You are a hero... thank-you for your service to the public at large (aka those of us who aren't super-tech-savvy!)

4 years after I got the NAS, I did my first factory reset....and I still needed every minute of this video. Thanks!

Robbie, QNAP should hire you to do their training and tech support videos! Excellent job! I learned so much from this video I’m consider upgrading my QNAP TS-251+ NAS so I can set it one correctly from the start!

I really wish this video had been available 5 years ago when I set up my first QNAP NAS! Although that NAS has worked very successfully, I'm looking forward to my new upgraded NAS to be set up 'properly' and thereby make better use of it. Thanks Robbie.

As a NAS newb, thanks for this video.

Hi. I just wanted to say a massive thank you for making these videos. Very clear and easy to follow and I don't feel like an idiot going through them.

These guides are invaluable for a numpty like me!

Did you ever release the more advanced version of this video as you mentioned? Thanks for all your life saving content, I would be completely lost without it :)

Just want to pop in quick and say thanks. After watching a lot of your vids I went for a TS-453D with 3x6TB WD red+ in Raid 5 and I am glad I could do my research with your help. Keep it up, you have THE NAS channel on YT

I wish I had had a video like this when I first set up my NAS back in 2014. I winged it and made some bad choices. I didn't set up a storage pool, just two drives in Raid 1. Now I'm getting ready to move my drives from a two bay to a four bay NAS and add two new drives. A new adventure that I'd like to see a video about. Thanks for this.

Thank you so much for all your hard work helping us! 💚

I finally returned to setting up my TS-451+ for a home NAS after purchasing it more than a year ago. The many failed attempts to initialize the unit at that time plus a move of residences let to an extended time on the shelf. Out of the many KZfaq videos I searched to assist in trying to restart the installation process, I found this video of yours by far the best targeted for new-to- the-QNap-NAS user and is most understandable. I look forward to viewing your subsequent videos on using the various QNap NAS features/functions. Thank you.

This video is so awesome! I wish there were such detailed guides for everything else in my life (including my life itself). I just got an excellent deal on a TS-253D-4G (US$ 330!). I was looking at the 453D, but this deal was too good to pass up, and my needs are modest and unlikely to grow significantly anytime soon. Looking forward to setting up the new NAS using your guide, and to the next videos in the series. Thank you for making it!

Thank you for this video. Just bought a NAS and the delivered instructions are quite limited. As I'm completely new to this stuff, this video was a tremendous help for my fist NAS setup. Thank you.

Mate, I’m so grateful I’ve found your channel. I live on a boat, struggled finding cctv solutions which are both local, accessible and 12v. There are no coincidences, I accidentally fell (not by accident obviously) upon you because of a Reolink review. On the basis of all I’ve learned in a couple of days, lots of viewing, I’ve ordered all I need hardware-wise to set us up…. But I’m most excited by playing with all the functionality which has nothing to do with CCTV, knowing that the cctv aspect is covered. Thanks brother…. Ts-264-8g btw. Very much appreciated and this video is super for me as I’ve not done any “p.c” build in at least 15 years… ❤

Terrific. First rate. Showed me how I set mine up incorrectly -- six years ago!

Thank you SO much for this! QNAP owes you a check. I BIG one.

Great vid - thank you sir. After recently spending about 5G on my new Synology, I'm having regrets with Synology's trend to be less customer focused and too self focused in regards to both hardware and software limitations. Looking forward to more on QNAP coverage. Regards and Happy Holidays!

MAn I used to give no fucks bout hard drives ssd’s etc until ps5 had that first beta 2.0 than I found myself trying to learn more about the subject. Very happy to have found this channel now I watch even videos like this one about something i don’t think id ever use but it’s interesting content imo. Thanks bro

was great! I've watched twice and will move onto second now for second time - as you go starts to make much more sense but Mapping to Mac network don't need extra step but all didn't come across well numbers instead of names of folders but id be lost without your videos

Thank you for this video. I have spent days trying to set up my NAS. This is the one resource that worked for me.

