QNAP Thunderbolt NAS Editing Guide - An Idiots Guide

[@zyghom]

don't know what is "wrong" with you my dear, but I am watching it happily without even... having QNAP. Great intro into 20224!

[@puertadlm163]

An Idiots guide???? You called my name. Need more videos like this.

[@attentionaddicts]

At 15:20 - thin and thick provisoning are explained the wrong way round. Thick allocates actual pool space, while thin allocates theoretical space which different disks/luns can share.

[@InspectorGadget2014]

I would like to add a few (hardware/software) experiences/advisories; It might not be clear, but per TB port on the QNAP, it is one user. (obviously, I would say) Also, the order(!) of connecting any other(!) TB hardware is very, very important; If you have other (non-QNAP) hardware, they *must* be connected to your (TB) client/machine first. And thus the TB-enabled QNAP should always be connected last in your (existing) TB-chain. As QNAP is connecting to your client as a, what I have understand, DAS over IP. You can also use the existing TB-connection of the QNAP (to your TB-enabled Client/machine) to "share" the (other) ethernet-connection of the QNAP, so you have also an internet-connection (over TB), simplifying the wiring. However, if your Client/machine also has its own ethernet-connection, depending on your platform(OS), it might be that your Client/Machine will have preference to the TB connection over the ethernet-connection. That might be undesirable under certain circumstances. So far, the only solution I have found is to temporary disconnect the TB connection between your Client/Machine and the TB-enabled QNAP. And finally, as many will know, TB cable is 3 meters in maximum length. Should you need longer cables, you can opt for so-called optical TB-cables (up to 300 meters, I believe) that are rather expensive. In practice, TB can become quite expensive or sometimes unpractical, perhaps 10GBe can be a good alternative.

[@InspectorGadget2014]

I forgot; Unlike "regular" TB devices, QNAP TB ports *do not* support daisy-chaining. So you can not use 1x TB port on the QNAP to daisy-chain to the other TB port on the QNAP to the next (non-QNAP) TB device. Each port on your TB QNAP is *only* for point-to-point...

[@tangaroa678]

When creating the shared folder you inadvertently double-clicked the next button at approximately 8m50s thus skipping the storage settings tab. That was a bit of a frustration for me as that was the one piece of information I was primarily interested in 😁

[@nascompares]

Apologies for that, I was struggling (and failing) to keep things concise. I would recommend this video about storage for editing on a QNAP NAS I released over the summer (I think), as thi covers alot of the setup - kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5S2hoOIi9KkpMksi=Iw0i0ZAW3UMAw1V8 bro Alternatively, it is also covered in this in comparisons with iSCSI - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYfMfqCVjKljbJI get Finally (bit of a older one) there's this one that is a little less packey - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIXEZIuMgsmApJYsi=q2dFxJ6ThRy81j6N Hope that all helps man

[@ruek66]

Got it. I’m on Qnap 5.1 and the dialogue box when creating a shared folder doesn’t have the functions you displayed as well.

[@joes9678]

Thank you for this guide! One idiot's level question though - does QNAP sell/is it possible to install a thunderbolt 4 expansion card into a TVS-h874 to get the thunderbolt 4 functionality? I picked up an h874 last year which has been great, but I would prefer to have thunderbolt connectivity instead of fiddling with a 10gbe expansion card which has had middling results thus far.

[@nascompares]

Currently, no. But it was an option on the TVS-hx88X series, but that was vi a TB3 card from the brand. This card's model ID is shown on the previous TVS-h874T review video and linked review, but I've checked and it has not got any kind of buy/SKU to purchase listing anyway. So, yeah, for now the answer seems to be no. Sorry bud

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Joe

[@joes9678]

​@@nascompares got it, fingers crossed that this changes in the future. Thanks for the response and for all of the great content!

[@ernie599]

do you have a video of what device you use to capture hdmi video I can't seem to find that

[@ruek66]

I'm completely lost to why you are using a LUN setup on MacOS, if you use Qfinder you just mount the volumes and you are done. MacOS will recognise them as part of its system. Or is this solution if you have a 3rd party software that for some reason doesn't recognise the volumes as internal?

[@EvelynLogan-od7zc]

Hi 👋

[@nascompares]

Exactly that. Some software won't play nice with mapped or synced drive over the network. Whereas a LUN has the appearance of local and will always work