Idiots Guide to Editing Video on a NAS Drive (via 10Gbe or Thunderbolt)

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1 Video Editing over 10Gbe or Thunderbolt with a NAS Drive – The Easy Way
2 Video Editing on a NAS Drive – Important Things to Remember
3 Video Editing on NAS Drives Guide – What You Need to Do
4 Step 1 – Set Your NAS Up for Storage
5 Step 2 – Create a Shared Folder to Access Remotely as a Mounted Network Drive
6 Step 3 – Copy/Move your Asset Library to the NAS
7 Step 4 – If Necessary, Change The Default Media Directory on your Editing Software
8 Step 5 – Optional BUT Important, Create a Job/Task on your NAS for Backing Up your Work Elsewhere
9 What is the Best NAS for Editing Video on a NAS Drive?
9.1 The Cost-Effective Video Editing NAS Solution – QNAP TVS-472XT
9.2 Best Mid-Range Video Editing NAS Solution – Synology DS1621xs+ NAS
9.3 The Best Video Editing NAS Solution – QNAP TVS-1282T3
10 Need Advice on Data Storage from an Expert?

Video Editing over 10Gbe or Thunderbolt with a NAS Drive – The Easy Way

Of all the industries that have grown in terms of data storage, video editing and production has got to be one of the largest generators of unique and ever increasingly size data in the world. From wildlife photographers and fashion, to YouTube content creators and large scale movie production, video editing is BIG business and require power, speed and efficiency from it’s hardware environment in order to achieve success. Up until a few years ago, editing footage in post-production with popular editing software (Final Cut, Adobe Premiere, DaVinci, etc) could be done quite easily on your local HDD/SSD (your C:/) or via a connected external drive. However fast forward to last 2-3years and you see that the SIZE of the footage in 4K and 1080p, as well as the performance required to edit it is significantly higher than the performance available to most SATA SSD inside your machine or an external drive. From there the industry moved into NVMe SSD and Thunderbolt DAS RAID external storage, which do get the job done BUT with the prohibitive cost of NVMe AND it’s low top capacities, as well as the poor portability of Thunderbolt RAID DAS in the field and its single-connection-allow architecture, make them good but not perfect. Which leads me to 10Gbe and/or Thunderbolt NAS for video editing. Now, it too is not perfect, BUT it ticks ALOT of the boxes. Video Editing on a NAS over 10Gbe or via a Thunderbolt-equipped NAS drive presents a number of advantages and improvements of what came before, such as:

  • Editing on a NAS over 10Gbe can provide up to 1000MB/s performance, which can be further increased with link aggregation or upgrading network interface ports later down the line
  • Editing over Thunderbolt NAS can get up to 1600MB/s, depending on the storage media and thunderbolt NAS you choose
  • Editing on a NAS allows you to upgrade the connection during the storage solutions lifespan (with PCIe upgrade cards on both the NAS and cards/external adapters on your physical system) to increase the connection to double, triple or even quadruple your performance
  • Editing on a NAS allows you to improve the workflow in your video editing with multiple users in the chain. A NAS can be accessed by multiple users at once and each can have a dedicated speed and priority of access depending on their task needs
  • Not only can you edit on the NAS, but factoring the NAS into your backup strategy allows you to significantly lessen the chances of losing your data – run a duplication task in the NAS, or use the NAS Backup Software to duplicate key files on a schedule or live to numerous devices (another NAS, USB, the cloud and more)
  • Editing on a NAS also allows you to upload raw/pre-production footage remotely whilst off-site, so it is then ready to be edited on as soon as you return to your desk

Editing on a NAS Drive is not for everyone and thought is not quite as easy to set up and use as the plug-and-play architecture of traditional USB and Thunderbolt DAS, it isn’t that hard, provides numerous other advantages to your network hardware environments and also gives you the means to improve your entire workflow. So, let me show you how to set up a 10Gbe or Thunderbolt NAS for editing video. But first, let’s go through a few important things to remember before you proceed.

How to Edit Video on a Synology NAS

Video Editing on a NAS Drive – Important Things to Remember

It is worth highlighting that although editing on a NAS is easy, allows a lot more space to play with and have the potential (with the right HDD or SSD media) to be faster than your local/Internal SSD, there are some extra things to remember when making the switch to editing on a NAS drive, whether it is via 10Gbe, Thunderbolt 3 or both. Below are some key elements to keep in mind before you proceed:

  • This guide is about setting up a NAS for Video Editing the EASY way, it is NOT the only way. There are ways to creating mounted targeted drives, using live sync tools with client apps from each brand (eg Synology Drive and QNAP QSync) with your local system to make a NAS appear as local storage for your video editing software to interact with. However, these are a little more technical and in some cases present the NAS storage area in a way that some video editing software does not understand/see. So use this guide to set up a NAS for video editing easily BUT remember there are other ways to do it that MIGHT be better for your particular storage needs.
  • If you plan on using Hard Drives, you will need to have at least 4 Drives in a RAID 5 to get performance speeds that compare to a single SSD – the more drives, the BETTER!
  • 10Gbe NAS are quite affordable, but the best transfer rates come from NAS systems with Intel/AMD based CPU (64bit x86) and at least 2GB of memory
  • Make sure you Install the NAS-brand appropriate setup software on at least 1 PC/Mac system (eg Synology Assistant, QNAP QVR Pro, etc). They are completely free and can be removed later – they just make later stages of NAS Video Editing Setup CONSIDERABLY easier.
  • NAS Systems for Video editing are recommended to be at least 5Gbe, 10Gbe and above
  • You can choose where to connect to a NAS directly Mac/PC-to-NAS over 10Gbe via 10Gbe, or you can introduce a 10Gbe network switch in between so that many users can connect with the NAS on 1Gbe/10Gbe. Just be aware that it may affect the top speed of the media (HDD/SSD) in your NAS if multiple users connect at the same time.
  • If you are using a Thunderbolt 3 Mac / PC System with Thunderbolt, you can use a simple Thunderbolt powered 10Gbe-to-TB3 adapter, 3 options below:

So, if editing on a NAS drive still sounds like something that will improve your video editing workflow and productivity, carry on with the guide.

