Thanks for this tutorial. I got this Nas about a year ago but didn't set it up yet. Got confused by all the features. I have 2 hgst NAS drives. I noticed that you recommended wd in other videos also. What is your opinion on the hard drives i chose?
THanks great video. I'm moving from a Synology DS214Play to this one soon. Any chance you could do a review on the surveillance feature? You've just got yourself another subscriber.
How about a separate QNAP surveillance station video, showing the setup, mobile app and HDMI abilities? Remember you've got x4 free camera licenses on that little beauty; get some Hikvision IP cameras! Also when you do your home theatre video I'm guessing you will probably cover PLEX and KODI which is cool, but can you also include QNAPs official video streaming software and apps to establish which ones perform better in certain scenarios. After running Plex on my Synology from day one, I've since found that the actual official inbuilt Synology streaming software way out performs Plex for me on the exact same NAS. Although the official software is no where near as feature rich as Plex it seems to stream seamlessly at much better quality with no buffering.
Great video, concise and just what I wanted to see thanks. On a 4-disk QNAP NAS (e.g. TS-453B-8GB), if using as a file station, media station and surveillance station, presumably a single RAID configuration, but would you setup separate volumes for these - any benefits? Also, possibly use for a Windows PC with virtualisation (QvPC) which would most likely setup its own volume? You mentioned RAID 5 for a 4-disk, but I think my preference would be RAID 1+0, for quicker access speed, better resilience/redundancy and faster rebuild in the event of a failure, though of course less storage.
+LaughMuBai Cheers mate. Yes you can run Windows in virtualisation. I think it's best to go raid 5 (3 drive minimum) rather than 2 volumes. It's safer, more than fast enough considering the Ethernet. Connection will be the bottleneck
Hi, thanks for the video, very clear and well explained. Is it possible to use the nas without an internet connection? use it as an internal server connecting computers to a router without internet connection? Thanks again
Its not a good idea. I would dump the data somewhere else then start with a fresh volume. As far as I know you cant do it. It maybe possible though somehow.
I appreciate the hands-on feedback. Searched through the menu and forums and couldn't get a straight answer. It would be easy to dump the data elsewhere anyway, so not a big deal. Thanks for your video as well, makes it all very clear.
Thanks for the reply. At the moment I have 2x 3TB in RAID 1 config. Doesnt that mean that I could take 1 drive out put it in the new NAS. Then copy all the data over from the old one to the new one. Then wipe the old one and put it in the new one?
i have a 6 bay Thunderbolt Promise Raid. I started out with four 2TB drives that made into a Raid 5 for video editing. i just bought two more drives. I want to separate my Cache / render files from my Media files for faster access. if i install these two drives and make them into a Raid 0, will i still get the same speed as if i was using a different drive. both rads will be in the same inclosure.
402.0 MB/s WRITE 356.2MB/s READ. i wanted to know if i make a second array on this machine (RAID 1) If it would be slower since both arrays (4 DIscs RAID 5 & 2 discs RAID 0) are in the same inclosure going thru the one Thunderbolt cable.
402.0MB/s Write and 356.2MB/s Read. That is from four 2TB drives setup as a RAID 5. I have 2 more bays and i'm wondering the best way to use them. If i use two 2TB drives in a RAID 0 (for speed in editing video) in the last 2 bays will i get the speed i need / want since both RAIDs are coming from the same Thunderbolt tower? Thanks for your help!
