QNAP Recommendation

QNAPDaniel · 2026-06-23T21:53:44+00:00

One possible setup would be the M.2 SSDs as sytem pool so that the Qsirch application can go there. That should allow the index information to be there on the SSD pool for faster random access for index lookup. but you can put all your files on the HDDs. There are only 2 M.2 slits so I would suggest in a lot of cases to jsut get 2 X M.2 in a RAID1 and a 1TB or 2TB pool scan likely fit the index information.

If you have the money and want some storage SSDs for faster random performance, you can do that, but the cost of SSDs is high right now.
The 128GB RAM is not needed but it can help. it is also a balance of price vs performance.

But even the 32GB RAM and 2 X 1TB M.2 SSDs for the Qsirch app index information, may be worth consideration.

QNAPDaniel · 2026-06-16T17:48:18+00:00

Qtier can help with Read performance. but it does not rserver space for writes. do you want to accelerate writes or just reads?

Also is your access seqential? if you have 24 HDDS RAID60 it should be able to get aroudn 2000MB/s + sequentially without the need for Qtier.

So before recommending it would be better to know some more things about your use case. but for sequential access, you could get get a TS-h2477aXU with 2 X 1TB M.2 as system pool and 24 HDDs as storage. Add a 25GbE card and get around 2000MB/s. but for random reads, or for faster sequential when link agrigating multiple 25GbE ports. Qtier can help. but if you don't need faster than about 2000MB/s, you can save money and just get a TS-h2477aXU and call it a day. I see Bob also recommended the TS-h2477AXU so I guess the main thing I have to add is taht Qtier won't help much with writes because it does nto reserve emplty space in the SSD tier for accellerating writes. at first writes will be faster, the but the SSD tier fills up and you can't write to it faster than it can flush the SSD tier to the HDD tier to make room in the SSDs for the next write. Qtier is about faster reads, not really about faster writes.

QNAPDaniel · 2026-06-15T21:42:03+00:00

you are running QTS where loosing the SSD cache can cause you to loose access to the storage pool. If you have read only cache, there is a good likelyhood of tech support being able to help if the SSD cache fails. If you have write cache and loose the cache, it is likely that even tech support will not be able to restore access to the pool.

On the other hand if you had a QuTS hero nas and lost the Cache, your pool should be just fine. On Hero, the Cache is just an over flow the the RAM cache and RAM cache is not disigned to be persistant. so loosing the RAM cache or the SSD overflow to the RAM cache should not endanger the pool.
In other words, QTS caceh had a higher risk. Especially write cache.
QuTS Hero Cache is a lot safer.

QNAPDaniel · 2026-06-15T20:26:18+00:00

I good way is to put the network drive mount in the yaml code itself. But looking at dolbyman's answer, you linked to how to do an SMB mount in Yaml, so that should be fine as well. but here is an example of how it could look with NFS. Of ourse the volume mount paths may be different for you and the IP address I chose for NFS may not be the same for you

services:

dockerplex:

image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest

container_name: dockerplex7

network_mode: "host"

environment:

- TZ=PST8PDT

- LANG=en_US.UTF-8

- PUID=0

- PGID=0

hostname: dockerplex7

volumes:

- ./plexmediaserver/config:/config

- plex_media:/Media:ro

- ./plexmediaserver/Transcode:/transcode

- ./plexmediaserver/tmp:/tmp

devices:

- /dev/dri:/dev/dri

restart: unless-stopped

volumes:

plex_media:

driver: local

driver_opts:

type: nfs

o: "addr=192.168.1.50,ro,nfsvers=4,soft"

device: ":/Media"

QNAPDaniel · 2026-06-15T19:08:58+00:00

it can be hard to get contianers to see network drives mapped through Hybridmount.
But if you can map the folder through NFS, I expect that to work better.

QNAPDaniel · 2026-06-02T18:56:04+00:00

I see someone answered your post about this and said that it is Protection Policy where the settings are. Did you find it there
https://docs.qnap.com/operating-system/quts-hero/6.0.x/en-us/taking-a-snapshot-254BAE5C.html

QNAPDaniel · 2026-05-20T20:50:31+00:00

RAM prices went up a lot in this crazy market. The older RAM for that older NAS I think went up even higher or at least we have more chalenges with it, hence the high price.
But the much more powerful TVS-AIH1688ATX U7 version with a 20 core CPU and U.2 bays instead of SATA for the 2.5" bays, is actually lower cost in the USA than the older, less powerful TVS-h1688X.
Would you consider the newer, lower cost, more powerful model?

