TVS-h874

the Synology DS1821+ is an 8 drive NAS, similar to the QNAP TVS-h1288X or TVS-h874. An 8 drive NAS is not capable of supporting 8 - 10 professional video editors using 10G ethernet, that are doing full res 4K video media, with programs like Adobe Premiere, Davinci Resolve, Apple FCP X or AVID Media

there are only 2 PCIe slots in the TVS-h874, and one of them is being used for your 10G card - I assume you don't want to lose this. You can get another TL-D1600S, but this will use a PCIe slot, and you would have to remove your 10G card. If you wanted a rack mount solution that you can keep expandi

I have never done it. I have installed tons of TVS-h874, and always with the QNAP QXG-10G2T 10G card. Within a year, almost everyone runs off of storage space, so I wind up installing a TL-D1600S or TL-D800S expander. I have never personally had to remove the 10G card, to try to install a second exp

you want 150 TB. With an 8 drive NAS array using 24 TB drives in a RAID 6 configuration where 2 drives can fail without losing any of your data - that is the equivalent of 6 drives x 24 = 144 TB of usable storage. So this is a QNAP TVS-h874 which costs $2400, and two M.2 NVMe drives to run the opera