How to Edit Video on a QNAP NAS

Video Editing on NAS Drives Guide – What You Need to Do

These steps will guide you through how to setup editing on your NAS with software such as DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Elements, PowerDirector and more, as well as be applicable to NAS brands such as Synology, QNAP, Asustor and Terramaster. I will try to keep as many of the steps as ‘universal’ as possible, ut there might be the odd difference between one software brand and another. If you have any questions, scroll to the bottom of the page and content me directly on the ‘Free Advice’ section. It is all genuinely free advice, manned by me (so I apologise if I am not ‘lightning-fast’) and I will help get you all setup to the best of my ability. Let’s get the guide started.

Step 1 – Set Your NAS Up for Storage

Right so, this is probably the BIGGEST STEP! This guide is largely useless if your NAS system is not already set up – setting up a NAS (eg have it plugged in and ready to interact with, etc) is a whole guide in itself. Luckily I have made several of those in both written and video form. It is important that your NAS system has the following things done:

  • Latest Firmware Installed (generally this is done when the system is first set up automatically, but always check)
  • In the NAS User Setup, create a new ‘user’ for the video-editing with access to the folders in the NAS that are going to be used in your editing. You don’t HAVE to do this, but it’s best to leave the ‘admin’ account separate from this kind of thing, as you want that to be your ‘recovery’ if needed.
  • Have your Storage Pool (the RAID) setup and a Volume created. The guides will go into more detail about this for each NAS platform, but I recommend a RAID configuration with at least 1 disk of redundancy (so, 1 disk safety net if a drive breaks/fails) across at least drives. The Volume setup will ask you lots of questions about file systems and Encryption – those can largely be set to ‘default’ or as your own storage preference dictates.

Depending on your NAS Brand of choice, you can find a guide to setting up your desired system below:

Synology NAS Written Setup Guide – HERE

Synology NAS Video Setup Guide – HERE

QNAP NAS Written Setup Guide – HERE

QNAP NAS Video Setup Guide – HERE

Asustor NAS Written Setup Guide – HERE

Asustor NAS Video Setup Guide – HERE

Terramaster NAS Written Setup Guide – HERE

Terramaster NAS Video Setup Guide – HERE

From here you should be ready to start setting up your Mac/PC with your NAS system for video editing over 10Gbe and/or Thunderbolt.

Step 2 – Create a Shared Folder to Access Remotely as a Mounted Network Drive

Next, you need to create an area of storage on your NAS system that can be accessed by your Mac/PC system and in-tern, the video editing software you are using. Remember, these steps will differ depending on the NAS brand you choose. First, you need to open up the NAS File Management tool (it will be called File Manager or File Browser).

From here, somewhere at the top, you will find an option listed as ‘create a shared folder’ or simple ‘Shared Folder Options’.

You need to give this new shared folder a name. It is recommended that you should not use spaces or special characters in this name, as some software might have conflicts with it. Additionally, you will be asked about which volume on the NAS you want the shared folder to be within. Be sure to select the volume where your best-performing media (HDD/SSD) are based.

After this, you will be asked several options (depending on the brand. These will include 1) If you want to encrypt the shared folder (which will lock it to only be accessed within the NAS, but can lower performance a pinch), 2) Do you want to create a task of periodic data health checks (up to you), 3) Do you want to set a storage quota (maximum space this shared folder can accumulate) and 4) Do you want to create storage snapshots of the shared folder to revert to later if needed (again, personal preference).

After this, you will then be asked which users on your NAS can access the shared folder. Be sure to allow both Read and Write access to both the Admin account and the one you created for your Video editing account.

From here, open up the client tool (Synology Assistant / Qfinder Pro, etc) and ensuring that the PC/Mac you are using to interact with your NAS so far is on the same network/10Gbe/TB3, Right-click on the NAS on the available and select the option labelled ‘Map Network Drive’

From here, you will be asked to provide the login details you created for the NAS. Here you will need to enter the video editing account details you created (or the Admin account), which will then show you the list of available network drives on the NAS

Select the shared folder that you created earlier, then you will be asked to give the NAS folder/drive a letter to assign on your Mac / PC (EG C:/ is the OS drive typically and D:/ is the CD/DVD/BD drive. Just give the drive a letter and then click confirm.

The new shared folder and Drive will now be available and visible on your My Computer / Finder and this is the drive that you will be editing your work on. As long as you connected to this drive via 10Gbe or Thunderbolt, it will allow considerably faster speeds than typical network/gigabit NAS connectivity.

Step 3 – Copy/Move your Asset Library to the NAS

The next step is quite straight forward. You need to copy or move your existing library of work over to the NAS. This can be done in numerous ways:

Method 1 – Simply Drag and Drop / Copy and Paste into the Mapped network drive

Method 2- Go into the NAS via your web Browser and Upload directly from the File Manager

Method 3 – Create a Sync Jobbetweena folder on your PC/Mac and the NAS using the free first-party tools (Synology Drive or QSync)

You will need to make sure that the bulk of the stock footage, music, photos and more that you use on a regular basis are on the NAS.

Step 4 – If Necessary, Change The Default Media Directory on your Editing Software

When you make the switch from editing video locally on your PC/Mac system and moving onto NAS based editing, the editing software you use (Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, etc) will still have background actions and preferences that will be targeting your main system when in use. Typically these will be the default directories of when shadow files are created, the default location of where project assets are found and/or where temp files are saved.Each video editing software differs, so the options will be different from software to software. But it is recommended you change these to the NAS, as then the internal SATA SSD in your system, that will typically perform at 350-450MB/s (reported 550MB/s speed reports are based on ideal usage scenarios), will not present a bottleneck when your NAS can get up to 1,000MB/s on 10Gbe and more on a Thunderbolt-enabled NAS.

