Dear team of NASCompares,

I would be happy to get advise concerning my search of a right NAS-HDD.

A few months ago I bought a Synology DS1819+ for private and freelance work. Since I like drives by Western Digital and as I was searching for a fast and reliable drive I chose the WD Gold 8 TB (WD8004FRYZ). Of course silent drives are a nice to have but in these circumstances the other criteria were a more important factor to me. Nevertheless after having installed two of these drives I was disappointed because that loud and hard appearing ticking noise every 5 seconds was disturbing me. Much to my regret I am planning to buy other drives for the unused bays in my NAS. Of course the WD Gold drives using helium (e.g. the 12 TB WD Gold WD121KRYZ) would be still the first choice but I couldn't find reliable information in the internet wether the ticking noise is still to be heard of the WD Gold helium drives.

Can you give me a hint whether the WD Gold helium drives still show the clicking noise?

My second choice would be the WD UltraStar 12 TB drives (HUH721212ALE604). Do you know if these drive have a similar ticking/clicking? Can you tell me whether the DS1819+ needs drives with the pin 3 power down function?

Thanks a lot for your answer in advance.

All the best for 2021 and keep you healthy!

Best regards,
Christian

My goal: to digitally convert 50 years plus of video (8, Super 8, Mini DV, photos, negative, birthday cards, special keepsake documents, etc and have the ability to STORE & EDIT this data. I have a Mac (M1 chip) Mini (1Tb internal SSD / 16 Gig RAM). For daily editing tasks I will use a 2 TB SAMSUNG SSD. I’m looking for a NAS that is expandable with RAID capabilities. I have no idea the amount of storage space I will need as I begin Digitizing / Converting my 50 years of content. Your recommendation’s would be most appreciated. PS: I feel that I have a LOT of content to convert. Thank you, Tim Carr

Hi, Happy New Year, assuming that it has started!
The simple question is right at the end of this message, but I've put in some problem details in case you need them.
I currently have a NETGEAR RN204 with all 4 bay populated. It runs XRAID and offers 5.44TB of which 1.43TB is used.
The storage contains a shared iTunes music library, PC backups and stores video for a CCTV application which runs on an 'always on' PC.
My wired network probably runs at 1Gb. All the devices on it have Gigabit interfaces and the cable runs have been installed carefully.
The RN204 seems to be getting a bit creaky. It has taken to regularly failing to download the anti-virus updates and reporting the addition of an external USB drive (there is one that is used for backups).
I think that, over time, I have relied on it more and more, and now it simply can't keep up! After all, it isn't equipped with sparkling processor. To cap it all it is so end-of-life that the NETGEAR site no longer servers up its documentation.
So, the time has come for a replacement. Fortunately I came across your excellent website. I have tried to spot your personal preference. I reckon that it is Synology over QNAP, by a tiny margin.
I have found https://nascompares.com/2020/07/12/synology-ds920-vs-ds420-vs-ds720-vs-ds220-nas-comparison/ very useful. It describes the marketing game that Synology are playing with this interesting range while highlighting the subtle differences between nominally equivalent systems. I could very well go for one of those, after I've investigated further with my aims in mind.
But what of QNAP?
The simple question is, if I am looking at the Synology DS[2479]20+ enclosures, which QNAP boxes should I study?
Thank you for any assistence.
Cheers and take care, 'Nic

Hi.

I just purchased a Synology DS1821+ with 4 6TB drives that were purchased together. I did not add extra RAM or SSD for cache at this stage. I will also add later 1 or 2 additional 6TB drives after moving a backup of my PLEX database from a PC. This will be the 4th Synology in my home. The current installation is single duty with a DS1511+ for PLEX, a DS716+ for Surveillance Station (11 cameras and 2TB storage) and a DS411+ for data, photos and Surveillance Station Backup. The environment is rather light use as only 3 people reside in the house regularly and no use is planned for off premise viewing. Max concurrent streams will be 3.

The plan is to centralize the data, photos and Plex on the new DS1821+ and use the DS1511+ and DS411+ for backup. They will also handle backup duty for 3 PC's, and will also backup an additional Synology DS216 used for surveillance in my boat.

