TB is raid 1 as it has family photos, home movies and documents we want to have a level of protection over, hence raid1. Currently plenty of room on this setup.

From memory, I only put the media on raid 1 as I thought 6TB was huge! Should have thought back to when I used to think my 350 MB HDD was huge!

As it turns out - the 6TB is almost is almost full. I have been looking at your (very helpful) videos on how to upgrade drives etc, and buying two larger drives is certainly an option, although costly.

Finally - my question - I am thinking of reverting the 6TB to 2 x JBODs, essentially giving me 12TB, but no ability for redundancy/protection. Is it possible to achieve this without fully resetting the NAS, and starting from scratch?

Hopefully I'm using the correct terms?

Appreciate any advice, thanks in advance.

Scott
NZ

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Hi i really love your youtube videos really help me alot in choosing my first NAS DS1815+ and now DS1819+
I'm using the DS1819+ now with SHR2 Btrfs 4X2TB and 4X6TB i was thinking if i get the DX517 Expansion Unit can i slot in 2xSSD in raid 1 READ cache ?

Thanks

Dear Nascompares!

Please help me, because i'm lost.
I need a NAS to DLNA with fast transcoding for samsung smart tv. I can't choose between Synology DS718+ and Qnap TS-251d or 251+. At the moment i have TS-228.

Please help me to choose.

Thank you very much

Andras

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Based on your recommendations and lack of new releases from Synology, I believe the 918+ is the correct NAS for my application.

My question is should i install HDD plus SSD Cache or just install SSD hard drives as my storage media.

Hi,

I'm thinking to buy a NAS, but i don't the better quality/price relation.

I wnat a NAS to store files, to store photos and videos and see them on my Tv's, to store the video from my Surveillance Camera and see real-time.

What is the best NAS for this? And i don't want to spend a lot of money

Thank you,
Regards,
Alexandre Barreto

Hi! I am looking to buy 3 drives for RAID 5 setup. I am close to ironwolf series besides WD red NAS cause I've concerns about SMR WD drives. As far as I know Ironwolf series is CMR drives. I have an old PC and windows 2019 Server installed on. What HDD do you suggest for the setup?

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Thank YOu