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set it up with synergy drive, The speed while I am on same network is 10MB/s........
Thx for the quick review, have you tried authenticating to a captive portal in a hotel / coffee shop, etc?
Thank you! Would be nice if you create a video of how to create a folder per user. Thanks again!
I will add it to my list when I do an update. Thanks for the feedback.
Hi Mike! I am experiencing Extremely slow connections. I have my client set up as an exit node on a 250 Mbps network, and when I connect from another 250 Mbps network outside my home (connecting from a Pi-Linux, PC-Windows, Android, iPhone, TV), the download speeds are below 5 Mbps, but the upload speeds are around 20 Mbps. The connection to the exit node is direct, according to what the Tailscale status command indicates. Does anyone know what might be causing this issue with the download speeds?
Wow, that is quite a performance hit. I expect it to slow down based on encryption but not that much. What are you using for an exit node?
I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4 connected directly to the router with an Ethernet cable.
Do these come with a VPN kill switch?
They have a physical switch you can disable the VPN but not a kill switch like NordVPN uses. It is a different use case.
@MikeFaucher I assume its possible to have all traffic on the routers LAN go through a vpn either openvpn or wireguard and make the internet unreachable if the vpn is unreachable?
@@tsiiphsycoii Absolutely.
What's the capacity of the Drive, please?
It comes in a 512MB and a 1TB versions. I have links in the video description with a discount code.
@@MikeFaucher Thanks a Million sir.
can you reset/reformat if the fingerprint reader stops working, or is it a brick at that point? also, just a heads up, your amazon link for the 512 has it labeled as 512T
You can using the mobile app. Just plug it to your phone and you can relearn or add fingerprints.
so u can decrypt using fingerprint using your smartphone scanner? thats neat. Why does nas like truenas not have this type of finger print scan? is the term passkey? like with passkey it's bound your smartphone and uses fingerprint to unlock. I hope this catches on.
Great point and thanks for the comment.
@@MikeFaucher the only thing i got to get to work using passkey finger print smartphone scan from the nas, was authentik. Which you can then gatekeep your web services for self hosted stuff hosted on your nas. So it can be used that way for quick secure unlocks using finger print scan via smartphone.
Can you connect an audio interface to it?
@@tri-unetrl3966 Have not tried it.
Hey thanks man, so it looks like, unless I can add more drives to vdevs later on, especially parity drives. It will be kinda hard to upgrade storage in this config.. Because of the stripping behavior. I want to first start out all my vdevs without any parity drive as I upgrade slowly. And then add in the parity drives later on, since I don't want to create new vdevs, creating new vdevs sound like a bad idea, because of the stripping behavior.
@@OT-tn7ci that feature is coming soon.
I need pciex1 riser for WiFi card because my new Gpu takes all the space. Does extending wifi pcie effect the wifi performance? Plus Can you recommend any riser to buy the riser?
Riser should not have impact at all. I have seen any PCIe1 Risers to be honest. If you find on, please post it.
I can not go to the homepage
Are you using the IP and Port number.
nice very nice ;)
Thank you for the feedback, it is appreciated.
Will this function also work on an Android device such as the Amazon ONN devices?
@@namewithheld3933 Not that I know of until they make an app for it.
Meine Türsprechanlage hat 18W, diese Netgear liefert aber nur 15W pro Port, oder 30W, wenn ich zusätzlichen (??) Netzteil einsetze. Wie kann ich das verstehen? Ist das nicht so, dass die Summe der Leistung eine Rolle spielt?
This device has 183 Watts total power and 30 max per port. You have to use the included supply to get PoE at all. Hope that helps.
thanks bro
Your welcome, appreciate it.
You will be shocked when you learn that inside these cards there is Internet just like the one outside 😂
You are right, I have taken many of these apart but there are exceptions. Good point.
Have the fenvi FV-AXE3000, works great on 6E, 5, but doesn't connect to my 2.4 or my 2.4 guest network. Does anyone else have 2,4 problems?
Have not seen any issues, Are you using the 40Mhz and intel drives? Have you used a wifi scanner to see how many 2.4Ghz devices are and what channels you are using? You many have interference.
@@MikeFaucher No Intel 40Mhz drives, my cell connects to 2.4 with no problem, my pc and cell phone are tested from the same location. My spectrum analyzer picks up no 2.4 intefearnce.
Sending card back, think it's defective. Router connects to all my 2.4 devices except this PCIe card.
As always, excellent content!
Much appreciated! Thank you!
Hi Mike, Great video. Also I would appreciate if you could show how to restore a QNAP Backup to another (New) QNAP in case the old NAS dies.
If the NAS hardware dies or you want to upgrade, check out this video. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4RlvMV-fpzFZLw.html
what is your thoughts in open media vault in comparison to truenas and unraid?
