after being a user of synology for several years, moved to USA decided to switch to QNAP because i wasn’t satisfied by sinology. i was looking for a NAS system powerful enough to handle not only local storage but also being versatile enough to handle multi media and home assistant load.
after a good research i have decided to choose TS-253D. it is configured with 2 10 tb hdd in the bays plus a QM2 pcie card with 2 ssd drives: one in which i have installed the system of 2tb and another one of 500gb configured as cache acceleration. i have also installed a TR-004 as NAS extension with another 2 4tb hdd in raid1 just for photos, plus 2 other drive as spare.
i have also configured HBS3 for google drive and QNAP Cloud Storage.
what im planning in the future is to install in the QM2 an AI card to use advance AI Face recognition for my home security system.
very happy to be part of QNAP Family
more post to follow on TS-253D usage
Rocket
the operating system is very easy to use and configure, also very reliable.