I need a new NAS, my Drobo is 10+ years old, and they went bankrupt, so no new updates, no support. Kinda worried about it crapping out on me soon, so I wanted to get a new one.

I mainly use it for media storage, and serving videos through Plex. But also just file storage in general.



That's really all I'll be using it for, but I need a lot of storage because I ripped all of my movies/TV shows from disc. Also a built-in torrent client of some sort would be a plus.

A way to add more NAS to it after the fact would be nice too. Like get them to pool together? I don't know how to word it.

I was looking at these as potential candidates. You can tell me what you think, or if there's better options available.

Asustor Lockerstor 10 AS6510T - 10 Bay

TERRAMASTER T9-450 9Bay NAS


QNAP TS-664-8G-US 6 Bay

Thanks for your help.

Hi,

I have a mini itx solution I built many years ago, the SSD OS drive is starting to go and I need to rebuild, so I am thinking of replacing with a NAS as primary its a network storage solution for home files backup, and media consumption device for Plex. I have WD NAS drives within the current solution I can re-use.

Intel Core i5-4670K " 3.40 GHz
16GB RAM
WDC WD40EFRX - 4TB
WDC WD40EFRX - 4TB
WDC WD80EFZX - 8TB
Using StableBit DrivePool under Windows 10 Pro

I am looking to find the best little QUIET NAS for my budget, re-use my HDD's for now and upgrade those over time.

Regards
Martin

Hello,

I am new to the world of NAS tecnology. I own a very small business where I currently have had a Seagate MyCloud 4TB drive based at my home that allows me to access it from my work shop at another location. After 6 years that drive is running out of data space (plenty of graphic files such as Photoshop .psd, .png, .jpg and some doucments). I have been looking into 2 or maybe 4 bay NAS by DW and Synology and leaning towards Synology DS723+ or maybe 423+. I believe I can add (2) 16TB Seagate IronWolf drives and configure Raid 1 so it automaticaly backs up the primary drive. Does this sound like the best solution or do you have other recomendations? Thanks in advance.

I am trying to set up Windows 11 Pro on my Synology DS1621+ using Virtual Machine Manager. I followed you video guide (and other similar videos) but I get an error message that "This machine can't run Windows 11".
I understand that Microsoft changed something in their final release from the version that you would have used in your video. Is there a way around this?

Hi,

Today I have a synology DS 215J with 2 x 3TB WD Red.
I use it for photo, videos and backup. I share photos and videos with family and friends over internet.
Which synology NAS should I upgrad to and which drives do you recommend?

Regards

//Lars

hello,

I'm on the market for a home-based NAS, im new to the NAS stuff.
I currently have a USB 1tb storage but would like to create a NAS that I can remote in when I'm on the road for business to have full access to my files. Any advice is greatly appreciated

I'm choosing a NAS to back up my MacBook Pro, iPhones, and Windows systems, along with running Plex for movies mainly on a Fire TV Cube and NVIDIA Shield. While I'm initially considering a 2-bay model, I'm open to a 4-bay for future expansion. I want the option for M.2 SSD caching, and I believe 2GB of RAM might be too limiting.

I was leaning towards the Synology DS423+, but the 6GB RAM maximum (even if the CPU could support more) is concerning. The DS923+ looks appealing, but its lack of integrated graphics worries me for smooth Plex performance, especially as I might want to stream 4K content too.

I saw a positive comparison between the DS923+ and the QNAP TS-464, liking the HDMI output. However, concerns about QNAP's security record make me hesitant. Can you help me make the best decision?" Maybe another device?

Hi there gents. I need a little guidance if possible.

I'm looking to get into my first NAS and move away from the cloud providers. My use case will be;

• File sharing for the family e.g. work/school docs such as Word, Excel, PDF.
  
• Photo management/storage (I particularly like the look of Synology Photo's).
  
• Surveillance for a total of 6 cameras (Reolink), and I'd want one disk dedicated to this. I'm aware that I'd need to also purchase extra licences for this.
  
• Home Assistant via container manager or VM.
  
• We have a small amount of movies stored, but no transcoding would be needed.
  

• DS224+ (I've included this, but should I discount it with no backup given one of the disks would be dedicated to surveillance?)
  
• DS423+
  
• DS723+ (Same question as the DS224+)
  
• DS923+
  

Hi.


Sorry I don't really have budget or storage quantity answers to give, I had been vacillating between a Synology, and a Thunderbolt RAID / DAS to take over from my current temporary solution of a 5GBPS USB multibay JBOD SMB shared from an old Mac Mini.

Storage is for for my new (to me) 2019 Mac Pro, which replaces my old 2009 Mac Pro.

My current experience with SMB shared storage has convinced me that for a Mac workstation, non-local, non APFS/HFS+ storage has enough little differences / painpoints that I don't really want to deal with it.

I found your reviews of Terramaster's DAS products very informative, the main weakness seemed to be inflexibility with adding drives / expanding the RAID. I can't quite figure with them whether the driver for the storage requires a permanent reduction in security mode for the system.

I happened on Highpoint's new US$599 Rocketstor RS6618V TB3 RAID DAS array (Vs. Terramaster's $1299 D8-332).

Any chance of a review?

Cheers

I currently stream my hd (1920 X 1080 .m2ts files) video home movies on my Sony Bravia TV from my PC. Will the synology diskstation ds223j be up to this task? Thanks