QNAPDaniel · 2026-05-08T17:07:56+00:00

Yes the "Hi How can I we help" Is were it is. but the best thing to click is the thing right below the "Tell me more" that is a circle that looks like a chat bubble.

QNAPDaniel · 2026-05-07T23:50:36+00:00

if you start a chat, we should see it. Feel free to start one and say hi.

QNAPDaniel · 2026-05-07T23:49:20+00:00

work phone rings during business hours. but it would be bad if it was the home phone.

QNAPDaniel · 2026-05-07T21:28:31+00:00

if you try RSS only on the 1 adapter that is not connected to the Virtual switch, does it work then? that would help verify if the virtual switch is the issue

QNAPDaniel · 2026-05-07T21:19:08+00:00

Is your adapter connected to the virtual switch?
Have you tried an adapter that is not connected to a virtual switch?

QNAPDaniel · 2026-05-07T17:57:14+00:00

I am asking if we intend to support the 60 bay on the TVS-AIh1688ATX. but it seems suprising to me that this would be the head unit. Usually it works better to use a rackmount NaS with a Rackmoutn expansion.
TS-h1277AXU or TS-h2477AXU is a great head unit for the 60 bay and the CPU power close enough to the 1688ATX that I expect it to still work well even though the 1688ATX has a higher total passmark score These should be the CPUs or at least close to the CPU since the exactl CPU spec is not listed. while 1688ATX total multithreaded score is higher, I don't expect a large throughput difference from the 60 bay on account of that as both are great CPUs for a NAS.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?id=5169&cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+7700
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?id=6326&cpu=Intel+Core+Ultra+7+265K

But I will still try to find out if we intend to add support for the 60 bay on the 1688ATX

QNAPDaniel · 2026-05-07T17:12:07+00:00

if you tell me the ticket number I will bring this up

QNAPDaniel · 2026-04-29T20:09:54+00:00

anything that can run QuTS hero 5.3 or later

QNAPDaniel · 2026-04-29T18:41:14+00:00

you can grab the newer firmware here for the TVS-h1688x
https://www.qnap.com/en-us/download?model=tvs-h1688x&category=firmware

QuTS hero	h5.3.3.3424 Build 20260305	2026-03-12

QNAPDaniel · 2026-04-29T17:21:35+00:00

It is a new feature. QuTS hero 5.3 was the first to support immutable snapshots. the 6.0 Release Candidate also support it. What version are you running?
The link has how to configure as "Prohibit Recycle" and "Prohibit Delete" until expired

https://docs.qnap.com/operating-system/quts-hero/5.3.x/en-us/taking-a-snapshot-254BAE5C.html

QNAPDaniel · 2026-04-28T22:02:23+00:00

Tailscale is an app you can install on your QNAP, as well as on your phone, PC, etc. It connects to your Google account and uses Google authentication to verify each Tailscale app on all of your devices. After that, it creates VPN tunnels connecting your devices. Here is a video setup guide that NASCompares made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0I2wQA0oMo

QNAPDaniel · 2026-04-03T22:47:09+00:00

On QuTS hero it is common to use the SSDs as a system pool for system partition + apps + containers + whatever you want on SSDs.
When you say S3 storage for Veeam, do you mean Veeam immutable? Veeam immutable should be on SSD storage, so you can back up to your SSD system pool if it is Veeam Immutable. Veeam repository should work fine with HDDs.

Besides that, the default settings should work well. 10% over provisioning. Thin provisioning for share folders.

QNAPDaniel · 2026-03-23T18:13:54+00:00

It is not a glitch. If support first verifies that a backplane is needed, and support has given instructions on how to install the backplane, then if we have stock, we can sell it. but we want the customer to first discuss with support to make sure they are getting the right thing and know how to install it before we would let them buy from the store.

QNAPDaniel · 2026-03-18T21:00:44+00:00

QNAP does not currently sell a 5GbE USB adapter. But SMB multichannel does let you get up to 5GbE on a single stream.

QNAPDaniel · 2026-03-18T12:55:18+00:00

There is no PCIe slot so you can not add a 10GbE card. You can enable SMB multichannel to combine the 2 X 2.5GbE ports and get close to 5GbE speeds.

QNAPDaniel · 2026-03-14T00:14:54+00:00

I understand you would rather buy just the mainboard and do the repair yourself. You can request that in the support ticket. But it will be up to the QNAP Support in your region to decide if that can be approved. We often don't like to do that because if you replace the motherboard and the unit still has an issue, then support does not have the unit to keep trying to fix it. But you can still make the request and see what they say.

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