Adobe Premiere Essentials 2020

DaVinci Resolve

Step 5 – Optional BUT Important, Create a Job/Task on your NAS for Backing Up your Work Elsewhere

This one is not strictly essential, but I would recommend it. As you work on the NAS with your video editing, you are going to be creating both alot of files. Unlike when you were previously editing on a PC/Mac system and it’s internal SSD/HDD (whereupon you could then make a backup onto a USB drive or NAS), the video files you create will be living on the NAS drive ONLY. THAT is a big risk and means you do NOT have a backup. So, I recommend at least a 2 stage backup. That means that your data is in 1 location and then you have 2 more copies of ALL the important data in two more hardware and/or physical locations. Luckily, most NAS devices arrive with numerous multi-tiered backup software options included. In terms of backup options, I recommend one/two/all of the following (methods will differ between brands, but all of the top-tier NAS brands support these):

Backup the NAS Drive to a USB Drive

Backup the NAS Drive to another NAS Drive

Backup the NAS Drive to a Cloud Service

What is the Best NAS for Editing Video on a NAS Drive?

There are ALOT of different NAS options for editing video, but some are more suitable than others. Having a 10Gbe port and/or Thunderbolt is not enough and in order to avoid you spending month unnecessarily, I have listed a few options below that suit different personal budgets and the extent that you wish to edit. Take a look and if you are still in doubt, you can contact me directly for FREE and impartial advice at the bottom in my free support section.

The Cost-Effective Video Editing NAS Solution – QNAP TVS-472XT

If you want to edit video and you have a budget of £1500-2000, you should consider the QNAP TVS-472XT NAS

 

Released in early 2019, this solution arrives at just over £1000 (without VAT/TAX) and features 4 Bays of storage, 10Gbe connectivity, Thunderbolt 3, NVMe storage bays, USB 3.2 and at this price point is quite impressive for the amount of hardware and software it arrives with. You might struggle to get speeds of 1000MB/s, as this has 4 bays of storage only, but it DOES support numerous expansions and a 6-Bay and 8-Bay option are available too (at around £350+ increase in price with each tier larger).

Best Mid-Range Video Editing NAS Solution – Synology DS1621xs+ NAS

If you want to edit video and you have a budget of £2000-2500, you should consider the Synology DS1621xs+ NAS

 

The Synology DS1621xs+ was released in September 2020 and is the first Intel-powered 10Gbe solution from the brand. Arriving with 6 Bays of storage, a Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor, NVMe SSD bays for caching improvements and a PCIe slot for adding more connections later in the lifespan of the product, it’s quite an interesting solution at £1300+ (without TAX or VAT) and has been discussed at length here on the blog for its uniqueness and proven speed (hitting 1000MB/s over 10Gbe with relative ease).

The Best Video Editing NAS Solution – QNAP TVS-1282T3

If you want to edit video and you have a budget of £2500-350, you should consider the QNAP TVS-1282T3 NAS

 

This NAS drive is a MONSTER! As overselling as that might sound, this ticks every single box in the ‘things you need in a video editing NAS’ list, but also ticks them several times over! Featuring an Intel i7 Quad-Core CPU, to 64GB of DDR4 Memory, 4 Thunderbolt 3 Ports, 2 10Gbe Ports, 8 Hard Drive Bays, 4 SSD 2.5″ Bays and 2 m.2 SSD Bays, this NAS has the lot and will comfortably provide several users with 1000MB/s each over 10Gbe and thunderbolt, or 1-2 users with even HIGHER. This is thanks to the triple-tier storage system and incredible architecture, inside and out. With a price tag in excess of £2500 (without VAT or TAX) it does not come cheap, but it certainly is still one of the very best NAS solutions to buy this year and even though this NAS has been around since early 2017, it still continues to be groundbreaking.

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      217 thoughts on “Idiots Guide to Editing Video on a NAS Drive (via 10Gbe or Thunderbolt)”

      8. Im not seeing how to map a network drive to C:/Users folder. I need the “user” accounts to live on the NAS so no matter which PC you login to your Documents/Downloads/etc are all there, for each windows user. I can’t seem to get this to work.
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      10. Definitely appreciate the scalability breakdown! Feel like you called me out directly (as I’m sitting here shopping around trying to fully populate a 4 bay). Now I think I may reconsider that choice!
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      11. What a brilliant video. No BS, upselling, just the facts!! After 10 seconds of watching I knew this was going to be a good video and you have certainly helped me with the upgrade decision I currently have.
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      13. lol robbie didn’t setup the LUN correctly (hence the error message he ignored) you don’t use discover portal – just use quickconnect on first tab entering IP of NAS – Just be warned you can’t see the contents/ files of the LUN on the NAS directly only the LUN details!!!
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      16. I had recently factory reset my synology nas. I would like to restore from google drive but I’m not sure what to do during setup, do I select “download remote changes only” or “bidirectional,” I am terrified of selecting bidirectional. Would that sync my empty drives (since it was factory resetted) to google drive, thereby wiping my data?
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      25. i don’t get when i should use iscs over normal shared folders and why i should use different volumes for different shared folders .. why not have everything convenient in one place?
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      27. Also found that the QFINDER will not proceed past the third set up screen in version 5.1.4256 – have a called logged with QNAP support but this thing is taking days to set up … what a pain
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      31. Thank you for this information. I am thinking of the following, may I ask your opinion about that? I am a one person videoproducer and on this moment editing my 4K footage, of live projects, from a SSD with a 40Gbps case over thunderbolt 3 that works fast en stable (read and write speed is around 2000 MB/s). I like to add a NAS as a sync to my system, so it sync the data from my work SSD to the NAS (say every 30 minutes with Carbon copy cloner). The speed of the NAS is then not the big bottleneck anymore, the sync interval is the only risk issue in my understanding.
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      32. 3:08 I’d prefer leaving my QNAP as DHCP and set a reservation of MAC address in router. You can do it either way, but I prefer doing it in router, as its more central, otherwise you’ve got to go into your devices to manually set.

