Best Surveillance NAS of 2022/2023

[@Swans_And_Ducks]

I’ve had a synology 214play with WD red drives for 10 years. Surveillance Station runs on it perfectly. 8 cams no issues.

[@km3481]

Thanks for sharing. I was wondering what hardware could drive a number of cams... If your 10 year old nas can drive 8 cams, that says something!

[@Swans_And_Ducks]

No plans to change it until it dies. Hope to get another 5.

[@NikCan66]

Always educational and practical. Merry Christmas to you and your family and continued success in 2023.

[@ryanparrish23]

What is the NVM Google NTU that you mention in the video? I'm setting up a dedicated surveillance NAS and wondering if that would be beneficial to me. I haven't been able to find it searching Google.

[@ThePakovia]

which NAS for surveilance (6cams), Homeassistant as a virtual machine and for storing some photos and videos. Thank you

[@km3481]

If I were to use a TS-453E with HD station with 8 cams would there be any additional cost or gotcha's? Or would it be free running? Do I need to purchase AI or will the default suffice? Any issues or costs? How would be the performance? I have the 2 nvme occupied with Qtier, so I don't have any extra slots open for AI.

[@Espiritiv]

Anyone tried the QNAP QVP-41B yet? NVR + NAS + POE Switch in one. Also you dont talk much about if any of these NAS have FPS limitations? On many NVRs you get a max FPS per unit, and you then have to divide that by how many cameras you want. Usually you want 25FPS per camera to keep them usable. WIth most people wanting 4K cameras this FPS gets eaten up quickly!

[@InspectorGadget2014]

I sometimes occasionally would recommend against using a NAS as a surveillance station; First of all, the NAS producers are more & more moving all such surveillance software from a one-time license-purchase to an annual license-purchase and discontinuing (!) all of their one-time licensed products overnight! (that is how we felt after we purchased literally for hundreds of euros licenses right before a major release). Additional purchaseable services (subscriptions!) will often also be required for the more powerful things that are AI-based etc. Your quite affordable NAS can become quite expensive very quickly, if not careful. Annually. Granted, the surveillance software is, with the optional additional services etc, quite powerful and with some very nice features nowadays but it will cost quite something. For at home, a handful of cameras etc, it is most probably fine with the depicted NASses in this video. Perhaps even a few cameras via wireless etc. I would also recommend not to do much very heavy loads beyond surveillance (such as dockers, VM's, sdeveral cloud services) as it is often not the NAS that can handle it (with the right specs etc) but with plenty of cameras you may possibly saturate your network if not careful. Treat the NAS as a surveillance deployment primary and some additional "non-heavyweight" services secondary. Or opt for a second NAS for everything else when using surveillance application. Not that the surveillance NAS will break out in a sweat, that often, when only used for surveillance. But is better to have something powerful being underutilised most of the time and a system that is constantly running at higher loads and sometimes can be overloaded. My 5 eurocents..

[@nascompares]

This is all very true (and I should probably make a video on this, as the rotating subscription model is one of the main things people want to get away from when it comes to TCO and moving from cloud). I'm still waiting to see synology's position on their new cameras and licencing...all BC500/TC500 cameras include a lifetime licence? Do they even need one? Does a camera with enough HW to run the DVA/AI services mean that non DVA Synology NAS systems can access those services with them? Surveillance is a niche area of NAS (Which in itself is also a niche end of tech and data already) but the way they launch these cameras might be a positive stepping stone for how surveillance can be modelled....maybe! Have a great betwixmas and a great new year man. P.s. don't even get me started on QVR Pro Vs QVR Elite...such an annoying 180°

[@InspectorGadget2014]

@@nascompares I do believe the subscription model is nowadays becoming more & more a reality in our every-day's lives. From seat-heating in your car, to whatever-else-you-can-name, it is no longer about ownership but from the looks of it, a paid permission to be allowed to use some additional services. Because, so it seems, people do accept it and is the new business-model, get people to pay "regularly" to get a revenue-stream ongoing. And ongoing. I predict (but hope I'm very wrong) that Synology will offer some kind of "free" service for a year, after purchasing (and activate!) their own cameras, and the subscription for renewal will be dictated after that year or the services/features (of that camera) will be downgraded. And will not offer such services (and/or features) to non-Synology cameras. Proclaiming it is very difficult to offer such to non-OEM cameras from other vendors. Together with their already (pretty much) requirement for their own Synology harddisks, M.2's and so forth, it is their revenue-stream they seem to be aiming for. That is the new business-model. No longer an ownership but milk it if you can. I for one try to avoid that rat-race, as it will inevitably also block/forbid things like right to repair, permission to use non-authorised software, modifications, hacks, upgrades and so forth. Things I personally believe are fundamental rights. Be curious, get out your screwdriver, so to speak. Yeah, QNAP's moves were quite upsetting, just before we did a big investment into licenses with them. We can probably get it fixed by conveying with them but just the mere situation is really something I despise. Really. Or their move to give-away exFAT licenses nowadays, whilst we purchased that not that long ago. Granted, the license is not too expensive, but if you count the amount of our QNAP's, it is a very nice sum of money that could have been saved should we have known about it.. Or should we discuss QNAP promise for supporting QuTS Hero on some older NAS. That is also annoying how they backtracked on that promise. Or their security-practices such as backdoors that existed in the past, opening-up QNAP's to ransomware. I may have the skin of an elephant, but sometimes also the memory of an elephant. I may forgive but not always forget... Sill, their hardware is great although I do have to say, some of their choices for the latest QNAP's are a bit puzzling. Thanks Robbie, you are a star! Wishing you, Eddy and the rest of NASCompares team a great new year, thank you for all the great content and I'm sure next year there will be plenty topics for your epic videos we can all enjoy again and again!