Transferring HDD from one QNAP NAS to a new one My QNAP TS251 got fried last week following a power failure – it no longer gets past the message ‘Booting the kernel’ so I can’t even get into the BIOS. Anyhow, I’ve bought the TS251D after watching the review you did on it last year. […]
Asustor Drivestor 4 Pro Review – Cost-Effective Cloud? In recent years we have seen a wide array of more affordable network-attached storage NAS solutions arrive on the market and this is thanks in no small part to the incredible research and development that has gone into modern CPUs. This new generation of lower-priced but still […]
How to Keep history of performance monitor values on Qnap? which can log the Hardware performance data? We are looking for a application which shows CPU usage application by application. We are able to see the CPU or memory usage but it is total usage, we do not know which application consume more. Qcenter […]
We have installed our “TS-h886-D1622-16G Intel® Xeon® D-1622 4 cores/8 threads 2.6 GHz processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.2 GHz), 16 GB DDR4 ECC memory (2 x 8 GB)” without any problem with the guadince of your video. More over, we have watch almoust all of your videos about qnap and plex media server. we […]
Choosing Between Buying a 2-Bay or 4 Bay NAS For many users who decided to make the switch from subscription-based Cloud services and to their own private NAS server, it can be tricky to understand exactly what they need in terms of storage and power. Network-attached storage NAS has evolved rapidly over the years and […]
TerraMaster 16-bay Thunderbolt 3 DAS – D16 – £3,199.99 Storage Disk Slot Number 16 Compatible Disk Types 3.5″ SATA/SAS HDD 2.5″ SATA HDD 2.5″ SATA SSD File System FAT 32, FAT 16, NTFS, and EXT4 Maximum Internal Raw Capacity 288 TB (18 TB drive x 16) (Capacity will vary along with the RAID type) RAIDs […]
Top 3 NAS Drives for Plex Media Server for £2000 How many of us have decades of media in our homes? Somewhere between hard drives and USB that are full of cinematic enjoyment, collections of boxsets, music cluttering up CDs and hundreds of DVDs all over the place has led to most users sitting on […]
Choosing Between ZFS and EXT4 for your NAS Drive in 2020 If you have purchased or are thinking of buying a new NAS drive, it is becoming clear that setting it up in the perfect way is a little more complex than it used to be. You can go for the ‘recommended’ settings, but chances […]
Moving Synology NAS to HTTPS . My NAS comes up as insecure when I access through HTTPS. How do I install the right certificates and what do I need to do on my router. If you already have a video on this please point me to it. Many thanks. I just did a simple […]
Hello. I have a Hikvision NVR and recently purchased a Synology 920+ with the hope that I can run backups of the NVR video files to the 920+. The NVR can use NAS connected folders to record live video but I’m not seeing a way to backup to NAS folders using the built-in AutoBackup. But, […]
Bought the 673A and got it up and running. Today I installed a Crucial 32GB module with the original 8GB and they seem to be working fine. Final question, if that’s ok. What GPU should I buy for it? I’ll be using it for Plex and in the future for surveillance. So far Plex works […]
Top 3 NAS Drives for Plex Media Server for £1000 Buying a NAS for a Plex media server can be a very intimidating purchase. The technology behind network-attached storage has evolved dramatically in recent years and has far surpassed the simple ‘file and folder hard drive over the internet’ image that many associate it with. […]
F4-421 TerraMaster Celeron Quad Core NAS Processor Processor Model Intel® Celeron® J3455 Processor Architecture X.86 64-bit Processor Frequency Quad Core 1.5GHz (Max burst up to 2.3GHz) Hardware Encryption Engine √ Memory System Memory 4GB DDR3 Pre-installed Memory module / Total Memory Slot Number 1 Maximum Supported Memory 8 GB (4 GB + 4 GB) Note […]
HAS5300-8T/12T/16T Synology SAS drives HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS HAS5300-8T HAS5300-12T HAS5300-16T WHERE TO BUY General Capacity 8 TB 12 TB 16 TB Form Factor 3.5″ 3.5″ 3.5″ Interface SAS 12 Gb/s SAS 12 Gb/s SAS 12 Gb/s Sector Size 512e 512e 512e Performance Rotational Speed 7,200 rpm 7,200 rpm 7,200 rpm Interface Speed 12.0 Gb/s, 6.0 […]
The HAS5300 Hard Drives – New SAS Media from Synology Revealed Yes, that’s right. Synology has now released a range of SAS (12Gb) hard drives in the HAS5300 series. Last year, when Synology first revealed that they were going to start producing their own range of SATA hard drives for their Diskstation and Rackstation NAS […]
Can I migrate RAID1 from a PC to a NAS/ DAS? Not in a direct way. You could remove a second drive from your PC and put it in the NAS. Format and reinitialise it. Then copy data from a PC to a NAS and migrate from Basic to RAID1 mode. This would be the […]
How to Setup a Windows 11 VM on Your Synology NAS As Many of you may have heard, Microsoft has formally announced that Windows 11 is coming and after several high-profile presentations and numerous published references online, you are now able to begin the formal process of testing this new operating system to see if […]
Memory Recommendation Good day Robbie…. The Memory upgrade Brand recommendations here I presume were based using the older DSM 6…. Would you feel comfortable still recommending these now that DSM 7 is near, in case 7 is finicky on what Memory it likes. And you mentioned that “Dual Rank” should be specified, but its not […]
I have a client that would like to use their NAS as an audio server for their store. The issue is that there’s only one audio cable that they can use to play music to the speakers on the shop floor. We could use a a computer with a browser and connect the audio jack […]
Shoehorn into fixed directory “you will need your albums to reside in pre-designated areas of your NAS storage (you cannot tell the app to ‘index from X location’ easily)” This is the reason I don’t use Photos. And this is what I was hoping would change in DSM 7. In fact this was the app […]
