Thanks in advance for the offer of free advice. I am new to NAS but have spent the last couple days reading and still not sure on where to start. I have about 1TB in audio files (mp3 and FLAC) and about the same in photos and videos. Primarily I want to access my music library on my macbook without plugging in an external hard drive. I'd also like to access my photos and videos, but no particular requirement for face recognition or anything like that. So fairly simple needs but my budget is limited. I'm looking at used Synology and QNAP enclosures with used drives but this is where I could use some advice - on my budget am I better of getting a newer enclosure and smaller storage (with a view to replacing the drives in the future) or and older enclosure with higher capacity disks? Any suggestions would be welcome and I apologise if this has been covered somewhere already.
I overestimated my storage needs with scaling in mind but again, grateful for any advice.
Cheers,
Tom

I was literally looking to upgrade since 10 this morning (saw ur new 23/24 review few hrs later)... mind reader. Can you give a recommendation. Upgrading from TS-253B 8gb ram, maybe want 4 bay? and use Plex Pass and CCTV. Have a PI4 home assistant w/ cameras (wanting storage). Wanted to hopefully future proof for a few years, max out NAS specs. QNAP is first NAS, bought based on ur review years ago.. Thanks and cheers!

Hello, thanks for your Step by STep guide for the Terramaster NAS. But i have a problem. My F2-210 has no HDMI. Is there a way to use unraid?

Hi I am just in the process of renovating my house and decided to install a home network / media server. So far I have started wiring the house with Cat 6A F/FTP solid core cable which I've been told it's over kill but picked it up cheap so not really bothered. Also picked up a QNAP TS-673A nas about 8 months ago at auction brand new in the box for £640 without doing any research and then on black friday I bought 4 wd red pro 16tb hard drives. Thing is I've actually started doing some research now (I know its a bit late now) but really starting to feel really out of my depth now and worry that it might not be suitable for what I want which is backing up files and pictures but mainly for 4k movies and possibly cctv. I also wonder if I need more ram or I should buy a 10gb network card or if i need to buy a gpu card. I'm really at loss and could really use some good advice! 
Thanks Matt

Hi! I’m planning to finally get a NAS in January and I’m researching my options. I’ve already decided on Synology after looking at reviews/demos of DSM, advice from people I know, etc but I’m not sure what would be a good fit. I’m a photographer/sometimes videographer and a bit of a mild datahoarder/archivist. I’m looking for something simple to replace an external 2.5” 5TB WD drive that I’ve been using for a while. I don’t need VMs/Docker, I already have PCs for that. It would be just for bulk/archival storage, not a NAS to work from. Only extra task I’d be wanting is a Time Machine server for my Macs. I may want to try Synology Photos but it’s not likely I'd switch from my current photo manager. I’m looking at either the DS223j or the DS223 for the doubled RAM and black casing. Would these models would be fine for these needs? I’m good on finding drives myself. Thank you very much!

Looking for a low power and low noise NAS.
2+ bays would be nice.
Plan to get the Toshiba Cloud-Scale Capacity MG09ACA 18TB.

Want to run: piHole, PLEX, downloader
Want to stream to smart TV

Future expansion possibilities would be nice.

Was looking at:
DS224+
Ds423+

Since friends mainly recommend me Synology, I am a bit biased but I’m open to try any other company fulfilling my desires?

Thanks for your great YouTube channel and the content you provide. I’m sure that you will have great recommendations for me.

Regards and thank you in advance

I am a photographer and have recently started doing 4k videos for my clients.

This has highlighted to me the need for more storage that has redundancy and can be easily backed up.

I would think that I would dump all my camera files onto the NAS and work from there.

Cache files would be stored locally on a NVME ssd drive

The NAS would store my video and photo archives as well.

I'm scared of going overkill mode on this, but my thought is to have a 4 bay drive housing, and initially use two 18TB drives.

I did see your video where you used 3 drives, with two being raid, but I didnt understand that fully!

I work by myself so not needing others to access files at the same time.

I was also wondering how expensive are these devices to run since I presume you leave them on all the time.

Thanks,
Alan

Hi,

I would like to seek your advise on the best way to upgrade 4 numbers of HDDs in my existing DS920+ to 4 numbers of bigger capacity SSD.

I am planning on setting up an offsite NAS for backups. My question is how offsite is "offsite". For instance, I have a detached garage that I could put it in so if my house burnt down, water pipes burst, or thieves broke in and stole my stuff it would probably be fine. However, in the event of a local natural disaster I could loose everything. So how offsite do professional network people consider to be "offsite"? would my garage be ok or should I put it 100 miles away at one of my families houses?

Thanks!

I have Synology DS118 with 12 TB HDD. Using DS118 NAS as media library (Movies, TV Shows, Documentaries, etc.) to stream to TV via Nvidia Shield with Kodi app. NAS is already set up for SMB and NFS (for Kodi) and mapped to my laptop. I have a 5.45 TB library on an external HD. I would like to directly connect my DS118 to my laptop as it seems this would be the fastest way to transfer (copy) my large library to the DS118. A few questions: 1) Is it possible to set up an iSCSI on the DS118 (which only has 1 ethernet port)? If possible, would I have to setup iSCSI again when I disconnect from laptop and put DS118 back on the router...then, at some point, directly connect back to laptop to transfer (copy) future large amounts of data?