I’m wondering if you could help me out. I’ve watched a number of your YouTube videos on both the Drobo 5D3 and Pegasus3 line of external storage solutions. I am a photographer that deals with files that are in the realm of 2-3GB in working file size, so read and write speeds are important to […]

Drobo compatible drives | for Virtualization   Enterprise SATA Enterprise/NL1 SAS mSATA SSDs Enterprise SSDs Drobo compatible drives | for Database SQL/Exchange Enterprise SATA Enterprise/NL1 SAS mSATA SSDs Enterprise SSDs Drobo compatible drives | for Video Editing Laptop SATA 7200 (2.5”) Desktop SATA NAS Optimized Enterprise SATA Enterprise/NL1 SAS mSATA SSDs Consumer SSDs Enterprise SSDs Drobo compatible drives | […]

Looking for some advice on whether to go with Synology vs QNAP. I currently have a Drobo 4-bay with Firewire (4x2TB drive) that I am looking to upgrade to Synology or QNAP. I mainly use it for storing movies/photos/tv shows for use with Plex. For the most part, I am all macOS and iOS. I […]

My plan was to store all our main computer documents, photos, movies and music all on a nas drive and we can then access everything from the laptop as well as from our android phones and tablet. I thought that this would keep our new laptop un-clogged and prolong its life. We also want to […]

DS416 or DS418 or maybe DS918+ ? Question: I’m trying to find out which NAS is the best for me. I know it’s gonna be a 4-bay, so it will be a 416 or a 418. Should I wait a while for the 416 series go on sale or buy the newest 418. I have a […]

Synology DS918+ 4-bay NAS Features Powerful and scalable 4-bay NAS for growing businesses Encrypted sequential throughput at over 225 MB/s reading and 221 MB/s writing Quad-core processor with AES-NI hardware encryption engine 4GB DDR3L-1866 memory, expandable up to 8GB Dedicated M.2 NVMe SSD slots for system cache support Dual 1GbE LAN with failover and Link Aggregation support Scalable up […]

Expandable desktop NAS for home   Best solutions for expandable NAS devices : 4 bays – Synology DS918+ or Qnap TS-453A or Qnap TS-453B   DS918+ has NVME slot for caching improvement TS-453A is cheap and expandable with more bays TS-453B has PCI slot to have 10gcard andd expansion compatibility too.   Price comparison:  

I have discovered that a regular 4TB disk drive (with a 115MB/sec bandwidth for writes) needs almost 10 hours minimum for a RAID rebuild. By contrast, a 4TB Intel DC P3608 has a 3GB/sec sequential bandwidth, and its rebuild minimum time is 22 minutes. That’s 96.6 percent less than that for our 4TB HDD. The […]

I have a 213J at home with two WD Red ( 1 TB & 3 TB ). Everything is working fine, I don’t have any issue. I just think it’s time to change for something new. I use my NAS for Kodi, Download Station, Calibre, Photo Station and that’s all. I’m not doing anything powerful […]

Storage Either backing up or just too much data – extra storage is the solution CELVIN® NAS QE807 The CELVIN® NAS QE807 satisfies the business need for centralized data management needs. Both partners and users can set up and administrate the state of the art CELVIN® NAS easily and at an affordable price. Saving data, managing and sharing […]

I’m looking into buying my first NAS device. The two models I’m looking at are the QNAP TS-328 and the Synology DS218+. One feature that I seen in one of you videos was the Synology Drive application. Does QNAP offer anything similar? I’m looking for a feature similar to Google Drive or Dropbox. Something that […]

I am confused about licenses for surveillance cameras vs the number of cameras the devise supports. To be clear, I have a Synology DS216j and it supports 10 IP cameras and has 2 licenses. What does that mean? Does it mean I can only run 2 cameras total? Does it mean I can run 10 cameras […]

Trying to figure out what to get. My criteria are: – Low power consumption (sound, etc.) … ~ 10W – Optimized for SSD (does it make sense to go 100% SSD)? – Cloud service sync to Dropbox, iCloud, AWS – Music server (iTunes or something better), videos not as important – Streaming / archiving of […]

Hi we have 7 x iMac 27″ clients running Vectorworks and Adobe Creative Cloud apps. Currently have Mac Mini 2.8ghz dual core 16gb with 2TB fusion drive acting as server. We currently have about 1.5TB data. Would like a faster server and are considering iMac Ret 21.5″ 3.4ghz quad core i5, 32gb 1TB SSD, plus […]

NAS 2-Bay for Home/Personal use I am looking to purchase a NAS device for use as both a home media streaming device and for personal data backup. I want a 2-bay soultion as I prefer the smaller form factor, but I still want it to have the fastest read/write speeds possible. Also, futureproofing for 4K […]

Subject: more none tech info. I only heard about NAS 5 weeks ago and think its a good idea but don’t even know how to sort out whats best? can you make your own from old PC? Question: build my 1st PC 5 months ago. Mainly for 3D CAD work (for a hobby) but getting […]

Looking to get a NAS, primarily to store and view* my Blu-Ray collection via PLEX. Primary viewing will likely be on my on in-house wired network via DLNA. However; I do travel and may also want to view via laptop or ipad when I am on the road. I am also a newbie to networks […]

I am looking to buy my first NAS. I want the NAS able to do Multimedia server, Plex Server, Chromecast compatible, Data Backup, Files sharing, and Surveillance. The Qnap TS-251A and Synology-218+ are both very similar. It is very hard for me to decide. Therefore I would need some advise. They are very similar, but […]

I’ve been thinking of using a NAS as my Plex server for a while now, and the ability to use hardware transcoding has definitely opened up options. My criteria? 4-bay, with the ability to transcode at least two 4k streams. I narrowed down my choices to the Synology DS918+ and WD PR4100, but some of your articles […]