LAG Switch Unmanaged POE Love your work, you are doing a great job with helping the world better understand NASs. I am looking at buying a Synology 1621+, and was interested in your thoughts on a POE enabled 16 port switch that supports Link Aggregation. Might be a good article to share with your audience, […]
I currently have all my music on iTunes. I like to own and do not stream. It’s my cd’s and purchases from the iTunes library mainly. Some video and some films. I listen to my music through an iPad/MacBook Pro and 2 x iPods. My question is this. How can I get my library to […]
First of all sorry for my bad english, I will try to make it simple. The main reason I was looking for NAS is to find alternative of google photo storage which will end in June 1, 2021 (It is a big topic now, maybe you can do a video for this :)) I am […]
NAS Selection for a specific niche Good morning! Love your videos! I am new to the NAS world and have viewed a lot of your videos and would like your opinion on which NAS would best suite my specific needs. I work on boats for long periods of time and me and my shipmates have […]
Nas with Avid Thanks for your insights here and I will buy through your site, providing I can find the right NAS system. I have an AVID system (2020 HP Zbook Laptop PC but also an older version running on an old 2009 MAC ) and I want to use HD only footage, about 20TB […]
Roon Server on QNAP NAS QNAP Simply open the App Center in your QNAP adminstration web interface and launch the App Center. In the Entertainment section, you’ll find Roon Server and can install it with just one click. After installation you’ll need to specify the storage location for Roon Server’s database. Once this is done, […]
1. I want to install android apps on my NAS (e.g. watsapp/ google duo/ internet live TV app etc.) so that i can launch to play on the TV. Video calls using the webcam connceted to USB 2. install the mouse and keyboard so I can acess nas from TV (given synology has only 2 […]
I just purchased a Qnap TVS-672N to use for three purposes 1) primary purpose is to use as a Plex Media Server for my home theater, 2) is back ups for my personal and small business docs, 3) possibly add surveillance at a later date. My plan is to use my Nvidia shield for transcoding […]
You need to choose between reliability and speed. Basic – is as fast as a single drive JBOD – also as fast as a single drive RAID0 – as fast as all drives speed combined RAID1 – write as fast as one disk, reading as fast as all drives combined SHR1 + RAID5 – write […]
Would you mind giving me a little more advice please. It’s not clear whether a Celeron CPU with a discrete GPU is better for transcoding than one with raw CPU power. I had a look on your website but couldn’t find the answer there either. I don’t suppose when you do the PLEx tests you […]
What is the difference between DS1621+ vs DS1621XS+? CPU benchmark on a DS1621+ is around 5000. DS1621xs+ CPU benchmark is around 8000. You also have more RAM on XS model. You also get 10Gbit port built in and an option to add additional 10Gbit LAN via PCIe card. In short, XS series model is much […]
comparison DS1621xs+ vs DS1520+ although 2 different classes, it would be nice to compare the differences because shared form factor to decide if price difference would be worth CPU is almost 3 times faster. Also, Xeon is not multimedia friendly, but it’s powerful enough to cope with even 4K files. XS series have ECC RAM […]
DS1621xs+ RAM upgrade Crucial Memory just like one for DS1819+ should work. DDR4 ECC SODIMM 16GB 2Rx8 2666 CL19 MTA18ASF2G72HZ-2G6E1 DDR4-2666MT/s • 16GB Module Capacity • ECC SODIMM • 1 Rank x 4 • PC4-21333 • CL=19 • 1.2V • ECC • Speed – DDR4-2666 Warranty – Manufacturer’s 3 Year Limited CAS latency – 19 […]
Despite the sales launch of the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X, there is no trace of HDMI 2.1 TVs and Monitors. LG OLED – LG OLED65CXPUA [ UK USA ] Samsung QLED – Samsung QN65Q90TAFXZA [ UK USA ] LG NanoCell – LG 65NANO90UNA [ UK USA ] LG OLED […]
Would like to know about NAS drive with M.2 NVME option There are fe M.2 SATA options HS-453DX-4G and TBS-453DX-8G. Or maybe you can still find old TS-351-4G. Otherwise you may need to get TVS-472XT and use internal NVME for storage. Or use a NVMe card and set it up for storage. I hope this helps.
QNAP or Synology I have watch hours and hours of your youtube videos and thought I would ask the point straight out. I had my mind set on the DS1819+ from synology and was going to up the ram to 32 GB and add a combo m.2 and 10gbe interface and already have 8 x […]
How to protect NAS against RansomWare. Slides and a video from Synology.
I think my situation is pretty basic. I currently have a NSA: Seagate personal cloud (3TB) that I use for both PC backups and movie storage. Chiefly my kids (under 3) watch Disney movies (on my SmartTV – android OS) utilizing Plex. I use a service called PlayOn to record the movies that I store […]
Upgrade of QNAP TVS-671 (GPU) I am looking for help to get around an upgrade problem with a QNAP TVS-671 (used for Plex) when installing a GPU. I bought this unit recently to provide a NAS capable of hardware transcoding for Plex. The spec was a Core i3 with 4 GB. I have now upgraded […]
the switch that supports two LAG 2.5gbe ports to 5gbe connectivity Hi, I’m currently using asustor as5304t and I’m looking for to purchase the switch that has at least two 2.5gbe switches also support 5gbe output(2.5+2.5gb=link aggregation to 5gbe) which connects to my 5gbe pcie of my pc. I barely know about switches so I […]