Hi,
I have just purchased the above NAS for streaming to my NDX.
The reason I chose this particular NAS was 2 fold:
- It is the fastest 2 Bay NAS going.
- I would be able to swap the 2 Seagate drives over to the new NAS from my QNAP 219 PII.
However this doesn't actually work. Despite the fact the QNAP supposedly has this functionality, When I click on "manage" I get a never-ending circle (egg-timer) which I presume of tells me that the drives are incompatible. It sticks at 24%.
So what I am asking is, can anybody share what they think, possibly through their own experience what the fastest and best drives would be for this new NAS?
I'm looking for 3tb, the same as my old ones. (Can't afford more at the mo).
Luckily, I have everything backed up to another External HDD.
Kind regards, Trevor..
Posted on: 28 March 2017 by Huge
WD Red or Seagate NAS.
If you haven't formatted the old drives, it may be that the drivers for the older NAS drive are incompatible rather than the disks themselves being incompatible. However if they are desktop computer drives rather than specialist NAS drives, then, either
1) You should replace them with proper NAS drives (as above)
2) You continue to use desktop drives in RAID1 configuration and always have a spare drive ready for when one of the drives in the NAS fails .
Posted on: 28 March 2017 by hungryhalibut
Yes, WD Red is the drive to go for. Once the 253A is up and running, look at setting up the backup facility whereby you press the button on the front to do a differential backup to USB drive. It's really easy to use.
Posted on: 28 March 2017 by TJSTAR
Oh and I did check the NAS ts-253a compatibility chart and my 2 Seagate weren't listed. However they also weren't listed on the incompatibility chart either.
I know all my files are there at least.
Thank you everyone for your input.
Really appreciated
Trev...
