Iron Wolf 6tb In 12 Drive Areca Hey there, I hope this message finds you well. A while ago I purchased 7x 6tb IronWolf drives from New Egg due to a decent deal. It was my intention to put them in an 8 bay QNAP. I’ve since changed my mind and am now looking at […]
Good for 4k transcoding? Price? Hi, I’m looking to buy a fast NAS to transfer files quickly and to transcode 4k video on Plex. I’ve seen that Synology just introduced 720+. Will it be capable to transcode 4k easily? How much would be the price in diskless version? You can transcode 4K easily using Synology […]
I thought Synology might be the better choice not only but as well due to some of your video comparisons. Not as good from a hardware perspective but easier to handle for me as I want to set everything up myself. Or did I get your recommendation regarding Synology (in your videos) wrong? Synology is […]
NAS with USB direct connectivity and directly accessible like C: drive NAS for a home cloud server that can be accessed outside by internet First of all thank you for doing these advice’s, so what i need is a NAS device that can do the following: 1- able to be accessed as a normal drive […]
First NAS Having used a mac mini now of over 8 yrs it time to move this to a full NAS media storage setup. I will be using this for 1080p Media using NzB etc and I’m not the most techie, can you share some advice, please Synology NAS comes with a built in app […]
technical quastions about compability I want to know before buying the NAS WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra (diskless) 1. If the power goes off and on again, are all settings become disturbed or are setting have to do again? (because one of the users experienced this issue) 2. I have 2.5 SATA HDD, can I […]
synalogy nas as web app server? I look for the best solution for running a series of web app on my home server. I have already developed a series of web apps with the following technologies, that I want to transfer on another server. My apps are currently using the following: ubuntu 18.04 / python […]
QNAP TBS 453dx memory upgrade Can you suggest how to choose memory for the QNAP TBS 453dx? I’d like to go from 8G to 16G with two identical sticks. I bought G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM CL16, but that failed. Yes, you will need 2400 SO-DIMM DDR4. The best is to choose Crucial memory sticks. Those […]
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 […]
