The Bleeding Edge

I sent the NAS with the ATA error back to Amazon, and received another QNAP TS-932PX-4G. The big question in my mind was: "Was the seeming incompatibility with the Samsung quad SSDs a hardware issue in the first NAS, or was it a design issue?" I put 4 of the Samsung 8 TB SSDs in … [Read more...]

I put 4 Sandisk 3D 4TB SSDs in the lower bays of the QNAP TS-932PX-4G NAS. My first thought was to configure them as caching disks, but I thought I'd do some measurements with the 4 SSDs in a RAID 10 array (striped and mirrored). I decided to use a Lightroom catalog directory, … [Read more...]

If you've been following along for the last two or three posts, you know the following: I got a QNAP TS-932PX-4G NAS. Let's call that one NAS 1. I filled it full of Samsung Quad-level 8 TB SSDs It lost contact with one of the SSDs every few TB of data transferred. … [Read more...]

The SSD-only NAS turned out to be unreliable. See the previous post for the gory details. I decided to try to build a hybrid system. I got 5 20 TB Toshiba enterprise spinning rust disks and a few SanDisk 3D 4TB SSDs. I took the Samsung SSDs out of the NAS and installed the … [Read more...]

Jargon alert. A NAS is a network attached storage device. An OOBE is an out of box experience. My rocky experience with the internal and external OWC solid state storage devices has led me to look at network attached storage. In the early aughts, I started with Buffalo and … [Read more...]