Best small and hidden cameras for QVR Pro Looked at amazon and they have camera brands that are simply unknown to man, certainly not on the list of QVR pro….What cameras can I work with which are small and undetectable? I am a landlord don’t want tenants to remove camera (which they have done in […]
Do you know if the software will allow one unit to backup to another unit at another location via the internet? What I would like to do is get two of these, install one at my church (very small – office is our Pastor and a church secretary) as file storage/backup for two PCs, and […]
NAS drive for lossless audio playback only I have about 12000 songs stored mostly in WMA lossless format on a 1TB WD (external) USB mypassport drive. (More recently I have been ripping music to FLAC format because I realise that WMA lossless is not supported by many 3rd parties – so all my music will […]
NAS newbie looking to create a plex / NAS setup Message Body: Hello, I’m in the market to create a plex / NAS setup. I have about 1TB of media I want to enjoy which currently lives in my dropbox. I don’t have any experience with NAS or plex, but I’m quite savvy so I […]
Following “most” of your advice I bought a 918+ for main house and 218+ for lake house. Each is ubiquiti with its own cloud key gen2 (i use protect from them). (I don’t want to send video over the Net) What is the best way to connect these two for Hyper backup and Vault? Does […]
sync old QNAP with Google Shared Drives What is the best app to sync QNAP with Google Shared Drives. My IT guy said that it is not possible that you can only sync QNAP with Google My Drive. Is this true? If not, what app do we use on QNAP to do it? There are […]
Better performance: This type of storage pool supports only a single volume but provides better performance. Higher flexibility: This type of storage pool supports multiple volumes, Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR), and the RAID Group feature. Storage Pool for better performance: Allocates all available capacity to a single volume. Provides better performance but less storage […]
Cheapest LACP / IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation switches I’m a photographer and yesterday I bought the Synology DS918+, a decision taken in part from the information on your video “Best Photographer NAS drive of the Year” from two months ago. The speed I currently have onto my computer is acceptable as long as I’m […]
Cheapest LACP / IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation compatible dual LAN PCI cards Dual Port PCI Express (PCIe x4) Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter Network Card – Intel i350 NIC Add dual Gigabit Ethernet ports to a client, server or workstation through a PCI Express slot Product ID: ST2000SPEXI Two 10/100/1000Mbps compatible RJ-45 Ethernet ports Fully Compliant […]
Can add more disks on my Qnap. Migrating from a single disk to RAID1 (mirror) and from RAID1 to RAID5? Changing the RAID Type of a RAID Group You can change the RAID type of an existing RAID group online, without losing access to data or any interruption to NAS services. Changing the RAID type […]
Whats chaepest for 4 bay with Virtual Machine function? Asustor AS3102T V2 2 Desktop NAS RJ45 1GbE,SATA 7-pin Discrete with Power,USB3.1 gen1 Intel Celeron 1.6GHz Dual-Core 0 Link £193 Asustor AS6302T 2 Desktop NAS RJ45 1GbE,SATA 7-pin Discrete with Power,USB3.0 type A,USB3.0 type C Intel Celeron J3355 Dual-Core 2.0 GHz (burst up 2.5GHz) 1313 […]
QNAP HS-453DX NAS with my Netgear Nighthawk X10 I’ve seen lots of your YouTube videos and I’m looking at acquiring a QNAP HS-453DX NAS to attach to my Netgear NightHawk R9000 X10 router. As you know, the NAS has one 10 GbE RJ45 connector and the Nighthawk has a 10 GbE SFP+ LAN connector. To […]
Subject: Macos (Catalina) backing up to Synology over internet I’ve been looking online in many places for the best way to get an iMac using Time Machine or another backup app to backup over the internet to my Synology DS412+. Both ends have a moderate speed of ADSL broadband connection. I have achieved this using […]
We have been involved with motion graphics and video editing for a number of years, but this year the challenge is to build something that is somewhat portable, that is, more portable than a rack-mounted solution. Historically we have been lucky with budgets and just filled out reasonable spec QNAP/Synology system with SSD’s and have […]
I’ve decided to go with TS-251B (2GB) till today when, checking their website, surprise, there’s a new model out: TS-251D. The latter has better specs, etc but there is something missing: the audio output jack! Since the QNAP integration with Alexa/Google Assistant for playback is missing or limited (via IFTTT) I was relying on the […]
I retired as the Senior Technical Team Leader for a fortune 10. I’m used to multi-petabyte SANs. I’m looking to set up small NAS system in my home mostly for (automated) backup but some file storage. I occasionally have need to provide large files to outside entities. Looking at the Synology 5 bay but could […]
I have a 216+2 and a 216J (both from you). Both coming upto 3 years old. the +2 runs 24/7 and the 216J runs once a day backing up from the +2. the +2 is in a rack in the house and the j on the wall in the garage in a locked box. All […]
Mixing very similar drives Immediately after purchasing 2 drives configured in RAID 1 for my new Numbustor-4 (BTRFS) with plans to later get 2 more identical drives to fill up the NAS and go to either RAID 5 or 6, I learned I purchased a lesser drive which I fear may be eliminated from Seagate’s […]
ds214se ram upgrade Hi, I am looking to buy a memory for NAS DS214se. Would you know the type of memory would I need to buy? Thanks Sorry, but none of the J or SE series Synology NAS can be upgraded with a bigger NAS. This is because RAM is actually soldered on the […]
QNAP TS453be vs Asustor AS5202T I am new to NAS and looking at my first purchase. In short, I would like to be able watch media locally by HDMI using a service like Plex, have some further space for backing up material and have the ability to access the drive over the internet. I think […]