Dear Team,

my name is volker Bosch, i live in Germany and i have been following your youtube channel for a long time. Now I have some questions. I am a photographer with a current inventory of 60,000 photos and occasional jobs for video editing in 4K. I work with Apple IMac 2015 with Thunderbold 2. In the next few months I will get a current IMac. So far I have worked with the QNap TS-451A. The data transfer is very slow and the machine is clearly too loud when it is on the desk. Four Seagate Ironwolf 6TB hard drives are installed in the Qnap.
Now my questions:
1.) Would you work with a customer from Germany?
2.) Is it possible to retrofit this NAS with a Thunderbold card?
3.) Can I convert the hard disks with my data into a current QNap device without losing the data?
4.) What is your recommendation?

I look forward to your reply

Volker Bosch

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Hi, I have a DS415+ running 4 x 4TB, 7200rpm Ironwolf drives. It is used for office document storage (1x Mac, 1x MacBook), family photo and video media, iTunes, Scrivener, DevonThink and ProPresenter storage. I was running the NAS on SHR but continually seemed to run out of space. Forward-fast: I copied everything off the 415+ to external drives (total amount of ‘stuff’ just under 5tb). My old Mac (I’m awaiting desperately the M1 chip in new iMac) has a 1TB internal HDD. My iTunes (1.8TB) is on an external 5TB Seagate, my photos and videos (around 2TB) are on another Seagate external 5TB. Time Machine runs to an external LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt 5TB but is currently being swapped to a Seagate external 6TB. The LaCie will then become my new LightRoom photo library. All a mess really. So to my question:

I reset the NAS to RAID10 giving me 8TB of storage across two drives mirrored to the two other drives. Is it wise to have a second twin-disk 8TB NAS to serve as a backup to the DS415+? I’m stubbornly attached to Synology and Seagate so what would you recommend. I don’t want to pay for a cloud solution so other than an external drive attached to the 415+ by USB, what are my options?

Great site and superb instructional videos, thanks.

Revd. Stephen Hancock
Limerick
Ireland

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I want to make sure I don't overspend or underspend. I'm looking for a NAS to do the following:
1. A place for local file backups for my current backup software (Arq) for two computers
2. A place to store files that don't fit on my computer such as photos and music
3. The ability to access those files remotely on my Mac. (I have a VPN set up on my router, so I'm fine using the VPN if that is the solution.)

Nice to have would be the following:
1. The ability to display the photos on my TV
2. The ability to hook up a camera

I don't think I need more than two bays at this point. I'm looking at the following models:
1. DS220j
2. DS218play
3. DS218
4. DS220+

Is the DS220j too underpowered? Is the DS220+ too overpowered? Thanks!

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Hello. I have done some research on NAS systems and I am looking to get my first NAS soon. Here are my main needs: store and access pics, videos, and files from anywhere I am, store and stream large 4K media files (movies and TV shows) at home and away from home and on multiple devices simultaneously, store backups of iPhones and Macbooks.

I have been leaning to get the QNAP TVS-672XT. I like the speeds it offers with thunderbolt connectivity and the i3 processor will allow for 4k transcoding when using plex server (right?). Along with this bay, I am planning to get 5 &quot;Seagate IronWolf 10TB NAS Hard Drive 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s CMR 3.5&quot; Internal HDD for RAID Network Attached Storage ST10000VN0008 - OEM&quot; drives to put in the bay.

Will this setup meet my needs listed above? Especially the ability to stream in 4K away from home. I plan to share access to this NAS to my family that lives in other states across the US and I want the streaming to be able to run simultaneously in 4K for multiple people.

Let me know if this will work or if I should look at other options and if so, then what?

Thank you for the help!

Hey NAScompares,

I've found your website really helpful, but my use case seems to fall in a niche gap.

Most of the advice for editing 4k video is aimed at home studios with a few people editing simultaneously, or bigger production studios / enterprise with many users.

I'd like a 4 or 6 bay NAS that I can edit directly from without totally breaking the bank.

The storage will be shared between my desktop and my partner's Macbook pro, but we'll never be working simultaneously on this stuff.

I use DaVinci Resolve, handling Fujifilm X-T3 .MOV files, 200Mbps, 4:2:0, h265 files.

Right now I edit directly from an internal HDD which scores about 180Mbps read and write on a good day, and that performs really nicely for me.

The NAS will hopefully also be able to run a containerised docker instance of a postgreSQL database, which Resolve uses for project databases.

I will connect my PC via a USB 3 dongle for now (either 2.5Gbe or 5Gbe) as it's an ITX board and no room for a 10Gbe adapter. My wife's Macbook has TB3 ports.

I was looking at the QNAP TS-453BT3 which seems like a great solution, has the convenience of that TB3 port and 10Gbe, but that runs for $1800+ AUD here. It would save me some money on dongles and switches. Meanwhile, a unit like the AS4004T is about $550 AUD.

This is just a hobby, so I don't really want to spend $3k on a NAS set up if I can avoid it!'

If there's no cheap way to do that, I'd love a 4 Bay NAS that I could quickly copy the files to my local machine as needed while I make a coffee or something - I suspect this is a much cheaper solution. That said, it'd also be great if that ran the database as described above.

Thanks for any advice.

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Hi, love your site and youtube channel , fantastic detailed information, and had been quite helpful. Based on your recommendations, I bought a Synology DS720+ with SSD M2 Cache and 6TB worth of drives. It runs great, and looking forward to installed DSM 7.0 when its out of beta.

That being said, I would love to have a rack mount NAS, to simplify things, I love the look and size of the Synology DS217, but not the horsepower, and middling performance. Are you aware that there will be a performance version coming in the near future ?

Thanks

Louis