I actually was thinking of taking this route. You get way powerful system as a home server. However takes a bit of your time to setup all the things you want and upkeep time for update and maintenance. Would love a video from you on your setup.
It's not really that difficult to beat the hardware specs of the asustor flashstor 6 priced at 499 dollars. The difficult part is making it in the same form factor.
Love this guys videos. He is the best there in nas reviews. But..... The qnap TS 664 is the best nas for 6 drives. Cheaper then synology, software seems to be fine, they provide 8 cameras out of the gates, they don't require nvme from their own brand for the caching or storage, you can get 3rd party 10gbe card(might not be perfect compatability, but at least it could work) they have a huge list of compatible hdd, nvme, cameras, applications, etc. There is not much reason anymore to go with synology (I own a synology), they became greedy and no reason to gofor home solutions with them. NAS based on nvme is still risky based on durability. But in the future I think it will probably be the way to go. And, synology has no embedded graphics card, all comes from CPU, so plex and anything that requires gpu will suffer.
Of not considering size , a am5 entry board plus am5 processor , a pcie card cut into 4/4/4/4 probably get you a 6-8 slot full speed all nvme storage server plus it have own 610m IGP , partial ecc on DDR5 also For am4 and g3 storage version you can do with APU and a 4/4/8 pcie split adapter The build above may be cheaper or at a similar price but they are hugeeeee in size and you need some work on the software side
Re: the DS1522+ ("Best All-Around NAS"), Synology states that only their HDD's, SSD's and RAM modules are compatible with this unit. I'm 100% sure Seagate and others would boot and work fine, sans the annoying "Warning" messages. But since Synology says they will provide NO tech support with unsupported drives, I'm perplexed how any Synology product could be listed as a "best" at anything. Understand Synology software is considered best-in-class, and is their main focus. But to be fair to QNAP and ASUS, you really need to include a massive premium on the NAS price to account for the ridiculously high price of their branded HDD/SSD/DRAMs. Once that premium is accounted for, the bloom is off the rose. I'm finding this extremely frustrating, as I'm in need of upgrading my NAS but am torn between security concerns (QNAP Deadbolt) and inferior/overpriced HW (Synology).
Since Synology sells rebranded Toshiba NAS drivers, what are you thoughts on Toshiba delisting on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after 70 years? Any chance Synology will acquire Toshiba's HDD division like WD did with Hitachi's HGST?
I just need a good way to store my photos for my business, i have an old motherboard and cpu(its an older i7 something like gen 3?) And 12gb of ram, i could buy a cheap case and psu, i have 4 old drobo das units full of harddrives as well as 2 brand new 4tb nas drives, would you recommend buulding my own or buying a 5 or 6 slot terramaster or something?
considering flashstor 6 came out around spring of last year, hopefully they will address the bottleneck before spring of next year. i have a few 4tb nvme ssds from black friday on standby. if not, they can be used on other things.
My MiniPC w/N5105 also runs it's single NVME drive at only a single lane, as evidenced by only 800 MB/sec reads/writes..(CrystalDikInfo also shows only single lane connected) :(
thats very common in small machines. They are often very limited on PCIe lanes available. But even a 3 x 1 is still very quick. Enough bandwidth to saturate tripple 2.5G port speeds, and give a single 10G link a good workout.@@mdd1963
I built a NAS with a Syba 8 Bay Tool Less Tray Hot Swappabe Non Raid External USB 3.0 Enclosure and a GMKtec Nucbox G3. It's awesome.
Make a video about it and post it on youtube.
I actually was thinking of taking this route. You get way powerful system as a home server. However takes a bit of your time to setup all the things you want and upkeep time for update and maintenance. Would love a video from you on your setup.
It's not really that difficult to beat the hardware specs of the asustor flashstor 6 priced at 499 dollars. The difficult part is making it in the same form factor.
