Great video, very informative. for a future video, I would like your thoughts on the relatively new Qufirewall app, benefits and drawbacks, key settings. I recall your participation on the Homeserver show podcast some years ago
Great start to your "QNAP Buttons and Settings Series"! There is a lot you can cover and I'm looking forward to your next installment. What did you mean @ 7:21 saying QNAP supplies their own certificate?
I have found QNAP TVS-951X about 350£ (450$) used with 30 days free return + 6TB WD RED drives + 32GB RAM, should I buy it ?? it does look in a fair condition I want to use it for 4k streaming + 1080 and some backup + two or three members of my family watching 1080 content with me also to back up my stuff on it, should I buy it ??
I have two of these and really like them. As they are not produced anymore and given the configuration is a decent deal. I would go for it. Remember you will need to have a minimum of 3 drives and check on the model number of the red drives (see this video) so you can match it or start with fresh drives.
My opinion is based on my couple of years experience on QNAP. Don't buy it. Buy something more stable. QNAP software is crap and will give you outages and outages over and over again. For example recent firmware update done by system and after firmware update, can't login. Means can't access anything because of encrypted storage. QNAP responded after 2 days and their instructions didn't fix the issue still. No response for last 24 hours and I'm still waiting after 4 days of complete outage. Hoping that eventually at least it gets fixed without any data loss. It has been a disaster situation so far. Time I have spent on QNAP issues working with them again and again every now and then is really just too much too handle when I have already too much work going on.
Sorry to hear. I guess everyone has different experiences. I have dealt with their tech support on software issue several times and they have been very responsive. I have four them and have been very happy with the hardware. We have 8 Synology units at work and 3 have died of hardware failures (power supplies) in about a year's time so for me I would prefer to stick with my QNAPS. I hope you get everything resolved and though there is a learning curve, there are a ton of features. Good luck and thanks for the comment.
@@MikeFaucher one week passed with NAS down after firmware upgrade and T1, T2, T3 support guessing what could resolve it ad no luck so far with any good guess. They asked me to also replace RAM back to ADATA which I told them can't be an issue with such symptoms. I did it for their peace of mind and for progress on case, and exactly as I said, that didn't fix the problem. Nothing changed. One week of total downtime means I redesign my workflow making it completely independent of Qcrap till some better reliable vendor is found. I wouldn't recommend Qcrap = QNAP to anyone based on repetitive experiences. Lucky are all those who promote Qcrap, becauuse they will never face any Qcrap issues in their entire life. I am going to downgrade the firmware back to what worked before upgrade. Only issue is not sure if this Qcrap issue keep showing with future upgrades. Will see.
Fantastic!! Still setting up, and testing, various configuration for my new QNAP. Thank you for this video.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for taking the time for this, very informative and concise.
Glad it was helpful. Thanks for the feedback.
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Thank you for the feedback. I appreciate it.
Great video, very informative. for a future video, I would like your thoughts on the relatively new Qufirewall app, benefits and drawbacks, key settings. I recall your participation on the Homeserver show podcast some years ago
Good memory. I will definitely look into this and do a video. Thanks for the suggestion and the feedback.
Great start to your "QNAP Buttons and Settings Series"! There is a lot you can cover and I'm looking forward to your next installment.
What did you mean @ 7:21 saying QNAP supplies their own certificate?
There is a default certificate supplied by QNAP but you can use a third party. Let me know if you want something covered in the next part 2.
I have found QNAP TVS-951X about 350£ (450$) used with 30 days free return + 6TB WD RED drives + 32GB RAM, should I buy it ?? it does look in a fair condition I want to use it for 4k streaming + 1080 and some backup + two or three members of my family watching 1080 content with me also to back up my stuff on it, should I buy it ??
I have two of these and really like them. As they are not produced anymore and given the configuration is a decent deal. I would go for it. Remember you will need to have a minimum of 3 drives and check on the model number of the red drives (see this video) so you can match it or start with fresh drives.
Thoughts on the recent developments?
If you are referring to security concerns, then yes as I have a video coming our in a week or two on the topic.
My opinion is based on my couple of years experience on QNAP. Don't buy it. Buy something more stable. QNAP software is crap and will give you outages and outages over and over again. For example recent firmware update done by system and after firmware update, can't login. Means can't access anything because of encrypted storage. QNAP responded after 2 days and their instructions didn't fix the issue still. No response for last 24 hours and I'm still waiting after 4 days of complete outage. Hoping that eventually at least it gets fixed without any data loss. It has been a disaster situation so far. Time I have spent on QNAP issues working with them again and again every now and then is really just too much too handle when I have already too much work going on.
Sorry to hear. I guess everyone has different experiences. I have dealt with their tech support on software issue several times and they have been very responsive. I have four them and have been very happy with the hardware. We have 8 Synology units at work and 3 have died of hardware failures (power supplies) in about a year's time so for me I would prefer to stick with my QNAPS. I hope you get everything resolved and though there is a learning curve, there are a ton of features. Good luck and thanks for the comment.
@@MikeFaucher one week passed with NAS down after firmware upgrade and T1, T2, T3 support guessing what could resolve it ad no luck so far with any good guess. They asked me to also replace RAM back to ADATA which I told them can't be an issue with such symptoms. I did it for their peace of mind and for progress on case, and exactly as I said, that didn't fix the problem. Nothing changed. One week of total downtime means I redesign my workflow making it completely independent of Qcrap till some better reliable vendor is found. I wouldn't recommend Qcrap = QNAP to anyone based on repetitive experiences. Lucky are all those who promote Qcrap, becauuse they will never face any Qcrap issues in their entire life. I am going to downgrade the firmware back to what worked before upgrade. Only issue is not sure if this Qcrap issue keep showing with future upgrades. Will see.