It is on my list of thing to try out as I do not have experience with it so I can't really answer.Great question.
@@MikeFaucher thanks for coming back. I have to say your video was really helpful to get a better understanding of those solution and which one to choose for my self.
Great Video Mike! One question i had is what if the ISP Router and switches are doing a ton of VLANs? Can I have the sophos still be there in the middle with bridge mode with all the VLANs? Thanks!
Good question. The bridge lives on the WAN side of the switches between the ISP modem and your switch. Bridge devices are not VLAN aware as they only filter and protect the actual final connection to the internet. If you are relying on your ISP hardware for VLANs it will not work. You will have to get a different router or use Sophos or pfSense as your router. Hope that helps.
Good info, but very, very, dry. Purchased anyway 👍
Thanks for the feedback and the purchase. No one has ever accused me of being entertaining, only accurate. 😀
2:36 wtf man, just put on the white table
@@Sayan_Shankhari thanks
Side note, there is a new feature coming soon that will allow you to add a single drive to a VDev as well. Not sure if it is released yet but it was discussed in another video.
Yes, I heard about this. QNAP's ZFS based Hero has been doing this since the last release. I look forward to the TrueNAS Release.
Fantastic video! I'm aiming to accomplish a similar setup with an OpenWrt router and Tailscale. My goal is to have Reolink cameras isolated from internet access to prevent unauthorised remote viewing, while still being able to access this private network remotely via Tailscale (installed on the OpenWrt router with subnet routing). I'm less concerned about the cameras talking to other devices on the same router as I have a dedicated router they are on. I want to ensure the cameras cannot communicate with Reolink servers or leak data online. Do you have any suggestions on how to achieve this? Thanks!
Just add. a Tailscale router and block the IP of your cameras, and it will work for you.
Why can we directly connect the usb cable to pc instead of using the virtual switch
This configuration allows the computer and QNAP to communicate to each other and still access the internet. Most devices do not support usb to usb.
It's three years later, are there even 40 Gb/s RJ45 switches / network cards to make use of CAT 8? I feel like doing singlemode fibre for 10+ Gb/s is way more flexible. I mean, you can push 25 Gb/s or even faster trough fibre for many tens of miles / kilometres. And tbf, I don't believe I'm saying this, 10 Gb/s for in-house (home use) copper cabling is enough, for faster stuff, use fibre instead. So just use CAT 6A instead of the more expensive CAT 8???
I certainly agree with you. Fiber for longer ranges is much better.
I recently migrated a friends nas from a old unit from 2011 to a new 2022 model. Update firmware, swap the drives over, update apps and start the work again
Outstanding. Glad it was sucessful.
What a great video! Thank you for sharing it with us.
Glad you found it helpful and and thanks for the feedback.
thank you so much dude, this helped a lot
Glad it helped. Thanks for the feedback.
Thank you. I'm in the research phase. I'm leaning towards the MT 3000 now. I understand what the repeater mode is. But, what is the difference between tethering and cellular?
Tethering is when you attach your phone to be used as a modem. Cellular is when you use a USB cell modem.
Damn good review. Most KZreadrs have no clue and miss these details like confirming speed tests and vendor claims
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. Many companies would have cheapen out on the docking station but this one is actually very good.
8:40 there was is a voice saying “start recording” in the audio sample, is that audible to the other caller during the call?
Also there are regions where you are not legally required to give notice to the other party that is being recorded. Often this is the case if you are also party to the call. But this of course depends on the country
Good catch, as it is on the recording I assume it is, however, I do not know for sure.
Hi Mike, any chance you do remote consulting? I have a TVS-872XT that had 4 x 4tb Seagate IronWolfs, and just added another 4tb IronWolf, same model as the others. I followed your instructions which worked to get the drive added to the RAID 5, but for some reason I can't get the volume to expand and show the new free space. It show's the 5th drive as part of the RAID but didn't add any free space.
Unfortunately for the next few months time does not allow me to much of anything else as my work day starts at 4am and ends around 8pm right now. Lets first see if we can it fixed and then go from there. IF you go to my about page of my channel, there is an email listed so maybe you can send me some screen shots of your storage configuration and I will try to help point you in the right direction. Assuming you are using QTS, and you have thick provisioning, you will have to expand each volumes as the expansion is for the RAID Pool only.
@@MikeFaucher no worries, I appreciate any help! I'll send you an email today and no rush on getting back to me.
Thank you!!!! Your video was very helpful. Much appreciated!
Glad it was helpful. Thanks for the feedback!
Mike some bad news to report. So i tested out eap-773 with the samsung s24 ultra. Wifi 7 is not working. Seems it's country blocked feature probably software based. Because in Singapore wifi7 works for it, but not for Malaysia right next door. So i could only test wifi 6. I barely hit close to 1gig speeds on the 6ghz band. The band steering auto changes between 5ghz and 6ghz, so the connections remains stable and sufficient throughout the place. So it's much better than my old ubiquiti ap lite which was a wifi 5 ap. It's way more stable.
