Hi, Love your videos! Thanks for your attitude and approach and knowledge that you share with us.

I am wondering if you can help me with a little problem:

I have bought 2 x 2TB WD Reds to replace 2 x 4TB WD Reds on a DS218+ (DSM 6.2), 10Gb of Ram but don't know what process to undertake to swap them over.

Currently the 2 x 4TBs are in a Synology SHR Raid in one storage pool.

Thanks in advance for your help, I can't seem to find any info anywhere to help me undertake this process.

Many Thanks

James

Hello,
I watch your videos all the time.
I need a personal NAS to backup four 256gb iPhones and two 512GB mac. 2-4 users. Need to share photos and documents with 4-6people. I wanted to buy QNAP 462 4g with 2 x 12gb HDD but got to know qnap is not secure. Don’t want to spend on 923+ for 1Gbps port. prioritizes 1) fast access2) price 350USD only for nas3)bit future proof on storage. Waiting on thanks giving deals!
Thanks

I already have a Freebsd Samba server.

I think I want:
4 bay raid nas:
3x 8tb raid 5
1x 8tb hot spare

just to do backups of the pc's at home
and daily website CPanel backups

I don't know what all the 3rd party apps do but that suggests I don't need them.

I'm struggling to parse through the multitude of options.

I'd like for the solution to be under $200USD but that may be unrealistic.

Hi there, i will be very happy to ear your opinion about a NAS 4 bay for ssd drives (m.2 NVMe SSD) for a small bussiness

looking for a NAS for DR/Virtualization
CPU (cores) and RAM (ECC preferable but not essential) are critical factors aside from performance of storage and network since we may use device to spin up VMs to validate or run in DR capacity.

looking for something like:
8 core i5 or better (as good as I can get for budget)
32gb RAM (ECC would be nice)
10GbE (dual would be nice)
NVME cache

would also like to have raid 5 or 6
plus at least 2 unused drive bays to hot swap in some drives to expand or for an occasional bulk copy for archiving elsewhere
PCIE or usb-c for add-in devices

Newbie

Based on the out of reach prices of Synology NAS, I found a DS1513+. from a small business. Is it worth it today functionality wise.

Thank you for your time and great work.

The unit is shipping in the US, and the latest OS allows for IP tunneling over USB4, so I think this is a good solution for my Mac Studio and video editing.

But I haven't seen benchmarks for IP Tunneling with NVMe SSD read/write caching.

I was thinking of a four or six bay unit with Ironwolf Pro 24Mb drives.

What I don't know is what brand of NVMe SSD memory to add and what quantity/size? What is the sweet spot?  They would need to be very durable for lots of read/writes, and too large a cache might not be helpful.

Also will I need additional DDR5 ECC RAM, and if so is there an alternative to the Asustor RAM which seems overpriced?

Hello,
I would like to buy the QNAP TBS-464 but I don't know wich SSD to buy.
I need Gen 3 x 2 because the NAS don't support more.
I would like to buy 1To for each and like that I should have 3To in RAID 5.
It's for Home use (Documents and Family picture).
Samsung ? WD ? Crucial ?
What reference ?
And why Synology don't make NVME NAS in 2024 ???

Thank you very much for your help

Hi, I'm hesitating between buying the Ugreen DXP4800 or the DXP 4800 plus.
I mainly want it to view my photos and videos on my TV, share them with family remotely, and maybe create a Drive.
Which of these two NAS models would be more suitable? How do they compare in terms of power consumption and performance?

Hello!

I'm planning my first NAS/Home Lab Server for cybersecurity projects/testing/learning. I would love a gut check to see if I'm on the right track. I've settled on the Terramaste​r F6-424 M​ax with 2 to 4 HDD to start. I'm also thinking an NVME drive to run and store programs on that I run in Docker, running VMs, etc. I'm aiming to use Proxmox rather than the default OS on the Terramaster. Below is the link to the PCPartPicker list I put together.
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/maf119/saved/YyCs8d

I've also included the different operating systems I'll use in VMs. Am I missing anything? Is there something better? Do you have any better recommendations for a cybersecurity-specific homelab?