Thank you so much, I watched your old vid while setting up my NAS and I was fine, considering changes in the system, but at the map network drive popup that I see now on 41:11 - I started to worry and tried to find more actual stuff about subject and boom - here you are, with fresh 3-week video (at this moment, and yes - 3weeks on KZfaq is still fresh, I am youtuber too, I know. Good content takes time) and I am so grateful to have you - NASCompares ( I even went to the website to find the name of the bearded chad here, but then I started thinking that this channel is a team effort and that`s why on vids they are often refer as we and that`s why it`s important to thank NASCompares and not only the beared chad, still wanna get his name) YES THIS COMMENT IS STILL GOING STRONG, thank you again so much NASCompares for introducing me into the beautiful world of NAS. My channel and my subscribers are especially thankful (even if they don`t know it)

Hi Great video. I have just upgraded my TS-439 II+ to a TS-464eU rack nas. It has been rock solid for many years but need more space. Coming from firmware 4.2.6 to this new one with firmware QTS 5.1.4. And holy moly, things have changed. Its not just put in the drives and select raid 5. 1 day later and I thought I was ready to go. No there are pools and snapshots, and a lot of other things that i need to consider and need to have an opinion about. So a lot of things to google/youtube. So thanks for that video :)

Robbie, Another informative and useful video. Thank You! I am using QTS Hero (ZFS), and , as you stated, can't wait for your next in the series. Best Regards and Happy Holidays, too!

thanks for making this whole thing a little less intimidating!

Hello! 🤍🤍 I have watched almost ALL the videos on the channel. I HAVE LEARNT SOOO MUCH. I can't thank you enough for all the seriously detailed and accurate information you are giving to the youtube community. You have helped mi IMMENSELY in my process of purchasing a NAS. I picked up a QNAP TS-932px. I am now learning from you all I can related to RAID set up and configuration. THANK YOU FOREVER!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you so much! I'm about to take on my first QNAP project for one of my offices and these videos will help me tremendously!

Good video for the initial setup! Get it right the first time is always better. I would have thought this would have included the security console app as part of the initial setup. With recent security recommendations to change the default admin profile and initial port used to access the NAS these topic could be included in this video or future videos.

This video in particular:Very Good Indeed. Thank You.

Thank you for creating content like this, it has proven extremely useful for my first time NAS setup

Very complete initial setup video. Thank you

You completely skipped over creating an SED secure storage pool at 27:57

Awesome! Thanks for your gratitude.

Thanks for making this video. It was very helpful.

hi Robbie, thanks for this video. I'm going to be following the steps you have outlined to setup my own QNAP NAS. Quick question for you - can I use my iPad to perform the setup (download QFinder Pro onto the iPad and do the setup)?

Thank you for your time and Effort, good Video!!

Static IP - I followed this advice when I set up both my QNAP and Synology NAS's and, if I may be so bold, it's bad advice. When I did that and later replaced my router, the new router assigned the NAS a different IP address and I could not longer access the NAS. A bit of mucking about later, I got back into communication with my NAS. I found that the better way is to assign an IP address reservation for the NAS on the router. While technically different, it appears to do the same thing although I do stand to be corrected. ( As an aside, if you have a Synology router, then your static IP address network devices won't show up in the DHCP Client List. And per emails from Synology, this is as designed, but really dumb. )

Great content, very well done. Thanks

Thank you for this walkthrough! Can't overstate how helpful this channel has been. I'm now on my second server, a QNAP TS-1283XU-RP. You mentioned a later video to walk through ISCSI Targets/LUNs for Adobe users - is that out? I'd love to watch through that before setting up a new folder structure.

Brilliant. Thanks Robbie.

Top content! 💙👌🏾 Thank you!

A cracking good video again. Thank You.

Most excellent instructional video!

thnks lking 4 this

A massive thank you!!

That's it, my MacBook going forward will be known as a MacTop ! 😄

Ref:snapshot " you can revert your system to a previous snapshot." I'm presuming hes talking about the QNAP and not a computers OS thats hooked up.

Thanks!

is it possible to set up a four bay Nas initially with just two hard drives? I will add hard drive number three and four at a later.

Great video!

Is this info up to date for April 2023? Just ordered a TVS-872XT and want to make sure I set things up right. Thanks for the great content Robbie, youve helped me a lot in my buying decision

That was helpful. Thanks

OMG THANKYOU.

Hi, plz guide me, how to setup mirroring in Qmap Nas

Good video... One thing you may want an older version of the firmware is QNAP restricts you too much with "I call it spam, because I dunno another way to say it*. popup galore when you complete set up..Yes, u can suppress all of this but be prepared.... And with newer updates, it only gets worse and more restrictive... So, while you're juggling with security/privacy vs nagware........ be cautious about if that is the trade off you want Also, you didn't mention that QTS 5,x you cannot create an admin account. which is probably why you deliberately suppressed this info... Rather than letting people find out for themselves, it would have been good to have included "why you cannot" without user running into this by the "i" icon. No one likes surprises. Reason why I say this, Windows users can be admin privileges, so you can be upgrading you QNAP, and wondering why you need to create a "user" in QTS 5.x ... More info is better :)

Thanks so much !!!!

