Hi, I love your content and am planning on buying my first NAS. I could use some help as I need someone to verify if the setup I have in mind is even possible.

Going to buy the DS923+ and am planning to run 3x12TB in a SHR. Planning on using 2 m.2 nvme as cache. And was wondering if it was wise to use the 4th bay for a dedicated SSD drive to run stuff like Plex on. Is this a smart thing to do? It seems like the right move, as I wouldn't sacrifice cache memory, and would still be able to run some stuff on an SSD.

Do you see any drawbacks on this setup? Would love your opinion!

Hi I am looking for some advice.My previous QNAP TS-453BT3 decided to die, mid-flight catastrophic failure with two 12TB ironwolf seagate drives in it.  I have purchased a replacement QNAP TS464, and I want to put the drives back into the new machine.I have updated the firmware on the QNAPTS464, however I can't get past the stage where I have to initiate the drives. ( If I do that I lose all my data, on my 12TB's drives NOT AN OPTION) Questions What is the best option to get around this problem? My current thoughts are: 1/ Can I initiate the TS464 machine without the drives in? is that even possible? 2/ Do I get another additional drive, initiate the TS464 with that drive, which will format the drive, and then initiate the box. Once the TS363 is initiated 1/ I insert the 12TB drives back in.2/ Will the device recognise the drives and then how do I copy the data across? Lots of questions I know, a little bit of guidance, would be of great help. 

Hi team,
love you channel Need to cancel my google and apple cloud and put everything on a NAS mostly photos, my use case is to have all photos inside of it and have a good mobile photos app to sync with it and backup my mac ecosystem.
Thank You.

We got a small local with superbad network. We want some tips on what routers we should get. Not anything super expensive but we want it to be able to do things withoute probleme and fast network, for us and also some few customers.

Hi!

I'm looking for a NAS that I'll hook up in an office for a documentary we'll be working on. The team and I mostly work from home but I'll need to pop in the office periodically for in person sessions

I'm hoping to use Resilio Sync to keep the project folders in sync while we work, and I want to use a NAS that'll be on 24/7 in the office, both as an additional node for speed while syncing and as a place to edit from directly while working in the office.

I initially thought about using the Flashtor 6 for this purpose but I'm not really sure if this is either too much or too little for our purpose.

Do you have any specific recommendations for a trustworthy NAS I could use?

Hi guys any thoughts on the Avoluxion PSX-i1 for ps5? Not sure if write speeds changed much with it. Or if it's a good alternative for bigger heatsink? the options for case plates are the same except for dark Fusion Concepts plates I think I can put a acidalie heatsink 4 tube but not sure. Will be going to Phoenix Arizona for work, where temperatures can reach 120 Fahrenheit 48.8 Celsius with the WD850x (runs hot) ssd and I came across your channel on ssd and temp (awesome videos and subscribed)

Hi, long time youtube subscriber here. I'm about to buy my first NAS for home use but I think I'm too confused to make a decision. What I'm looking for is a great user interface with a possibility of adding outdoor cameras and also plex or similar in the future ( with transcoding). I have been thinking of buying a 4-bay hardware, so 4 x 4TB HDDs because they are quite affordable. Maybe start with 2 drives first and in the future upgrade it with new hdds? I've looked at Synology hardware but I'm not sure about the hardware, I know the user interface is very good according to your videos. So can you help me out with this dillemma. I need a user friendly system with enough performance to also transcode (run) video service and cameras.

Hi, I have 2 Syn 1511 and a Drobo 5d3 with the two synologies as backup devices to the Drobo. The Drobo is running out of capacity and I am loathed to invest in more storage as it’s unsupported.

I want to upgrade the main storage but unsure what is best despite watching your YouTube’s.

I am thinking Synology 1522 rather than 1821, probably with 16TB drives (trying to find a sweet spot and discount window). Probably WD Red Pro although these are not supported by Synology (should I look at Iron Wolf, Tosh N300 or even the Syn 3310 plus - is that equiv to WD Red Plus though)

I haven’t looked at QNAP as I know Synology and I am a little concerned moving back from DAS to NAS but that will share better between the desktop and Laptop.

Any recommendations, am I on the right lines.

I am very newbie and trying to setup my personal server. I am still figuring out how to use this for my use. My first main use is to host my django project that is accessible through my domain (only for my family members). My databases are mix of video, image and numerical data. I would also like to run jellyfin and Nextcloud on it. I cannot do qtier since i do raid 1 with hdd and at this point due to budget limitations i only have one ssd. So i have to use ssd as cache so i have a loop with both hdd and ssd as cache. I built 3 storage volumes one for each and one is encrypted (all thick, is that good?). Is there anyway to make nextcloud work (i cannot make it work) also is it ok if i place like container app in one of the volumes and use it in other volumes as well?

Im looking for a NAS which is powerful enough to run 2 or 3 VM's.
Im familiar with ESXi although that is not required.
Probably need around 64GB RAM with a 3Ghz processor
I don't think I need that many cores, prefer faster low-thread count processors
Need SFP25 connectivity
Prefer hardware Raid-6 with at least 8 enterprise SSDs. I don't trust ZFS to save RAM in a power fail or HW restart condition.
Main use-case is for shared storage across several users with home directories mounted upon login.
VPN support optional, not required.