06-23-2023, 02:30 PM
I currently have a TS-431P with a TL-D800C expansion unit. I am looking to move my TS-431P into a standalone unit and replace it with another QNAP NAS. Ideally I would like a new QNAP NAS that can work with my TL-D800C but also supports SATA expansion units for later expansions. I would settle for a 4 bay unit but would prefer a 6 or even 8 bay NAS.
When doing a recent live migration I noted that it appeared that the bottle neck was my CPU as the resource manager showed it at near 100%. I understanding doing a live migration on a RAID6 means it had to recalculate parity. I always encrypt my volumes if that impacts the choice.
As for my use case, it is fairly straight forward. A single user (me) uses it to hold a number of RAW images and large video files. For my RAW images I use software that catalogues these on my PC and as a result, have previews of these images stored in a cache located on a drive local to my PC. I do not believe that having an SSD cache on the NAS would be of any use.
I do not use anything like PLEX or the media server components. Whilst my current network only supports Gigabit speeds, I would like to to upgrade it in the near future to either 2.5 Gbit or 10 Gbit.
When doing a recent live migration I noted that it appeared that the bottle neck was my CPU as the resource manager showed it at near 100%. I understanding doing a live migration on a RAID6 means it had to recalculate parity. I always encrypt my volumes if that impacts the choice.
As for my use case, it is fairly straight forward. A single user (me) uses it to hold a number of RAW images and large video files. For my RAW images I use software that catalogues these on my PC and as a result, have previews of these images stored in a cache located on a drive local to my PC. I do not believe that having an SSD cache on the NAS would be of any use.
I do not use anything like PLEX or the media server components. Whilst my current network only supports Gigabit speeds, I would like to to upgrade it in the near future to either 2.5 Gbit or 10 Gbit.