Thank you for the video. During my setup the NAS TS-453D will not recognize the two new WD 4T Red Pro hard drives. I got through the initialized steps and notice the problem when I started the New Storage Pool setup. The hard drives were listed with the status of "error". I have a ticket to Qnap support and waiting for a response. I will update once the problem is solved.

Awesome!

Love your content man! Question for you, I have a Raid 0, with 4 of my drives. I now have added 4 more of the same drive and now I want to add them to the same pool! How can I ?

I really need to get a NAS.

Superb info 👍. Is there a video how to make my cctv viewable on my phone over internet. It stopped after I updated qnap system 6m ago. Vmobile app is working fine over home WIFI only 😢

Is there a video on how to use the M.2 SATA and PCIe slots on devices like a TS-473?

how to configure 2 mirror nodes in the 4 bay qnap?

How do you create nested folders? No explanation but they pop up in the Plex Server video. I clicked "Add a Shared Folder" when highlighting my main shared folder but it did not add the folder in the right place. Click and drag also not available in File Manager. Very confusing.

Bought a TS-264 from a CCTV person and found it already has 2 Seagate Skyhawk AI 8TB drives installed and configured for surveillance recording (which I have no need for). They seem correctly configured for what they were intended for, however, when I try to create a storage pool using the wizard and get to "select disks" it doesn't show any, and I can't go further. Is there something I need to do to reconfigure (or reformat) these drives to behave like normal NAS drives?

I have a question about notification center. Setting up an apple mail smtp service in QTS notification center just doesn't work. I keep getting an "unable to send" message. Verifying everything reveals that the app-specific password generated by apple keeps getting changed by the NAS no matter how many times I fill it in. Is there an explanation for this.? I have to add I didn't set up a QNAP cloud account yet.

Qfinder Pro is broken as of 1/2/2024. If you try to login, you get an error message that the program has stopped working and Windows will close it. You can't get any further.

I've looked in your channel and haven't found the video about iscsi from this series. Have you posted it?

Who has a better software QNAP or Synology ? Seems like QNAP has the better hardware and offers more, but Synology has the better op system? Is there any one that works better for MAC OS Sytems ?

Grazie.

Turns out to be more of a headache than it was worth.

If I were to set up my pool in RAID 1 with two different drives, would I be able to add an SSD cache later without having to initialize the HDDs and lose all of the data on them? Thanks!

Nice video, very helpful. I see that the default browser address for the system uses port 8080. Is there a way to change that port?

Hi there, on my NAS, I can't choose hotswappable for the 4th drive? I can only choose as spare? Why is that? Thnx in advance

I have some questions about optimizing my first NAS setup for my needs. QNAP TS-673 (not the "a" version). I just purchased this (used) and is not yet set up. I have 6x 6 terabyte hard drives. Three of the drives are wiped clean and ready for install. Two of them have data from my previous desktop that I used as individual JBOD type setup. The NAS has spots for two m.2 SSDs. I want to be able to run my own home lab on this with Plex, a few containers, including pie hole, maybe a Minecraft server for the family, and ability to run OwnCloud for family google photos and apple drive replacement. I plan on upgrading the memory from the stock two gigs to at least 32 gigs and maybe 64 gigs. Should I buy an SSD for the drive slot number one {1ssd &5hdd}? My assumption is that will help with performance because the system will utilize that drive slot for the OS. Combined with that, or possibly Alternatively, what can I actually do with the m.2 slots. Is that only for drive cashing? And do I have any direct control over it or will the system utilize it as it needs and I might or might not see benefits from it? Or will the speeds be just fine with the WD Red HHDs?

Hi there. Nice and simple guide but I have a problem. When I set up the shared folder at 40:47, it gives me the error message "Failed to connect to the network drives on (device name)". IP addresses do match. Interestingly, I can drop files into the web browser successfully. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Edit: Does it have to do with the RAID still syncronising?

Awesome thanks. Do u suggest if thunderbolt is a option set up via that?

