Stupid Fast Multi-Editor NAS - TVS-872XT 6-Month Review

Want to connect up to 5 video editors at 3300MB/s with 112TB of storage for 1/3 of the Jellyfish? Done!

[MaksimYuryev]

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[calla]

This is one of the best, most in-depth reviews I've ever seen on YouTube. As a small business owner looking for precisely this type of solution for my team, I really appreciate how well-done this was!

[chuan-kangshih]

Simply the most concretely informative video about 10gbe video editing! I hope I came across it sooner so that I could have saved lots of wasted time watching those who came to this free plaza to talk about something that they don’t really know well. Thank you so much!

[sbonnema]

Fantastic video, Max. One question: if 10Gb Ethernet maxes out at ~1000MB/s and Thunderbolt3 at around 1500MB/s how are you measuring / taking advantage of the 2700-3300MB/s transfer speeds you quote at various points in the video?

[Churchfront]

Dude, thanks for this. I'm going through Youtuber team growing pains and this is exactly what we need!

[andrewhowe]

Thanks for putting the time in on this Max - it is appreciated. I have been running the 6 Bay for a similar period and I would echo everything you have said for the 8 Bay. With this and my other NASs I have been using a lot of Ironwolf 10TB (not Pro) drives and they have proved more reliable so far than the WD Reds I used before. I have had only one report errors and Seagate swapped it under warranty. The procedure for this is very good and it is well worth registering all your drives with them. It's tricky to spec drives just because there are so many options. If you have the budget, then maxing out the chassis with the best drives like you did gives the best speed, capacity and robustness. If you don't, then you have to compromise on one or more of those things. I have tended to compromise a little on each. Five drives seems a decent starting point for RAID5 with the larger Ironwolves. I use the 10TB because it gave me the best TB/£ at the time - but that's always changing. The main downside of adding capacity peicemeal later is that all expansions at the these capacities levels take an age and thrash the disks while they shift stuff round. I would advise prospective purchasers from going for too low a capacity drive in search of speed though. Firstly, the smaller drives don't always have the same single disk speed as the larger ones. Check the specs and reviews carefully. The other is that you always end up using more capacity than you ever thought you would need. Did you ever think you would own 100TB of storage? I didn't till it happened. The only practical ways to upgrade a RAID once it is full is to start again or start another one.

One of those other NASs is a 1282T3 and I think the x72XT is the better option for editors due to the lower cost and better aligned feature set. I use the QNAP 10GBE switch as I had some non-thunderbolt stuff to include in the network. I only recall powering it up and plugging the cables into it. If there is a complicated set-up to do, I should have read the manual :S

[kyohoi]

Really great video and I brought the 8 bays model after that, I put 8 x HGST HE10 8TB(RAID 6) and 2 x 970 EVO Plus 1TB(RAID 1) together as a QNAP Tier volume, connected with my iMac via 10GbE, thanks for your effort and that's a really great NAS.

[papoh]

Wow. This is the most informative review I've ever watched on youtube and I've been around since it started. Hits on everything I wanted to know (maybe a BIT more on noise levels but that's a personal pet peeve of mine) and is well produced, clearly articulated and relevant. Superb. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this. Will be using your links to say thanks.

[crossfitglenburnie]

Thanks Max! After seeing your earlier reviews, we purchased and just finished setting up a 6-bay QNAP TVS-672. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences over the last 6 months. Greatly appreciated.

[ElliottVeares]

@MaxYuryev 4:32 Beware, if you want to add a dual 10Gig network card in, you will need to remove the pre-installed Thunderbolt 3 card, as dual 10G network cards require an PCIe x8 slot.

As the second PCIe slot is only 4x, you thus have to remove the Thunderbolt 3 card from the x16 slot for the use of a dual 10Gbps network card. In other words the second PCIe slot runs at 4x, and you need a x8 or x16 PCIe slot for dual 10G network cards.

[fitguy]

Thanks for all the hard work here on the video and suggestions. I've watched this video now about 3 times now to make sure I set my QNAP672XT SSD cache correcting for editing 4k over a thunderbolt 3 connection on a 2020 iMac. now its time to do my speed test!!

[jordanrotert]

This is still the best Youtube Channel that I am subscribed to! Thank you for so much for all the useful content!

[firsthandaccount]

Max you provide so much value in your videos it’s insane. Thank you so much

[richardsontwain]

Great review. I have the TVS1282T and I absolutely love it. Best thing about it is that I have my DaVinci Resolve database setup on the QNAP and all my editors and colorist are able to use the collaboration feature in Resolve. Best money I've spent in the pass 3 years.

[christopherbradshaw]

Thank you, Max. Our team were looking for a NAS solution and your previous video helped us make the decision to go with a QNAP similar to yours. We have up to 6 people connected at any time, including up to 4 editors. Our unit has 4x Thunderbolt connectors and we find it can be unreliable with more than 1 computer connected. However the 1Gbe connections are plenty enough for editing even 4K Red Raw footage.

[SamuelRiveraFilms]

Hey max, I would love to see an updated version of of this...or what are your thoughts 3 years later? I'm on the market for one before the end of the year and would love to know if you think this unit still holds up.

[ShinyTechThings]

That’s FAST! I recently made a video on modding my Synology DS918+ to 5GbE and it works great but when I eventually outgrow it I'll probably go to something like this.

[jdlmediaco]

Made it start to finish! Thanks for the amazing in-depth research

[BoomTharis]

SUPER USEFUL VIDEO, MAX! GREAT GREAT JOB AND THANK YOU VERY MUCHHH!

[bricecannon]

Excellent video. I have the same NAS. Did you have an issue with the write speed being limited to about 350MBps? I tried RAID0 and thunderbolt 3 but write speeds are very slow. Any idea how to fix this?