Hi, I currently back up my mac mini and mac book via time machine, my mac mini also houses all of my Plex media and is the plex media server. The drive in my mac mini is 1TB and is very nearly full, probably about 2/3 is plex and the other 1/3 is family videos/photos. The photos/Videos are backed up to time macine on a disk which i rotate every week or so and leave looked in a safe at work, so although I plan on migrating the library to the NAS I already have these backed up.

The NAS will primarily server as easy access to the photos and media for the family and expand my storage, happy to continue to utilise the MAc Mini for the Plex Media Server.

I do have 4 WD Red 3TB drives sitting around at home which can be utilised.

Although i'm fairly happy to tinker, I do enough of that at work, so something thats fairly easy to setup and maintain, ideally something I can spend an hour setting up and then pretty much forget about would be ideal

I need a NAS for both Plex and Apple macOS Time Machine back ups. I mostly watch Plex using my latest gen Apple TV 4K on a Sony Z9K or Sony Z9G so picture quality is important. But, I may need hardware transcoding as I'm starting to playback using more devices since I'm traveling more. Also, my family is growing and so many people with many different devices are starting to use it. Finally, I intend to put the device in my home office so I need it to be quiet so if SSDs are needed to be quiet I'm willing to stretch my budget a bit more. Thank you for your help. You are very generous and a great resource. I learned a lot from your YouTube channel as well.

Hi, Thank you for the informative videos. I have been a subscriber for a while and enjoy the useful information on products and operational aspects of the various NAS equipment.

I have a WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra and a QNAP TS 251+ NAS. I would like to use my QNAP as a backup for the WD MyCloud but can't seem to find any information on making this happen. I am able to conduct manual backups by mounting the WD on the QNAP and manually copying files but there must be a more automatic approach to this problem.

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I like to have minimum 4 bay nas with 8tb/HD. I want some redundancy maybe like raid 5 (still researching this topic). My current setup I have a mini pc i3-12th gen and it does some transcoding. I have 10 total users but never been above 3 on plex at same time. Im currently running off a 8tb external WD hd that's almost full so im ready to expand. What's the best machine out there in your opinion currently that would fit the criteria. budget can go up if needed as well. Thanks for your time!

Hello Nas Compare team,

I'm planning on doing a Jonsbo N5 build, but not sure about what length sata cables to order.
I want to use a 4 bundle sata for horizontal disks and a 8 bundles sata for vertical, to be connected to 2 asm1166 bridges at 6th and 7th pcie slots.

Between 50cm and 100cm, what would be your recommendation for each?

Thank you

I've been using a Syn DS413 for years and want to upgrade. Looking for a turnkey NAS with 2 or 4 bays. My main use cases are: 1) network storage of personal/media files, that doubles down as a media server for a smart tv/speakers; 2) torrent client; 3) run some containers in the future (cannot now)

I want something x86 based that I can run some containers on, which I cant do now. A nice-to-have would be some sort of dual-boot mechanism so I could install TrueNAS or something and tinker on my own time - but not sure if this even exists. 2.5GBe is nice to have, 10Gbe not needed.

I'm overall happy with Syn but the walled garden + dated hardware on current models + your comments about their move to proprietary hardware and enterprise put me off quite a bit. On the other hand, I do love their stability, ease of use, feature completeness (not that I use a lot of it). From my own research, I am pending towards the QNAP TS-464 but wanted to hear your thoughts. TY for the advice!!!!

Please can you supply some ideas of what model NAS could be used to meet the specification boxes checked?



Kind Regards

George

Hi guys, I'm looking to build a NAS server for home use. I plan to run TrueNAS. I already purchased 6 harddisks for a raidz2 pool. Use cases for the system will be storage of my linux iso collection, and docker host for a bunch of apps like home assistant, adguard or pi-hole, plex or JF, the *arr apps, immich, maybe some game servers, password vault, and a few others. I'm looking to get pointers as to which hardware - case included - would be suited for this. A requirement is at least 2.5GBASE-T support as I will be upgrading my home network (currently 1Gbit). Any guidance you can provide would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time!
Greets, Matt

Dear NasCompares, I have Synology DS3622+ and am thinking of working with ASCI LUN for my laptop for extra storage. Setting it up went great (thanks to your videos!) and I can access it on my laptop.

My questions (which is actually generally one big question ) are: where is the data stored on my NAS? Can I access it / can I see the files? Can I add files to the LUN it via the NAS, so that my laptop will be able to see/read/access it?

TL;DR: I have set-up ASCI LUN, but don't really know what to do with it now.

Thank you so much!

Best regards,

Bart

I currently have a Synology DS3622xs+ but I am considering swapping to the QNAP TVS-h1688X. That said, the QNAP model was released several years ago and I wonder if a refresh is on the way. Any rumors?

I really like my Synology, but I do not want to stay locked into a brand and series that wants to try to force or coerce you to buy their overpriced branded drives and I would rather make the switch now than pay a terrible price later.