The Best 8 Bay NAS of the Year (2023)

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Video Chapters
00:00 - The Start
00:33 - Who Buy's 8-Bay NAS Devices?
00:59 - Disclaimers
03:05 - Honourable Mention
04:50 - Best Value 8 Bay NAS
09:04 - Best Software Equipped 8 Bay NAS
14:01 - Best Hardware Equipped 8-Bay NAS
20:29 - Conclusion

The NAScompares Podcast - Let's Talk Data

[DavidM]

2:50 I have a QNAP and a Synology along with my iPhone ( ok, 2 out of 3 ain't bad ). The ability to do anything with an iphone and a NAS other than photo's or calendars is pretty much NIL. So, disappointing that Apple's ecosystem is so closed. Merry Christmas Robbie. Thanks for another great year. PS, I'll be sending you my bill for your half of the money that I spent on NAS stuff this year after watching your videos...

[Josephw]

Thanks for the thorough breakdown on these! My QNAP TVS-872XT just died after 4 years of service. QNAP will fix it for roughly $800 but only offers another 180 days of warranty. This box hosted movies and documents. Ia fixing the existing box worth it? I maxed out the memory and added M2 cards. Not sure how much of that is compatible with the QNAP you are showing today.

[kpetsas]

I am contemplating buying the Synology DS 1821+ as a three-tiered storage system: 4xHDD in raid 5 for cold storage, 4x SATA SSDs in raid 5 for hot storage, and 2xNVMes.
Could you please share your thoughts as to the best way to set up the nvmes for this system especially to edit video off of the NAS through a 10Gbe connection (via the optional card)?
Is it best to use it as a storage pool or as a read cache for the cold storage (I believe SATA ssds will not benefit from having nvme caching)? Or not bother with NVMes at all?
I am a bit confused.
thank you.

[mohamedelshekhiby]

i love the video. if i can Ask a question of a tangent here. i know DAS might be boring but for my use case i like it. so what do you think of teramaster Vs OWC DAS which is better i need to know because i need to pick one then get 2 8-bay units one as my daily unite use for media and the other as the back unite . so ur opinion which is better terramaster or OWC taking into consideration the unite itself and the raid pc app ????

[DavidM]

Fellow viewers... it's Christmas time and Robbie and Eddie have given us another great year of really informative videos. We can't keep consuming all of their great content for free. We all need to chip in a few Quid so that they can enjoy a turkey or ham or god forbid, black pudding, for their Christmas dinner too. So, pull the cobwebs out of your digital wallets and buy them a few coffees in a show of just how much you appreciate their efforts.

[frankwong]

I bought a teramaster 6bay das and found the metal chassis will not amplify the noise like plastic designed Q and S brand nas, so i bought another 6bay nas version which using the same chassis design .

Wayyyy less noisy after i upgrade from Q brand. The old Q brand will swap to older 4TB drive and the 18TB drives array will living in the teramasternas and DAS afterwards

[tombouie]

Thks Robbie & I'm in a little over my head with an off-topic question I'm researching. Hopefully it'll be an interesting/important question to you:

??Can RAIDed-for-redundancy HDDs, HDD data scrubbing, regular RAM checking, versioning backups, etc replace that damned expensive ECC RAM??
Here's my previous post elsewhere on the subject: Thks &;
I finally gave-up on the long-promised 8bay Synology DS1824+ NAS ever-coming to market.
So I just got an inexpensive 2bay Synology DS723+ NAS & put a 4bay USB HDD enclosure into it.
I got lots of inexpensive regular RAM instead of that damned expensive ECC RAM.
I RAIDed-for-redundancy the HDDs and I run BTRFS HDD scrubbing, RAM checking, & versioning backups on a regular basis.
The main down-side trade-offs are data scrubbing takes a 1day per HDD & RAM checking takes a 1day. Hardware ECC RAM is thousands of times faster as well as has zero CPU utilization. So if ECC RAM ever gets reasonable/cheap, I'm definitely getting some.

[chriscardwell]

Hope Terramaster continue developing their software to become a major challenge to Synology . . .

[zombie-blood-gaming]

can you make an update video of the best ps5 ssd's to buy in 2023

[zyghom]

"The Best 8 Bay NAS of the Year (2023) is the one I just built: Jonsbo N3, 4x 6TB WG Red Pro, 4x Crucial P5 2TB each + TrueNAS". That cost me around 1200 GBP. Thank you very much. 64GB RAM, tones of fast SSD and tones of big HDD. Power consumption: 60W. Show me something that is comparable, vendor independent and self motivational.

[adrianogrisanti]

terramaster are garbage i use synology for old nas and new ones qnap as synology hd support is crap in future prob convert an old pc into a nas

[mrq]

for those prizes i build much better nas