        If you create a reservation list in your router then the job is done.. No ned to muck around and think “Do I need static on x device or not” but I guess your way gives you more flexibility. if you have many devices

        6:19 btw: QTS5.x bombards you with popups the unless you clock “don’t pester me”. :P. I know manufactures wanna get your attention, but this is not the way to do it

        No wonder people like using popup blockers …. There should be one for your local network too
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      44. I was thinking of buying an Asustor Lockerstor 8, to connect it via 10GB LAN to three Windows PCs (with 10GB cards) for 4K video editing in a RAID6 with 6 drives and two drives in a RAID1 for backups. Also I will update the RAM to 16 and use M2 drives for caching as well. Is this going to work? Are we going to be ok with editing performance?
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      45. What speed I should expect from a DS1821 with 8 drives (drives from 4TB up to 14 TB) +1M.2mvme cache,+ synology pci 10gbE BaseT. Connected with a mac Studio Ultra using a Netgear copper 10GbE Switch and two 10nfoot Cat8 cables….. Im farrrr from 10GBe spoed 🙁
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      46. Editing directly off a NAS requires a pro-level setup fully take advantages of that. However, this is overkill for most folks. Instead, just save your original, full resolution video files on a NAS and use local storage for proxies. Even 1GbE is perfectly fine for this setup. Additional networking ability simply speeds up the transfer of the originals. The next level up, if you have the networking setup for it, would be to save your proxies on a NAS too if you are working with multiple editors on the same network. If you are a solo video editor, just stick with local proxies + NAS originals. If needed, grab a fast USB 3/4 or Thunderbolt external disk if your system doesn’t have enough space natively. Those are so much cheaper than going pro with a NAS setup.

        One issue with Thunderbolt is that cables are limited to 2 meters (about 6 ft) at full 40 Gbps. I’d prefer to put my NAS in a closet somewhere so I can’t hear it and use a TB 10g network adapter instead (provided my network is setup for 10g). Granted, that’s overkill for me.
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      48. Thank you for this video, and you are correct about the mistakes editors make. I work in TV Production on the technical side building storage and networks for productions, and 5 years ago decided I would standardize on Synology NAS for my workflow. In the past I built my own servers, and got sick of doing so. I have 18 Synology systems running in our office, so I’m going to tell you exactly what I use. These systems travel to the field when necessary, and we do massive projects like X Games, AVP Volleyball, Street League Skateboarding, and World Series of Poker which is a project that requires recording 45 cameras and storing that on a 3 Synology devices. At peak we are recording 4TB per hour of content at WSOP.

        One thing I do want to point out is that memory is also very important. You need at least 16GB and I have started putting 32GB in as the baseline. Synology typically ships with 4GB of RAM. Also get two sticks of memory. For 16 put in two 8GB modules. For 32, add two 16GB modules.

        Here is what works:
        Synology DS1821+, 32GB RAM, All 8 drives populated for performance, dual 10GbE PCIE card. I use 20TB Drives now which gives me about 130TB usable. I configure RAID 5 using BTRFS.

        Client systems Mac or PC either have a 10GbE PCIE card or we use the Sonnet Solo for 10GbE over thunderbolt.

        I have both Netgear and TPLink 10GbE switches in place and both perform very well.

        Editors are using the Adobe Creative Cloud.

        Connections from the client machines are using SMB.

        One final note. Never fill your NAS more than 80%. You will see tremendous performance hits after you pass that 80% threshold. So plan for that when calculating storage.

        I am not a fan of expanding the NAS. I’ve done it, but I see performance hits. I simply add another DS1821+ when the current one has filled up.
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      51. Do you have a video that highlights the performance issue you are highlighting with ARM based NAS products? Just for kicks I’m editing video using Davinci resolve directly off of my NAS. Seems to work fine for me and my NAS has an lowly Atom processor. Both my ARM based workstation (M1 Max) and my NAS are using 10 gigabit.
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      52. Goodnight. Very good explanation. I have a doubt. If you have 2 disks in RAID 1 and put a 3rd disk. Can I move to RID 5 without losing data or do I have to set everything up again. Thanks.
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      55. Hmmmmmmm ….. it would seem the simplest means to editing photos/video might be on a local client computer with a large SSD via ‘synology drive’ remote caching.
        The crux question is ?Will fancy photo/video application work-well with synology drive remote caching?
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      57. Nas Master synology should make there expantion boxes cuch as the DX517 . and give then an pci expantion port to put 10 gbe in it i really think they missed out . they could make a fortune
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      59. For anyone wondering (I spent days trying to figure out which method was best). The iSCSI method of creating ‘local drives’ on your PC does not work as a network drive and therefore, other PCs connected to the NAS would not have access to files on the ‘local drives’.

        So for NAS setups on multiple workstations, this option does not work. Your best bet is probably the normal mapped drives, or Qsync. Not sure why I couldn’t understand this earlier, but now i do and the below video helped!
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cymqasho9xU
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      61. For video editing, I utilize the Synology Drive to sync the files between a local drive and the NAS. Drop the active project into the sync folder and let the application do the work. I do my work off of the local drive. Seems to work well.
        When I am done with the project I simply move the project to the archive folder. I this frees up the space on the sync folder.
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      62. The only available option I’ve seen that can keep up with a modern editing workflow is the QNAP TS-h1290FX with all U2/U3 flash storage. Most editors are working with 4K-8K footage these days and spinning HDDs just don’t cut it anymore.
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      63. If you’re a video editor and want a smooth experience go with a minimum of a 6-bay, preferably an 8-bay, and populate it with at least 5 drives from the outset. And then add 10GbE at both ends (NAS and computer) and an SSD cache if you can.

        When you fill it buy another one. The reason for this is that if you start with 8TB drives and you then add a couple of 16TB to your NAS the storage pool will see those 16TB drive as 8TB drives. There’s not a lot of gain for that until you’ve gone all 16TB drives to them extend the storage pool into the full 16TB of drive space across all drives. Sure you can use something like Synology’s SHR to be able to mix and match drive sizes, but you leave performance on the table by doing that. If you’re doing Plex who cares, but when performance is important you shouldn’t throw it away on a dat to day basis over something you “could” do in the future. Go RAID 5 or 6.

