The Best 5/6-Bay NAS of the Year (2023/2024)

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Video Chapters
00:00 - The Start
02:31 - Honourable Mention
04:18 - Best All Round NAS
07:15 - Best Value 6-Bay NAS
10:11 - Best 6-Bay for Hardware & Storage
13:15 - Conclusion

The NAScompares Podcast - Let's Talk Data

[playandprotect]

It's not really that difficult to beat the hardware specs of the asustor flashstor 6 priced at 499 dollars. The difficult part is making it in the same form factor.

[StevieRayLou]

I built a NAS with a Syba 8 Bay Tool Less Tray Hot Swappabe Non Raid External USB 3.0 Enclosure and a GMKtec Nucbox G3. It's awesome.

[arquizone]

Love this guys videos. He is the best there in nas reviews. The qnap TS 664 is the best nas for 6 drives. Cheaper then synology, software seems to be fine, they provide 8 cameras out of the gates, they don't require nvme from their own brand for the caching or storage, you can get 3rd party 10gbe card(might not be perfect compatability, but at least it could work) they have a huge list of compatible hdd, nvme, cameras, applications, etc. There is not much reason anymore to go with synology (I own a synology), they became greedy and no reason to gofor home solutions with them. NAS based on nvme is still risky based on durability. But in the future I think it will probably be the way to go.
And, synology has no embedded graphics card, all comes from CPU, so plex and anything that requires gpu will suffer.

[amirraouf]

Hi and thanks for all the great videos :) Do you see a 1524+ in the horizon or should we just go with 1522+ now?

[TheCynysterMind]

the 1522+ is the one I went with.... I tricked it out... 32G ram 10Gb card 2x 1TB cache I'm very pleased

[deathspawn]

I just need a good way to store my photos for my business, i have an old motherboard and cpu(its an older i7 something like gen 3?) And 12gb of ram, i could buy a cheap case and psu, i have 4 old drobo das units full of harddrives as well as 2 brand new 4tb nas drives, would you recommend buulding my own or buying a 5 or 6 slot terramaster or something?

[THeBoZZHoGG]

All kinda bad choices for a Plex server as one is flash so limited capacity and the others can not hardware transcode. DO a best for Plex server.

[MyersJOriginal]

are you doing a 8 bay "best of" and maybe a 10+ such as lockerstore 10/12s and Synologys and such?

[poorlybuffalo]

A DIY build options video for the all M.2 SSD NAS possibilities would be handy...:)

[BIGGY]

Kind of wondering why the QNAP TVS-h674? For just a little bit more, the 674 gives a phenomenally better CPU.

[bobbymoss]

Since Synology sells rebranded Toshiba NAS drivers, what are you thoughts on Toshiba delisting on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after 70 years? Any chance Synology will acquire Toshiba's HDD division like WD did with Hitachi's HGST?

[JessieS]

If your only choice is between Asustor Flashstor 6 or Nimbustor 2 Gen 2 NAS, which one?

[MyersJOriginal]

Also, i clicked on your "honorable mention"s link, its dead. takes us to an amazon store, not the site for it.

[jameskirkpatrick]

Re: the DS1522+ ("Best All-Around NAS"), Synology states that only their HDD's, SSD's and RAM modules are compatible with this unit. I'm 100% sure Seagate and others would boot and work fine, sans the annoying "Warning" messages. But since Synology says they will provide NO tech support with unsupported drives, I'm perplexed how any Synology product could be listed as a "best" at anything. Understand Synology software is considered best-in-class, and is their main focus. But to be fair to QNAP and ASUS, you really need to include a massive premium on the NAS price to account for the ridiculously high price of their branded HDD/SSD/DRAMs. Once that premium is accounted for, the bloom is off the rose. I'm finding this extremely frustrating, as I'm in need of upgrading my NAS but am torn between security concerns (QNAP Deadbolt) and inferior/overpriced HW (Synology).

[frankwong]

Of not considering size, a am5 entry board plus am5 processor, a pcie card cut into 4/4/4/4 probably get you a 6-8 slot full speed all nvme storage server plus it have own 610m IGP, partial ecc on DDR5 also

For am4 and g3 storage version you can do with APU and a 4/4/8 pcie split adapter

The build above may be cheaper or at a similar price but they are in size and you need some work on the software side

[iblackfeathers]

considering flashstor 6 came out around spring of last year, hopefully they will address the bottleneck before spring of next year. i have a few 4tb nvme ssds from black friday on standby. if not, they can be used on other things.