My questions are:
1. Can I install 1/2 SSD drives in a separate array in the new nas to use for data and PLEX working files and metadata - movies in the main spinning disk array?
2. I would prefer not to pay the exorbitant Synology RAM prices - is the use of Kingston/Crucial problematic?
3. For the intended application, what amount of RAM should be ideal?

Thank you.

I've brought DS1621+ mostly use for storage and sharing photo and trying to run video server like flex.
may be running 1 or 2 VM. would like to understand

Planning to increase memory to 32GB, but Synology one is very expensive, any recommended memory model other than synology.

Also upgrading 10GB ethernet PCI card make sense or if I don't have internet speed not meet GB then upgrading does not make sense ?

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I have on order a Qnap TVS-h1688x NAS. I have purchased 6 Seagate 16TB drives. I originally thought of doing RAID 6 but, after more reading, it seems I should move to RAID10. In that case I will probably purchase a 7th drive as a hot spare. Do you agree with RAID 10? Next, I have purchased 2x 2TB Adata SX8200 Pro NVMe cards. I am thinking about using those as cache with 20% over provisioning since they lack the endurance of some cards (Iron Wolf?). The question comes with regard to the 4 SATA SSD bays. I am considering putting 4X 1TB SSDs (RAID 10) and using Qtier. Then again, I might use it as a separate SSD pool for the Qnap apps and for OS for virtualization. I haven't found any video that shows recommendations on setting up the 3 tier Qnap storage system. I found one NAScompares video that mentioned having all three types of storage in the system but then only talked about setting up the main pool. Another video compared caching to pure SSD storage but didn't fully cover a three tier system. What are your thoughts. This is a hobby project so I am having some fun designing my dream system. NAScompares keeps mentioning in equipment reviews liking the Qnap 3 tier (SATA drives, SATA SSD, NVMe SSD) but never says how to configure the system. What do you recommend?

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Set up running: QNAP TS-230, newest firmware, 2TB Seagate IronWulf compatible, RAID 1.

All working fine, except: NAS started freezing (ping OK, lights flashing, but no response on Win, GUI, ssh, telnet). Needed hard re-boot twice.

Afterwards, it also kept randomly crashing itself, endless file system checks and RAID resyncs.

Happened during initial setup, while MultimediaStation had finished indexing (>40k photos) and during creation of thumbnails, and while the QuMagie stuff (facial rec, object rec etc.) was running.

To investigate, I stopped all apps and let it run for a night - all fine. Then restarted them one by one, starting with MultimedStation. Which led to instant crash.

So stopped all services and re-started first DLNA (fine), then PhotoStation (fine). So QuMagie was the culprit (causing the crashes).

Could re-start all other apps fine.

Might have contributed by putting the &quot;fan mode&quot; on silent-automatic (even though that shouldnt be how it works...). Put it back to normal.

SOOO my question: can I use QuMagie, not that thumbnails are done and all runs stable?

Or is it too much? Or should I uninstall PhotoStation?

Don't want to cause more crashes and lose endless time on re-syncs etc.

THANK YOU!

Best from Berlin

Hello,

I wanted to buy NAS for my entertainment setup (4K movies, PLEX) and started watching your YouTube videos and articles.
I got some ideas from your videos and sorta decided QNAP TVS-682-i3-8G-US but still not really sure if this will be the perfect model which can really go fine with zero or minimal (minor) issues for long time.

I want to connect NAS to 4K Denon receiver via 4K shielded HDMI cables connected with gigabit ethernet cable to watch movies/shows.
Receiver will be connected with 4k projector. (receiver will get connections like (NAS, Blu Ray Player, Chromecast etc.)

Please give your expert advise on the same.

Thanks,
Kuntal Pathak

Hi,

I'm planning to buy a DS920 from Synology to upgrade my DS214play. I'm using my Nas as a personal cloud for 1 desktop, 2 laptops and 2 phones, a multimedia server with 4k video and continous CCTV with Surveillance station with 4 cameras. What is the best choice to maximize performance: change the standard 4GB DDR to 8 GB DDR or should I use the SSD caching option?