        Once you’ve fully populated the bays and want to go with bigger drives where will your old drives go? Just because you’ve just bought new larger drives doesn’t mean your smaller old drives are of no use and immediately stop working for you. But they still need to be inside something. Even if the process is to buy the new one, transition, then sell the old one… the best route is to just buy new once you’re full.
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      65. I followed most of these pointers from before, and I still failed. I Needed a large storage solution and also wanted to edit straight off of. So I started watching this channel, and others. Got a Synology 1522+ from B&H, upgraded the ram, put in nvme drives for cache, 10gbe card to hook up to a Mac Studio, 3 14tb Seawolf drives. Configured to hook up, and used a 10gbe switch. Disk speed test looked good with read speed at 1048Mb/s and Write at about 400MB/s. But then real world test, it died to 40Mb/sec from 400 write speeds when transferring a large file/ Final Cut library. Synology said I used all the wrong stuff in it, only their brand of hard drives, nvme, and I had the wrong Synology RAM installed. Took that all out, still would die from 400+ to 40Mb/s. Gave up and sent all back. Don’t know If I had a bad Synology or bad configuration. Synology didn’t help saying I just had non brand stuff when they looked at my logs. Seems like a lot of learning to get set correctly. Wish Synology or someone had a good product solution for us real novice networking people that just wanting a NAS that is easy to set up and edit off of that doesn’t cost a fortune, and an area on the NAS to auto/upload for off site with backblaze or another nas offsite. This channel has really helped me in building my confidence knowledge in trying. Maybe If I ever pull the trigger again, I have to learn a lot more by watching hours more of this channel, before my confidence is built up enough to try again on my own. For now, back to SSD’s and a standard spindle external drives for backups.
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      67. Agree with you fully, but a major obstacle for speed are the HD’s populating the NAS! If you have fixed the 5 points and still running on slow HDD’s (80-100mbs) you will not have a smooth experience! This is where either faster HDD’s or SSD/NVME kicks in, as the read speed is now the major kicker.
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      68. Hey there, learning a lot from you content! Still pretty green.
        Wondering what NAS would you recommend for video editing?

        So far ive been looking at going DIY route, either using TrueNas or Unraid.
        PC Parts Picker -> `/list/t9D328`

        Have also been considering DS1621+ 6-Bay w/ 10Gbe expasion card and two 12TB HDDs (add more as I go)

