Just joined the club with a DXP2800 - a few observations and questions
Hi folks,
After collecting tons of external HDDs/SSDs I decided to bite the bullet and get a NAS. The DXP2800 was a natural choice and I've added two 12TB Seagate IronWolf drives and scavenged a 2TB NVME.
My home network is four Nest Wifi Pro routers on 1Gb wired backhaul and a central 1Gb switch. Clients are M3/M4 Macbook Pro's and M4 Mac Mini and two Wiim Ultras.
I'm quite impressed with the interface and setup. A few observations:
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I was surprised that my MacOS APFS drives when plugged in to the NAS wouldn't properly read/write, although it would show the files. I'm transferring all of these via the network now.
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My NVME drive has the chips on the wrong side for the thermal tape, hopefully that's OK.
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I've been a bit disappointed by the Wifi transfer speeds, it's tediously slow to upload at around 10-20MB/s. Sadly my house and ADU aren't wired up for ethernet beside in a few places, so I've had to place a laptop by the NAS/switch to get some of the initial transfer from external drives done.
Which leads me to some questions...
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What would you recommend to improve my connectivity? I could switch to an Eero 7 Pro/Max system but I'm not sure the current Macbooks would take full advantage given they don't support Wifi 7. Is anyone out there getting good speeds over wifi? I guess it's fine for slower transfer speeds but video editing or mass file transfer seems a no go.
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How should I best utilize my 2TB NVME? Should I use it all as cache?
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When I install Jellyfin it asks me for a resource path and an extension path - not sure what I should put in for these..
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Anyone use their NAS with a Wiim for streaming flac audio?
Thanks!!
Posted Jul 29, 2025, 6:16 AM UTC