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Can I Daisy-chain QNAP Thunderbol NAS?

Can I Daisy-chain QNAP Thunderbol NAS?

Thunderbolt™ 3 Expansion Card Usage Scenarios   Daisy-chain up to 6 QNAP Thunderbolt™ devices A NAS with a Thunderbolt™ 3 expansion card can be daisy-chained with up to 6 QNAP Thunderbolt™ devices, including other QNAP Thunderbolt™ NAS and Thunderbolt 3 to 10GbE Adapter (QNA Series).     Connect legacy devices When used with an Apple […]

I need to connect a Synology NAS to my router by wifi

I need to connect a Synology NAS to my router by wifi

WIFI dongle Hi. I need to connect a Synology NAS to my router by wifi. I have seen your suggestions but there is no date on the article; everywhere else I find that the latest Synology NAS OS has dropped wifi support (why???). I do not want to purchase another wifi dongle (I already have […]

Best NAS for Roon Server

Best NAS for Roon Server

Best NAS for Roon media storage I’m planning on setting up a Roon Core server and want to store the Music Library on a NAS. I currently have a Thecus N4200PRO with 4 3TB WD drives in a RAID 5 configuration. I’m not sure Thecus is the best NAS provider for this purpose. There’s a […]

TerraMaster F8-422 10Gb high-speed quad-core NAS

TerraMaster F8-422 10Gb high-speed quad-core NAS

TerraMaster F8-422 10Gb high-speed quad-core NAS Processor Processor Model Intel® Celeron® J3455 Processor Architecture X.86 64-bit Processor Frequency Quad Core 1.5GHz (Max burst up to 2.3GHz) Hardware Encryption Engine √ Memory System Memory 8GB Pre-installed Memory module / Total Memory Slot Number / Maximum Supported Memory / Note TerraMaster reserves the right to replace memory […]

PegasusPro Thunderbolt NAS Collaborative Video Editing

PegasusPro Thunderbolt NAS Collaborative Video Editing

Santa Clara, California, December 3, 2020 — PROMISE Technology Inc., the leading storage solutions provider, today announced the global availability of its latest series, PegasusPro Series storage solution. Marking years of developing solutions for Adobe® Creative Cloud® users, the new series offers seamless integration with the industry-leading video editing software, Adobe Premiere® Pro, which enables PegasusPro Series to support […]

NAS that I can use on a boat without Internet

NAS that I can use on a boat without Internet

NAS Selection for a specific niche Good morning! Love your videos! I am new to the NAS world and have viewed a lot of your videos and would like your opinion on which NAS would best suite my specific needs. I work on boats for long periods of time and me and my shipmates have […]

NAS for video editing in AVID

NAS for video editing in AVID

Nas with Avid Thanks for your insights here and I will buy through your site, providing I can find the right NAS system. I have an AVID system (2020 HP Zbook Laptop PC but also an older version running on an old 2009 MAC ) and I want to use HD only footage, about 20TB […]

How to install Roon server on a Synology & Qnap NAS

How to install Roon server on a Synology & Qnap NAS

Roon Server on QNAP NAS QNAP Simply open the App Center in your QNAP adminstration web interface and launch the App Center. In the Entertainment section, you’ll find Roon Server and can install it with just one click. After installation you’ll need to specify the storage location for Roon Server’s database. Once this is done, […]

Android NAS

Android NAS

1. I want to install android apps on my NAS (e.g. watsapp/ google duo/ internet live TV app etc.) so that i can launch to play on the TV. Video calls using the webcam connceted to USB 2. install the mouse and keyboard so I can acess nas from TV (given synology has only 2 […]

What RAID should I choose on a NAS?

What RAID should I choose on a NAS?

I just purchased a Qnap TVS-672N to use for three purposes 1) primary purpose is to use as a Plex Media Server for my home theater, 2) is back ups for my personal and small business docs, 3) possibly add surveillance at a later date. My plan is to use my Nvidia shield for transcoding […]

Plex & Native transcoding compatible NAS explained

Plex & Native transcoding compatible NAS explained

Would you mind giving me a little more advice please. It’s not clear whether a Celeron CPU with a discrete GPU is better for transcoding than one with raw CPU power. I had a look on your website but couldn’t find the answer there either. I don’t suppose when you do the PLEx tests you […]

NVME NAS

NVME NAS

Would like to know about NAS drive with M.2 NVME option There are fe M.2 SATA options  HS-453DX-4G and TBS-453DX-8G. Or maybe you can still find old TS-351-4G. Otherwise you may need to get TVS-472XT and use internal NVME for storage. Or use a NVMe card and set it up for storage. I hope this helps.  

NAS to use offline

NAS to use offline

NAS to use offline I just bought WD Cloud Home 8TB and realised that I cannot use it offline. It seems impossible to connect it directly to my laptop like any other external HD. I am searching for a solution and asking for your help. I want a NAS that can also be used offline […]

What the difference editing video via 1GbE or 10GbE connected NAS?

What the difference editing video via 1GbE or 10GbE connected NAS?

But how crucial is it to have 10gbe vs 1gbe for video editing. My drive has SSD options – should I go for that have store working video files on those drives. You can edit on either of the connections. The difference is speed. Editing via 1GbE is like working on a slow USB2 external […]

SHR supported NAS list

SHR supported NAS list

Does the rs1619xs+ support Synology hybrid raid? SHR supported NAS list. The answer is no. RS1619+ will not support SHR type of RAID. You can find a list of supported NAS bellow as well as see the full list of not supported NAS models. NEW – updated list here : Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) supported NAS list 20 […]

Qnap ZFS NAS – QuTS hero

Qnap ZFS NAS – QuTS hero

Which NAS run on ZFS?   TS-h977XU-RP TS-h1277XU-RP TS-h1283XU-RP TS-h686 TS-h886 TS-h1886XU-RP GM-1000 TS-h2490FU