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Hi, my name is Lance and I had a quick question about which model of QNAP to buy. I am looking to upgrade my 451+ model and need a faster processor and more expandability without having to buy a external expansion module for now. The two models that I have been looking at are the TS-464 and the TS-873A. I do not run many apps on the server but would like more performance and the ability to expand without purchasing something else, until I need to. I have watched both Youtube videos on the models and they seem fairly close and even compared the processor speeds on cpubenchmark.net and they are fairly close as well. From your expertise, which model would you recommend, as I do not want to spend the $1,000 now and just go with the TS-464 but will spend the extra money for the 873A if you think it is worth it now or even wait if QNAP is about to do a refresh on either of these models. Any help would be appreciated and have a great weekend! Thanks.

I Let me start by saying I've been watching your youtube channel for a couple of years now and I love the detailed reviews you do. I'm looking to buy a new NAS server for home. I've had 2 QNAP servers in the past a TS639 Pro and a TS419 PII. We primarirly use it to store important home files and documents and lots of home videos and photos. My wife being a photographer has been doing a lot on it and I'm looking to get a replacement. I have been eyeing the QNAP ts464 with all its upgradeable perks and was wondering if you would recommend anything better that won't break the bank. I would like something with the following: 4bays that can handle RAID 5 and has Nvme cache options. If you could recommend one I would trully be appreciative.

Thank you
Darren

Thank you for all of the videos on YouTube, they have been very helpful.

I would like guidance for a few questions.

I have a collection of movies / TV Shows (1080p or SD) and audio files (flac). Currently the collection is 8TB, but will grow as I convert a very large collection of DVDs and CDs to files. Expected growth over time is another 8TB or more.

Currently the collection is on a pair of external Lacie d2 Professional drives (drives are Seagate Ironwolf Pros).  These drives are backed up to another Lacie d2 Professional.  Movies / Music that I want to use are copied to another external which is connected to my router via USB.  The files are played on an Nvidia Shield Pro (via Kodi), a PC (VLC and Foobar2000) and phone /tablet (VLC).  I am the only user.  It is only used in my home.

Rather than have a subset of my collection available,  I would like the entire collection available via NAS.  The master copies will remain on the individual external drives, which will continue to be backed up.  The NAS is an extra copy of the data for daily usage.

I have narrowed the NAS down to a QNAP TS-464.  Based upon current and projected data and current pricing at ServerPartDeals, I am leaning towards 18TB Seagate Ironwolf Pros.

Question 1: Am I better off starting with two 18TB HDDs in Raid 1, keeping bays three and four open or going directly to three 18TB HDDs in Raid 5 (with bay 4 for future use)? Is there a benefit to buying all three drives at the same time? Price and availability will be different when / if I need the 3rd drive. I plan on using snapshots.  As I load more onto the NAS, the data will grow on the weekends, so a weekly snapshot will suffice.

Question 2: I plan on using QTS as the OS.  Is there any benefit to including a pair of M.2 NVME drives in Raid 1 for the purpose of having the system volume separate from the data volume?

Question 3: Noise.  Based upon your video for TS-464 noise levels, it seems that most of the noise will come from the drives.  I have seen various recommendations for adding tape / cardboard to pad the drives so they don't rattle, other recommendations for using screws instead of the side clips and further recommendations that adding the NVME drives for the system volume reduces noise.  Will any of that actually help?  The NAS will be in a bedroom.

Question 4: RAM.  For my usage above (file server for movies / music), will the installed 8GB be enough?  If I do want to add additional RAM, can I only add 1 additional stick so long as it is of the same size, type and speed, or would I have to replace the installed RAM for the sake of having a matching brand?

Thank you for your advice!

Steve

Hi, Love your videos! Thanks for your attitude and approach and knowledge that you share with us.

I am wondering if you can help me with a little problem:

I have bought 2 x 2TB WD Reds to replace 2 x 4TB WD Reds on a DS218+ (DSM 6.2), 10Gb of Ram but don't know what process to undertake to swap them over.

Currently the 2 x 4TBs are in a Synology SHR Raid in one storage pool.

Thanks in advance for your help, I can't seem to find any info anywhere to help me undertake this process.

Many Thanks

James

Hello,
I watch your videos all the time.
I need a personal NAS to backup four 256gb iPhones and two 512GB mac. 2-4 users. Need to share photos and documents with 4-6people. I wanted to buy QNAP 462 4g with 2 x 12gb HDD but got to know qnap is not secure. Don’t want to spend on 923+ for 1Gbps port. prioritizes 1) fast access2) price 350USD only for nas3)bit future proof on storage. Waiting on thanks giving deals!
Thanks

I already have a Freebsd Samba server.

I think I want:
4 bay raid nas:
3x 8tb raid 5
1x 8tb hot spare

just to do backups of the pc's at home
and daily website CPanel backups

I don't know what all the 3rd party apps do but that suggests I don't need them.

I'm struggling to parse through the multitude of options.

I'd like for the solution to be under $200USD but that may be unrealistic.

Hi there, i will be very happy to ear your opinion about a NAS 4 bay for ssd drives (m.2 NVMe SSD) for a small bussiness

looking for a NAS for DR/Virtualization
CPU (cores) and RAM (ECC preferable but not essential) are critical factors aside from performance of storage and network since we may use device to spin up VMs to validate or run in DR capacity.

looking for something like:
8 core i5 or better (as good as I can get for budget)
32gb RAM (ECC would be nice)
10GbE (dual would be nice)
NVME cache

would also like to have raid 5 or 6
plus at least 2 unused drive bays to hot swap in some drives to expand or for an occasional bulk copy for archiving elsewhere
PCIE or usb-c for add-in devices

Newbie

Based on the out of reach prices of Synology NAS, I found a DS1513+. from a small business. Is it worth it today functionality wise.

Thank you for your time and great work.

The unit is shipping in the US, and the latest OS allows for IP tunneling over USB4, so I think this is a good solution for my Mac Studio and video editing.

But I haven't seen benchmarks for IP Tunneling with NVMe SSD read/write caching.

I was thinking of a four or six bay unit with Ironwolf Pro 24Mb drives.

What I don't know is what brand of NVMe SSD memory to add and what quantity/size? What is the sweet spot?  They would need to be very durable for lots of read/writes, and too large a cache might not be helpful.

Also will I need additional DDR5 ECC RAM, and if so is there an alternative to the Asustor RAM which seems overpriced?