Thanks for the feedback. Did not know Wi-Fi 7 was country blocked. Good to know.
@@MikeFaucher yeah someone on samsung was saying for samsung phones it took 1-2 years before they even added wifi 6e for malaysia samsung phones. this issue apparently only got solved as recent in the last few months earlier. So i'm not too optimistic that wifi 7 will be enabled anytime soon based on that timeline. But wifi 6 and 6GHz including 320 MHz band seem to be fine atm 🤔 Sg next door already have wifi 7 enabled for their S24 Ultra by samsung 🤨 If the issue was not yet given the ok by Malaysia yet, Samsung could have said that was the case. But they didn't instead they simply said in Malaysia it's wifi 6 only. The spec sheet link the gave me listed the S24 Ultra for malaysia as having Wifi BE is basically wifi 7. But in the fine print below they say "* Wi-Fi 7 network availability may vary by market, network provider and user environment. Requires optimal connection.Will require a Wi-Fi 7 router. " www.samsung.com/my/smartphones/galaxy-s24-ultra/specs/ It's only when you contact their customer service before they clarify wifi 7 is not available for the Malaysian model, despite it having the snapdragon chip.
this is one of the better videos on this specific product, thanks for taking the time to do a proper review here 👌 curious long-term, how's it treating you? seen any drive failures/experienced the rebuild process? also, have read a number of reviews indicating it like to randomly unmount on OSX, which is never good. with this one in your entertainment system, curious long-term how thats worked out temperature-wise (my networked drive in our cabinet never loved that amount of enclosed heat) Looking at this to mirror my Areca RAID to have a redundant copy of my primary editing array. I've always used larger single drives to back it up, along with Backblaze, but liking the idea of this QNAP for having larger volume and not having to delineate different backups. Seems to be simple yet effective product, love to hear any long-term downsides you've seen, thanks Mike!
The MacOS issue happens to many USB devices when you use their full power saving features which I do not use as I have had issues with docking station's and network adapters. As for the device, it still works will but I only use it for back up. It is a fairly inexpensive DAS device or it can be used as a NAS expansion. No issues or regrets yet. Thanks for the feedback.
@@MikeFaucher the power saving/sleep mode settings does explain some of those comments on this. glad to hear it's doing what it's supposed to! seems like with proper expectations, this array does what it's designed to do. thinking I'll give it a try and hopefully have little more streamlined backup for my primary. does seem like favorable option compared to some of the odd-brands in the same price range, even just for the sake of cleaner UI and potential support down the road. keep up the good work, and appreciate the info here Mike!
Removing the sticker off the drive will help greatly to increase heat conductivity to the heatsink and therefore, help remove the heat that will result in even lower temps.
Great point for many drives. On Samsung drives, the labels are metallic and in my tests it did not make that much difference. Great point and thanks for the information.
@@MikeFaucher Yes, I was reffering to the paper only sticker on the top side where all the chips are, that one needs to be removed. The bottom one indeed has some copper and should stay. On Samsung 970 evo I see 5 to 10C drop on idle and up to about 20C drop under load when doing samsung magician benchmark. I've put only a small 3mm height heatsink, drive is in a small form factor PC with a small fan directly blowing over it. Ambient temp at the time of measurement was about 27C.
Great video, Mike! Is it possible to use Tailscale to give someone access only to certain folders on a NAS? I'm a video editor and the producer I'm working with would like to grant me remote access to some of the video files on their NAS. However, we want to make sure that I do not get access to everything that is on their NAS. Is it possible to do this?
Yes, you can use tailscale to access the NAS and use the NAS account users to access what you need to have them access.
@@MikeFaucher Thank you. Sounds easy to do. I appreciate your help.
is it possible to create a guest network ?
Absolutely.
Thank you Mike from three years ago, very helpful in 2024. Even tho I’ve done this, I always seem to lose where the buttons are!
Glad it helped and thanks for the feedback.
@@MikeFaucher heeeyyy present day Mike. My pleasure. Take care! Look forward to some future Mike content some day :)
I just bought the TP-Link Archer Txe72e with 5.3 BT on offer £49.99. In device manager after installing driver from the package CD it turns out to be a Mediatek MT7922 chipset. So far it's very stable. My previous wifi card was an Intel 7260 from Asus bought for a similar price in 2016, that was garbage, faulty, it crashes, self disables and blue screens, drops connections many times a day. 5ghz or vht mode it would disable itself forcing a reboot. The new card txe72e has steady fast link speed 585-866 mbps limited by our ISPs AC router.
Glad to hear it is working but I would suggest not installing the factory driver and use the latest intel drivers. Thanks for the update.
