Dear NAS Users,

I am simple home user who currently backup laptop to an external hard disk and iphone to iCloud using paid subscription. The laptop backup to external hard disk is quite irregular and the need more icloud space keeps on increasing and i dont want to shell out money on the costly icloud.

I was looking for different alternatives to make automated backups of laptops and iphones for my whole family and settled with NAS as my best alternative.
I am aware NAS cannot backup an iphone as an icloud, but i can use NAS to backup photos through NAS and for actual backup of iphone guess i still might have to use a small amount of icloud space or do backups over wifi using the laptops which backup to NAS automatically.

With this being said, after some considerable research I was convinced to use synology DS725+ as it offers decent hardware where I can use to start with SATA HDDs and later on I can also expand to SATA SSDs or NVME SSDs for storage. Also it offers good amount of ram expansion. Also DSM seems to offer a well mature, user friendly and competetive backup options for photos and laptops etc.

But my problem with DS725+ is that synology now supports only synology HDDs/SSDs/NVME 2 SSDs whereas WD and Seagate are way more superior in the HDD/SSD market and trustable and has competitive pricing. Also if i want to upgrade RAM, I need to buy from synology. This I am not comfortable with.

Can you please advice me which other NAS has good hardware as well as proper software for the above needs which will be supported long term.

Also, is it possible if i build a custom NAS and use TRUE NAS, will my requirements be solved and will I get long term support?

If you have other advice for my requirments, those are also welcome. Thanks in advance.

Thanks and regards,
Adi

I can't find a single video online demonstrating video editing with the Asustor FLASHSTOR 12 Pro Gen 2 (FS6812X). I can see people talking about it but no one has used it. I don't know why that is. Can you tell me how it actually performs when editing videos and also how it would work?

I have four DROBO, 5-Bay NAS drives, two of which are ethernet and two that are USB 3.1.

I want to transition just to ethernet, but I’m only interested in two NAS Devices.

I want to consolidate everything into two separate NAS configurations. I’m just having a hard time figuring out what kind of build I want. One of the devices I want to be HDMI capable as I have transferred all of my DVD and Blu-ray discs into digital format that I wanna fit on one of the NA devices.

The second device I want to dedicate to photographs and just back up data storage. I’m interested in a RAID-5 configuration.

I have the discs already so I’m looking for a diskless configuration.

We are a small single-campus college and have been using a 4-bay QNAP TS-453Be 2TB drives Raid-5 for some IT storage, but mostly we leverage it as a repository for software package deployments and upgrades (PDQ Deploy).  Our budget, and the cost of storage, is the primary reason we wouldn't just use a VM.

I'm looking for recommendations for a replacement, budget-friendly (Not cheap) replacement.  We don't need a huge amount of storage, but I would like to get better speeds than 100mbps. It seems like SSD for caching would help.  I'm not experienced with that setup.  I'm not sure what size/specs the ssd's should be, if that is the way to go.

We occasionally do large transfers.  Our largest custom software package that we'd deploy domain-wide would be Office 2024.  The rest are usually upgrades of custom packages, or GPU drivers which can suck.  We have 400 PCs but rarely need to push large packages all at once. 

TLDR: Budget-Friendly, QNAP, better concurrent throughput

Thanks

Hi, I purchased an ASTOR AS5304T in 202o Order ID: 78553
I now require additional storage space. Please can you advise on the best way forward?

By the way, the system to date is still working flawlessly.

Colin

Hi,
Watched your video from 6yrs ago about upgrading DS1019+ from 8GB to 16GB.
I stream a lot of movies and tv shows that I have on my NAS.
Most are in .mkv format and are mixture of some DVD, mostly bluray and but increasingly more 4K.

I wanted to beef up my NAS by carrying out a little TLC and as it is no longer in warranty I was going to upgrade the memory, however as it has been 6yrs I was curious if 16GB was the max. It would appear that is the case but I was not sure if that had changed in 6yrs

I had an old POS WD 4 x 4TB NAS that decided to die. Now, everything is running in my home server (Proxmox + TrueNAS Scale)

Thinking about buying either a complete solution (6 to 8 bay QNAP, Terramaster or Synology) or DIYing a new one on my own.

Regardless of the solution I pick, I was planning on buying 3 x 8TB drives to start and grow from there as needed, which means adding a drive from time to time.

I heard this is very stressful on the other drives, takes a lot of time and in some instances is not advised. Is this the case? Should I save more and buy all drives at once?

With your experience, which is the best NAS solution for a plan like this? QNAP? Synology? Terramaster? TrueNAS Scale? Unraid?

I think I would prefer to build something in the Jonsbo N3 or N5, but I am concerned about the limitations of DIY NAS software when it comes to add more drives and expand the pools.

Hello Gentleman - I'm hoping you can help since I can't find an answer to this anywhere in Synology or on the web from what I can see. I'm in the process of considating my medical files movies, tv shows etc. from iTunes and other sources into synology. Is there any script I can run that will give me just a simple list of names/titlas of the files I have in a folder so that I can ultimately take that list and enter it into a look up table so I can compare what I have and have moved?

I hope this is clear with what I'masking here but I haven't been able to find a thing to be able to get this out of my 920+ but it seems like something that should be easy to do?

Thank you for the time on this!

Rob

Hi team, thanks for previous advice. You are the best. I have a QNAP T664 with 6 x 6TB HDD's in raid 5 config. I still have my previous T653D unit which does not have any HDD's installed. I would like to increase my storage capacity by upgrading the size of my HDD's while retaining all of my current data. I was thinking of using 10 or 12TB drives. My questions is how to go about this? Can I replace one drive at a time and let the system rebuild the drive before moving onto the next drive, until all six are replaced? Or do I load up my T653D with the new drives and then copy all of the data from the T664. Once the data has been copied I would need to move the drives from the T653D and place them into the T664. I hope this makes sense. Your advice would be most welcome before I commence this task.

Regards - Mark from Australia.

I bought the QNAP ts 473a to get a home nas. Left synology because they were getting to business focused. I am still finding the nas approach requires IT maintenance from me. Should I have just gone with home server and storage. Can I convert the QNAP to home server? It seems using container is clunky and just more maintenance.