Priorities in order:

1. Backup
2. Private Cloud (esp photos)
3. Ease of use for others than myself
4. Possibly some techie lab scenarios like test vm hypervisor environments.
5. Tech support from Manufacturer.

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Hi Rob,

First I would like to say that I find your videos and other online material well thought out and extremely useful. Without it I doubt I would have gotten into NAS storage at all. Thanks!

I ended up buying a DS1621xs+ (in no small part because of your review). I am extremely happy with it.

In these times of COVID I am working from home but I want to set up a solid remote (this will be at our lab/office – a few miles away) backup for the DS1621xs+.

After the initial backup on the local network I would move the backup machine to the office and schedule a backup once a day, late at night (over a VPN connection).

I will not be using that NAS for anything except the backup. Can you recommend a Synology NAS for that?

Thanks, all the best and stay healthy,

Hanan

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Beginner NAS drive WD Red or Seagate IronWolf ? CMR / SMR ? I am looking for reliability.

Main usage is to store photos and videos. Not too heavy usage.

Which NAS ?
I am thinking of Buying Qnap TS-251D-2G.

I like HDMI streaming without latency and PCIe for future wireless use. Also, access through cloud sounds nice. Software UI seems dated and bit complicated but I am a developer so comfortable with it.

Please can you tell me if the Crucial memory (CT2K4G4SFS824A 8 GB) is compatible with the TS-251D I can't find it on the Crucial web site

I intend ordering a QNAP TS-453D unit to replace an old QNAP TS212 model.
This for home use providing backup for one Imac,
two Windows pcs & a Linux desktop.
Also to act as storage & server for FLAC music files to a streamer. Also for photo storage with ability to display on a smart tv.
The choice of HDDs is wide & varied particularly around CMR & SMR types for NAS use.
If I go for 4 off 3TB discs, which models would you recommend & why?
Thanks,
John Warhurst

Hi, I'm looking for NAS advice. Both myself and my partner work from home. we have several email accounts and documents across both iCloud and Google drive. She stores all of her photos and videos on a local hard drive, currently about 150 GB, and I store all of mine on Google drive about 150gb. We are looking for a home nas solution where we each have a separate account also have a shared photos and videos account that we can both copy into and both read from - obviously I would like to remove any duplication. I think we would keep our existing cloud facilities as backups. We would like the the naz solution perhaps to have a backup. And we are looking for recommendations!

Hi There. I'm a huge fan of how easy Time Machine's backup feature works with our Time Capsule and would love to implement a similar (easy yet reliable) approach to backing up our QNAP data to BackBlaze's B2 cloud..... which we would then incorporate in furtherance of a 3-2-1 strategy for our Macbooks.

As of now our desire is to have the following from a 3-2-1 perspective:

3 Copies: We intend to keep copies of our data on our Macbooks, on the QNAP, and on the BackBlaze B2 cloud.
2 Backups: Macbooks will backup (using Time Machine rotate feature) to both to the QNAP and to our Time Capsule.
1 Off-Site: We will use BackBlaze B2.

The question is what is the best way to get the time machine backups and other data from the QNAP onto BackBlaze B2?

We have researched and considered replication, syncing, disk cacheing, snapshots, and traditional backups (including full, incremental, and differential). Despite this we remain unsure re: which approach (or approaches) would be best for us whilst maximizing data safety AND minimizing B2's costs. In case you're wondering, B2 has a simplified cost structure: $5/TB for storage; $10/TB for downloads; Uploads are free.

I have watched 25+ videos on the above topics and as an old school IT software guy, feel that I understand the differences. The problem is that I still don't know which approach or combination of approaches are best for us. Can you help?
Thanks...
- John

Really need help please, new to RAID, got a Qnap TS-653D on order which I will have 4x 10tb red plus from start, another 2 the same later when I have the money.
90% of this NAS will be for Plex, 2-3 users running 720 and/or 1080 same time. The NAS will be running SABnzbd and Sonarr/Radarr 24/7, and apart from that I will not touch it.
Been told raid 5, 6 or 10, most say 10 as faster, but no idea how faster and if the 5 or 6 is fast enough. Going down to 50% capacity total on raid 10 don’t bother me. I’m edging towards 10 as so many people have said don’t do raid 5 cause parity will take over a day to fix the broken drive and often makes others fail same time so I lose the lot. I will have around 4-5000 movies, several hundred tv series and a few hundred thousand songs. Please let me know what’s best, cloud back ups is a no cause of size needed, and external back up would cost too much and would need several, so any and all backups would be within the NAS,