Intel Xeon or Core i3,i5,i7 in your Next NAS

Buying your first Network Attached Storage (NAS) device can be a remarkably daunting task! Even for the most technologically knowledgable, a NAS is a very different kind of device than most of the hardware in your environment. At its heart, it is just a computer (like most things are when you break them down to the basics) that is built for a specific task. However, there are numerous elements of a NAS (such as it always being ON, the constant remote accessibility and focus on storage primarily) that set it apart from most other devices, and this si where a lot of people get a bit intimidated by it. There is always the option of using cloud services, such as DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive and more, but these are often paid monthly subscription services, involve your data being shared across other services and (most worrying of all) leaves your precious data in a position to be used for analytics without your knowledge OR open to hacking because of the sheer size of the target. Add to this the fact that in most cases, a severed connection to the internet means a severed connection to your data, and the appeal of moving away from 3rd party cloud and on to a NAS is pretty clear. The industry of NAS has been in constant growth for over 30 years, with big players like HP, Dell and IBM steadily losing the home and SMB market to the likes of Synology, QNAP and more. The brand diversity in the field of NAS servers has continued to grow right up until 2021, with the benefit that the way you can interact with your data, what NAS devices can do and the price point of this technology being exceedingly affordable (with fully featured solutions WITH storage media arriving as low as £200). So, today I want to talk about what NAS is, what a NAS can do, and which NAS Brand you should consider buying in 2021.

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[Baylough.Technologies]

Yet again you have answered one of my NAS questions!
Alot of valuable information in one awesome video. Thank you for all you do!🏆

[augurseer]

What a neat question. I have a hand built xpenology unit. 6 laptop spinners. 3 ssd cache. Dual port gbe in lagg. All run by a core 2 duo. But an i3 or i5 would make certain tasks faster. More nic options would be even even better.

[televisi]

Thanks, very informative; I wonder whether AMD Ryzen could be another contender to do a comparison review too

[mirzosharifjalolov]

Thank you for explaination. It was informative.

[rodneydangerfield]

Thanks for the informative NAS comparison video!

[VirendraBG]

Hey.
I want to Build FreeNAS storage server.
Can you suggest a motherboard with quad core CPU (less than 40W TDP & not older than 2 years) with 2 NVMe slots, and maximum no. Of SATA 3 ports?
Thanks. 😊

[hellowill]

Why is it that Xeon costs the same as it did 10 years ago? E.g. for a quad-core chip.
But gaming quad-cores price halved?

[tomatomtom]

Uhm, the more relevant question is, shouldn't NAS' switch to amd? Intel dominated for far too long and racked up their prices as greedy as possible

[imspinnerr]

I have an old core i7 6600 and mb that I'm going to make a home server with

[CoffeeinChaos]

Hey Brotha... What do you think of the 1650-v4 for FreeNAS/Plex Server? Dual and single chip boards look relatively cheap and you can get the cpus for what seems like a steal. I'd love your take on this for 2020.

[keisuke]

so in my opinion the i3-12100f is a very good budget nas cpu cuz it has 16 gen5 lanes and 4 gen4 lanes. what do you want more? and that for around 100$/€

[elfwyn]

What Kind of graphics cards would be usable in conjunction with a Xeon CPU in a QNap or Synology NAS? I understand that the NAS will need the correct Drivers and most standard Cards won't even fit in a NAS Enclosure. I saw that Qnap has some dedicated options, but I'm not sure those are 100% supported by a Plex Server. I'm also unsure how those external graphics processors compare to the in-chip graphics of the core series.

[chinkc]

Hi Sir, good day to you, I'm sorry it is little bit out of topic here, I'm looking for 8 to 10 bay nas, what's is your expert advise on Asustor product quality in terms of hardware and software? Are they software is good?
By the way, I'm new to nas. Now I'm planning to use nas solution for my company.

[tonysfun]

Thank you for your videos ! I left a comment but I do not see it listed - did you remove it? Thanks.

[SalvadorCalaf]

Hello, one question please, the SMB - Thunderbolt QNAP series except for the TVS-472XT (Pentium) use Intel Core processors, it is possible to upgrade it as needs grow? (Photo/video 1 or 2 users). Thank you.

[chriscardwell]

How about 10 Gbe rather than providing 4.5 Gbe (effective throughput) on the cheaper NAS enclosures ?
Don't care if Ryzen or Intel - just do it

[cmoneytheman]

very out of date compared to these monsters 9th-12th gen cpus

i was using a 3930 which i got 4 years ago i didnt do my research though so i thought it was new and thought it was used which was why it was so cheap but it was so cheap cause it was old
i found out the same year i got it months later it was a old cpu

for me copying tv show dvds took 5 mins for each episode and when i would skip through different scenes in my editor it would have a delay and rendering would take long say a hr video took like 40mins

i upgraded 2 months ago to a 12400 and i no longer get delays previewing and rendering for the same length video takes 10mins my chip was 150

and im using a PRO B660M bought for 125
and my temps maxes in 60s thats when rendering

before i would get to the 70s with my old chip

and copying dvds eps take now 2 mins each

my virus scans are faster to

the reason i didnt upgrade to 12900 is cause it wasnt a big upgrade from the cpu i got now

and the amazing thing is my cheap is a i5 model years ago in the era that my 3930 it was no i5s that could compete with that this goes for all i5s before the 10th gen i5s was always seen as the mid models

now i5s since 10th gen can compete with the i7s it is no longer a big difference in performance like it used to be