expired Posted by chaofun • Nov 21, 2022
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expired Posted by chaofun • Nov 21, 2022
Nov 21, 2022 6:40 PM
QNAP TS-453D-4G 4-Bay NAS Enclosure
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The problem is as mentioned people open up the internet and use very easy to guess passwords, then they also dont update their environment regularly. Been running QNAP NAS devices for over 10 years now, not a single ransomware issue in my environment.
If you look at the majority of people who get hit with it, its people who haven't updated in a long time.
Its not much more secure, they had a vulnerability for well over a year after it was reported to them and still didnt do anything about it a few years ago.
They are definitely more "Apple like" I had synology units in the past they were nice, but the price tag for the hardware you got was not equal and now they lost their OS edge and QNAP OS in my opinion is way more powerful and also user friendly. That was not true 5 years ago.
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I'm watching the DS920+ but this is tempting.
That's total of 16 years of 24/7 being online and exposed on the internet and I have never been hack on both.
I like Qnap better because of their cheaper but more powerful hardware. They also have virtualization, and some basic networking and virtual switch. Qnap offer more features as far as I know 6 yrs ago unless Synology were able to keep up.
In short, Qnap has more powerful but more affordable hardware and more features.
That's total of 16 years of 24/7 being online and exposed on the internet and I have never been hack on both.
I like Qnap better because of their cheaper but more powerful hardware. They also have virtualization, and some basic networking and virtual switch. Qnap offer more features as far as I know 6 yrs ago unless Synology were able to keep up.
In short, Qnap has more powerful but more affordable hardware and more features.
The other thing is Synology Photos (which is not perfect) seemed to be more polished than QNAP's.
Did you ever had to call QNAP's customer service or make a warranty claim? Was it smooth?
Unfortunately prices on 4-bay units are high. I will move to synology back again some day, but waiting on their next gen systems that should be better with 4K transcoding.
1) If I grow out of all 4 disks, how do you upgrade them without breaking the array and losing the data?
2) Does anyone else use this as their primary drive? Would love to not worry about storing the 8TB I have locally.
3) What is the ideal setup? 2 x Raid 1 for example?
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You NEED VirtIO drivers if you choose to run Windows VMs; Google some easy how-to's if not familiar, because if you don't the VMs will struggle like you're remoted in from the north pole, laggy/unresponsive/disk latency/disconnects. With the drivers they're fine. Don't be halfway to repackaging the QNAP like I was before realizing there's a solution.
Handles aggregated 2.5Gbe x2 just fine with my Netgear 10-Gig switch.
Skip the Tiering/SSD cache if all you're doing is using it as a file server.
Mine's been good for a year and a half now, no hiccups, but set Firmware update to manual and delay that shit a couple months at least because QNAP sometimes does an oopsy.
Security = no worse nor better than any other brand, it's all about whether the person who manages the device left it wide open to the internet or not. Locking down remote access to certain IPs should be the bare minimum, and ideally no outside access at all.
1) If I grow out of all 4 disks, how do you upgrade them without breaking the array and losing the data?
2) Does anyone else use this as their primary drive? Would love to not worry about storing the 8TB I have locally.
3) What is the ideal setup? 2 x Raid 1 for example?
2. I have been using a few similar QNAP NAS for several years as my primary storage along with an external RAID enclosure TR-002 for backup (remember: RAID is not backup, don't just store everything on a NAS without any backup). Before that, I used to own a Synology 5 bay NAS which died twice because of the C2000 CPU failure.
3. For a 4 bay NAS, most ppl would choose RAID 5.
You NEED VirtIO drivers if you choose to run Windows VMs; Google some easy how-to's if not familiar, because if you don't the VMs will struggle like you're remoted in from the north pole, laggy/unresponsive/disk latency/disconnects. With the drivers they're fine. Don't be halfway to repackaging the QNAP like I was before realizing there's a solution.
Handles aggregated 2.5Gbe x2 just fine with my Netgear 10-Gig switch.
Skip the Tiering/SSD cache if all you're doing is using it as a file server.
Mine's been good for a year and a half now, no hiccups, but set Firmware update to manual and delay that shit a couple months at least because QNAP sometimes does an oopsy.
Security = no worse nor better than any other brand, it's all about whether the person who manages the device left it wide open to the internet or not. Locking down remote access to certain IPs should be the bare minimum, and ideally no outside access at all.
and if there is one for 16GB too.
thanks.
Started with 4x3TB drives and just recently replaced 2 of them with 6TB drives. Have 2x raid 1 volumes for storing movies, pictures, music and docs. Even setup an encrypted backup of docs to OneDrive.
Very nice.
Thanks,
Bub
For the price it's definitely not bad, but my next NAS build will be something more custom with ECC memory support, full bandwidth 10GB, NVME for cache, and if possible a dedicated GPU for encode.
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Like the poster above me mentioned, it does take up to 2x 16GB modules... I just didn't know what I'd do with all that since you only have 4 cores, so went with 2x8. You'd have to have a very specific use case, like maybe a SQL DB of the ram-hungry variety. Because regular operation plus 12GB reserved to 2 VMs doesn't make 16GB break a sweat. There is also a memory sharing feature which, if enabled, shifts the NAS's memory pool to different VMs/processes when needed automatically, further reducing chance of a ram crunch.
Like anything else it depends what you're trying to do... my case with 2 VMs isn't the most common either.
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