QNAP TS-464T4 – The First EVER Thunderbolt 4 NAS

The QNAP TS-464T4 – World’s First Thunderbolt 4 NAS Drive If you are a thunderbolt user and have been looking at network-attached storage (NAS) in the last few years, then it would have been impossible to avoid QNAP. They have been one of the very few brands that have been able to merge the use […]

Finding loud drive in a NAS

Finding loud drive in a NAS

Finding loud drive in a NAS Someone asked a good question about their 1817xs. One of the drives is loud. Assuming shr,what is the quickest way to identify the loud drive? The easiest way to do this will be by turning a NAS off and connecting each drive one by one to your PC or […]

How to Back Up and Restore Your Synology NAS Configuration

How to Back Up and Restore Your Synology NAS Configuration

How to Back Up and Restore Your Synology NAS Configuration & settings Configuration Backup Go to Control Panel > Update & Restore to immediately back up system configurations to a local computer. This allows you to save various settings (e.g. users, groups, file service settings, etc.) and restore the settings at a later date. System configurations are saved as […]

Best 10GbE NAS to Buy in 2022

A Guide to the Best 10GbE NAS Drives to Buy Right Now Data is getting big, like REALLY BIG. From the phone in your pocket taking photos at 10MB+ a go, movies arriving at 4K Ultra HD HDR as an excepted scale and internet connectivity easily breaking into greater than gigabit speeds, we are fast […]

How to reduce noise on Synology NAS – compatible FAN list

How to reduce noise on Synology NAS – compatible FAN list

How to reduce noise on Synology NAS? Quick update: Amazon delivered the Noctua fans very quickly, and I already installed them! WOW. Just WOW. Using my phone noise level app, noise level went from 37dB (in idle) to 28dB, where the noise level with the NAS off in the room was at 25-26dB. Subjectively, the […]

TS-464eU Short depth 1U rackmount 2.5GbE NAS with HDMI

TS-464eU Short depth 1U rackmount 2.5GbE NAS with HDMI

TS-464eU Short depth 1U rackmount 2.5GbE NAS with HDMI CPU Intel® Celeron® N5105/N5095 4-core/4-thread processor, burst up to 2.9 GHz CPU Architecture 64-bit x86 Graphic Processors Intel® UHD Graphics Floating Point Unit Encryption Engine  (AES-NI) Hardware-accelerated Transcoding System Memory 4 GB SO-DIMM DDR4 (1 x 4 GB) Maximum Memory 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) […]

TS-864eU-RP Short depth rackmount 2.5GbE NAS with HDMI

TS-864eU-RP Short depth rackmount 2.5GbE NAS with HDMI

TS-864eU-RP Short depth rackmount 2.5GbE NAS with HDMI   TS-864eU without dual power supply also available   TS-864eU-RP-4G CPU Intel® Celeron® N5105/N5095 4-core/4-thread processor, burst up to 2.9 GHz CPU Architecture 64-bit x86 Graphic Processors Intel® UHD Graphics Floating Point Unit Encryption Engine  (AES-NI) Hardware-accelerated Transcoding System Memory 4 GB SO-DIMM DDR4 (1 x 4 […]

Best Plex NAS to Buy in 2022

A Guide to the Best Plex NAS Drives to Buy Right Now If you have been looking at buying a Synology or QNAP NAS drive in 2022 for use as a Plex Media Server, then chances are you are doing this because you are sick of paying for a bunch of online streaming services OR […]

Connect one Synology to another NAS directly

Connect one Synology to another NAS directly

head to Synology Login to your NAS Open Control Panel Open Network Select Network Interface from the tabs above Select LAN, click on Edit and choose manual configuration you can provide your NDS server (router IP, which you found next to IP settings earlier) Make sure you have the same IP range as the original NAS. If both NAS have only […]

Which Synology NAS Should I Buy?

Which Synology NAS Should I Buy?

Which Synology NAS Should I Buy? Before you buy you need to decide what drive failure protection you need and what functionality you want it to have. You have options starting with no drive redundancy which includes 1 bay NAS models or NAS with several bays merging together all available disk space. Or you can […]

Comparing 5900/5400 and 7200rpm drives for NAS

Comparing 5900/5400 and 7200rpm drives for NAS

I have (more or less) decided to go with the Synology DS920+ over the DS720+. I will be bumping the RAM of the DS920+ to 8GB with an additional 4GB module on purchase. What hard drives would you recommend for the 4-bay? The NAS that I am upgrading from has two “Seagate Ironwolf 4TB / […]

List Of compatible NVME M.2 SSD for Synology NAS cache

List Of compatible NVME M.2 SSD for Synology NAS cache

List Of compatible NVME M.2 SSD for Synology NAS When choosing NVMe for caching you need to look at reliability ratings such as DWPD/MTBF. Here are a few on the list https://nascompares.com/answer/nvme-m-2-list-with-endurance-dwpd-mtbf/ Caching means a lot of read and write operations, unlike regular storage situation. You would need to look at models with 0.5DWPD and […]

10Gbe NAS for VFX video editing

10Gbe NAS for VFX video editing

10Gbe Nas for VFX I’ve been looking for a replacement for my Drobo NAS for my home studio. I’m doing a lot of Video editing, Visual Effects, and Animation across mainly 2 computers (a Mac and a PC, both have TB3 and 10GBE connections available). The Drobo just can’t cut it for what I’m wanting […]

Can i connect mouse, keyboard and HDMI monitor to Virtual machine on Qnap NAS

Can i connect mouse, keyboard and HDMI monitor to Virtual machine on Qnap NAS

Can i connect mouse, keyboard and HDMI monitor to Virtual machine on Qnap NAS Yes, you can link your virtual machine to Qnap HD Station portal. This way you can control NAS apps or VM itself using connected peripherals. You can also use a NAS as NVR surveillance station using QVR Pro app and connected […]

The Best 2-Bay NAS to Buy for 2022

A Guide to the Recommended 2-Bay NAS Drives to Buy Right Now Making the move away from your free’mium services such as Google Drive and DropBox towards a privately owned NAS is already a tough enough decision – then you find out that there are literally thousands of different models available and many, many brands. […]