What nas, for professional photo storage of only edited files? I have other NAS systems where i host and work on RAW images and video files. I am looking to have a seperate unit that is dedicated only to hosting the final edits for clients and design team to access. Hosting 3 copies of each file, 1MB jpg 10MB JPG and 30 MB TIFF files,

I already have a remotely connect moments catalog running on our synology ds3617xs and looking to recreate the moments photo experience transitioning from a a ds3617xs at the most affordable rate. Looking for a unit that provides a smooth moments viewing experience

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Hi, I have recently started watching your videos. It has helped me a lot with my first NAS so thank you very much for helping people like me every day!
I bought a Synology DS220j a few weeks ago but I returned it after getting frustrated with lags and holdups due to 512mb ram and instead bought a DS920+ with 4gb added ram module, after your recommendations. I am so confused about the transfer speeds. I have a new cat 6 cable as well as 1000mbps connection in the network settings. But for some reason, I only get 20-30MB per second transfer speed. Sometimes it fluctuates to 40MB per second but sometimes to 10 for a little bit. I spent hour plus with Synology's help desk online. The agent couldn't help me. My computer is directly connected to the router which is connected to Synology he said that these speeds are normal. I have my chat transcript emailed to me as well which I am happy to share. I sent the agent a screenshot of 13MB per second transfer and he said this

I currently have a QNAP 251D. I want to upgrade the RAM. Can I get any major branded DDR4 sodimm RAM to upgrade my NAS RAM or do I need specific brands or models for compatibility?

Thanks.

I have a custom built PC which has a broken motherboard that I was mainly using for Plex. It was built 12 years ago with a first gen i7 6 core and a GTX470 GPU. It has served me fine for what I have wanted though at times it struggled with top 4k files.

I am the main user and can direct play to my 4k samsung tv. However remote use of IOS and family use it so transcoding needs to be considered. I would rather have a NAS running in the background for Plex, radarr and sonarr etc than a PC which wouldn't be used for anything... therefore headless would be better and more power efficient.

My concern though is no NAS I have seen is capable of the capacity and I don't think there are any I can put a GPU in to over come the transcoding issue. Overall CPU seems fine its just graphics power I think they lack. Could you help advise if there is a NAS or would a custom server be better with GPU and SATA backbone?

Thanks,
Edward

Was looking at the tvs-h1288x. Looking for something my family of 5 can use with good remote use. Sometimes 2 or 3 members of the family will remote stream. Trying to find a good nas that can plex transcode up to 4 connections to be safe.

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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