Hello and thank you for your videos. I love these. They help me more than you can think. I have a Synology NAS RS3413xs. It has an Intel Xeon E3-1230 v2 processor. It does not have integrated graphics. I do not have a video card other than the built-in VGA it has. With that being said, I get buffering on my Firestick 4k in my bedroom. I have changed the video quality down to 2mb and that fixes my problem most of the time. But I feel as though this NAS should be able to at least supply decent videos. I have 1 gig network fiber to my house. And I have great Wi-Fi at home. What would you suggest?

Hello,

I'm looking for a cost effective NAS that will act as a 4k film server for a media player. The media player is powerful and no transcoding is needed, just the storage of the films on a networked server. I won't be using it for VMs or any other extensive uses, just a plain film server.
I'd like a 4 or 5 bay unit networked with ethernet rather than USB. My current library (on various external HDDs) is around 15TB or so. It seems 8TB is a good price/space region so I will need 4-5 disks for adequate storage. Any particular NAS HDD to go for? Would use RAID 5.
The Synology DS1522+ does tick all the boxes but is expensive and seems overkill for what I need. Terramaster looked less overkill but they seem to do more USB stuff than network. and generally are limited to a 4 bay. Not sure now much RAM I need for 4k streaming. Is 2GB enough? If so, the F4-210(2GB) looked cheap but can't upgrade the RAM. Basically looking for one step up from JBOD!

Thanks for any advice!

BW

Ryan

looking for a NAS back up /file share (docs, pics, music, video, 3d files), NAS I can do vm or containers to run sql or windows test server

I need something more reliable than just an External Drive for storage, got alot of stuff I want to save for a long time.

Hi. I’m using a TVS-472XT w/ a TL-D800S expansion using the most recent version of QuTS Hero. I currently have 3 storage pools: Storage Pool 1 (System Pool): 4 4tb M.2 SSD’s (with an expansion card), Storage Pool 2: 4 8tb Sata SSD’s, and Storage Pool 3: 8 12tb HDD’s. I want to change the System Pool to 2 much smaller M.2 SSD’s and move the 4 4tb M.2 SSD’s to Storage Pool 2 (with an expansion card). Is it possible to do that without losing the data I have on saved Storage Pools 2 and 3 (Storage Pool 3 is a RAID 6 backup of Storage Pool 2)?

BTW, I love your website and YouTube channel. Thank you for all of the great information.

Looking to replace an Areca 8050T2 that has 5 bays as a 12Tb raid 5, 2 bays as a backup for the Raid array, and 1 bay for backing up my Mac computer. I will also be upgrading from a 2021 iMac to a new Mac Studio. The Areca is thunderbolt 2 so an older connection with an adapter, and my drives in it are 10 years old, so long overdue for replacement. I am strongly considering using SSD's for speed, reliability, noise, and energy consumption. Not sure whether I should be using a DAS or a NAS. Don't necessarily need networking, but not against it. Just want to bombproof somewhat futureproof setup for the next 10 years. Thanks.

Hey. First of all, love all your youtube videos!!
I am hesitating between the QNAP TS-453E-8G-US and the Synology DiskStation DS923+. Price is about the same on Amazon Canada. My main use would be for photo management (AI sorting, having access on the mobile app too). Also, I would love to store all my documents and open them directly in MS Office for easier modifications if that is possible. I saw your video and the fact the QNAP is locked at 8GB RAM, would that be enough for my use? Later on, I would probablt had a few cameras at my house (nothing extra). I want a good software that won't be slow and with the less noise. What would you suggest? Thanks a lot mate!

Hi, I'm looking to replace my synology nasses. I was intreged by one of your articles saying that there are nasses without OS. You name a few there. I'm looking for the best of them (and nothing less of it). Since I already have my hdd's, I want to go that route, 4 bays or higher, 2 ethernet ports (prefer 2.5 Gbps). Also, it needs to be able to have truenas, unraid and pve. Video and therefore transcoding, music and files need to be functions, and it needs to be able to get to it from the internet as well as local. What would you recommend?

Hi, Robbie, Eddie
Studio simultaneous editing 4K video... QNAP TVS-H1288X-W1250-16G is the system we have in mind. Do you still recommend it, after 3 years? Thinking about 5-6 WD Gold 18T disks in RAID 5 or 6 (?) and 4 WD Red SA500 NAS SSD. (1 or 2 TB?) Does the Qnap come with NVME installed or needed to buy separately? Do you recommend RAM upgrade? We obviously want to maximise storage but have security as well (hence RAID6)
Feel free to shuffle!
Thank you very much!
Akos

I currently have a Synology DS412+ that I use as a Plex media server both locally and remotely. I would like a new NAS that I can use as a Plex server, store photos that can be accessed remotely and as an iCloud replacement for storing documents and data. I am happy to wait for newer models if something suitable is on the horizon. I would like a NAS that has good support for MacOS and IOS. Thx