Hi,

I'm loving the site & the youtube channel! It's invaluable for non-specialists like myself so please keep it up!

I'm looking to consolidate a couple of old DS1812+ (16TB each) along with a pile of external G-Technology hard drives into a new larger NAS.
By rough estimate I currently need approx. 64TB of storage (plus the same as backup) with room to grow into so am looking at 128TB options.
My use case is 3d animation/rendering where the NAS would house everything. I have around 10 render nodes which would be accessing the NAS for source files & saving rendered images to. I plan to connect my editing workstation (HP Z820) directly to the NAS over 10GBe.

So, to my questions:

1. Is there a better option for this than the DS1821+?
2. For backup I plan to run a 2nd DS1821+ for the reason that if the main unit goes down, the backup can just take over. Is this idea reasonable?
3. As I plan to run 2 identical units, is there any downside to using RAID 0? I could do with the extra space & hopefully a bit more speed. Am I missing something here?
4. I've found a good deal for a unit including Seagate Exos x16 disks - would you recommend these disks in my case?
5. From what I've read, the NVMe cache wouldn't really help my use case - is that correct?

Many thanks in advance!

Kind regards

Hi,
I found your website completely by chance and started to read as much as I can :-)
I am impressed, big thank you !
I have a small question but first I need to say that I am a real average person with not in depth knowledge in NASes.
A few years ago I managed to set up a NAS on my own, using OMV and various salvaged bits and pieces from old computers.
And it works(!) albeit not blazingly fast.
One thing I remember setting up my box -and it was really important for me- was that PMV required its own disk or at least (of course) its own partition.
Having the OS completely apart from my two mirrored data disks on a separate disk was/is of great value for me.
So now my questions:
With all those nice Synology/Qnap/Terramaster/etc NASes, where is the respective OS installed ?
Is it installed on the data disk? Or maybe on an SD card or USB thumb drive?
I want to buy one of these nice things (I like the QNAP TS-453Be) but I really don't want the OS to share physical space with my data disks.
Many thanks for your fantastic work
Kind regards
Michael

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Hi,
I love your content, thank you! I am brand new to the world of NAS storage and find the whole area quite confusing. I am sure you have answered my question many times over so my deepest apologies if you have.

I am looking for an 8 bay desktop-style NAS enclosure only right now, for as close to the £1000 mark as possible with the intention of buying 10tb or above drives as I need them to populate the bays in the coming weeks or months

I work from home running a company called Wylies Outdoor World, here is our web link if you are interested https://wyliesoutdoorworld.com/

I am needing a NAS system to share files between my team both locally and remotely. These files can be anything from pictures, documents all the way up to 4k video files.

We are still quite new to YouTube but focusing and investing heavily this year in growing our YouTube with our camping, bushcraft tutorials, product reviews and will be touring the UK filming in 4k.

All our files will be held on the nas, But I also use plex as my home media server, which I do watch from my mobile device on cold nights on camping trips.

at the moment all these files are held on my main editing pc, it works like a dream but sharing is problematic I find with other users out of my network .

if you could point me to a qnap or Synology enclosed that will do these jobs I would be really gratfull

I'm running a plex server for my family off of my TVS-872XT and am getting towards the point where more and more family members are being added and watching concurrently.

I am planning to max out my RAM, but wanted to see what the best CPU upgrade was that would work?

Thanks!
Ethan

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I need a recommendation for a UPS to gracefully shutdown my new DS920+

The articles I can find are all several years old and the product links are out of date,

Hi

I have a 3TB airport time capsule that is now 10 years old and seems to be failing. I have worked out that I have approx 800GB of data on my iMac to be backed up. I also have a my passport 2TB drive which holds my TV, Movies, Photos (approx 26,000 pictures so far) and Music, this is almost full and is backed up to the time capsule. So in total I have approx 3TB of stuff backed up. As the time capsule is not looking good I think it is time to look at getting a NAS. I think I have narrowed it down to a QNAP-TS-453D or Synology DiskStation DS920+. We run in our house 1 x iMac, 1 x MacBook (occasionally) 1 x iPad mini, 2 x iphones, 1 x apple TV. Also have 2 Bose systems, 2 DVR recorders, 2 oppo blueray units, Bose soundTouch with 2 x wif amps. We also have 4 hikvision cameras connected to an NVR (don't need connecting to NAS). I have just bought a Linksys poe+ 24 port switch which ports everything around the house via cat cabling.

My first question is with the amount of data I have as explained above, am I being over the top with my choices of NAS? Here in Australia I would be looking at approx AU$1600 to buy this, including Ironwolf drives. If it is overkill, what NAS drives would you recommend stepping down to? I only require the backup and storage for a growing media collection and assume a NAS will give me access to all files and media files from any computer/device being used. Also at the moment stream media from iMac to apple TV2 to Loewe TV, would Plex be better?

Second I am not sure how big I should go with the Ironwolf drives. My logic says I have 3TB already, 4TB won't last long, 6TB might last a while and 8TB would be perfect but if I am buying 3 drives for either of the NAS drives mentioned does that give me over the top storage capacity. Can't get my head around RAID capacities over actual capacity required. I think a total of 8TB should see me through the next few years so would I get away with 3 x 3TB drives and be able to have enough room for all that I need to back up, 3TB, and the amount of storage I need for my growing media collection.

I only started researching this last week and have learnt quite a bit from your videos etc. But as you know it is a minefield out there, I'm happy to spend AU$1600 if it gets me a future-proofed but if I can save some money and tone it all down a bit my wife would be happy!!!

Sorry this is a bit long winded and I hope it makes sense to you, but I want to get my choice right!!

Thanks for all your hard work in making your videos and I look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions

Kind regards

David

Hi.
I came across one of you videos. Well done very interesting indeed.
At the moment I have 4 USB 2 tb drives which I connect to my laptop one at camp time. But would love to have access to all music if in one place.
I have a duo nas with 2 hard disc and found it challenging to transfer the amount of music and gave up on it.
I also have karaoke music available on the drives but would be great to connect and see them on the TV via my denon amo which is available through WiFi or can cast to it.
The main question!! Would do you recommend that would see all my music in one place and easily accessible? Also easily to update should I need to.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Alfred