        Would appreciate you thoughts, Thanks!
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      71. I have no interest, for the most part, in video editing but I really enjoyed the video and always learn a lot from you Robbie. Forewarned is forearmed. Thanks very much. ( P.S…. I see a hummingbird on that box over your right shoulder. Good choice; far quieter and tiny poops.)
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      74. Been looking forward to a video like this. As a Newbie – There is so little information about the Mininum MB/s speed is required to edit 4k videos with 4 layers of footage. Is it 250Mb/s, 300MB/s, 350MB/s, 400MB/s, 450MB/s – I know more is better. Also – Will a single 2.5GBe ethernet be enough bandwidth for 1 editor?? I have scoured the internet and can not find Base numbers to these questions. Perhaps the author can shed some light on these questions?
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      75. Disagree with the “ARM” section of the video. It is not that a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) architecture is “more compressed”. The line between RISC and CISC architechtures has actually become quite blurry over the last decades. Yes, ARM organizes and processes data differently and was originally designed for very efficient, low-power devices. However, that doesn’t mean that one cannot design a high-performance ARM CPU. Apple’s M1 / M2 line for example is very wide when it comes to execution units and can hang with the best of them when it comes to latency and raw performance. The real problem with cheap NASes using ARM chips is that they simply choose the cheapest available processor instead of the one best suited for the task. And other than X86, where most CPU fall somewhat into the same price / performance spectrum (x86 simply doesn’t cater to the 10$ toy market), with ARM there are so many more designs, especially ultra-cheap ones.
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      78. Great Video, However I am stuck, i followed your video up to the point of Mapping Drives, Im using Qnap TS 264 on my LAN, with Windows 11 on PC and when i click network drives on Qnap Finder all it wants to do is is Mount my TS264 rather then search file explorer ?
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      79. Wow, you really learned me a lot of new things. A positive benefit from this lesson was that my backup at Backblaze suddenly recognized my NAS drives when they appeared as local drives. Perhaps you should evaluate if there is a need of a Mac os/final cut pro version of this excellent video?
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      80. I have a NAS drive which is downstairs with my router whilst the laptop I intend to edit with is setup upstairs. What’s the best way for me to transfer video and audio recordings from my phone to an external drive to edit on? I considered transferring them directly to an SSD and then plugging that into my laptop and editing directly off it, but is there any way I can use my NAS to make things easier? (I don’t plan on spending £200+ on a 10gbps thunderbolt/Ethernet adapter)
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      81. This is one of those products you need but which I hate at the same time – it’s engineer masturbation and not made for quick and smart setup. It is made unnecessarily complicated. Plz clean up
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      82. If I had a 10Gb network setup and a 12 bay synology NAS, but full of hard drives and I add like 256Gb SSD as cache. Could I still video edit effectively Or is it recommended getting All SSD build?
        I’m planning on using the NAS connected via ISCSI to edit but also want a TON of storage like using 12TB NAS hard drives and use a SSD Cache to keep the speeds up.
        Would using SSD’s as cache work?
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      90. I have some interesting results with this. Qnap ts-453 bt3 Connected via thunderbolt. Ssd cache enabled on the Lun but not the mapped drive ( windows 11)
        Mapped drive (No ssd cache) write speed 67MB/s Read speed 576 MB/s
        Lun(Read Cache Enabled) Write = 180 MB/s Read 362 MB/s
        Does anybody have any idea why the read speed of the mapped drive is faster?
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      91. What is a better to simple video editing NAS now? (max 4K single users video editing NAS ) I’m about to buy a 4way NAS. Cheap: QNAP TS-433-4G (There are NO upgrades) Expensive way: Synology DS923+ Bundle 4GB? VS QNAP TS-464-4G
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      93. Hey man, having problems with the auto-dele of the hyperbackup to Google Drive (i have the same hyperbackup to dropbox and it works fine). It can save to Google Drive but can’t delete, so the Google Drive got full. Do you know what can cause this issue?
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      96. Do not apologise for being ridiculously thorough! Your content is beyond informative and so glad to have found an expert to assist me in my production company’s network and editing workflow. Thanks and massive kudos to you good sir!
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      97. I am giving my first steps installing and configuring a QNAP NAS and have seen many videos from you here on Youtube. I am from Brazil and (unfortunatelly) english is no my native language. I think you would get much more viewers for your channel if you talk a little bit slower, for us (not english native speakers) to understand. Thank you!
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      101. I think that one aspect you left out, but it’s very important when trying to edit from the NAS. Speed! What write/read speed can you expect when editing 4K/HD using 10Gbe/TB? Important is to use the settings that Qnap themselves recommend when doing a speed test, plus using the testing tool the use as well, AJA. Over the past 6 months I have had 4-5 people from their support trying to figure out why I don’t get more speed from my TVS-672XT as in their marketing material. Great support, but no results.
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      105. OMG “Yes”, I thought,” get a NAS, you have always wanted one!” So I got a NAS, little did I know the learning curve involved. WOW!!! A curve that has been flattened a lot by my new bestest friend Robbie here. Thank you Sir.
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      106. 1 – “dynamic IPs traditionally aren’t as fast as static IPs” False. Not even a little true. I’m going to assume that was an intentional error designed to create engagement in the comments. 2 – Please don’t tell people to enable jumbo frames on general networks. Unless you’re doing it on a separate VLAN or an environment in which *all devices* are set for jumbo frames (and the switch), you’ll create all sorts of fun frame mismatch problems (performance and connection errors with non-jumbo devices).
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      108. I am currently looking for a replacement for my DS920+ for 4K video storage.
        At first I thought of a DS923+.
        but after watching your comparison video with the DS1522+, DS1522+ is preferred to edit from, with the 10GbE RJ-45 network upgrade module.
        My question:
        Can I remove my HDD (4XToshiba 7.2 Tb formatted in SHR) from the DS920+… and put it in the DS1522+ without risk of losing data?
        Or does everything have to be backed up?
        Work from my Mini Mac M1
        thanks in advance…
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      109. Thank you for such an incredibly informative video, especially for someone new to the world of NAS!
        Is there any chance that there will be a similar video guide for Qnap?
        I’ve been vacillating between Synology and Qnap for the better part of 6 months, so seeing what an equivalent setup process would be on a Qnap might finally allow me to make a decision on what system to go with.
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      110. 10GbE is only any good if all devices in the workflow support it. There is little point in a 10GbE NAS running via a 1Gb switch to 10GbE NIC on the editing machine, otherwise you end up with fire hose <-> drinking straw <-> fire hose, to continue the pipe analogy.
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      112. Is it possible to connect NAS as DAS via USB?
        Ideally it would be cheaper since both PC and NAS already have a USB port and it has high enough speed.
        If it is not possible by default, is it possible with some PCIe card?
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      113. Dynamic IP addresses aren’t “slower” or “faster” than static addresses. Whether your address is allocated via DHCP or statically assigned makes zero difference in your connection’s latency or throughput. You typically want to assign static addresses to your infrastructure components so that your DHCP server going offline doesn’t take down other critical bits of your network, like your NAS. But speed has absolutely nothing to do with it. (Go to town with iperf testing on static vs. dynamic hosts if you want to verify this for yourself, but I’ll save you the time and effort and tell you that you won’t be able to measure any difference.)
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      115. Robbie, you will need to slow-down, you gave @04:54 (also) R/W access to that folder to the Guest Account whilst the Guest Account was disabled. No biggie I would guess, with a disabled account but I would not gamble that!
        DHCP (leased) IP’s versus fixed-ip makes no difference in speed, other then the assignment of that IP during a boot/DHCP request but that is milliseconds!
        However, normally the 169.254 address would be due to the Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) where the DHCP server can not be reached.
        It is a non-routable IP, and formally classified as Reserved.
        Unless you set that address deliberately like you seem to have done, I suspect the Synology is in error indicating it to be via DHCP whilst it does not recognise self-assigned perhaps? (or set manually, in your case), and I guess you have a bug to report to Synology 😉
        As for the MTU, when you do change it for 10GBe networks, always remember you will need to not only change it on both ends but also in-between, if applicable. E.g. when using switches, routers or load-balancers in-between.
        BTW, if you are concerned about dual-homed NAS, you may want to consider VLAN’s instead, to enforce the 10GBe connection.
        Any chance you are also going to do a video-series on the Setup-Guides for a QuTS Hero system?
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      116. Of those not able to directly connect your NAS to your PC – in my case, my NAS is in another room, on another floor – I recommend using video editing software that supports local proxies. I put the originals on my NAS and then use DaVinci Resolve to create local proxies on a scratch disk (SSD) dedicated for this purpose. This approach works very well and works regardless of the network speed to your NAS.
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      117. For direct connections between the NAS and another system – like your PC – both sides need to support setting the MTU value – not all NIC support this feature. Also, only recommend doing this if using a direct connection – if connecting your NAS to a 10g network, avoid changing in the MTU.
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      120. I always learn something but there are always more questions. So, you can create multiple volumes within a storage pool for different uses. But… why would you want to do that ? What are the benefits ? And the detriments, if any ?

