The QNAP TS-x53D Sets a new standard for network speeds.. 

Yea my dad needs to transcode from my plex even though I have gig up and down because of subtitles. I have to either replace the video card I use for this in pass through on my esxi server or block 4K from him.

I use subtitles when watching anime so its not just an old people thing (not saying I'm not old, just there are other reason ;) )

@@AnthonyMartocello Same here, most of my anime has dual audio to, but I choose to play Japanese audio with english subtitles.

look at his videos he's some much more!!!

sorry daddy :(

I did the r720xd route it was cool for a bit. Nice machine though

@@emsbas1 I found, building with that was way easier and cheaper than going with a prebuilt or using Supermicro parts to build .

@@marcesw35 its definitely cheaper, and makes doing various things cheaper by the fact that you can basically treat it like any other pc of that era (wrt pcie) - as it's just "a server", you can plug in any second hand network, usb, video, or whatever other cards you want in it as long as they physically fit and be on your way. Heck, I've got a 2070 from HP (stripped from a dead Omen gaming rig), some intel nvme add in cards, an LSI HBA, and some no name usb 3.1 card in mine... However, there are just a ton of reasons to *not* do this and instead go for something like the qnap imo. Its quiet enough (without any tinkering needed) to be placed anywhere, uses less power by orders of magnitude (could honestly pay for itself over time if your electricity rates are high), and so much more compact that it could be set down wherever you want without drawing massive attention. Not to mention, its warranted; if something fails, you're not stuck hunting Ebay for something you hope will work. Of course, I have no exp with qnap's support team and processes/policies, but any support is (usually lol) better than none. I've gotten to the point that I've outgrown my 720xd and am migrating to a couple "custome/DIY" systems im building around xeon golds now, with the reasons above playing a pretty massive part in my rationale for doing so. Not the entire reason (needed more compute, as well as high availability), but a very significant portion of it.

@@Banner1986 You make a good point for the compact of the Qnap. I have 1 of them and 2 buffalo NASes at this time that is why I went build my own. I am building a new home and this new NAS be 1 of 2 for my smart home build. I wanted to see if a custom build would do better and more flexibility for my situation. Don't get me wrong I have had my Qnap and buffalo's for a while and they served me well but now they don't meet my needs. I figured I could build my own for what a new one to replace what I have now and have a greater ability to expand. For the general consumer, I think the store-bought NAS like these is good but as a pro-consumer, they are a bit lacking. As the 10gig market becomes more available and standard I feel the server is a better way to go. For running a plex server I use a PowerEdge R610 that is just as beefy as my new NAS and the performance difference is night and day, but that is from a pro-consumer point of view. But that's another conversation for another time.

I did the small NAS early on but my needs changed. I wanted to get my camera’s, network storage, VM’s and Dockers in 1 box.

Yep, I have 16GB in a 251D

I get the same issue with two Intel 10gbe cards with or without router. That is with single file transfer but can do 10Gbe with multiple file transfer. Can't figure out why it limits to only 7Gbe in a single stream. This is windows to unraid NVME cache

Yes they will, 4x WD 12Tb Elements in mine.

If your switches can not do 2.5Gb, they will default to 1G. this is why integrating this new switch into my beefy 10g setup is not practical. But, if you didnt have 10g....It would be an upgrade.

I'm at the itchy phase already and not sure if I can make it a month..

@@Bytemybits you can do it Jason! Have been there myself. As long as can can get through the itchy phase, the other side is so much better

Possibly. The EOL TS-x53BE only has USB 3 (and dual HDMI). The change is probably due to the increased cost of upgraded NICs, CPU, and base RAM.

Right, it's not really for SSDs, and it's fine for spinning rust. You don't have to go through the hoops of getting used or paying hundreds of dollars premium to get a 10gig setup. 10gig is better, and If you need 10gig, 2.5 isn't really an option anyways. However 2.5 isn't bad for most people's usage. Kinda surprised 5gig isn't a standard being pushed, but I guess going from 1 to 2.5gig is much easier to move to for manufacturers.

