I have a QNAP TVS 672N with 6x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 18Tb drives running in RAID 5. One of the disks has a warning coming up in QTS indicating bad sectors. I have been to SCAN and they are saying delivery of a new drive may not be until Feb '25. B&H Photo is saying these disks are discontinued. Is putting an EXOS 18Tb drive in as a replacement an option? Alternatively, I could put in a 20Tb (or higher) drive and gradually increase the capacity of my NAS as disks get to end of life (not sure I want to do this as I would expect to replace the NAS in 3 - 5 years) which might be sensible if 18Tb is no longer a capacity that Seagate supports going forward and I may need to buy other replacement drives in the short to medium term.

Input most welcome and thanks in advance.

I have just purchased a QNAP TS-262 NAS. I was thinking of buying the following drives drives Seagate IronWolf, Pro 4 TB, Enterprise Internal NAS HDD – CMR 3.5 Inch, SATA 6 Gb/s, 7,200 RPM, 256 MB Cache (ST4000NTZ01)

Hi guys, tnx for your videos, they helped me with purchase. V. quick question. I got a Qnap TS-453D. A few years back I was mildly affected by the qlocker hack. It took me a while to reorganise all my files. Span.com, who I bought from are no longer in business. I manually got rid of all .7z files. I would like to move again all my healthy files onto NAS. I would like to wipe the NAS just in case there is some undetected malware. Would you advise to restore to factory default or reinitialize? Ideally I would like to keep the same settings and just wipe all the data and then upload my files and folders. I'd really appreciate your quick advice. Keep up the good work! Thanks!

I am looking at going paperless at home.
I prioritise file recovery (being able to find them).

I am tempted by the Paperless ngx software.
I use Linux Mint ( would consider other Linux distros).
Have ordered a Fujitsu ix1600 scanner.
At the moment I use Google drive for backup.

Would a 2 bay (say 2x 4TB) Synology NAS be 'overkill' ?
I would class myself as a competent basic computer user.
Richard

Hi Guys,

Have you had a chance to use the unifi NAS with Plex server?

I was wondering what the performance would be like or even if it’s possible. I have a Mac mini and my Plex server and was looking at the unifi NAS to hold my data but didn’t know what the performance would be like.

Wonder if you have had a play with this yet?

Many Thanks

I am wanting a NAS mostly for photo and other file storage. I would also like to potentially be able to stream Plex from it. Also want to host my own website and other stuff. I've figured Synology is the best, but I don't know which specific one to get. I am thinking most likely 4 bay. Which should I get?

Is the Synology 1221+ capable of transcoding? If not, what can I use to transcode with the 1221? I plan to use Plex and am running the UDM SE for my server.

i mirrored my first two iron wolf 8tb hard drives on my 4 bay terramaster f4-424.i installed an 12tb hard drive in my third bay and created a volume 2.my plex cant see it at all.only sees volume 1

Hello,

I actually own a Asustor AS5202T and 1 extenion unit that I use as mainly as movies storage with HDD in RAID1.
I want to upgrade for a new NAS
I'm actually looking for the new Lokerstor 10 gen 3 that is about to be released.

I need at least a 10 HDD bays NAS
I don't need HDMI output, I use a dedicated media player
Graphic card is not a high priority, I don't use plex right now
I need a 10G ethernet
I might use it for home assistant in the futur

pros : easy migration / I already own an extension for the future

cons : ?

Is there another option I should look at that will be better ?

Thank you,


Lugburzguul

Can you possibly explain the process by which I can remotely access Plex which is installed on my Synology NAS (which I usually accessed on my PC via my home network) so I can instead use my Android phone to access Plex when outside of my home network via Tailscale. The few YouTube videos about this are concerning Plex hosted on a PC rather than via a NAS.
I have Tailscale installed on my laptop and on my Android phone and would really appreciate a step by step guide.
I would really appreciate a step by step guide.