Good day

I have a question, I would like to use an old Office PC (buy on ebay) as a NAS server, mainly for Jellyfin. But I'm not sure about the manufacturer and model. Rather Dell or HP or Lenovo. It should have room for 4 3.5 HDD.

Thanks in advance

Hello. I have a UPS PowerWalker, not in the supported list. It shows up for some time.Connected by USB.<<<<<suddenly it disappears.When it is showing it also supports via network to my older TS 419II qnap. Problem is when everything is up and running all perfect, but for any reason suddenly it disappear, both on the TS 464 and of course on hte 419 also. After some reboots it will show up again. both are running latest software from qnap.

Good day, I just subscribed to your inner circle and I'm very new to NAS technology. that said, I just purchased a Qnap TS-264 Could you kindly provide some best practice tips for the Qnap initial set up? I am not IT literate, so no details are necessary Instruction in the format of , for example, Do a,b,c,d, and go, is all I need

thank you gents and regards

I currently have a Synology 1819+ (RAID 6) which I use to store my Plex library off of. When watching movies in HEVC the NAS struggles (assuming because it can not do hardware accelerated encoding) and the movie becomes laggy and unwatchable. Network is not the issue as I have 1 gig up and down. It is the NAS CPU that is maxed out at basically 100%. Looking for suggestions to watch any movies via Plex regardless of codec and watch on the fly without lagging. Would it be better to build a computer or go with a pre-built NAS system?

I understand that I may have to switch from Synology and some how get all media off to another unit.

Hi storage experts

From a Synology NAS I am retiring two IronWolf HDDs (not IronWolf Pro) and I would like to use one or both drives in an enclosure as local USB storage for my Mac. (Ideally I'd use both HDDs a RAID 1 set in that USB enclosure.)

I don't want a NAS going over the network, just plain direkt USB storage. Can you recommend an enclosure for this?

Many thanks,
Walter

Hello!
Silent version of the QNAP NAS TVS-h874-i5. In your review https://nascompares.com/2022/12/16/qnap-tvs-h874-nas-review-ultimate-desktop-nas/ you wrote “Noise during operation when fully equipped”.
Tries to make it better:As a first decision toward this goal, I chose the 8-bay case instead of the 6-bay case, even though I don't plan on using more than 6-bay cases (except in case of failure). The larger case has more air and larger fans and maybe I can replace these fans with quieter ones. QNAP's specs are very poor, so I don't know if they use 4 or 3 pins and PWM or other connectors.
Next approach: Replace the 250W power supply with the 350 power supply or even a Seasonic SS-400H1U 400 Watt, but again I don't know the specs of the PSUs check which fits and has the same connectors.
Do you think modifying these components can be successful and do you have the missing specifications?

Im planning to buy my first NAS mostly for photography. I work exclusively on an Apple environment, and even having a Mac I mostly use an iPad Pro.
Photos storage I a part for my own ones as an enthusiast photographer, and the other part to share the family photos collection.
I was planning to get the DS224+ or the TS-262, but cancelled my order as it’s a bit pricier than my budget.
Your advice would be very welcome.

I've been following your YT channel for a few years and always enjoy the insightful and useful reviews and information you provide. So I thought you'd be the perfect person to answer my question.

I have a huge archive of RAW photos, around 40-50TB, it grows year-on-year. I store them on a Synology 8-Bay NAS but I think this might be overkill as I only access images shot in the last year or so on any regular basis. My archive of images & videos pre-2022 remain untouched. It seems a waste of resources to run 8 drives 24/7 to have these files accessible when I might only need to access them once or twice a year.

I have considered getting a smaller, SSD based, NAS to host my more recently shot images from the last year or two and have the rest archived off-line. What would you suggest would be the best way to go with this? I was thinking a Synology extension unit for the old archive which can be switched on and off when needed. But what would you pair this up with?

Hi,

I want to ask IF it's possible to upgrade RAM in Synology DS216j and which model you recommend. The current capacity is 512MB.

OR, maybe it's time to upgrade to the newer Synology (2-bay) device. Do you have any suggestions?

I really appreciate any help you can provide.
Petr

I use my DS1019+ for photo backup, 4 cameras via SS, and using it as my DVR for HDHomeRun. I recently got into running several diff apps using Docker. Lastly, I just tried to do my full backup to my DS218j but the backup of my DS1019 (around 9tb of data) is taking me 10 days!
So my intent is to:
1. Install some 10gb switches to upgrade the newwork.
2. Add a USB dongle to the 1019 to push it to 2.5gbe which is NOT 10 but faster than the 1gb its running at now.
3. Get rid of my DS218j since I'm pretty sure its the bottleneck for these backups.
4. Once I have the new NAS backuped I'll take it off site for incremental backups.

The main issue is that the DS1019 does't have a 10gbe option, with the current list of apps running in containers, I've running at 80% CPU and hitting 100% frequently especially during backup.
I really don't need a super high end system but I would like to invest in something that'll last me a few years.