Synology secure Remote access via VPN. Small business data protection Looking to force users to not have company data on private computers. Mail server. Remote access required. Does this require a VM? Prefer synology after watching all of your YouTube videos. Open to suggestions or hopefully a idiots guide for setting up a SMB setup […]
CPU and RAM upgrade Thanks for this great review. Since short I am also the proud owner of the TVS-872XT NAS. I am looking for options to upgrade the CPU of this NAS to an I7 and go to 64gb RAM. I would like to inquire to what motherboard is in the NAS and what […]
Switching from Google Photos to Synology NAS I am recently researching about switching from google photos to private storage solutions. I lost trust with those big tech companies and I’d like to have control with my data completely. With that said, I’d like to migrate all my date from Google drive/google photos to a NAS […]
Hi hope you had a lovely Christmas and that your safe during this mad time. The reason I am contacting you today is because now I work from home as a freelance 3D visual artist its high time I had a NAS back up solution. I really only need a NAS to back up my […]
Enabling DLNA Media Server Go to Control Panel > Applications > DLNA Media Server. Select Enable DLNA Media Server. Optional: Specify the following information. Field Description Service Name Specify a name for the DLNA Media Server. Select default user account Select the user account that will be the directory for the DLNA Media Server. Click Apply. How to enjoy […]
I’ve been using Zyxel NSA325v2 about six years without problems. But naturally it is at the end of its career pretty soon. I am considering between these two modells – should I continue Zyxel because it’s familiar or should I try to learn to use QNAP. Mainly my NAS serves as storage of music, movies […]
Nas for plex and bluesound vault 2i Hi , Have just watched your plex set up video for the 420+ ,, thank you it has really really helped. I was planning to go down the 420+ route with 4 wd 10tb hard drives for plex and household ( 4 adults all needing secure storage and […]
Backing up music files, from a bluesound vault 2 i. I have a bluesound vault 2 i. I wish to know what would be the best device to back up all my music files. Thanks. It will probably be working another way round. All you media will be stored on the NAS. Either with one […]
Trying to decide on which NAS I want to make sure I don’t overspend or underspend. I’m looking for a NAS to do the following: 1. A place for local file backups for my current backup software (Arq) for two computers 2. A place to store files that don’t fit on my computer such as […]
Loking for SMB storage (NAS) to store Veeam Backups. When choosing the right backup NAS you need to decide what speeds you are looking for. A regular 1GbE NAS will run backups at a speed around 100MB/s. This might not be fast enough if you have large or many VMs to backup. You may then […]
Remote Mount https://docs.qnap.com/nas-outdated/4.3/cat2/en/index.html?file_station.htm File Station The remote connection mount service allows you to easily manage files across local devices, external devices, cloud services and remote devices from a single interface. You can easily carry out file management tasks such as copying and moving from remote to local devices or vice versa. The remote connection […]
Thunderbolt™ 3 Expansion Card Usage Scenarios Daisy-chain up to 6 QNAP Thunderbolt™ devices A NAS with a Thunderbolt™ 3 expansion card can be daisy-chained with up to 6 QNAP Thunderbolt™ devices, including other QNAP Thunderbolt™ NAS and Thunderbolt 3 to 10GbE Adapter (QNA Series). Connect legacy devices When used with an Apple […]
Synology Storage Reduction – Deduplication Active Backup for Business provides built-in deduplication technology to greatly enhance data storage efficiency. In addition, full synthetic data storage, which leverages the Btrfs file system, also helps reduce storage usage. Built-in deduplication Data deduplication reduces the size of backup files and is automatically enabled. You can greatly save storage […]
WIFI dongle Hi. I need to connect a Synology NAS to my router by wifi. I have seen your suggestions but there is no date on the article; everywhere else I find that the latest Synology NAS OS has dropped wifi support (why???). I do not want to purchase another wifi dongle (I already have […]
What are PlayStation 5 (PS5) specs Component Specification CPU x86-64-AMD Ryzen Zen 8 Cores / 16 Threads at 3.5GHz (variable frequency) GPU Ray Tracing Acceleration Up to 2.23 GHz (10.3 TFLOPS) GPU Architecture AMD Radeon RDNA 2-based graphics engine Memory/Interface 16GB GDDR6/256-bit Memory Bandwidth 448GB/s Internal Storage Custom 825GB SSD IO Throughput 5.5GB/s (Raw), Typical […]
DS920+ NVME SSD Cache DS920+ with 4x WD 14TB Drives and 2x Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB Do these SSDs work well as cache drives? How do you setup/initialize them? DS920+ or any other model will require the steps to enable cache. To mount SSD cache: Install the SSDs into your […]
Best NAS for Roon media storage I’m planning on setting up a Roon Core server and want to store the Music Library on a NAS. I currently have a Thecus N4200PRO with 4 3TB WD drives in a RAID 5 configuration. I’m not sure Thecus is the best NAS provider for this purpose. There’s a […]
speed up computer I want to speed up my computer. I have very big files Some Tiff files are are 50mb What is the best way to speed up this computer. Mac Pro (Early 2009) 3.46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 32 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Radeon RX 580 8192 MB Upgrading an internal HDD […]
HIPAA compliant uploads for my clients As a retirement side-gig, I design surgeries, and my clients need to upload optical scans (.STL) and CT scans (DICOM set and/or single file DICOM). I am using a conventional WD NAS right now, and “sweeping” files off of it soon after they arrive. But would rather be “legit” […]
Just adding that I had to buy a shield tv pro because the plex app on the TV WAS RUBBISH. Very jittery I think because the Ethernet port on the LG is 1Gbs WHICH NO GOOD for 4K. Transcoding on the gaming PC didn’t even work but shield did thankfully. Shield plays big 4K files […]