QNAP TR-004 vs TL-D400S NAS Expansion - 4 Bay Comparison
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Not dull at all. Thank you. You helped answer many of the questions I had in my mind.
You answered my questions and a few more I didn't know I had. Thank you very much.
Awesome video..... I just spent 5 days looking at every enclosure possible and decided on the tr-004... I'm just going to plug it directly into a server....
This was a fantastic clearly articulated breakdown 👏🏿👏🏿
So helpful, thank you for taking the time to explain this!
Very helpful comparison! Thanks for helping me make a decision
Thanks for the helpful video comparison since the TR-004 is on sale on Black Friday
I'm a noob to all this and was wondering... Is there a maximum capacity to the tr-004? I was thinking about using 4 20TB HDDs but don't know if that's even possible.
Thanks in advance!
Thank you very much for another great in depth comparison!
I was wondering what happend at the QNAP TR-104C and TR-106C. Do you know any updates on those?
Useful, thanks. I have a QNAP TS-251b NAS with two 10TB drives in it, which I use for movies (using Plex) and for photo/video editing. I need to expand and was looking at the TR-004 and TL-D400s. I'm assuming the latter is my best option? Is it easy to set up with the TS-251b?
Great video, thank you very much for deep explanation 👌👏 Clicked like & subscribe to propagate video!
Great video. Thanks. I have the ts-453 bt3 which I want to attach an expansion unit to. is there an option that allows combining all disks (4+4) into a single raid 5 to increase read and write speed. ( I currently am stuggling to get 200MB/s write with ssd cache enabled)
Thanks
How about the limitations of the hardware RAID in the TR-004/2?
Is the qnap tr002 and 4 plug and play type of play and dus it need to be powered all the time
I probably wont get an answer to this, but Ill ask anyway.
I have it set to hardware RAID1 with only two drives so I have the option to add two additional drives down the line. However, I would like to know if I add the two drives of the same size, will they automatically be configured to RAID1 or will it wipe out my existing array? This is extremely important!
so i was planning to use the TR-004 with my mini pc not a NAS cause i dont have one but i wanted to use the 004 with 4x 8tb ironwolf nas drives i dont super care about speed as its only purpose is for a plex server, so will the speed matter there? as the only real time i have to transfer is when adding new media, and that does not nececarily need to be fast and im assuming acessing the media and streaming via plex wont saturate that limit, tho do correct me on that if im wrong
I was under the impression the QNAP TR-004 maxed out at SATA II speeds of 3/gbps with the 5/gbps max transfer potential with raid 0.
It actually does. The TR002 strangely enough is 6GBps
Can I use this with Nvidia Shield as plex server
So if you are running quts hero and want your expansion to also use ZFS then you would need to go with the sata one?
My problem is I gave a ts473a, which I wish was more powerful. Half of me just wants to get a new Nas. Not sure about this ryzen v1500b. I don't know.
Can we use usb dual bay non qnap with qnap share on network?
Will I be able to use SSD Caching on the TL Due to higher speeds?
TR-004 has USB 3.2 gen 1 only!! It's 5Gbps = 625MB/s not 500... Benefit of the USB version of QNAP TR is that you can connect to anything (PC, Macbook....), TL-400S is more "powerfull" but is just desktop solution for PC (because of SATA PCI-E card)
Interesting is, that 2 slot version QNAP has USB 3.2 gen 2 10Gbps :D
i have this nas QNAP TS-253D-4G iam running 2 8gb in raid 1 on it. Can i use the tr-004 and one 8gb disk in it and expand my raid1 to raid 5? thinking of the software raid that the tr-004 is supporting.
Interested by the TR-004, (for DAS and not expansion) I saw that there's newer model with USB 3.2, but in my area there's only the USB 3.0 models, worth to wait ?
What is the newer model? I didn't see that...
@@robsdroid6856 Its the same model number but older ones are USB3.0 and the newer model USB3.2,,,
Can the TR-004 do 2 diff RAID1 setups? I have some unused old drives (2 x 4TB & 2 x 2TB). Can I run the 4TB in a mirror the 2TB in a separate mirror for a total of 6TB?
Yes, I believe it can. But I'm not sure if you can do that by setting to RAID 10 (when you install the 4 drives) using the DIP switches, or, that you need to use the Qnap software on a PC to do it. Anyway you test that yourself.
1st, thank you.
Yeah, the SATA of the TR-004 is SATA II at 3Gb/s, not SATA 3 at 6 Gb/s
But would that be 3 gbps x 4?
What do you mean boring...?
I was on the edge of seat the whole video
Its a shame the TL-D400S is not OSX compatible
Are these NAS or DAS only?
DAS I'm pretty sure
@@AndySomething yeah expansion for NAS
@@carlosgouveia I've literally only just heard about DAS' for the first time tonight. Just stumbled across your comment. Yeah looks like you can use them as NAS expansion or as standalone USB Raid storage. I'm looking at getting one and then using backblaze since backblaze will backup your pc & any usb devices attached. Since the DAS (at least in RAID setup) will show as one usb device you can use the backblaze personal plan and get unlimited online backup for a really good price. The backblaze NAS plan is a lot more expensive.