Asustor Drivestor 4 Review – Cost-Effective Cloud? Asustor’s latest NAS release, the Drivestor 4, certainly has a very specific target audience in mind. Making the jump from public and 3rd party cloud services can be a fantastically intimidating move! Cloud services such as OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive and more present you with internet-based cloud space […]
A Guide to the Best 4-Bay NAS Drives to Buy Right Now Most users who have been considering purchasing a brand new NAS Drive will often find a 4 drive (also known as a 4-Bay) desktop system to be the easiest and most capable entry point into this kind of technology. If you are trying […]
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 […]
Comparing the Seagate Ironwolf 510 vs Seagate Ironwolf 525 – Which Should You Use in Your NAS? The Seagate Ironwolf series of NAS media has been around for a few years now and what started as a rebranding of their ‘NAS’ labelled series has now become a multi-tiered series of Hard drives and SSDs. Recently […]
A Guide to the Best 6-Bay or 5-Bay NAS Drives to Buy Right Now I know, I know – it’s kind of a vague subject, but 6-Bays, 5-Bays and RAID 6 targeted machines are sudden a ‘thing’. Do you remember when buying a NAS drive was so easy? Even as little as 5-6 years ago, […]
A Guide to the Best 8-Bay NAS Drives to Buy Right Now If you have been looking at getting a NAS for your business, then I think it is safe to say that 8-Bay is where things get SERIOUS. Up until this point, most NAS system can typically fall into home use, budget use, small […]
A Guide to the Best Photography NAS Drives to Buy Right Now Many users first time hearing about NAS drives will often be when the limitations of their 3rd party cloud storage space (from the likes of Google, Apple or DropBox) start to become clear, with few groups feeling this pinch more than keen amateur […]
How to connect your Qnap or Synology NAS to the Internet safely? Latest Qnap advice to disable internet access to your Qnap NAS have scared so many users. Is it still worth keeping Qnap. Is is safe enough. Simply because Qnap allows people to configure their NAS in the way they like or need it, […]
NAS Backup What is the cheapest way of backing up my 11TB of data on my NAS? Asustor Nimbustor AS5304T (3x10TB RAID 5) There are three options there. Backing up to the cloud, USB drive or cheap secondary NAS. Cloud storage will cost $660/year Home: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html#af9rgr Business: https://www.backblaze.com/business-backup.html#af9rgr Comparison with other service providers: https://www.backblaze.com/best-online-backup-service.html#af9rgr External […]
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 […]
Quite FAN upgrade for Synology NAS How to reduce noise on Synology NAS – compatible FAN list Synology 916+ NAS fan upgrade Noctua NF-A9 FLX fan have been also working with Synology DS215j NAS Synology DE216+ II Synology DS 713+ Synology 718+ and other Synology models like DS918+ , ds1019+ and more. Here […]
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 & 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 […]
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 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 […]
Home NAS Build I’m building a home NAS for multi pc home use. I want it to be able to back up my families different pc’s and to run there gaming libraries off of them as well. That means steam, origin, uplay, epic, blizzard, and rockstar games. I already have a x470 mobo, ryzen 3700x, […]
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 […]
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 / […]
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 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 […]