I'm researching for a NAS purchase and I've found your videos to be extremely helpful and well put together. I've watched a LOT of your videos now. You communicate the information in an easy to understand, but detailed manner. Thanks for your hard work in creating such useful content. It truly helps a lot of people like myself and I get tremendous value out of it.
I was soo hoping for such a video. It came just 24h too late. Openend my first and new 6-Bay NAS yesterday. Got the Synology but according to this video it was quite a good choice :) Thank you again for all your videos. They are so incredible helpful for newbies like me 😇
Love that you have a channel that focuses on NAS and related tech. UA-cam just recommended some of your videos to me. I do find it a bit hard to follow due to the speed at which you speak. I tend to need to play back at 0.75x and then on CC to have a chance to keep up, lol.
I've recently purchased 664 for a small company... surprisingly, web interface speed is better and more responsive compared to rackmounted qnap 2483 or 871u units
The versatility and hardware spec of the TS-664 is exactly why I purchased it for my very first NAS. All bays and slots populated (for a total of 10 drives thanks to expansion card) and used for file, media/plex, surveillance, backup, virtualization, and scratch. Yes the software runs deep and may take some time to learn, but I'm thankful to Rob's QNAP Setup Guide series for pointing me in the right direction. This investment should last a good 5-10 years. Since the Terramaster can potentially scale to 32GB of memory on the same CPU, I'd be curious to see if the TS-664 can also do the same. (Waiting for that video to see if it can!)
Please help me understand why you did not select the QNAP TVS-h674-i5-32G, where that model not only supports an excellent Plex hardware decoder (Intel UHD 730 graphic chip) but also QNAP's Quts Hero (ZFS) file system. I would also add that this hardware platform supports Intel's PCIe Gen 4, including 2 M.2 PCIe Gen4 x4 slots. If you want to argue "future proof", this is the QNAP model I would have chosen.
All very valid points and genuinely, the only reason it is not here is 1) I have never used it personally and 2) at the time of recording this video, I had not used the TVS-h874 (currently reviewing). So if I included it, I'd be breaking my own rules.
Looking for an 8 to 12 bay unit due to my 4 bay 920+ being almost full. Looking at lots of reviews and Synology are still fitting hardware people were moaning about over 12 months ago on machines that double the 920+ price. Reluctant to get the DX517 because its about 90% of the price of the 920+ also. May as well get another 920+.
I would say yes and no. QNAP wins software if you want options, as it offers the most capabilities of any NAS OS. Synology is slick and has a nice feel to it and has some quicker deployment in some areas and QNAP in others. So I think that should be factored into the top software contenders. Synology is a total joke for hardware and is getting slammed on media platforms. So you can buy a better software nas that gives you 1gbe and you fully saturate it with only one drive. Swell great software thought! 4 years ago I would total agree with that statement but now, certainly not todays Synology. Can I blame Synology, same yes and no... They clearly want you to buy their high end stuff costing 3 to 4 times the price (even thought the competition gave better ports a long time ago.) and when they do sell their mid tier stuff they are making a incredible margin, yes they have to pay programmers, but that was mostly a while ago. I have not seen huge leaps in DSM with all the supposed dollars they are putting into it. So I don't really buy it, they wanted pure bottom line and they will sell half the units and probably make the same money. They nickel and dime the living heck out of you, with their ssd, 10gbe, etc. They are making sweet money for anyone buying the 4 and 5 bay stuff, I think it is silly really....
Need someones opinion on the ds260slim, will there be a new version in around 2 years time? Im wanting to get this one now but im wondering if i should wait for it to be ddr4 ram etc.
Can I move my 4 drives from my Synology DS415+ to the QNAP without losing data? I currently have it in SHR mode. Does QNAP have a similar flexible RAID?
No you would have to recreate the OS on them. No QNAP doesn't support flexible raid. Flexible raid is nice but hurts overall raid performance, I always buy new like drives when I deploy a new NAS. I own a 453E, very happy with it...
Problem is Big Drive are noisy ,while capacity per drive is limited due to noise , increasing bay count is the only way to go Yeah and they are costly too
I'm researching for a NAS purchase and I've found your videos to be extremely helpful and well put together. I've watched a LOT of your videos now. You communicate the information in an easy to understand, but detailed manner. Thanks for your hard work in creating such useful content. It truly helps a lot of people like myself and I get tremendous value out of it.