Love this guys videos. He is the best there in nas reviews. But..... The qnap TS 664 is the best nas for 6 drives. Cheaper then synology, software seems to be fine, they provide 8 cameras out of the gates, they don't require nvme from their own brand for the caching or storage, you can get 3rd party 10gbe card(might not be perfect compatability, but at least it could work) they have a huge list of compatible hdd, nvme, cameras, applications, etc. There is not much reason anymore to go with synology (I own a synology), they became greedy and no reason to gofor home solutions with them. NAS based on nvme is still risky based on durability. But in the future I think it will probably be the way to go.
And, synology has no embedded graphics card, all comes from CPU, so plex and anything that requires gpu will suffer.
All kinda bad choices for a Plex server as one is flash so limited capacity and the others can not hardware transcode. DO a best for Plex server.
Easy, Qnap ts 664.
A DIY build options video for the all M.2 SSD NAS possibilities would be handy...:)
the 1522+ is the one I went with.... I tricked it out... 32G ram 10Gb card 2x 1TB cache I'm very pleased
just curious what drives you threw in there, since i want the same one but i dont want to use synology drives
Nice!!! SHould last ya 8 years!
@@FakeName39 I used UltraStar 18TB refurbed still expensive... but I was able to afford 4 of them
Kind of wondering why the QNAP TVS-h674? For just a little bit more, the 674 gives a phenomenally better CPU.
are you doing a 8 bay "best of" and maybe a 10+ such as lockerstore 10/12s and Synologys and such?
Also, i clicked on your "honorable mention"s link, its dead. takes us to an amazon store, not the site for it.
Of not considering size , a am5 entry board plus am5 processor , a pcie card cut into 4/4/4/4 probably get you a 6-8 slot full speed all nvme storage server plus it have own 610m IGP , partial ecc on DDR5 also
For am4 and g3 storage version you can do with APU and a 4/4/8 pcie split adapter
The build above may be cheaper or at a similar price but they are hugeeeee in size and you need some work on the software side
Re: the DS1522+ ("Best All-Around NAS"), Synology states that only their HDD's, SSD's and RAM modules are compatible with this unit. I'm 100% sure Seagate and others would boot and work fine, sans the annoying "Warning" messages. But since Synology says they will provide NO tech support with unsupported drives, I'm perplexed how any Synology product could be listed as a "best" at anything. Understand Synology software is considered best-in-class, and is their main focus. But to be fair to QNAP and ASUS, you really need to include a massive premium on the NAS price to account for the ridiculously high price of their branded HDD/SSD/DRAMs. Once that premium is accounted for, the bloom is off the rose. I'm finding this extremely frustrating, as I'm in need of upgrading my NAS but am torn between security concerns (QNAP Deadbolt) and inferior/overpriced HW (Synology).
Hi and thanks for all the great videos :) Do you see a 1524+ in the horizon or should we just go with 1522+ now?
doubling on this question
Since Synology sells rebranded Toshiba NAS drivers, what are you thoughts on Toshiba delisting on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after 70 years? Any chance Synology will acquire Toshiba's HDD division like WD did with Hitachi's HGST?
If your only choice is between Asustor Flashstor 6 or Nimbustor 2 Gen 2 NAS, which one?
I just need a good way to store my photos for my business, i have an old motherboard and cpu(its an older i7 something like gen 3?) And 12gb of ram, i could buy a cheap case and psu, i have 4 old drobo das units full of harddrives as well as 2 brand new 4tb nas drives, would you recommend buulding my own or buying a 5 or 6 slot terramaster or something?
considering flashstor 6 came out around spring of last year, hopefully they will address the bottleneck before spring of next year. i have a few 4tb nvme ssds from black friday on standby. if not, they can be used on other things.
My MiniPC w/N5105 also runs it's single NVME drive at only a single lane, as evidenced by only 800 MB/sec reads/writes..(CrystalDikInfo also shows only single lane connected) :(
thats very common in small machines. They are often very limited on PCIe lanes available. But even a 3 x 1 is still very quick. Enough bandwidth to saturate tripple 2.5G port speeds, and give a single 10G link a good workout.@@mdd1963
How about the Zimacube?
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