I have multipe HDD to move pictures and videos into one area. Love the videos

Hello !
I would like to build a NAS to store everything I could imagine for a while on it.
I will also have a big part of it dedicated to business needs, as well as some part of it for personnal plex usage that could transcode ~3 4k streams to 1080p.

I've never build a NAS, but I'm a developer so I don't mind the learning, as I already manage my own servers (bare metal, OVH) and such.

I would like to have at least 80TB storage space; I was thinking about 12x 12TB in RAID 6 of IronWolf PRO Nas disks. Having 2 or 3 nvme to have a fast cache seems like an excellent idea. One of them will probably be used as OS as well ?

By looking to your video that describes the best NAS for Plex, which is my requirement that needs the most power, I though of the following 2 components:
1) MB+ CPU : ERYING-Kit 14900HX https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005007445741820.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.0.0.7f4asIo5sIo5Pu&mp=1&gatewayAdapt=glo2fra
2) Case: Jonsbo N5 NAS;https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005007724666260

I'm looking for a way to backup the following devices (or data on devices) to a QNAP NAS:

• Mac OSX box
  
• Windows box
  
• Linux box
  
• iOS devices
  
• Android devices
  

Looking at buying the QNAP HS-264.  I want to place it in an area where hardwiring will not be possible. Is it very complicated to add wifi to it?  If not, would you recommend a direct wifi dongle or a mini wifi router with ethernet out?   I understand the wifi will impact it's speed but for it's application, this won't be an issue.

First up I love the reviews! I am looking for something to store video files for my media library. I want something with NVME drives (up to 4) and 10Gbe. I can't seem to find anything that is "just right".

I would have been happy for the moment to have something that would just enable a portable SSD to connect to my network, but I have a UniFi DMSE with no USB port. Is there something that you could suggest?

Hey guys, I have a Synology DS918. I replaced a 10TB drive with an 18TB drive using the instructions on your site. I ran the Degraded process and let it run over night. Everything looked to go well. The drive shows on my DiscStation and shows as healthy. I now see 16.4 (the new one), 9.1, and two 18.2 drives. I replaced two 10TB drives with 20TB drives using this process before (the two 18.2s) with no issues. My system is still only showing 34.9TB though. I am not seeing the increase in space though. I restarted the Synology, but its still showing me 34.9TB. The new drive is a ST18000NT001-3NF101. Did I miss something? Always appreciate your help, thanks!

Important part is to be able to structure the photos, so that I can have groups of albums shared differently between different user (e,g. people in different parts of the family). I would like to be able to provide access and send a link to a folder of albums, rather than having to do each folder individually.

Hi

Can I attach a 3rd party DAS to the Ugreen DXP6800 Pro using TB3?

Thx

I bought a DXP 4800 by mistake I meant to get a 4800 plus initially, my server cannot handle 4K content remotely and am wondering if there is a way to plug in an external GPU to have the ability to have hardware transcoding? Otherwise I was going to look into the 6800 PRO as an upgrade, any help would
Be appreciated.

Hi all,

sorry for my english (Italy here).

I have a Terramaster F4-423, a 4 HD + 2 SSD bay NAS using TOS 5.1 os with 20GB of no-ecc ram (4gb + 16gb).
There is an internal USB port with the original TM pen drive connected to and another free usb external port.
It contains the following drives: 1TB SSD, 2TB HD, 3TB HD, 8TBHD, 18TB HD, all of them formatted in BTRFS.

I'm a very newbie with nas; I never set up a RAID and I roughly know what it is.
I set up every drive separately as a single drive with it's own storage pool.
I set up a couple of rsync scheduled backup of the shared folders I care more to an external drive.

I know I am renouncing to redoundancy and I have many fragmented shares, but it's ok to me: I have very little data I care of (photos and docs) and I want to use all the available space.
Also I love to be able to hot-extract a drive and connect it to an usb port of my pc accessing all the data it contains.

On this NAS I use:
- a web server supporting mysql and php
- dockers
- Plex
- Jellyfin
- qBittorrent
- Virtualbox

I am considering to replace the TOS operating system and I read some pages about and I went to the following possibilities:
1. TRUENAS SCALE
2. UNRAID
3. OPEN MEDIA VAULT

Truenas scale seems the best choice but it seems more difficult to understand, and I am a newbie; also it seems to me, as for what I understood, that I am stuck with ZFS and so I couldn't extract a drive and connect to a linux pc accessing it's data easily.
Also it seems to require ECC memory.
Also I couldn't understand if it's possible to keep all disks separated or I have to make some sort of raid.
Also seems a parity disk is needed, possibly the more sized one.

Unraid seems a better solution for me as it natively support docker and virtualization.
But it's not free and a lifetime license is expensive.
Also I still have not understood if I can keep all disk separated. The hot-swap with my pc seems possible as it supports the same file systems as TOS.
But it seems not have user GROUPS.

OMV seems ok, but maybe a little simple to do all the funcionalities I listed before; for example I don't know if it can provide a web server or some virtualization.

Any suggestion will be appreciate.

TY