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QNAP TS-932PX-4G NAS OOBE — NAS3 configuration

November 6, 2023 Jim Leave a Comment

Now that I have both TS-932PX-4G's operating, and the defective one sent back to Amazon, it's time to optimize the configurations for my use. Here are my objectives. Flat address space of at least 32 TB. Wire speed reads and writes over 10 GbE connections. Tolerant … [Read more...]

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QNAP TS-932PX-4G NAS OOBE — the third NAS

November 1, 2023 Jim Leave a Comment

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...]

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QNAP TS-932PX-4G NAS OOBE — SSD vs Spinning transfer rates

October 30, 2023 Jim Leave a Comment

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...]

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QNAP TS-932PX-4G NAS OOBE — what went wrong

October 29, 2023 Jim Leave a Comment

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...]

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QNAP TS-932PX-4G NAS OOBE — trying for a hybrid system

October 27, 2023 Jim Leave a Comment

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...]

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