Dude your C Drive is so full its triggering my IT OCD xD

Question ⁉️ If I All ready have data on the driver's, can I continue with out format! I don't want to setup as access on network, I would like just to use it as a storage only. I read it's possible by mapping from Windows 10. Thanks for all feedback 😊

I have a raid 1 volume of 2 18tb drives. I also have a single 18 tb drive of all of the files I managed to salvage when my QNAP imploded. I can’t find a way to mount the single drive w/o formatting it. Any suggestions? I also have a 4tb SSD drive which I use for my docs. Can I use it to also as SSD cache. Would the speed improvement be noticeable. How much space would it take up.

What is better for a Plex/Jellyfin media server with a QNAP i5 - QUTS Hero or QTS 5?

Which Volume Type would work best for a Plex Server, Thick, Thin or Static

Hi Robbie, you’re amazing. I’m on it now. One question, is it normal that my TS 261c to generate continuous noise, like da… da da da da da … which is non-stop. Any solution to this?

Can the QNAP help w Ransom attacks or does the ransom software just see it as a local drive and encrypt it with their keys. Do you have any recommendations regarding Ransomware protections

How do I get the QNAP to replace the Windows Downloads/Documents folders? I have several PC's and would like to have the same Downloads/Documents on each machine for my Windows login.

Hey great video. If you have the time it would really help to timestamp your video

I set mine up with Raid 5 using 3 harddrives. Can i add additional drives later without formatting the entire drive? Will that cause any issues?

Hello my dear. I state that I am a neophyte and I mean in a relative way of NAS. I would like to buy one for the house to watch videos, photos and music in the family on TV, as well as other more or less sensitive data. All clearly visible even on the Internet and therefore remotely. I specify that at home I have Vodafone's FTTH fiber that as a contract tells me at 2.5 GB but that after infinite measurements with a desktop PC I don't reach more than 945 MB. I saw the TS-253 D and the newest TS-264 both at 2 bays with a certain interest. If I could give me some advice on which to take between the 2 and which hdd of 3.5 "I think of 4TB. I don't know if I will be able to complete a right configuration, so if I could help me or give me some straight on how to do to achieve the purpose. I thank you very much and sorry for the disorder. Good work. Sergio.

Is it possible to create matrix RAID on Qnap NAS?

Great tutorials thanks, but i am a bit of an amateur re NAS. I have a Qnap TS-653D with 6x6tb wd pro drives. Just struggling to set it up as my QTS5 screen doesn't look like yours! It is the latest version as is the version of Q finder pro. ( just checked today ). I don't have any of the following apps. Control Panel, Storage and snapshots, Apps centre, HDMI display applications, Visualisation guide, iSCSI and Fibre channel. I cant get into anything to set it up. Do I need to do a full refresh and start again. I only have a few music files on there just to trial it but can't access them either! Any suggestions for a non Tec person (i.e. words of one syllable please) gratefully appreciated. Many thanks.

N00b here .. just got a qnap 653D... And right now have 4 drives for the 6 bays If I'm running raid 6, can I add the two other drives at a late date?...like will the qnap expand the pool?

I picked up my first QNAP NAS 6 bay drive TS-X73A but really finding it difficult to set up, and updated the firmware, first error was failed to create a storage pool, but after I refreshed I can see the pool and left it to fully Synchronising and after 14 hours, I tried to create a volume and keep getting failed to initialise volume/LUN. I am regretting getting a QNAP, maybe I should have considered an alternative NAS :(

Just bought my first nas and mine says connection not private

Has Qnap gone away by fitting HDMI ports?

What device are you using in this video? Is it qnap or synology?

Can you create a Video that is all about connecting to the NAS? Whether on your own network but not directly attached or remotely when on another network and traveling. I have been looking for how to connect and it's been a month with my 473A and still cannot link to my desktop away from my Router and when traveling. Thanks in Advance!

Guys, could you please give me access to your video # 5 in this series?

I’ve finally got around to getting myself a NAS (QNAP ts-853a), having looked around it seems like there’s quite a shift towards truenas/unraid, the general consensus seems to be most people are far happier using those platforms. I could set the NAS up with QTS and switch later but I’d rather just do it once, not sure whether to just stick with QTS or go straight to unraid (I’ve seen people have had success using unraid on QNAP so that’s what I was learning towards) What would you recommend for a relative beginner? NAS is a pretty standard home affair, backups / PLEX etc.

Hi Sir, I have a failing system volume set up as a single drive. I was told by support to migrate it to RAID1 and add a disk to mirror the data on the volume. Can this be done?

what model are you using in the video?