I bought a QNAP TS-863U in 2017 for personal use that mainly stores video files and surveillance camera recordings. It has 8x8TB storage in RAID6. 3 drives have been replaced since purchase. I have multiple pcs in my house running Kodi with a shared database for tracking watched videos via SMB. I want to be proactive and replace the system and upsize the drives while I’m doing it. Min 8x14TB, ideally higher (looking for some future proofing). Looking at HDD holiday deals for best $/TB. Beginner level here, so not sure which QNAP bests fits my needs and if I should move to QuTS Hero or stay QTS. Suggestions? The 855, 873 and 864 all seem fairly similar to each other and to what I have (size-wise).
One of the things you’ll want to consider is this. If you implement QuTS and ZFS, you cannot expand “easily” later. I’m going to be upgrading my devices this year as well from 4 to a 8 bay system and am sticking with QTS. If you buy a NAS with decent processing power and memory, and have a decent network, the performance should be very good. ZFS does offer some performance enhancements, so if you feel your storage will remain static, then QuTS is a good option. You also need to have a back up solution, so regardless of which you choose, make sure you have adequate resources so its backed up.
Why not? QuTS supports adding vdevs for a while now
Thanks for pointing this out. I must have been reading an older article.
I found this which outlines the process. I’m happy about this and will likely go with QuTS because of this:
Expanding a Storage Pool By Adding a New RAID Group | QuTS hero 5.0.x.
My intention is to just go ahead and buy 8 new drives, somewhere between 16-24TB, depending on what deals I can find and run with that until I feel that system has reached end of life, like I’m doing now.
Seagate has some Pro 18TB for $299.99 or WD has Pro two packs of 24TB for $869, (but limited to 3 packs (6 drives).
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