QNAP TS-h973AX ZFS NAS First Time Setup Guide
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2020
- QNAP TS-h973AX NAS Review - ZFS? 10G? U.2 NVMe? Too Good to be True? nascompares.com/2020/11/13/qn...
Network-attached storage for both home and business provide fewer surprises every year. Whether it is the power of the hardware or the capability of the software, the innovations that continue to roll out of the big brands in NAS make less and less of an impact. This doesn’t make those achievements any less important, it is merely that so many good things can now be done with a private server that we expect them to do many of these things by default. Late last year when QNAP unveiled their new parallel operating system for enterprise, QuTS Hero, many were impressed but sceptical that a full performance and software equipped ZFS NAS could be possible at this arguably lower price point and hardware tier - sure, you can run it on a rackmount, but that’s quite a high price! Fast forward a year and not only do we find that you can now affordable own a fully-featured and well-equipped ZFS NAS from QNAP with Intel Xeon under the desktop bonnet, but we are also starting to see far more modest hardware devices such as the QNAP TS-h973AX arrive on the scene and challenge how expensive or powerful a ZFS NAS needs to be. Today’s review of the QNAP TS-h973AX triple-tier ZFS NAS system, available for around £850 with tax, is about confirming weather enterprise-grade features and functionality can genuinely be purchased at the consumer-grade price point. Arriving with three separate media tiers for storage that include U.2 NVMe, 10GbE connectivity, a ZFS based file system and all of this running with the affordable Ryzen AMD V1500B processor - does this NAS fly too close to the sun or could this be one of the biggest game-changers in the market we’ve seen in years? Let’s find out.
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There is a BIG mistake in this video please be really careful!
QNAP suggests to create the FIRST partition on SSDs on a ZFS steup since the system processes are running on this Disks. This is handled wrong here and even the warning shown is interpredted in a wrong way
Haven’t you try to install Linux-like os? True as or proxmox? Looks like perfect homelab server
This is fantastic video thanks and my comment is not on the video, but on my experience having owned a TS-h973AX. My unit failed within 2 years. The reseller messed up and 'lost' my repaired drive and couldn't source me a new unit. QNAP frankly did not care about my warranty. They were completely fine with the way the reseller dealt with the issue. So anyone buying a QNAP unit, beware. Your warranty with QNAP is useless and cannot be enforced.
I've watched at least 100 videos over the years and finally settled on buying this NAS. Question: can I connect my NAS to the network - at 1 gbe - AND directly to my computer's 10 gbe connection. Asus Zenith II Extreme Alpha has both a 1gbe and a 10 gbe connection. Thus, could I connect the 2.5 gbe to the router and the 10 gbe directly to my computer for faster file transfers and editing? Thank you.
That’s a big honkin’ NAS!
What you around 5:16 is interesting. I use a Windows pc and this is the device I use to mostly write and read data to and from the NAS. However, I use my Galaxy Tab S6 (android) to watch 4k movies from the NAS. Is it then wise to tick Linux too or just leave it at Windows?
Hello! Coming in 2 months late with a reply, but I looked and saw this: "Android supports FAT32/Ext3/Ext4 file system. Most of the the latest smartphones and tablets support exFAT file system." I'd treat it as Linux for this purpose.
Dear NASCompares please compare real live performance tests and not just QNAP Powerpoints/static data.
I had bought my previous QNAP based on Powerpoint/static data and in real life it’s nowhere near on what they present.
Different use cases like tiering, HDD SATA RAID, SSD RAID AND NVMe RAID caching R/W real live numbers would be better.
My 3x SSD RAID 5 perform less than 4x WD Gold 4TB RAID 5 drives.
Is it a good bargain for data storage and 1 vm Windows instead of Ts h 886??
Coming in 5 months later so you have undoubtedly already made your buying decision, so this is really for anyone else looking at this video and is interested in my experience:
I... have both (all use RAID 6 pools with WD Red Pro 7200RPM drives)! I use the TS-h886 as main storage and Plex server, and maybe other functions if I need them. It's great because it has the flexibility of having 2x PCIe expansion slots (I installed a single port 10G adapter that also has 2x NVMe m.2 slots, and also have a 4x m.2 card I can slot in there if I need to. Or I can put a GPU in there (I have no need, as most of my Plex content is 1080p, and every device in my house that would possibly connect to Plex supports that.) Or whatever.
The TS-h973AX is about half the size, is much quieter, has 10G RJ45 built in, and a AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V1500B quad-core eight threads 2.2 GHz processor (the TS-h886 has a Intel® Xeon® D-1622 quad-core 2.6 GHz processor (burst up to 3.2 GHz)). No PCIe expansion!
I use the TS-h973AX as my big dumb storage backup (I didn't even bother to put any SSDs in it as of yet). Once the lab is finished, what will happen is that the TS-h886 will serve duty as high sped Plex server and host/server backup (my and my family's personal documents, tax records, etc. in one storage pool, Plex media content in another, ISO images and other Lab related stuff in yet a third pool). The TS-h886 SnapSyncs snapshots to the TS-h973AX, whose primary purpose is to store those snapshots AND be locked away from hosts connecting to it other than devices I use to admin it, and the other NAS. I can also put any data there that simply doesn't need to be backed up.
He never answers to questions... waste of time!
Pretty much every video he makes. I hate that he has saturated UA-cam because he almost never actually talks about the title of the video or what I'm hoping to find out. For example, I can't find anything useful about installing the U.2 drives. Do they come with M.2 adaptors? Are there approved adaptors?
@@TheToneWorkDid you ever get adapters for your NVMe SSD’s? If not , I got the QNAP QDA-UMP4 at about $50 on B&H Photo… They work perfectly for the WD SN700 NVMe SSD’s for my TS h973AX 32G…!!!