I was soo hoping for such a video. It came just 24h too late. Openend my first and new 6-Bay NAS yesterday. Got the Synology but according to this video it was quite a good choice :)
Thank you again for all your videos. They are so incredible helpful for newbies like me 😇
Love that you have a channel that focuses on NAS and related tech. UA-cam just recommended some of your videos to me. I do find it a bit hard to follow due to the speed at which you speak. I tend to need to play back at 0.75x and then on CC to have a chance to keep up, lol.
I've recently purchased 664 for a small company... surprisingly, web interface speed is better and more responsive compared to rackmounted qnap 2483 or 871u units
The versatility and hardware spec of the TS-664 is exactly why I purchased it for my very first NAS. All bays and slots populated (for a total of 10 drives thanks to expansion card) and used for file, media/plex, surveillance, backup, virtualization, and scratch. Yes the software runs deep and may take some time to learn, but I'm thankful to Rob's QNAP Setup Guide series for pointing me in the right direction. This investment should last a good 5-10 years.
Since the Terramaster can potentially scale to 32GB of memory on the same CPU, I'd be curious to see if the TS-664 can also do the same. (Waiting for that video to see if it can!)
Please help me understand why you did not select the QNAP TVS-h674-i5-32G, where that model not only supports an excellent Plex hardware decoder (Intel UHD 730 graphic chip) but also QNAP's Quts Hero (ZFS) file system. I would also add that this hardware platform supports Intel's PCIe Gen 4, including 2 M.2 PCIe Gen4 x4 slots. If you want to argue "future proof", this is the QNAP model I would have chosen.
All very valid points and genuinely, the only reason it is not here is 1) I have never used it personally and 2) at the time of recording this video, I had not used the TVS-h874 (currently reviewing). So if I included it, I'd be breaking my own rules.
16:41 Lockerstation. T_T I'm dead.
Will you be doing a best of for 8 bays as well?
Looking for an 8 to 12 bay unit due to my 4 bay 920+ being almost full. Looking at lots of reviews and Synology are still fitting hardware people were moaning about over 12 months ago on machines that double the 920+ price. Reluctant to get the DX517 because its about 90% of the price of the 920+ also. May as well get another 920+.
I do follow u, for last few year
Should you make video compare software for Qnap / Synology / Asustor? Also pls compare Firewall software for these 3 OS!
I wish Synology could do ZFS based NAS models.
Would you agree that the main selling point of those Synology, QNAP NAS/SAN appliances is the software they are shipped with?
I would say yes and no. QNAP wins software if you want options, as it offers the most capabilities of any NAS OS. Synology is slick and has a nice feel to it and has some quicker deployment in some areas and QNAP in others. So I think that should be factored into the top software contenders. Synology is a total joke for hardware and is getting slammed on media platforms. So you can buy a better software nas that gives you 1gbe and you fully saturate it with only one drive. Swell great software thought! 4 years ago I would total agree with that statement but now, certainly not todays Synology. Can I blame Synology, same yes and no... They clearly want you to buy their high end stuff costing 3 to 4 times the price (even thought the competition gave better ports a long time ago.) and when they do sell their mid tier stuff they are making a incredible margin, yes they have to pay programmers, but that was mostly a while ago. I have not seen huge leaps in DSM with all the supposed dollars they are putting into it. So I don't really buy it, they wanted pure bottom line and they will sell half the units and probably make the same money. They nickel and dime the living heck out of you, with their ssd, 10gbe, etc. They are making sweet money for anyone buying the 4 and 5 bay stuff, I think it is silly really....
Need someones opinion on the ds260slim, will there be a new version in around 2 years time?
Im wanting to get this one now but im wondering if i should wait for it to be ddr4 ram etc.
Can I move my 4 drives from my Synology DS415+ to the QNAP without losing data? I currently have it in SHR mode. Does QNAP have a similar flexible RAID?
No you would have to recreate the OS on them. No QNAP doesn't support flexible raid. Flexible raid is nice but hurts overall raid performance, I always buy new like drives when I deploy a new NAS. I own a 453E, very happy with it...
Problem is Big Drive are noisy ,while capacity per drive is limited due to noise , increasing bay count is the only way to go
Yeah and they are costly too
Cool
Synology offers a 2021 model to a "best of 2022/23" showdown, leaning on the strength of their OS. 🤦🏻♂️
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