Best NAS for Plex Server I need the ability to stream via HDMI to TVs in my home and also to stream remotely with Plex to iPhone, iPad, Amazon Fire Stick, and Roku. My movies are .mp4 with max resolution of 1080. I do not need 4k capability. My music is .mp3. and my photos […]
Dynamic LACP Compatible Network Switch Here you talk about what switches to buy in 2018, and was found when searching for a 24 port rack mountable switch capable of true LACP dynamic link aggregation. You talk about its use and the need for a managed switch, but at the end your recommended switches do not […]
Wired POE IP Camera for ts-453be I’m looking for a Wired POE IP Camera for ts-453be Are there any here you suggest. Its for an office and we have a ts-453be that will sit idle about 23 hrs a day that I’d love to use for more than just daily backups. Its for a hallway […]
Racked Synology NAS + NVMe Cache Is there currently a racked Synology NAS 3.5″ 12+ disk product with NVMe SSD cache support, Xeon processors and 10Gbe? The answer is no unless you get one with an expansion. Synology has two models with NVMe SSD card support and 10GbE built in, but CPU will be Atom: RackStation […]
Best cloud backup provider for Qnap/Synology NAS We bought a NAS and your website helped us a lot in making all the decisions, for which we are grateful! We bought a QNAP TVS-1282T and have around 28TB netto. Currently only 4TB in use. We want to back this up to a cloud service, but we […]
4K UHD. Hi. I’m thinking about buying a NAS to store my movies. I have approx 400 DVDs and 200 blu-rays. Also 40 4K UHDs. I’m trying to decide between the 418play and the 918+. Of course, I don’t want to over spend, nor do I want to under spend. I’m just trying to get […]
NAS for home. After watching some of your youtube videos it was clear to me that I want a TS-228A due to this one being in my budget and cheaper than a comparable Synology model like a DS218+. So after all the nonsense above, here is why I am writing to you in a brief […]
Best 2 bay NAS for hyper backup vault I have a synology DS415 Synology to hybperbackup locally to another NAS. The receiving NAS would be just used to run Hybperbackup Vault, that’s all. It will not need to do anything else. Which Synology is best for that purpose please? Hyper Backup Vault allows another Synology server […]
I also have to say at the start here that I use to use FreeNAS for many years and build my own setups for that over the years. Kind of getting sick and tired of constantly fooling around with that as I don’t have as much free time anymore and would like to find an […]
ReadyNas RN214. I am looking at the Ready NAS RN214(diskless) I use the NAS for general storage and streaming media, music and video etc none of which is 4k etc i use readynas duo v1 currently but have exceeded the 2tb limit i was given 2 3tb ironwolf drives (which won’t work on the duo […]
NAS and Switch on a 10 GBE network. My wife and I are amateur photographers who work on 1 Gbe network. I would like to set up a 10 Gbe network at our private office. We work with photo and some video editing. We will buy 2 iMac pro and need recommendations for switch and […]
Codec advice for H.265 transcoding on home NAS. I am interested in getting a home NAS for various uses, one of which is to serve as a media server for all of my home’s devices. As a means of future-proofing, I’d like to ensure that this NAS can handle real-time hardware-based transcoding of H.265 video […]
Plex & NAS that can handle 3 streams away from home without breaking up. I need a good operating system so I can put Plex on it as easy as I can get it I’m not really computer illiterate but I would like to have the NAS that can handle three streams away from home […]
Thunderbolt 3 NAS/DAS. I’m a music producer. I want to upgrade my studio and keep all my files on a NAS/DAS, preferably TB3, as I heard its supposed to be the fastest way of data transfer. I need frequent access to the files as well as using the NAS/DAS as a backup. Are there devices […]
New Synology devices. I am looking into a 4 bay NAS for home use, repurposing 4 WD Red drives I have in my FreeNAS. The reason I want to buy a new Synology NAS is because my FreeNAS causes issues – disconnected at random times, and requires reboot (which not always works). I am a DIY […]
1U and ack mount NAS storage for plex media server. Hi there, I’m currently running Plex using a desktop 4Bay HDD enclosure connected to a 2012 Mac mini. I’m updating our home setup with Ubiquiti’s unifi products for networking and looking to install a 1U 4bay rack-mounted NAS storage device. Can you give me […]
There is a good quality installed video camera that has a range of high end, high–definition video output connections. They would like to record the video output for seminars that are held for remote viewing post the seminar event; I like Synology DSM and if I could get the video in via a USB adapter […]
How to set up and record IP TV on a NAS? First of all download the installation package of TVmosaic. https://tv-mosaic.com/en/download/ Then do a manual intstalation. Select the installation file from the folder it was downloaded to. Then download Android, Apple or PC version of the TVmosaic app. Select the NAS server you installed […]
NAS for SOHO and media server/HTPC replacement. This all began from simply attempting to upgrade my backup storage solution. I’ve been using a USB Hard Drive for backup and reached the point where I needed more capacity. I bought a Seagate 8 TB USB drive. I have always had good luck with Seagate products in […]
I would like to know a few things. a) which NAS for using multimedia streamer and home/office backup from 2 people (iPhones, iPad, Mac and a windows laptop) in RAID configuration. Plus I would like to use it as a network server to access files etc from anywhere. b) can I run iPTV off a […]
