Hello, I’m new to NAS. Thank you for your videos it has helped me tremendously in make the move to NAS. I purchased a sys ology DS1520 and I have attached two Reolink E1 zoom cameras. I currently have 3 iron wolf drives. My main question is, I have a 1tb WD purple drive from an old surveillance system, would it be a benefit to add it to my NAS and can I set it up to be used only for surveillance station. If you have a video on this topic that would be great.

Thank you very much for your help

There doesn't seem to be a lot of information out there on Direct Attached Storage solutions. I have tons of 4k video piling up (well over 10 TB and counting - recording the girls's softball games) on external hard drives and would like to put them all in one place. But, it's just me and I have no need for a networked attached device. Something like the Syba 5 bay enclosure looks interesting, but I don't see a lot of information about it. The buffalo drivestations looked intriguing as well, but it doesn't appear to have a diskless option and they appear to ship with no bigger than 4TB internal drives.

Any recomendations?

Thanks,

Hi, I'm very new to Qnap been reading plex's requirement spread sheet for the best systems to play 4k UHD videos and the best out there seems to be the qnap TVS-1282T3 I like the features and I'm hoping it uses plex to it full potential, if you have any thoughts on that would love to hear them. another question is I am using tons of sing external Hardrives as cold storage for my western digital pr4100 Nas and would like to have one big storage array preferably 8 top 12 bay external hardrive can the expansions TX-800P be uses in such a manner where can plug it into my PC and it sees it as one big drive or is there another Qnap product I should be looking at ? any and all advice would be helpful. Best regards!

Hi! Love your content! I'm looking to buy my first NAS. I saw your videos on storing Steam games on a NAS and I would love to offload my games to an external storage rather than clutter up my main PC, especially since I have multiple devices connected to my Steam account with the same games installed. I also have a separate server machine running plex and a few virtual machines. A gaming virtual machine is planned in the future when I can convert that server machine to esxi (currently using workstation player on windows) and upgrade my cpu's/gpu's. I was thinking of storing my vm files on the NAS as well if possible. My Plex library currently only consumes 3TB, but is growing. My Steam/Emulator library is also 3TB and growing. My vm's currently only take up about 0.5TB and I don't see it getting above 1TB anytime soon. I will shortly be upgrading my server, gaming computer, and network switch to 10gbe, so I'm looking for a 10gbe NAS solution. Is it too ambitious to do all of these on one NAS? Would 5 bays be enough for a RAID 5 to be fast enough to utilize my 10gbe connections?

Thank you so much!

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I am an event photographer with a limited budget.
I am in the process of upgrading my hardware and software for an easier more efficient workflow.
I'm on a 27&quot;iMac 2020 and moving to Big Sur.
I use BackBlaze for cloud backup and DriveDx to monitor my drives.

I've consolidated all data onto two 20tb T3 G-Drives one for family and one for clients.
I am now looking for an additional two 20tb or one 40tb DAS T3 drive/s to daisy chain with them.
I intend to use GoodSync to backup onto these new drives, or drive, then use the new faster drives as my main drives.
Since I have both physical and cloud backup I'd like to use the DAS as RAID0.

I am at a loss regarding what to purchase and would very much value your opinion.

Thank you

Hi there - loved your Youtube videos and helpful advice.
I've just replaced my DS213J which died with a new DS420+. 2x2TB drives (I plan to add more later).
What I'm struggling to understand is which file system I should use and does it really matter? I did watch your videos but I was none the wiser.

I'm a home consumer user. Primary usage will be to store and organise family photos (google photos replacement) and home videos. Secondary usage as a media server (music and movies). I will be torrenting a bit. Eventually I will want to also use it for surveillance. I won't be using it for business critical applications.

I understand btrfs is supposed to address 'bitrot' and be more efficienct for storage use.
For my usage, is there any benefit to going btrfs over Ext4? Or should I stick with Ext4, which is supposed to use less resources?
Can I combine the two on one machine? e.g if I want to use the machine for surveillance, what is the best approach here? If I have 4 drives, 3 could be btrfs and one drive dedicated to ext4?

Any suggestions appreciated as much of the searching I've done online to get an answer only leads to being drowned by technical information.

Cheers

Matthew

I have one Netgear NV+v2 (4x 3Tb) which is unreliable (it just lost 4TB of data); I also have 2 Netgear Readynas 214 (4x 4Tb), which are getting VERY full. So I need (at least) another 4 bay (or more) to fill up with 4Tb WD Red (CMR, not SMR), unless adviced otherwise (Netgear always recommended WD Red, and THB I had some issue with Seagates).
At moment I cannot see the RN 214 any more &quot;in stock&quot; on the UK market, only the 424 (@~£340/370, which in your review, you do NOT really recommend for home use.
I REALLY like Netgear build quality, but I find the software quite user unfriendly - it's designed for the &quot;office network manager&quot; and I am not one of them (although being reasonably computer literate, I analysed data with spreadsheets for 25y). But I also had (software?) problem with the NV+, and a RN104 died on me (but the disks went into a 214 without loss of data, which would have been DIABOLICAL)
QNAP & Sinology have a pletora of models, and quite frankly I don't know where to start.

I need NASses (or other alternatives, not yet considered) to
a) keep all my data safe in one place, in 25 Y I had many PCs & laptops, I need a COMMON storage place; that includes 25 years of pictures, music, live gigs etc.
b) I DL movies series (BBC4, Montalbano, Horizon, F1, MotoGP etc) and lots of other stuff of and I can see with DLNA on the android TV;
c) being Italian, I would wish to have access to the data from Italy. That should be possible with the existing NETGEAR kits, but I never really managed to sort it out; and with my old internet plan (700kb/1Mb upload), and a flaky connectivity in italy, it would have been almost pointless.
d) I never used PLEX, I barely know what it is, I might do in future...maybe. Ditto for NETFLIX
e) I don't have any surveillance in place - it would be useful for sure, but I don't see it happening at moment
f) VERY BAD OF ME - I don't have a Backup policy in place: being very messy, I have lots of spare copies of important stuff, but I need to address this. But with 15/20Tb of unique data (on RAID..5.. ?), that may mean a lot more shopping to do.
Sorry for the verbosity, and thanks for the help in advance - Kind regards

So I currently am running a Seagate Blackamor 4-Bay 16 TB NAS on my home network. I have this set up in a Raid-0 configuration. As a result, as you know I have no backup capability. So I am looking at purchasing the TerraMaster F4-210 because of its affordability and expandability. What I am wondering is can I start off with just one HDD in it? I'd like to start with just one 16TB drive, for now, to give me a backup for what I currently have. And then in the future expand this to 64 TB w. 4 x 16TB drives. My thought is to make what I currently have into 2 - 4TB = 8 TB using the other two drives as mirrors of the main two and the same with this new TerraMaster. I would like to expand it at the same time into a 32 TB system with two drives x 16TB and then two more drives as mirrors of those main two. I need to research the RAID configurations more as I am not that familiar with them but I am pretty confident that this is possible. But doing this in stages of affordability is where I am at, and is why I am wondering if I can get away with one drive in it for now?