I am in a process of buying my first NAS, I watched a lot of your videos on youtube and so far I have selected DS218+, so far so good, but I am not sure if the dual-core Intel celeron will be good to enough to handle my needs. Here is what I am planning […]
NAS for plex. All my videos is 1080p. Now I have brought Philips POS9002/12 new TV. I will be using this nas for watching movies only, and I think over the Plex. Another thing is, that I planned to add my brother to this media nas also, his tv is also OLED 4k. So I […]
Synology Surveillance Station. Hi there, just bought A Synology 4 bay NAS from you, is there a surveillance station alternative, trying to avoid paying for licences as i have 7 cameras at the moment. Yes there are quite few open source solutions like: ispyconnect zoneminder shinobi kerberos There is no easy way to install it – […]
shared documents storing/streaming audio library (4300+ songs) storing/streaming pictures library storing/streaming video / DVDs library backing up computers (4 desktops, 2 laptops, 2 tablets, 2 phones, etc) surveillance (7 to 15 cameras; event/alert only recording) RAID 6 or 5 Prefer extra/empty slot for future growth Is it okay to do surveillance and streaming on same […]
Need help and recommendation from you on which Nas could accommodate Plex and possibly VM. If you want something with a processor made for virtualization, then ds1618+ and ds1817+ will be a good choice in this price range. It will also allow you to run local Plex server. And also transcoding is possible up to […]
I am looking for a backup solution with Video options i.e. plex & Kodi & M-TV. I have narrowed down to the what i think may be the best two and would like your advice with pros and cons of each. Synology 918 vs qnap 253be. Both are about the same money and i plan […]
Active Backup for Server. I found your video on Active Backup for Server and was hoping you could clear some things up for me. I’m trying to back up a drive on my local pc to my Synology NAS. I just set up an incremental backup to do this. The two questions I have are, […]
What I’m trying to accomplish is streaming my movies with the best quality with a price range around $1,200. – I have always used small portable hard drives for watching movies, – With the NAS will the internet speed have a big impact on the quality of my movies? – I have several 1080 BR […]
2 BAY NAS HDMI / MEDIA STORAGE / BACKUP (but NO VIDEOCAMERA). I’m choosing between QNAP TS-251B-2G and Asustor AS6302T. Both have HDMI 2.0 and a similar performance in video transcoding (H.264/265) right? I read it seems qnap is little bit more performing in read/write speed, isn’t it? Do you have feedback about new software deployed […]
453b bs 453bt3. I have a classroom with 5x 2015 macs and one windows machine. We do mostly video and video editing. Would like a central place to store all the footage. Would like to be able to save with SD card on B, but also like the option of high speeds transfer on BT3. […]
I am already a user of a DS414 4x10TB. a) The Base use is for a family of 3, backups or front end with local backup. All documents including video and photos. b) the more intensive use giving the bottlenecks is semiprofessional photography : raw (86mb/pic) + jpeg (14/pic), editing with capture 11 one pro, […]
NAS with a RAID recoverable from a PC. Min ARM CPU needed second hand. ($200) I want to buy home nas that will be used as: 1. primary – backup of pictures, camera videos 2 DLNA – old movies for kids 3. compatible/reliable – as it will be used as backup for pics(personal ones) it […]
We have multiple home PC/laptops and have lots of trouble getting networking them for shared file access. We run Win10 v1803 and networking runs intermittently or fails with error code 0x80070035 network path not found. So – we are considering a NAS to make file and media sharing a breeze. As a Newbie, can I […]
Qnap Qphoto App. I came across your Youtube video about the Qphoto mobile app while searching for help on an issue I am having with my Qnap nas. I have saved many photos onto the Nas and want to be able to view and edit them on my Android mobile phone. But the Qnap apps […]
SHR vs SHR2 and ext4 vs Btrfs. I recently purchased a Synology DS1618+ and have three 6TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro drives arriving soon as well. I will be using this mostly for my small business, but will also be using this partially for personal/home storage. I do a lot of photo/video editing and will be utilizing […]
I have seen various of your youtube videos on Synology and Qnap which are the 2 competitors. I have also seen both of their operating systems…I am an Apple user…therefore, its seems that Synology is best suited…Basically I will be saving information in the cloud with a NAS setup in the USA and my son […]
QNAP 731 with surveillance HDD’s. Useing NAS for Using and Surveillance in HOME USE. I’m looking to populate the Qnap TVS-731 with HDD’s and would like to know would it be okay to use a combo of two surveillance drives and two NAS HDD’s in two different storage pools? Or would four NAS drived be okay? […]
For the Qnap 882brt3 It looks like thunderbolt is the fastest connection option, is that correct ? I have a desktop Mac pro computer and it only has thunderbolt 2 ports; but the Qnap has thunderbolt 3 ports. Do you know of a solution for this ? Do they make a thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt […]
FS1018 with HDD. I recently installed an FS1018 with 4x SSDs in RAID F1; and a DX1215 expansion unit with 12x 10TB HDDs RAID5. I am very pleased with the speed/capacity tradeoffs using this combination. Synology’s compatibility chart indicates that there are NO compatible HDDs, so I didn’t consider trying a 2.5″ HDD in the […]
Edit workflow solutions? I have a very small video production company. I need a solution for working fast on 4k video edits and colourist work. ideally 2 computer workstations (iMacs) would be able to access the files and share workflow. Ive looked at the Drobo system and im looking at NAS systems. I would love […]