        Static vs Dynamic IP address : What about an IP Reservation on the router instead of the Static IP address on the NAS ? That’s what I tend to do because, exactly as you state, the problem of loosing that NAS IP address number. Also, I have set static IP’s only to have the router assign a different IP address several times.
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      121. What? There is absolutly no speed difference between static and dynamic assigned IP. It is only a difference in how the IP is assigned. Once it is obtained there is absolutly no difference in functionality or speed.
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      125. Hello. I always had a Qnap and now I have a Synology DS220. I stil have q second Qnap to back up to. I am testing now to see how it works. Your Video was very good thanks!. What I do see is that if I delete a movie or document on de DS220 and the BackUp goes it alseo deletes on the Qnaop. I do not want that 🙁 ans I see no way to have a setting that only moves new files from Ds220 to Qnap. Second question is, is there always a full comlte backup of is there an option to only backup new files ? Regards and hopefully you have a good tip for me. Ben
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      127. Can’t be stressed enough how important mapped network drives are. Just set up TS-464 and in the process of transferring data from an old Netgear ReadyNAS 1100. Using browsers and FileStation 5 is limited, with transfers stopping due to file size. Using mapped drives, that is, transferring directly from folder to folder has dramatically reduced my stress levels. Thanks for your videos!
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      130. Thanks for the vid, I have a newer model, and when i went through the same steps it broke off a 3.3TB piece for snapshots, and as far as I can tell i did not select that, i was told that was done. You know any way to reverse that? Just delete the array and start over? Not sure how to do that either, im still doing the initial setup as mentioned in your video.
        Thanks
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      134. Great video. thank you so much. I do have two questions.
        at 13:03 why did you skip the explanation between thin, thick and static?
        as per creating a volume, do I have to wait for the sync to complete before I create the static volume?
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      137. Good day! I need an expert opinion! We have a small film production. We have an office and 4 Mac Studio in it. We want to install a NAS in the studio so that we can edit from it IN PARALLEL on all 4 computers, accessing the same volumes/files from several editing stations at the same time. We plan to make a local 10G network. I want to buy QNAP TVS-h1688X-W1250-32G for this purpose. But some sellers in stores assure me that this is an amateur level device and it will not allow mounting simultaneously from several mounting stations, and advise me to buy QSAN XCubeNAS XN8012R which in my opinion will not justify its money because it has weaker characteristics (we also do not have a server rack now). What do you advise in this case? I want to find the best solution for my money and not let my fellow editors down so that they don’t suffer from bugs later.
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      138. It gives me the message “Insufficiant Priviliges” after i log into OneDrive
        Any idea how i can resolve this?
        I checked my microsoft account and ivr accepted the permissiol on it.
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      139. Be aware that when using this method that several folders and files will be created on the QNAP by the process. I found that I could not delete them until I dug into their properties. It turned out that the were pretty much untouchable except by the admin account even if you have disabled that account. I had to change the properties and then enable my admin account temporarily to delete these folders and contents. I thought that the process created more of a mess than I was prepared to deal with so I would suggest that anyone who is thinking of doing this to do a very small test first. For me, it is easier to use FreeFileSync on my PC to do this backup. I would also consider Syncthing.
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      143. Hi, just found your vidoes and I think they are very useful. I have a question, in this video you connect the NAS to your router, but can you also connect the NAS directly to a computer via a crossover network cable?
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      144. I’ve just bought a 412plus, and it’s not coming with any instruction, so thank you for this video. You are an absolute Godsend. I’ll be following your instruction to the letter.
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      149. Very helpful, definitely a thumbs up! I have a question that you or anyone else might be able to answer. I have been using a two-bay model (TS-259) for quite some years now. I have it configured for RAID 1 with two 2TB drives. Last night, the power connection in the back of the enclosure melted for whatever reason and the unit is dead. Luckily, a friend had an unused TS-253 so I just popped out one of the drives, plugged it into the 253 and within minutes, was back up in a pinch. Was thinking of getting a new TS-231 or TS-233 to replace it. However, I only really use three folders out of a dozen or so on a daily basis. Those three folders combine for maybe 200GB in storage and the rest are long-term storage that I infrequently access. Would there be any benefit to having one 500GB SSD and one 2TB drive, with the SSD having the three folders I always use, and the HDD holding my longer term storage, plus a full backup (maybe daily overrides) of the SSD?
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      153. This is my first NAS set up. I chose this enclosure because I was able to get a decent amount of “bang for my buck”. I am following the tutorial but I have a couple of questions. First, when setting the Nas name and user account name AND PW is it supposed to take a while and hang while doing that or is it supposed to just process straight through that portion quickly? Additionally, since I will be using it with 2 laptops do I have to set up separate user names on each laptop even though I will be the only one using both laptops and accessing the NAS?
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      155. Hi i just bought my self a QNAP ts-x453d and I guess I did something wrong because I’m getting about 150ea error message a day for whatever reason in 3 of my email. How do I stop it or reduce it to only 1 or 2 email message
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      157. Is it possible to only mirror a portion of the two disks and then use the remainder as regular storage? I only need 20% mirrored for important files and want to use the rest for media files that I don’t care to lose.
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      159. Awesome videos I lost a bunch of data and bought the DS418 to start out. These videos have been crucial in helping me set everything up. I don’t mine can do 10gb but if I ever upgrade how does that work in a residential application. I have 2 1GB connections coming into my house. 1 for the family and one for my studio. Would I need to get commercial grade internet to use the 10GB internet? Anyway thanks really appreciate your videos
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      160. Good video. So I setup a hyper Baack-up to Synology C2 to backup all my photos about 500GB worth of photos. Its been running for 11 days and is only 51% complete but the odd part is has already exceeded the total number of files in my Photos folder and it says that it has backed up 409GB already. How can it by only 51% complete having backed up 400GB out of a total of 500GB and why are the number of files already higher than the total # of files in my Photos folder. Makes NO Sense…….
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      161. I like the idea of keeping my originals and project files on the NAS but all caches including proxies on my local system – specifically on a dedicated SSD for much better performance. This also allows the use of slower network connections instead of needing 10gb – 5/2.5/1g are acceptable. The faster network speeds just makes for faster uploads from the source device (cameras) and downloads from the video editor software for making proxies. If you know what you are doing, you could then use a sync program to copy proxies back to the NAS if you needed them on another device if you use multiple machines for editing.
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      162. hi thank you for the useful information regarding backup. i have set my drvies up to be backed on to the google drive have, its been backin up for 12 days now :O( only dpne 5% at 46gb am i doing soemthing wrong?
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      163. Hi, sorry for a very basic question. Is my understanding correct that your QNAP is connected via LAN to the same network as your Windows PC? The Qfinder is installed on that PC, so that it will help to detect the QNAP? Is my understanding correct?
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      164. Thanks 4 the video. Exactly what I was looking 4.
        But I not C where U defined the target folder on the QNAP.
        In my case the files from Syno will B copied 2 the folder “Downloads”, but I prefer 2 have the backups in the “Backups” folder.
        Any hints ?
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      168. Just boughs a 1621+ with 4x10Tb drives. I want the majority to be used for media, but I need 1tb for web hosting, 2TB for my backup from my laptops and 2TB for encrypted cloud storage. Can all this go on one volume or do I need to fence off? I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed.
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      176. If i delete anything in the NAS, IT IS deleted in GDrive as Well. Synchronisation. What is the sense? Drive ist Designed to make your local Data Accessible in Others devices. Not to Store a Backup. And … you cant use IT as an external Extension of your disc by using G: because you Need the Same Space local. If you have 20 Gig left in your local Drive, a GDrive with 2tb doesnt make Sense … If you delete Something local, IT IS instantly synchronised with Google. I dont undestand how this can Help Backup your systems?
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      178. As much as I appreciate this walk-thru…I despise everything about this product. There is nothing more intentionally difficult to setup than a NAS, and I’ve never wanted to throw a device off a bridge more than my QNAP NAS
        I’ve rebuilt car engines, and have been building computers since I was 8. QNAP is the worst thing I’ve ever experienced and I honestly don’t understand how someone hasn’t made a better version and completely destroyed this company

