Devin Chua
Devin Chua works out which drives, which memory and which NVMe cache fit which NAS model at nasdrives.ca, and what the RAID choice means for usable capacity. He looks after the site's calculators and the per-model pages for UGREEN, Synology, QNAP and TerraMaster, including the honest read on each vendor's third-party-drive policy and the dated changes to it.
The core of his work is the fit question: not every drive belongs in every enclosure. CMR or SMR, SO-DIMM or ECC, a free NVMe choice or a vendor list — Devin reads the compatibility lists and knowledge-base articles and turns them into a clear recommendation, including the honest answer that a paid upgrade is not worth it when the network is the bottleneck long before the drive is.
He ranks drives by Canadian dollars per terabyte from the site's Amazon.ca price sync, and flags when a model a reader is set on simply is not stocked in Canada.
Focus areas: NAS compatibility · Drives, RAM & NVMe · RAID configuration · Vendor drive policies
Articles by Devin
- Which NAS drive should I buy?
- CMR vs SMR: the one drive spec that breaks a NAS
- IronWolf vs WD Red: which NAS drive wins?
- Synology vs UGREEN: which NAS should you buy?
- Synology vs QNAP: which NAS should you buy?
- RAID calculator: usable capacity in Canada
- RAID-Z calculator: usable ZFS capacity
- TrueNAS RAM calculator: how much memory ZFS needs
- How many drives do I need for my NAS?
- Unraid calculator: usable capacity
- DXP2800 capacity calculator
- DXP4800 Plus capacity calculator
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