Hi! I just recently discovered your site while looking for info on the DS920+. Great work! So I am more or less a happy camper when it comes to NAS drives, but have had a few issues that I did not find an article about on your site. Reliability. My first NAS was a Netgear […]
Migrating from RAID 1 to RAID 10 – Reinstall and Restore? I was wondering whether you have instructions for migrating from RAID 1 to RAID 10 for QNAP NAS. QNAP says only RAID 0 -> 1 -> 5 -> 6 is supported online. RAID 10 requires a complete reinitialisation and recreation followed by a restore. […]
Quietest NAS HI, could you recommend a NAS that is quiet in operation The NAS will only be used to store music that will be played on my DAC streamer The NAs will be situated in the lounge so low noise is important NAS itself do not generate noise. The drives inside do. If you […]
NAS in Rack Looking for a Rackmounted NAS for my use of Video surveillance and Docker containers. I m currently running the following on my QNAP TS-453A (X86?) – Home assistant – Influxdb – Grafana – Node-red – MQTT Broker It seem to be a problem finding one using ARM or X86 processors. This creates […]
I just discovered your SHR video on yt since my now 3 yr old OWC thunderbay 4 RAID is filling up. I almost bought another but since its been 5+ yrs since I’ve looked up RAID tech, I was wondering if there was such a thing as a upgrade on the fly RAID – i.e […]
DVD Writer for my QNAP Could you please help me by listing a few DVD and CD optical drives that are compatible with QNAP TS-251D? There are big brands giving up manufacturing external CD/DVD drives. There are few USB2.0 and USB3.0 based models available: ASUS 90-DT20305-UA151KZ BDXL Format Support Allows users to burn huge […]
DDR3 instead of DDR3L in a TS-351 I have a ts-351 and am wondering if I can install DDR3 ram instead of DDR3L in my NAS. I have the ram from a scrapped laptop and would like to use it to upgrade. Thanks. You won’t be able to put DDR3 into DDR3L slot and […]
Nas connected to both iMac and network-switch via different ethernet cable Message Body: I would like to know whether I can connect my (to be purchased) Synology NAS to my (to be purchased) iMac (with to be purchased 10GBe-thunderbolt dongle) via a 10GBe cable CAT6a (for photo/4K video editing) AND at the same time connect […]
Thanks for the info. I ended up pulling the trigger on the 872XT. Now, my question is getting 10GBE. I have a ubiquiti switch right next to my nas that supports SFP+. My knowledge stops with cat5a, so what would be needed to connect this 872xt to my SFP+ port? There are two options. Use […]
NAS for Lightroom photo editing Hi, love the videos, very helpful. I edit files in Ligthroom on an Mac and need a lot of robust storage. My current solution using USB drives is not working. My priority is not to have lag opening large RAW files to edit with lightroom or browsing large file structures. […]
Backing up Music production and video work Searching the web for a week and watching all sorts of videos and asking around I found this and I really hope that you might be able to help me. I hope there is a already idea of solution in place, but if not I would like to […]
I have a question. I read on this page of yours – https://nascompares.com/2019/10/07/thunderbolt-3-vs-40gbe-nas-in-2019 – that the DS3617xs can support 40GBE. Do you supply those cards? I can’t seem to find much information for 40GBE, only 10GBE. Thanks in advance! I have tested this card on Qnap https://amzn.to/3BQxJSR. But Synology should support Intel based cards. Here is […]
data recovery of deleted files I have a 2-bay QNAP TS-251 NAS, with two 4TB hard drives setup on a RAID1 configuration. I accidentally deleted all the files in the multimedia shared folder and have switched off the NAS, to avoid any new data being written on the disks. The shared folder was in an […]
I have been using plex when it used to be called XBMC on my original xbox. My media collection has grown over the years and now I have a big old mess of hardware. My current setup is. Late 2012 mac mini running my plex media server. readynas nv+with 5GB of media. Drobo 5D with […]
Scalable NAS for video editing I manage a small video editing/distribution company and am looking for budget conscious solutions for a scaleable NAS solution starting with 800TB. We need to be able to have the NAS fast enough to for multiple editors (up to 5) to work off the NAS in Premiere, and encode multiple […]
Expanding Raid onto Expansion Boxes used with TVS-1282T3 I have a QNAP TVS1282T3, and am filled up with no data space with in all my 8TB Reds that are in Raid 6 Configuration. I was told on the phone by a QNAP Customer Service guy back in December when I was considering the TX-800P, that […]
I have some people with apple products but my home pc is windows that I do my editing on which system is best for compatibility for win and ios If you you a NAS as a storage device instead of directly connected external disks, you don’t need to worry about cross-platform compatibility. Windows, Mac […]
What is the benefit of a 4-bay NAS vs 2-bay ? I will be buying either a Synology DS 720+ OR a 920+ as soon as they become available. The overall cost difference does not appear too great, once the disc cost is added. But if I only buy 2 discs (which can easily meet […]
I recently got a synology ds218+ which will mainly be used as a plex server with some minor backup functionalities. I want to use plex to share it with family members who live far away. From what i have read i need to get the premium version of plex to enable hardware transcoding. This is […]
1. I saw an advisory table on the QNAP site, which insinuated the TS 251d had a bay capacity of 10tb. I’ve seen your glowing review videos of this unit and I think you advised it would be possible to take advantage of the Ironwolfs that go beyond 10tb – 12 and 14tb for example. […]