@@MikeFaucherOh, it says it's a Mediatek device in DM, are you sure the intel driver's will be compatible? I was thinking that was why they've been vague specifying what chipset is on the card. I could be wrong. I'm also in UK/Europe, so maybe we get Mediatek instead. Samsung did the same thing put different chipsets in Galaxy S phones with Exynos instead of Snapdragon; based on region. Just my thoughts.
@@Sh4un1r1k It is clear on the it web site. This is an intel chipset. My understanding is all WiFi 6E is intel based.
@@MikeFaucher I visited tp-link earlier looking for Intel driver as suggested but the one available for Txe72e(UN) v2 was the same driver currently installed. The revision is so new that when I type in my model it has "coming soon" Mediatek also released WiFi 6E based chipsets from what I saw putting MT7922 into search. I can't share links anymore, won't post. Amazon states it being an Intel AX210 so I was miffed when I saw another brand in there. I'll check the back of card later to confirm. Not saying your info is wrong, I'm just miffed. Maybe something has changed over the course of the year with TPlink since the video was published. I watched this video and your previous one testing wifi6 cards multiple times over the year, to decide what to get. Tp-link is well known and was on offer and this archer model received favourable ratings on various review sites. And from the tests here it seems the most well rounded with speeds between the Iperf and Opentest.
You do a Great help for me, thank you so much!! By the way, do you have the installation guide for the homebridge?
Thank you very much for the feedback, it is appreciated. I have not tried HomeBridge yet but it is on my list of things to look at. Thanks again and glad it was helpful.
Would you get one of these or a Eero pro 6 triband mesh router?
I have not personally tried one but I hear good things. My preference is to stick with UniFi for support of VLANs as it makes it easier to secure your network. I am sure you will be happy with Eero but I don't have personal experience.
I’ve got a laptop that I can’t change the configuration of, however I need its outgoing traffic to originate from my home office, while I’m on the road. So I’d use a windows machine as an exit node in my home office. I also think of using a second laptop on windows as a subnet router. It connects via LAN to a 5G Router as its default gateway. I’d used a ASUS Wi-Fi Router to connect the Customer Laptop to via Wifi. The Wifi Router would use the subnet Router Laptop as the default gateway via a secondary LAN port connected by USB-C. If the setup would work as desired, all traffic should go from the Customer Laptop to the Wifi-Router to the subnet-Router-Laptop to the 5G Router and via VPN to the Exit Host on my home network (another Windows machine). So all outgoing traffic should be originating from my home network. That’s a lot SPOF.. but do you think this would work or do you have an idea for a simpler or better setup?
Unfortunately I am not clear on the configuration you are trying to do. Installing a Tailscale on all your external clients to use one single internal machine (even an Apple TV) setup as both a subnet router and exit node should do the same.
@@MikeFaucher one issue I’m trying to solve is to have a client I can install nothing on and make it appear as if i was at home.
@@andressen Hotspot, go to your phone and install the Tailscale app.
found out more info. seems for tplink their archer, deco and omada series wifi7 stuff might have MLO issues in regard to the samsung S24 Ultra. There is a beta firmware that may fix it, but i have no access to it to find out. But this issue was report as early as a few days to a week ago so it's probably still a problem right now. Even the EAP-773 which i ordered was explicitly mentioned having the issue for this phone model. Funnily enough the pixel 8 has working mlo with the EAP-773 (but it has a different problem where it's limited to 160MHz band vs the samsung s24 ultra 320 MHz)
Good to hear. I am still waiting for UniFi to enable the MLO functions so I can test this out.
@@MikeFaucher mlo not working for you either? guess we are in the same camp then 🤣 haven't tested it yet myself. but i read the issues exist. ap should arrive in a week. will see 😉
@@AinzOoalG0wn nope. Released from Ubiquiti yet.
I think this Company will be the best in the docking station domain and kick out most of the competitors. I do have the thunderbolt enclosure nvme with fan and its amazing. Looking forward to test and review this unit at some point.
Thanks for your feedback on this, it is appreciated.
Hi Mike, Great review, Thank you. Are you still attaching this unit to your NAS ? I wanted to do something similar to your setup so that I use it to host movies. I wanted to store high bitrate movies and I am worried that streaming over the wifi will not be successful and slow because of the usb connection between NAS and TR004. How was your experience? Did caching give better results? Planning to use Plex installed on the NAS (SSD volume) but sources from the TR004 Volumes. Cheers!
Your issue will be more with wi-Fi than 10Gbps USB. The speed of the devices is enough for full res uncompressed files and around 2-3 times faster than Wi-Fi so it should not be an issue. I use mine for strictly backup. I have tested the unit before for streaming using ethernet and did not have any issues.
I label serial numbers of drives & place label in a location where label can be seen without pulling drives. This speeds up ID of the defective drive and its replacement.
Good strategy. Thanks for sharing.