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Second using a QNAP - we have 2x TS-869U-RP's with 10Gbit cards in and they work excellently. The first one is in a RAID10 (as everyone wants quick storage and we don't have massive amounts of it), with 8x 6TB WD Red Pros giving ~24TB of usable storage. It's connected to our 10Gbit core, and then mapped to the file server via iSCSI (also on 10Gbit), and then shares are served through the file server. The second one has 8x 6TB WD Reds also giving 24TB of storage, but is used for backups (done through Veeam Endpoint). Works fairly well, and very reliable!

Try taking out all but 1 stick of RAM and see if you can get it to boot. Check for any dead fans - that can cause it to hang at boot sometimes, but you should be able to see the output still. As above, double check the PSU is good. Does it have redundant ones?

Depending on how much you want to spend, I'd go with SSDs. Although for 8TB usable space, the cost would be similar to that of buying 3x 4TB 10k SAS drives. Your RAID level may also not be helping things, depending what you're running on your VMs. Consider creating a RAID10 (although the cost is more) and you'll see an increase in performance straight away (once you have 4 drives)

Haha it's okay you'll learn quickly! The pairs are the same - 4 pairs of cables inside a sleeve. In Cat6 you have a plastic core which separates these 4 pairs (in the shape of a +), tighter-twisted pairs, and a slightly thicker jacket to reduce cross-talk. In some Cat6 cabling the internal copper cable pairs are slightly larger. I've gotten Cat6 into Cat5E RJ45 connectors fine before, personally never seen a speed difference so just use whichever I have in the bag!

It's the cable that will make the difference generally. In my experience I've regularly used Cat5E cables and gotten Gigabit speeds through the network. I've also made custom cables with both Cat5E and Cat6 and speedtested using a file transfer and got pretty much the same results. I've also used Cat6 patch cables on 10GBASE-T and gotten near-on that over a distance of about 10m. The thing that will make the biggest difference is the quality of the cabling. Buy good quality cables or components to make them, and you shouldn't see any limitation.

I think this is purely just a basic NAS - I don't see how you'd install Plex on it, unless you had a separate machine running Plex and were storing the data on this...

You can install FreeNAS in about 20 mins, create a basic partition and share it out with windows credentials. You don't have to take it any further!

In that case a USB one should be fine

Yes. By turning the WiFi off on the router, and only enabling it on this it means that any wireless devices have to connect to it in order to get internet, hence allowing you to limit bandwidth

Did you follow the rest of the steps I put in my post?

Do the following: Plug the new access point into your router, and set it up to act as a wireless access point In the settings setup the QoS (video here): Plug your computer directly into your router Login to the admin page and disable the wireless on it Reconnect your devices to the new wireless access point

Log a ticket with their support and see if there's an internal IP you're meant to be connecting to. It's very likely that they've got a whitelist for connections to only allow from certain IPs. They'll block external IPs for security reasons. They'll proably need to whitelist the local IP of your server to allow it to make connections.

7PB to be precide http://packet.company/blog/

Something like this will suffice: https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-WA801ND-300Mbps-Wireless-Access/dp/B004UBU8IE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1470337466&sr=8-2&keywords=wireless+access+point Sorry

Yeah don't think that it supports it! You'll have to get another router or get a wireless access point and disable wireless on the router, then limit speed on the new wireless access point