I need the NAS to: – serve video to iPhone, Mac and my TV* (max 2 videos playing concurrently) – act as a TimeMachine backup destination for my Mac – have a partition for files (e.g. that I want to offload from my Mac) – contain 2 iTunes libraries and serve them to iPhone, Mac […]
I have a 12 TB MP4 Movie collection (around 1300 movies, avg 9gb/file). I’d like to move them all to the same NAS, hook it up to a router and be able to access on the net from anywhere in the world. Will use RAID 10. I’ll probably sometimes limited to slowish 3G/4G cellular connections. […]
I’m looking for a new NAS and was curious about QNAP TS-431 and Synology DS418 offerings. I have the drives already, will need a 4 bay and it will be used as photo and video storage, 4K movie, web file server and data backups. I don’t need much transcoding. I’m a PC and Android user. Can you suggest a […]
I’m going to buy my first ever NAS. I want to go budget, but at the same time don’t want it to be very slow. I’ll be using it for Surveillance Station (in future probably maximum of 4-6 cameras), iTunes Music Server and Plex Media Server (without transcoding). In my home, there are 3 smart […]
NAS for Plex specifically Hi! I’m relatively new to the NAS world, but I love technology, so I pick up quick. I recently came to the decision that I need to get a NAS as a home media solution. There’s so many options that my mind has been successfully boggled. Both my father and I […]
Choosing the Right NAS for Media and Backups Looking at Synology to set up a home NAS for 2 reasons. 1) use to backup four Windows computers (typically never more than two computers in use at one time) in real time. Also have this set up as RAID 1 and be able to copy it […]
I’m looking to buy my first NAS and upgrade my current “home server” (which is two 500GB USB HDDs plugged in my router, USB 2.0 speeds). I read a few articles online and I think you could help me figure things out! Here’s a recap of what I’m looking for: – For 2-3 frequent users […]
Should I upgrade from a WD My Cloud to a WD My Cloud EX2 or more? I currently have a My cloud 2TB single drive personal, and I am wanting to move up to a mirror or raid unit, as it is 3 to 4 years old now. I have a lot of photos and […]
I am looking for a NAS for music and movie playback primarily but I will put documents/photos and other things on there and use it as a storage device as well. All my music is FLAC and movies in HD so pretty large. Looking into the future and my data usage I’m naturally considering 16TB, […]
Choosing a NAS for Hikvision IP Cameras Hi, i would like to know if you can help me chose the best NAS for our home. We have 7 8M IP Hikvision cameras connected to a managed switch, connected to our router. We would like to be able to save footage for about a month, see […]
We have two iMacs, two iPads, and a Sonos system. We currently have our music on two different external hard drives, and continue to have issues connecting and finding the Sonos system. I’m thinking about a NAS as a solution but am still confused as to which would be better, Qnap or Synology. We are […]
2018 Upgrade to the WD PR4100 NAS? I was wondering if you know if WD will update there PR4100 anytime soon? I am looking for a NAS that can do PLEX and remote file server for large files (fMRI) research I’m a student. Also looking for discless so I can add as I go being […]