I'm saying 2.5 should be the new "low". Like, at bare minimum, 2.5Gb should be the slowest..

@@Bytemybits In 2016 I started looking for faster networks. My idea was to have a faster version of what I had (everything on a 1gb passive cooled switch which I’d ignored for 10 years)... after a lot of Amazon wishlisting where I got to was... I really have three network styles/sections: Wired Fast/bulk (50-200gb transfers normal, lots of client/server)... SFP+ preferred -NAS -Virtualisation -Workstations -Backbone (connect to other segments) -Router Wired underpowered devices (wired for reliability, never max 1 gb) -Printers -Smart TV Wireless (Currently wifi 5, upgrade to wifi 6e when there’s an AP with wired multi gig backhaul) -Mobile (100gb transfers not uncommon when loading/unloading 4K video) -Visiting Mac users (to be mocked and migrated to Linux) As soon as I realised that I: -ditched the idea of trying to set a network-wide minimum. -was freed up from the SFP+/RJ45 dilemma as I didn’t need the printer and the same switch. -Didn’t need a ton of ports on the 10gb part (e.g. mikrotik 4x10gb+1x1gb switch is currently ~$US116.. although I bought the 8 port version for future proofness )

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yes. In fact, it will be upgrading my pr4100 I have at work. The software is much more advanced, from many angles. I'm actually kind of excited to have a new toy to play with at work lol

If it has a PCI slot, yeah. the unit I got had both a full height and half height bracket.

@@Bytemybits thanks

Oh, and if you have a way to monitor its power consumption (while using QuTS), knowing the avg and peak draw you see over time would be fantastic! Since you're using this for work, and especially when being used as a surveillance system with facial rec where the disks are always 100% active and the CPU has to watch to process faces constantly), I feel like this is ideal for getting real world data that better matches what most would use it for (as opposed to just idle watts and peak under torture testing)

I was a bit put off the small QNAP systems with ZFS because of the small number of drives... you want to have 8+ drives so ZFS is a bit more efficient with redundancy Vs storage. Home brew yourself one!

For the need here (4 of them, for remote family), I'd rather go with something like this and pay just a little more - if something fails, its warranted and I can do a video call to walk them through the physical replacement, no cost, and no work for me in setup. They just dont need anything more than a 2 vdev mirrored config, which is far less resource intensive anyway. It's a homerun, for my use case anyway, as long as it integrates/performs well!

I’ve got 10gb internet. I’d much prefer a lower ping time on 1gb than anything I get from 10gb. The thing that does make a difference is having the NAS and Virtualization server on 10gb ports to the rest of the network (those two can chat at top speed and nothing else on the network can temporarily saturate another client off the network)

@@MichaelSmith-fg8xh My vsphere cluster and nas plus a couple of workstations are on the 10gig switches and it does quite nice. A friend upgraded to 40gig and he loves it but I don’t edit video over the network or anything like that. I didn’t realize you would necessarily end up with higher latency we don’t seem to have that issue at the office with our 10 or 100 links.

I can't even get over 35mb up..

@@lordgarth1 Latency should drop with 10gb (numbers-wise its significant but 1gb latency was already pretty low), it’s just my new 10gb ISP’s network has +10ms of latency compared to my old 1gb provider.

So supplement with one.

10gig Mikrotik switch is a great way to go why sit at the bottom, go for the top amz.run/3vFw is one solution the other is amz.run/3vFx with a USB-C network adaptor you can see better performance and have the scalability of 10gig.

@@wpgspecb NO I don't want two to buy 4 switches when all I need is 2.

@@marcesw35 MitcroTik switches are nice but they aren't Multi-Gbe. I think right now only Netgear has Multi-Gbe switches. 100Mb to 10Gbe on single switch.

If you want a multi-gig switch to get faster downloads from the internet that's is not how that works. Ex: In my own network all my computers have 1gig connections. All the servers that I do have are connecting to each other through a 10gig connection. My wife and I don't store anything locally, it all is stored on my new NAS. We are getting a sustained transfer speed of over 400mbs in this configuration do you need more than that. transferring data back and forth between servers is well above that.

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