QNAP Transcoding + SAS Drives Selection I love your nascompares.com endeavour. It has been informative in choosing the NAS for my small business. I’ve chosen the QNAP TVS-872XT for a variety of reasons but I have couple of questions I can’t find an answer to… Maybe you can help? 1. Video Transcoding: Can I transcode […]
What are the cheapest & best 8K TVs? As of today, there is no real need for 8K TV unless you have 8K video camera at home. But there is simply no movies out there in 8K (Maybe Star Wars only). Is there ever going to be 8K movies in the future? Yes, even though […]
QNAP, ULINK and the Drive Analyzer When it comes to ensuring the safety net of the hard drives on your NAS, most users fall back on the old, tested and reliable method of Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID), in order to have a system that in most cases will ensure that if a HDD […]
ram, for qnap-nas – other brands. I am wondering about, if G.skill, Corsair (value-select) or Kingston (value ram) will also work? My concerns are, is the NAS-bios will recognize these other brands – even if timing etc. is the same ? (I am thinking of 2×4 or 2×8 GB) The keywords you need to focus […]
Terramaster NAS Devices Being Targetted by Ransomware – IMPORTANT If you are a current Terramaster NAS user, then immediately log into your system and check that your data is in order. In a little over the last week, numerous users have been reporting that their TNAS systems have been hit by ransomware attacks (bearing similarity […]
How to Use No-Idle Zone on the Synology Surveillance DVA3219 NAS Once your cameras are mounted successfully (Guide for that can be found here), software configurations must be set up for DVA to suit your needs fittingly. This chapter covers the crucial settings to achieve high detection precision. Step 1 – Select a Stream Profile […]
I am an enthusiast photographer. I want to invest in a NAS to store all my raw image files which can be backed–up/protected by Raid 5 or 10 (ideally). In addition, I would like to backup to Dropbox or Backblaze as an additional backup option. Is WD PR4100 for me? I see apps for Elephant […]
Hi, with SYNOLOGY RS3617RPxs could I use 10Gbe PCIe optional card with SSD M2 cache (M2D18) PCIe optional card ? I mean use the two expansion PCIe slots, one with LAN card and the other with SSD M2 card ? is it working together ? Yes, you can install and use two cards simultaneously. […]
Good News – The QNAP QSW-1208-8C and QSW-804-4C 10GbE Switch are REAL and coming SOON Excellent news for those who are searching for a cost effective and unmanaged 10Gbe switch in 2018 – the QNAP QSW-1208-8C and the smaller QSW-804-4C are confirmed and heading our way for an April ’18 release. We first uncovered information and […]
CES 2021 WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR PNY Launches XLR8 CS3140 M.2 NVMe Gen4 x4 SSD PNY announces the launch of XLR8 CS3140 M.2 NVMe Gen4 x4 Solid State Drive, the “CS3140”, delivering speeds never seen before… Read more at cdrlabs ADATA At CES2021: XPG GAMMIX S70 PCIe 4.0 SSD Now Available […]
I’m looking for a NAS replacement for the following use. My small business (I’m a freelance Software Engineer) Personal stuff (photos, music, Time Machine backups etc), A couple of IP cameras with recording facility. Cloud backup to Amazon S3 of certain folders on the NAS. I currently have both a Synology DS213 and a Windows Home […]
I co own a small photo/video studio with one other person. We want to centralize all our files and have them in one place to store and work off of. We would need to use an adaptor for direct connection to our laptops from 10gb ethernet to thunderbolt on out laptops, though we don’t both […]
Steam Nas What is the most cost effective Nas for playing Steam games from? I have wifi6 and 10gb network already but will only use this to game from and do not want to spend a ton but want fast gaming from it. If another NAS higher end $800-1400 can do everything and game from […]
The Ultimate Best Thunderbolt 3 NAS – The QNAP TVS-1582TU Rackmount NAS It is not easy to say that there is one single powerful network attached storage device, the truly TOP NAS right now. This is largely because this technology it is fairly well established and that new units are released almost monthly by all of […]
Plex transcoding Hi, Just watched your Dummies Guide to Plex video. I use Plex quite a bit, I have a HDHomeRun box which records TV – but it records enormous .TS files. Some things I record are not that important quality wise. I am a bit techie and I have created a batch file which […]
DS118, DS228, NVR1218 Hi, I have a DS215j running 2 x 4MP cameras at H265 (with a 4TB Seagate NVR HDD). I am hitting about 40% RAM use and about 52% CPU when streaming both cameras Live. I am looking to add another 2 same spec cameras and suspect I will be needing something beefier. […]
Reviewing Diskstation DS918+ Synology DS918+ Top Speed: 226 MB/s IOPS: 6000 Noise: 19.8 dB(A) Power: 28.8 W / 12.6 W PROS CONS Dual M.2 cache High Availability Excellent choice of Apps Snapshot Replication Support Plex Virtualization 4K Video transcoding FHD Plex Transcoding Hot-Swap trays DLNA Compliant Expandable RAM upgradable No Copy button Only 1Gbe […]
Hi, you know what the port’s data transfer rate is? NAS TS-453B USB-C QuickAccess port NAS TVS-473 USB QuickAccess port Does this connection only replaces network access or works as a DAS? Theoretical speed would be USB 3.0 speeds, but in reality Qnap themselves have claimed achieving around 100MB/s. It must be something to do […]
My name is Manuel, Post Production Supervisor Berlin, Germany. We also have an office in Düsseldorf which is part of the reason I am sending you this message. First of all, I would like to purchase a fast storage solution that every machine on our network in Berlin can connect to and work from (currently […]
Essentials for Photographers and Videographers If you’re serious about photography and Video editing you’re going to have to take a moment to step away from your camera and think about where those all-important shots are going to live. Modern-day Digital single-lens reflex camera (or SLRs) have for the most part abandoned the film based media […]