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advics for my father in law - Enquiries - 07-21-2022
Hi there you awsome nascompares,
I am looking for some advise about type of NAS I am looking for:
the situation:
my father in law is a video and photo enthusiast. he has several external hdd's laying arroud in a total of about 6 TB.
he creates allot of videos with his drones and camera's and mixes those videos together and stores them. He also likes to it to use it like an video/photo player on lcd in living room.
requirements:
- expandiblity I guess
- 400-650 diskless.
- 6TB no but growing
- so expandabillity.
- easy os to learn.
- HDMI for 4K (nice to have for video playing directly to tv).
my idea was get an 2-4 bay nas with with m2 ssd slot for caching. polulate it with 1 or 2 slots left for expandabillity. so slam an 8 TB in raid 1 a 3 or 4 bay.
myself I have the qnap 332x. I have some experience on linux, but do not want to be his helpdesk for daily use. therefore I want a solid easy os, and support from a vendor instead of a community.
my first bet was synoligy because of their reputation of the OS. but they all lack HDMI.
my first tought was the following:
synology 920+ (but expendabillity is expensive and no HDMI).
qnap ts-364 (4k 30Hz and a bit noisy for the living room).
qnap ts-464 (checks all the boxes, but is not released in europe)
did I overlook someting?
and which drives to take?
youyrs thankfully,
Robert Lemke