My NEW 32TB NAS STORAGE SYSTEM - QNAP TS-453B Setup VLOG

Buy QNAP TS-453B
More Info Below!

Belkin USB-C to Ethernet Adapter

WD NAS Red Drives:

QNAP TS-453B 4-Bay NAS
4 x 3.5"/2.5" SATA III Drive Bays
1.5 GHz Quad-Core Intel Celeron J3455
AES-NI Encryption Acceleration
8GB of DDR3L RAM
2 x Gigabit Ethernet Ports
5 x USB 3.0 Type-A Ports
1 x USB Type-C Quick Access Port
2 x HDMI
2 x Microphone Input
1 x Speaker Output
PCIe 2.0 x2 Port
Up to 225 MB/s Read/Write Speeds
Up to 225 MB/s Encrypted Transfer Speed
QTS 4.3 Operating System

How I Filmed This Video

Sign Up with my link and get 2 additional months for FREE!

Disclosure: Links in the description box are affiliate links to Amazon & BH. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

[SPDTDL]

Had my Qnap for about 6 years, and it's never missed a beat. Probably the best tech purchase I've ever made!

[jgg]

RAID 10. Thick Volumes with Snapshot enabled. Use external drive to have local backup via Hybrid Backup Sync. Then backup to an off-site backup or a cloud service.

[jagardina]

You can expand the thick provisioned volume up to what the thin provision volume tells you you have. They assume you're going to create more than one volume so don't max out the disk right away. Thin provisioned doesn't really allocate all the space until you need it. And hopefully there's space available...

[TheShuteye]

Great video, thanks for sharing, I just purchased a QNAP and have loaded it with 4 x 10TB Seagate Ironwolf NAS drives.

[peteryates]

RAID 5 doesn't use a designated failsafe drive. It just writes data to at least two locations across the disks, so any one of the drives can fail and you won't lose any data.

I have an older QNAP box and it's great, full cloud backups, media sharing around the house, database hosting for my Kodi boxes, torrents.

[pietropugni]

Waiting hours on a RAID array to initialize is more than normal. 3 hours is good. The time requested depends on disk speed, controller performance and block size.

[ZadieBear]

I have 2 QNAP NAS's (TS-451+ & TS-453Be), one is used for my day job (civil engineering). It is loaded with 4 SSD's in RAID 5 and the other with 4 WD Red's for photography and everything else. Both NAS's have local backups run daily and then the work NAS is backed up to the cloud. My cloud storage is MS OneDrive, because the 21 years of business amounts to less than 300Gb of data.

I have also set up 2 NAS's for clients (both the TS-531x with WD Reds in RAID 6). One of my clients mistakenly told me he needed 6 TB of really meant 200 Gb, so now he has a NAS with 18 TB haha.

[floydmillar]

qnap has been good to me as well. This is a game changer, finally we can edit off our nas! Love it

[blakeparry]

personally i went the drobo option as I wanted fast direct access from my PC (USB3 being faster than GB ethernet)
NAS really comes into its own when you have multiple people accessing it, or the handy other features like torrent clients, media serving etc.

[send_to_devnull]

First important thing to the shown setup just to use normal Raid5 without extra spare is a bad thing to do, yes one drive can die, but when the bad one gets replaced and the rebuild starts, this will bring stress to the other drives and if they are from one batch there is a small chance that another one can fail. so ppl who rely an data for a buisness please dont do that :)

There are some benefits from NAS you can buy brebuild like Synology qnap etc., but also some disadvantages
Pro:
-Easy to setup
-a lot multimedia features who work fine and easy to use
-good apps (in most cases)

Con:
-on the small ones they praise virtualization (i got an 4 core qnap myself 2 years ago) and it was just performing bad (sold it)
-small systems only offer normal RAID 5 / 6 and i wont trust it 100%
-most cpmpanys say they will have spare parts (like the raidcard) but if they dont und the system dies, that will bring a lot of trouble, will consume time or even thread ur buisness
-security updates will be released most of the time pretty late or never
-hard coded access logins/backdoors (like the WD Cloudsystem has shown)

So what a self build NAS (or prebuild based on server hardware) would be the better solution for buisness owner you get from OS like FreeNAS (or any other)
-if parts fail from the NAS you can move the drives to another system with an installed FreeNAS and use the data without any raidcard
-Filesystem ZFS, wich is like more reliable (in short its a self healing robust filesystem, prevents/notice bitflips, inbuild snapshotfunction) only contra would be that 1GB Ram is recommended for each TB brutto.
-better option for scaling (create a secound pool if the first is full)

[Drehundred]

"if my house burns down Austin Evens style" bruhhh.. Jason you're a savage. If your house burns down maybe you can move in with Jon and join team Crispy. Just make sure to bring Danny with you.

[HerewardDundasTaylor]

I'm removing all onsite redundancy including that which is on the NAS TS-453BT3. Instead, I am fitting 4 x 12Tb red drives (2 currently fitted, 2 to add later) and using the maximum storage space of 48Tb in RAID 0. RAID 0 offers great performance, both in read/write operations, there is no overhead caused by parity controls an all storage capacity is used. For redundancy, I have a QNAP TS-431P 4 Bay NAS offsite at a friends place that will be used for a complete backup.

The technology is easy to implement - unless you have a QNAP NAS that is :-( This is the downside. Qnap does not have a RAID 0 migration path to increase the number of HDDs in the TS-453BT3. As a result, I can't just add 2 drives and expect it to update automatically. Instead, after adding the 2 new drives the NAS will wipe the data from the 2 drives that have my data as it reconfigures the unit as 4 bay system. This means I will have to ensure the offsite back is right up to date before I start the process. After the 2 additional drives are installed I will then need to reload all the data from the TS-431 back up onto the TS-453BT3 workstation. That could take several days at best and even if I bring the TS-431 onsite and utilise the best direct transfer paths it may still take up to a day or at the very least several hours at best. *Sigh* a migration path would be so much simpler and safer and I wouldn't have to physically disturb and handle my TS-431 back up, which makes me a little nervous.

I have contacted QNAP to ask if they could add a migration path for the process of adding drives in RAID 0, but they weren't very interested in listening to me *sigh*. Still, I am willing to wade through this as I have already invested in the QNAP system and I think the TS-453BT3 is a great unit!

[WalterSmolenski]

Jason, Please where is the Blackmagic Disk Speed test? Its simple to run and gives us the bottom line on how the system is performing. We need basic information to make a choice.

[ChrisColyard]

Raid 5 should give you 24TB
Raid 6 should give you 16TB
Raid 6 is safer than Raid 5.

[DevinLoretz]

I currently have a Drobo 5C with USB C connection for my MacBook Pro. I am using four 2TB drives and I am ready to upgrade. I wonder what I should do with these drives when I upgrade to larger drives!

[ScottJWaldron]

Oh yeah, I've totally bought external drives and taken the hard drive out. That's what the manufacturers get for often pricing them cheaper than bare drives, haha.

[senorfrog]

howd you get the ts-453b? i thought they only had that in Europe. Here in the states, we get the 453be (no usb-c / card reader / only 1 pcie slot) :(

[rchan]

Hey Jason, do you plan to cover your setup in a follow-up video? I bought this same NAS with 32TB of WD Reds so curious what your recommendation is. Are you using the entire storage pool as a single volume or have you partitioned multiple? if yes, for what reasons? After reading about the pros and cons of each RAID array I decided on RAID 6 over RAID 5 and 10 in case of failure event.

[raymondnack]

Will be this summer, have no choice.. Thanks for info

[Ootini]

Is this one of the NAS units you can swap out the NIC card for a 10 gigabit card?