Dear Rob,

I would like to ask your help with the following question.

Currently, I have a Synology DS420j with four WD82PURZ disks in SHR2/RAID6 mode.
The problem is that this setup is very noisy, and it produces a lot of heat.
I should add that the NAS is in a tiny place with little ventilation.

Earlier I had a DS220j with two WD40PURZ disks, and it worked like a charm.
I replaced the disks with WD82PURZ models due to increased storage requirements.
It was noisier, but the temperature remained below 43 degrees.
In comparison, the current configuration is much louder, and at full speed, the two fans could only cool the disk to 47-48 degrees.

I would like to ask what I need to change to have a quiet and cool system. I read about BeQuiet! and Noctua quiet fans.
So far, I have chosen purple WD drives to eliminate frequent head parking.

A two-bay NAS system with 10-12TB of RAID1, one gigabit Ethernet, and 5400 rpm drives are enough for me.
I’ve only had Synology devices, but I don’t stick to the brand.

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

Best Regards,
Chris

I am a first time NAS buyer for my home use. I am the only person who will be using the nas. I am looking mainly for storage for my music collection & photos. Also to access my storage remotely. I also want to remove some of my files away from the laptop & onto the NAS. I will backup the NAS to an external drive also. I am not planning on loading movies on the NAS. If I do it will only be for my inside home playback. Anything else that I should know about purchasing my 1st NAS?

I am a first time NAS buyer for my home use. I am the only person who will be using the nas. I am looking mainly for storage for my music collection & photos. I am not planning on loading movies on NAS. If I do load movies it will only be for inside my home playback. Also to access my storage remotely. I also want to remove some of my files away from the laptop & onto the NAS. I will backup the NAS to an external drive also. Is there Anything else that I should know about NAS usage?
I am replying back . You recommended the Synology 218 or 218 +. Here in Canada the 218 + seems to be out of stock everywhere. I was looking at the ds218 compared to QNAP ts-230. They seem to have similar specs but the QNAP is 1/3 the price here in Canada. In your opinion why is the synology the better choice?
I was originally looking at both of those synologys but the saw the QNAP
Thank you very much for your time

Hi, love your youtube vids and appreciate all that you do..

Can you ‘please’ do a ‘really clear’ video on synology certificates! I’m referring to the ‘your site is not secure’ business . There are loads on YouTube but I mean a video that is not aimed at those who already know what they are doing with ddns/domain names/ etc.
Whilst I do ‘understand what a domain name is it is the ‘Let’s Encrypt’ certificate I’m referring to with a proper before/after demonstration, other vids finish with eg “so click apply and there you go, bye”

I’m a home user with a 416 Play NAS for storing family stuff on to share eg pics with family living elsewhere, I have a registered domain name but don’t use it for a website, just the email function.

Many thanks

Hello, I finally pulled the trigger and purchased QNAP-TVS-872N to run home plex/personal storage NAS. I have a ton of media I'll be loading on it right away so I have 6x 16TB HDDs loaded and ready to roll.

I just don't know if I should be using a static volume with no pools or thick/thin provision model with pools.


From what I have been able to gather snapshotting and volume expansion are the primary reasons to use thick/thin volume types

I don't really foresee myself adding to this main volume and would likely only use the remaining bays on a separate set of drives for my surveillance system.

So for a typical home user is snapshotting worth the storage allocation required (suggested) by QNAP when creating the volume? As far as I can tell it doesn't provide any disaster recovery, but only "oopsie" recovery from accidental delete.

Is there any other main benefits I'm missing from snapshot or other processes run with thick/thin volumes?

Am I losing out on a bunch of valuable tech by choosing to simple volume raid 5 my drives?

Hi, thank you for your great YouTube channel!

I bought a TS-873A with 64GB RAM. I will will use it with a RAID 5 of 3 existing Seagate 4TB IronWoolf, and maybe as well some other HDD. I did an upgrade of desktop, 2.5Gb LAN and a 5 port QNAP Switch. I decided to runt it with QuTS, jsut set up it. Currently I wonder how to get best performance if want to use Virtualization or Container station. I don´t understand how System pool or cache is working. Would you recommend a raid 1 with two SSD (I would go for M.2 because saving bays and PCIe 3.1 should be enough for my requirements as well I can use cheaper ones with more MTBF instead of huge transferspeed)? If I re setup the NAS again with SSD RAID1 would this be the system pool? Is it possible to use this as well for data of VM´/Containers? How I calculate the space for it? I expect something around 500GB should be enough? A dedicated ssd cache seems the least helpful to me. But may I will have a SATA SSD for that from my workstation as well, would this be worth?
Many thanks in advance!
Cheers Michael

Discuss: PS5 WiFi 6 Speed Tests - Better that LAN or WiFi 5? <br><iframe width='560' height='315' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/1-LvkVhmSUM' frameborder='0' allow='accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture' allowfullscreen></iframe>

Tired setting up an NAS 10 years ago with QNAP TS-209. Still have it, basically new with minimal use. Could never get it to work and boxed it up out of frustration. Was definitely not just plug and play. 10 years later, new Windows 10 based network, with typical hope peripherals including a PS3. I want to be able to share files with others in the house, serve media to my home entertainment center, and log in remotely to access files when away. Most of all I want it to be painless to set up and reliable.

I would like to know what is the most powerful nas to buy not to run 100's of websites at the same time. I want to turn it into a webs server. I would like to know what model is up for the task. Size and price is no concern for me.

Hi Team,
I am looking for a rack mount nas device for a small business with two virtual machines and a file server.

Thanks
Shahal