I've been looking forward to getting my hands on one of these, but as details have trickled out, its lost its appeal.. Going all out with 2.5Gbe is a huge mistake, there is simply not enough support for it - they should have included at least one 10Gbe built-in. What about gfx card support, will it take a GTX-1050ti for example?
Please can we have more on this NAS? I appreciate that the Xeon is not graphically endowed, but I’d be interested in seeing it tested for things like plex / transcoding, and direct video editing. I’ve been close to going for the TVS-872XT, but after learning more about Quts Hero, I thought I’d hold off a few months when it looked like Quts Hero was about to launch and get the TVS-872XT with that, but now the standalone launch of Quts Hero has been pushed back until ‘about’ Q1 2021, and this TS-H886 coming out with Quts Hero available already, I’m seriously considering going for this instead, just not sure if it’s got the most appropriate CPU for an individual content creator type of user (photography, occasional short videos, potentially streaming videos)
Since posting the above, QNAP have announced the H1288x which DOES have a Xeon which is graphically enabled. I think the price differential between H886 & H1288x, for me, probably means it’s worth going for the H1288x
hmm.. for example, you have a 3 Drive Raid-5 ZFS running - can you add another drive to the Raid after some time, when you need more space? btw. Nice NAS reviews!
Great video. Can you tell me would we suffer data loss in the event of non-disk failure (motherboard/CPU/PSU) in a ZFS system? What if the drives were encrypted?
Great intro. Looking forward to the usage videos as I am looking to upgrade my QNAP nas and not sure of whether to go for a ZFS one (though I would love to add its great on my Linux server) because it does not that have same expansion options the old system was capable of.
Maybe this is not easy to accurately answer, but how does one do estimates of what size NVMe and SSD drives would be needed/optimal vs superfluous for an application like, let’s say 2-person concurrent video post production over a 10 Gbps network to a RAID-60 array? In other words, where do you effectively move from useful to excess/superfluous via RAID and related saturation and bottlenecks?
Hi Rob, if 6 drive in mirror or z2 is the better option for zfs system on this enclosure? i think zfs only rebuild data which means doesnt rebuild all byte which means doesnt stretch hdd as hard as say raid2? Thanks
Would love to not consider this NAS for personal use...but the lack of ZFS(or even BTRFS) support on anything less than(in the QNAP range) makes that a difficult decision.
Yes, yes, yes....thank you for reviewing this NAS now.....got to dash, I need to watch now!
I've been looking forward to getting my hands on one of these, but as details have trickled out, its lost its appeal.. Going all out with 2.5Gbe is a huge mistake, there is simply not enough support for it - they should have included at least one 10Gbe built-in.
What about gfx card support, will it take a GTX-1050ti for example?
Please can we have more on this NAS?
I appreciate that the Xeon is not graphically endowed, but I’d be interested in seeing it tested for things like plex / transcoding, and direct video editing.
I’ve been close to going for the TVS-872XT, but after learning more about Quts Hero, I thought I’d hold off a few months when it looked like Quts Hero was about to launch and get the TVS-872XT with that, but now the standalone launch of Quts Hero has been pushed back until ‘about’ Q1 2021, and this TS-H886 coming out with Quts Hero available already, I’m seriously considering going for this instead, just not sure if it’s got the most appropriate CPU for an individual content creator type of user (photography, occasional short videos, potentially streaming videos)
Since posting the above, QNAP have announced the H1288x which DOES have a Xeon which is graphically enabled. I think the price differential between H886 & H1288x, for me, probably means it’s worth going for the H1288x
hmm.. for example, you have a 3 Drive Raid-5 ZFS running - can you add another drive to the Raid after some time, when you need more space? btw. Nice NAS reviews!
At 10:24 one can clearly see only one PCI-e x8 slot while the other not populated on baord...
Great video. Can you tell me would we suffer data loss in the event of non-disk failure (motherboard/CPU/PSU) in a ZFS system? What if the drives were encrypted?
Great intro. Looking forward to the usage videos as I am looking to upgrade my QNAP nas and not sure of whether to go for a ZFS one (though I would love to add its great on my Linux server) because it does not that have same expansion options the old system was capable of.
You can configure the unit to run regular QTS instead if ZFS isn't your cup of tea.
What about for live video editing over a WiFi 6 10 Gbe connection using SSD's? Can you do a video about that?
Maybe this is not easy to accurately answer, but how does one do estimates of what size NVMe and SSD drives would be needed/optimal vs superfluous for an application like, let’s say 2-person concurrent video post production over a 10 Gbps network to a RAID-60 array? In other words, where do you effectively move from useful to excess/superfluous via RAID and related saturation and bottlenecks?
Hi Rob, if 6 drive in mirror or z2 is the better option for zfs system on this enclosure? i think zfs only rebuild data which means doesnt rebuild all byte which means doesnt stretch hdd as hard as say raid2? Thanks
Can you please make a video on how to do link aggregation!
So this pci slot does not support the thunderbolt 3 cards? :S
Any idea when it will be available in Canada?
Can the QNAP TS-h886 be used as a DAS and NAS simultaneously?
Afraid not. The closest you would get is directly attaching the system via ethernet to ethernet. Even then, it's still IP based
this looks amazing...
Would love to not consider this NAS for personal use...but the lack of ZFS(or even BTRFS) support on anything less than(in the QNAP range) makes that a difficult decision.
I claim first.
second?