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Synology secure Remote access via VPN

Synology secure Remote access via VPN

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 […]

TVS-872XT CPU and RAM upgrade

TVS-872XT CPU and RAM upgrade

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

Switching from Google Photos to Synology NAS

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 […]

Most secure NAS – WD, Qnap, Synology

Most secure NAS – WD, Qnap, Synology

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 on Qnap

Enabling DLNA Media Server on Qnap

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 […]

From Zyxel NSA325v2 to Zyxel NAS542 or QNAP TS-251D

From Zyxel NSA325v2 to Zyxel NAS542 or QNAP TS-251D

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

Nas for plex and bluesound vault 2i

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 2i

Backing up music files, from a Bluesound vault 2i

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 […]

MAC to NAS backup solution

MAC to NAS backup solution

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 […]

How to Mount remote folders from another NAS in QNAP

How to Mount remote folders from another NAS in QNAP

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 […]

Can I Daisy-chain QNAP Thunderbol NAS?

Can I Daisy-chain QNAP Thunderbol NAS?

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

Synology Storage Reduction – Deduplication

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 […]

I need to connect a Synology NAS to my router by wifi

I need to connect a Synology NAS to my router by wifi

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

What are PlayStation 5 (PS5) specs

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 […]

How do you setup/initialize Cache on Synology

How do you setup/initialize Cache on Synology

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 Server

Best NAS for Roon Server

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

speed up computer

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

HIPAA compliant uploads for my clients

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” […]

DS1019+ vs DS920+ for Plex

DS1019+ vs DS920+ for Plex

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 […]