Hello,
I am an aspiring music video producer (producing 4K-6K multi camera shoots) and am a subsciber to your truly informative YouTube Channel..

After some deep research have purchased a QNAP TVS-872xt and am considering the following HDD drives.

8x HDD - Seagate EXOS 14TB X14 drives (ST14000NM0018)
2x-SSD - Samsung EVO Plus 1TB NVMe Drives (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM)

I would be grateful if you advice me on if these drives would seamlessly work on the QNAP TVS-872xt.

Any suggested improvements to the above choices?. The QNAP Compatibility list seems to have an advisory note on the screw ports of the x16 Seagate Enterprise drives.

Many Thanks for your help in advance!!

Best....

Prasanna

Thank you for all of the information you continue to share. I currently have a QNAP TS-453Be that I intended to install in a new home construction but I've decided to keep it and get a rack mounted NAS for the new place instead. I will be using the new NAS mainly to run Plex, Home Assistant, and QVRPro with 11 POE cameras (powered by a separate Unifi switch). I'd like 10GBE, and the Unifi switch has SPF+ ports. I was planning on getting a four bay enclosure, mainly to save rackspace, but depending on your recommendation, I'd be open to going to eight bays. I would normally do a RAID 5, but is there an alternative approach you would recommend (separate drive groups for NVR, etc.)? Lots of questions here, but I'm happy to receive whatever info you can share. Cheers!

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I am setting up a TVS872XT NAS, and I am stuck- should I do a static volume or thick volume?

I am using it for my photography archive, currently at 42 TB, and is growing fast. I have 6 16tb EXOS drives installed, and will do a RAID 6 configuration.

Do I need snapshots? Or should I just make one static volume on the RAID? I know I will get better performance from the static volume, but do I sacrifice flexibility?

Thank you, Ive been trying to figure this out for hours.

Hi,

First of all I'd like to thank you for your videos and site. I found them on a random google search and they've been incredibly helpful, especially as someone who is quite hardware illiterate.

I'm interested in getting a NAS but have had a bit of hesitation due to its relatively high cost plus my complete stupidity in the area. My use for the NAS is a wireless media server in my apartment, where I can access my movies and shows in any room on any device, as well as work related videos (and possibly PDFs?). My files are largely 1080p x265 or 264 and have almost no 4K files since I couldn't even take advantage of 4K until recently. One of my big problems is that my library is quite massive. I'd say it's around 10 TB right now, and that doesn't include any work or lecture related files as well as my data hoarding ways having to be tempered due to space limitations.

I'm a bit unsure on what to get. Does it make more sense to get a 2-Bay due to the initial cost being lower and the ability to get more space? Or a 4-Bay since, y'know, 4 bays and all but the initial cost making the realistic drive choices much smaller? Am I also right in assuming that since my files are largely 1080p and it's just myself or at most one other person in an extreme rare case accessing the files, I don't need to worry too much about whether or not the CPU is good enough when thinking about solutions?

Thank you!

I want to install Roon on ssd connected to a nas sinologies Ds 220+, how can I do it?

Thanx for your advices.

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I seem to be having some issues down the UPS rabbit hole. Having looked over my options for a NAS (I'm thinking Synology DS920+ and x4 4TB drives at this point - thanks for all your videos on helping me ponder that one!) I seem to be having difficulty pinning down a good price/performance UPS with the right connectivity. My system parts of concern for the UPS would be the PC (Ryzen 1600/EVGA GTX1070 level), the NAS, one of my two monitors and my router. I've opted for your recommendation of APC and with an eye on budget was looking to the APC BX-1400U-MS - principally opting for this over my first choice of BX-1400UI which only seems to have IEC kettle connectors, where the former seems to have a combo of IEC and universal (I assume these are regular 3-pin looking at the pics?) which I would need for the router since it has an adaptor and no physical ability to be connected with an IEC, where annoyingly the rest of the hardware does. Would you say this model is a good choice? If so, do you have any leads on where to buy the damn thing? If not, what might you recommend given that I don't want to pay an arm and a leg (even being aware that this generally seems to be the way with UPS's)?

On Synology's compatibility checker (https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility), it lists two entries for IronWolf Pro 10 TB. The &quot;second one&quot;, for model ST10000NE0008 - 2PL103, has this sentence on it: &quot;The hibernation feature is not recommended for this drive.&quot;

I don't wish to give up the hibernation feature.

Looking at sellers online, I only see the model number ST10000NE0008, without additional qualifiers...so I won't know exactly what I'm getting, until it arrives.

So my question is, am I going to have a problem with hibernation mode, if I pair up a DS720+ with two IronWolf Pro 10TB drives?

Thank you!

Hi,

I stumbled upon your website and it has been extremely helpful!

I'm looking at buying a NAS primarily as a media server, but also for data backup (files & photos).

With some help from your website, I've narrowed my choice down to the Synology DS920+ and the QNAP TVS-472XT.

Which would you recommend?

Many thanks

Michael