NAS drive for lossless audio playback only I have about 12000 songs stored mostly in WMA lossless format on a 1TB WD (external) USB mypassport drive. (More recently I have been ripping music to FLAC format because I realise that WMA lossless is not supported by many 3rd parties – so all my music will […]
NAS newbie looking to create a plex / NAS setup Message Body: Hello, I’m in the market to create a plex / NAS setup. I have about 1TB of media I want to enjoy which currently lives in my dropbox. I don’t have any experience with NAS or plex, but I’m quite savvy so I […]
Following “most” of your advice I bought a 918+ for main house and 218+ for lake house. Each is ubiquiti with its own cloud key gen2 (i use protect from them). (I don’t want to send video over the Net) What is the best way to connect these two for Hyper backup and Vault? Does […]
Whats chaepest for 4 bay with Virtual Machine function? Asustor AS3102T V2 2 Desktop NAS RJ45 1GbE,SATA 7-pin Discrete with Power,USB3.1 gen1 Intel Celeron 1.6GHz Dual-Core 0 Link £193 Asustor AS6302T 2 Desktop NAS RJ45 1GbE,SATA 7-pin Discrete with Power,USB3.0 type A,USB3.0 type C Intel Celeron J3355 Dual-Core 2.0 GHz (burst up 2.5GHz) 1313 […]
We have been involved with motion graphics and video editing for a number of years, but this year the challenge is to build something that is somewhat portable, that is, more portable than a rack-mounted solution. Historically we have been lucky with budgets and just filled out reasonable spec QNAP/Synology system with SSD’s and have […]
I retired as the Senior Technical Team Leader for a fortune 10. I’m used to multi-petabyte SANs. I’m looking to set up small NAS system in my home mostly for (automated) backup but some file storage. I occasionally have need to provide large files to outside entities. Looking at the Synology 5 bay but could […]
I have a 216+2 and a 216J (both from you). Both coming upto 3 years old. the +2 runs 24/7 and the 216J runs once a day backing up from the +2. the +2 is in a rack in the house and the j on the wall in the garage in a locked box. All […]
NAS Plex server I’m looking for a way to digitize my personally created videos as well as upload digital backups of my purchased DVDs, Blu Ray, and 4K Ultra as well as purchased CD music You might be interested in TVS-882BR-ODD from Qnap. This NAS comes with an optical drive installed. You can […]
NAS for ERPNext solution I am looking for a NAS Storage for media, Documents and where I can setup ERPNext (erpnext.com) easily on my own as a non tech guy. Is it possible 1) is it possible to Setup ERPNext on a NAS storage device? 2) is it safe and secure to do it (hacking) […]
I’m going to buy QNAP TS-251B-8G and I need advice if there will be possible to run Netflix somehow? I know there is possible to use chrome, and open netflix page, but I don’t know if this hardware will be enough efficient to play movie on it? Yes, you can download Netflix for Qnap […]
Bitrot Qnap Ext4 Looking for a long term cold storage (the data is not used actively anymore) option for about 30TB of data and was looking at QNAP RAID 6 option as base for this backup. (I will have individual 3 x 10 TB drives offsite as well (2 off site locations)). I know the […]
How to link IP cameras in one house with a NAS in another house? IP cameras remote connection to Synology NAS Surveillance Station I’ve found your article as very interesting and clarifying, but still I can’t find an answer for my desired installation. I’d like to install a surveillance system in my second home, but […]
Quite Desktop tower NAS with Dual power supply I am a small home based business operator and was wondering what is the noise level for the Synology RackStation RS820RP+ . Will the noise be annoying/distracting if it is kept inside a home office. I think the smaller the fan, the harder it will spin causing […]
I want to run a NAS with Plex and an HD Homerun Tuner/Antenna to watch OTA football games to 8 TCL 55″ Roku TV’s. Plex said it was possible, the biggest bottleneck will be Wifi bandwidth, but I can hardwire some of the TV’s if necessary. What is a bang for your buck NAS for […]
UltraHD transcoding Looking at buying my first and last NAS box, and looking at the HS453DX. However, the NAS specs seem to lag the AV market specs. The standard HDMI is now 2.0b, but the latest NAS boxes seem to be 2.0a. From the previous history, how long will it be for them to switch […]
New Qnap TS-251D NAS
How cache works on a NAS if I get a QM2-4P-284 card, I can build in NVME speed SSDs in the normal ports for SSDs? If I use it as cache: So I copy something from my portable SSD to the NAS, is this going first to the SSDs or straight to the HDDs? I’m just […]
DS218+ mirror folders between 2 nas drices I.m new with nas I’ve just ordered DS218+ I will have two 8tb drives inside. I don’t want to mirror them I want to mirror only few folders between them (about 3tb) The rest of the space I want to use for non important media files. Can I […]
WD Red Pro NAS vs WD Ultrastar DC HC500 We’re upgrading to a 16 bay Synology NAS and am struggling with storage choices. I’m looking at both WD Red Pro NAS and WD Ultrastar in the 14TB flavor. Will one be better for this application? This quite an easy question answer. Ultrastar drives are made […]
Nas for Motion designer Im a freelance motion designer. My main purpose for the nas is storage. I dont plan on working from the drive. More storing project and assets that I will need to be able to download incase I need something from it. A TVS-472XT would be the best choice with direct connectivity. […]
