Thanks again for all the help and support! Your stuff is awesome and we need to get the word out there about the work that you do! You should have 500k subs at least!! Bays, 2x PCIe 4 M.2 NVMe 2280, PCIe Gen 4×16 Upgrade Slot, Intel Core 12th Gen i5/i7/i9 CPU, 16-64GB DDR4 Memory, 2.5Gbe Port, 10Gb x2 Prots (Intel i9 Version), KVM, ZFS or EXT4 Setup, 3-5yr Warranty Honestly, I didn’t do one. This is a home NAS, the most ‘stress’ it’s going to get is if 4 people decide to copy a 4K video at the same time. I am confident enough in the build, thermal design and the choice of components that I can skip this step. Thanks again for a very complete, informative and comprehensive video, much appreciated. I made the right decision for our needs.

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The Supermicro SuperChassis CSE-721TQ-350B2 is an easy-to-assemble case from a reputable brand, offering ready-to-pair Supermicro motherboards with magnet compatibility, allowing motherboard trays to swap out easily for upgrades, and hot plugging drives simply work great like a portable PC case. I got a couple of questions, what the largest drive size, if I populate it with three drives (minimum for Raid 5) can I add more drive later? Can I add any Size drives? Can I remove drives later and add larger drives?

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Of course this is meaningless if it’s damaged, so the next step was to see what condition it was in. I tentatively popped a fresh FreeNAS 11.2 USB in the port and hit the power button, to my delight, it booted first time – not a single error on POST or Boot. Next I read the SMART data on HGST 6TB drives. ~2500 operating hours, 62 power cycles, no errors. Nearly new! For more information, including part numbers, we have the rest of this article. Getting Started: Choosing the Form Factor I will be using enterprise-class SAS hard drives rather than desktop-class SATA drives because SAS ( Serial Attached SCSI) is faster, more reliable, and built for RAID arrays (see HP’s take on SAS vs SATA). Don’t worry about costs either. I’ll show you how to get brand-new SAS drives on the cheap.

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Dear Friend, First of all, thanks for the amazing review! I’ve bought a TVS-h874-i9 and i see there are some GPU that i can istall on it. My question is if there are other “new” GPUs that i can install on the TVS-h874. I was interested on the MSI GTX 1650 LP . I‘m looking forward to the T6-423 version. After watching a lot of videos and reading I went for Terramaster 🙂

Very good article! I am interested in building a smaller one as I only plan on 4 SAS 16B drives. Is there an alternative to the Silverstone DS380 Mini- ITX 8-bay hot-swap SAS/SATA Case? That is, a 4-Bay version but still able to accommodate the rest hardware? I was going to bin my little old TS-453D because I couldn’t run Proxmox without using a USB drive. After a year of utter frustration, I just discovered that I can indeed boot from the two drives on the RHS nearest the power switch. I wish someone had posted this info somewhere that google search could find (ie; not here).

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What will QNAP introduce in 2023? Maybe it will reintroduce again the TS-464T4 Thunderbolt that was presented at CES2022 and nobody knows anything about it? All the recommended solutions support multiple drive configurations (RAID) for drive failure protection and performance enhancements For an always-on NAS server you don’t really want a power hungry, high performance processor, you’re better off with a power efficient model with between 2 and 6 cores and pulling less than 50 watts. Data throughput is much more important than CPU speed for NAS servers, which is why we spend the money on our RAID card and SAS drives.I have recently installed a TVS-h874 with 8 18TB HDDs and 2 2TBNVME, with similar read speeds to your install in the video (Raid 5 or 6 tested) for individual drives, however, the true transfer speed to the shared folders is 25MB/s write and 275MB/s read. The write speed is very slow without SSDs in QTier to help. Thus, this device has all this power to process data, but is very slow at moving it around if using HDDs. I may have to revert to QTS versus QuTS Hero to see if QTier helps improve the transfer speeds. Cable clearance is very tight but everything fits. The fully modular power supply is almost a must here. You mention the h874 is noisy. Ironwolf Pro 14TB drives are very very noisy, I’m using 8 x 7.68TB U2 NVMe drives in mine, and it is very very quiet. I agree QNAP were penny-pinching with only providing 2.5Gb NICs, I’m using a dual 10Gb card with PiHole and that gives me 20Gb bandwidth and editing 4k video on the fly is instantaneous. Join the Inner Circle? The Inner Circle is a community of like-minded individuals who are passionate about the same things you are. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and get replies from me and other Inner Circle members who are dedicated to helping each other out. And, with those alerts, I would imagine Synology would use that as an excuse to NOT support your troubleshooting if and when you have issues.

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Thank you for a very comprehensive and albeit a long video, but you covered so much material in that time. Starting with an empty drive cage (to avoid any accidents) I booted from USB and installed a fresh install of 11.2-U7 to both internal SSDs. It’s also great you had a look inside this unit. I wonder if that PSU connector is proprietary or is it a standard 20/24 pin PSU connector? Would be good to know in case you had a PSU failure.

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Any idea why, if we decide to use Google pay to say thanks, they charge tax ? And thank you very much for the non-stop education. And just to prove that I haven’t missed a single lesson… ROOTER, ROOTER, ROOTER…