        Off. A. Bridge.
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      179. If we have to replace one of the drives do we have to do the entire initialization of the QNAP again? What happens after replacing a hard drive and also upgrading the RAM to larger?
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      180. Hi, great videos and thank you for doing this. We have a TS 669 and when dealing with the storage manager it did not give me the option of Raid 1 after I selected the six drives. Is raid 6 basically the same as a raid 1 and that is the reason?
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      182. I would love to have multiple storage pools, so I could have a couple of TB of media that I don’t care about losing, and the rest in an SHR for stuff that I do care about. Can it do that?
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      187. Is there a possibility to create a folder that can only be reached via your local network and not via the internet? For example map1 that I can access anywhere via my mobile or pc ad my moms home. but I can only access Map2 when I am on my wifi or cabeld network at home. So that if my account were hacked, people wouldn’t be able to access this data from map2 from outside?
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      193. I bought a 6 bay QNAP unit. The more I think about Raid and Pools, I don’t think I need a raid system or even a storage pool. 90% of the data that I want to backup is static, Photos, Video and Audio files. They won’t ever change again once they are written to archive disks. If I have 6 simple 18TB drives I can keep one drive empty and make a mirror copy, 5 in total, of each of my 5 archive drives and save them to to a local location and to an offsite location. If one of the drives goes bad, I can replace the bad drive with one of the backup drives and then back up the backup drive? It seems like raid is best for dynamic data that needs to span drives? I started with Reid 6 but realized it uses 50% of my total drive space. Any way you cut it if you want to back up your NAS you need another NAS or fixed drives.
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      194. Hi, thanks for the video! I am just hearing about this technology and I am wondering if it would be possible to edit while being in another location where the NAS is? For a video production point of view which Sinology would you recommend that can be accessed remotely and has a high load capacity (eg. 40 tb)? Many thanks!
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      195. So it seems you need to create a separate task for each folder on the nas. Is there no option to have multiple/all folders selected and mirrored in 1 task? If not, in case the auto dismount when backup is finished options is active for all separate tasks, will the hard drive only be demounted after the longest running task is finished?
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      196. Three weeks ago I set up a DS420+ running DSM 7.0. I have the two Ethernet ports bonded using LACP. If I go to Control Panel/Network/Network Interface and look at the Bond1 interface it tells me that the MTU is 1500, both for the bond and for the individual interfaces. I cannot find anywhere to change this, the edit button just lets me choose different protocols for bonding the ports. I would like to be able to use Jumbo Frames; is this not possible?
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      197. Hi, we have TS 228 having 4TB seagte enterpris drive installed. Now we want to add one more Hard disk of 8 or 10 TB.
        Is it ok to add 8TB HD..? And is it possible to keep this additional disk as seperate drive and not to add or merge with existing one.? Please guide with the procedure.. Thanks.
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      211. Thank you for creating these very informative and detailed videos, mate! 
        (Amongst a few others) your videos made me enter the world of NAS as a video editor. For me it the solution was the qnap tvs872xt with 8 12tb Iron Wolfs and 2 1tb m.2 ssds for caching – a huge invest for a freelancer but so far worth every cent.

        A few weeks ago I ran into an enormous time pressure with 2 huge video projects simultaneously and I had maybe 3 days in total to dig into the world of NAS and to quickly make a smart decision which one to buy and which configuration to use. Finally I had less than two days to migrate my complete workflow over to the NAS while understanding just the absolute basics configuration in terms of the balance between speed and redundancy. 

        Now – after a few weeks of working with that NAS every day – I had to adjust some parameters and I end up with a RAID6-Pool by speeds of around 900mbs w and around 1500mbs r via TB3. More than enough for smooth editing with 4k multicam.

        Without your tutorials I would never have found the courage to invest in a high quality NAS.

        Every time I watch tutorials like this I am happy about the fact that all this Internet-Social-Media-timewasting-bullshit has a diffferent side: a direct transfer of information, experience and passion about even very specific topics. I really think this is one of the great advantages of our time.

        Anyway:
        Thank you very much for your passionate reviews and tutorials. I thought it might be just fair to tell you about the impact your efforts can have at the other end of the line. 🙂
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      212. Thank you for the video. This was very helpful in setting up my NAS. I followed your steps. Does that mean that when I copy items to the mapped drive they’ll be backed up on the second drive automatically?
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      213. Ok so I have 4 new 14tb drives in the mail. Upgrading from my 6tb drives. I have a usb back up with 13tb on it (all the data). Would it be quicker to swap one drive at a time or just pull the bandaid and rebuild the complete pool from the back up? Ds920+
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      214. Hi, thank you so much for this video guide, it is extremely thorough! It’s my first time setting up a NAS system and I would not have been able to do it if not for this video (considering the manual from synology wasn’t very helpful). Having said that, when I tried to click on “map drive” in the synology assistant, for some odd reason the buton/option is greyed out and I can’t create the drive on my local pc. I tried running the software as admin and still the same, do you know what may have caused this? Thanks
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      217. Excellent, thanks for this Robbie, I’ve been doing this for a couple of years now, but there is always something new to learn. Many thanks!

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