First of all thanks a lot for your amazing content, I watched and read hours of your incredibly informative reviews, and decide to get a NAS for my small team, we mainly do animation on Toon Boom Harmony, and I was thinking if it’s possible to read and write directly on the NAS I mean […]
Budget NAS with ECC RAM? Hi, could you tell me if there is such thing as a budget 2 or 4 bay NAS with ECC RAM without having to build one? Synology? Qnap? Buffalo? Anything? Buffalo TeraStation 5210DN (£394)and TeraStation 6200DN (£550) are the cheapest ECC RAM based NAS. Cheapest ECC […]
NAS / IP Surveillance Recommendations Hello from the US – I hope you continue to remain healthy in the UK during the current COVID-19 crisis. I have recently discovered your NASCompares channel on Youtube – I have found it to be very informative. I had a circa 2006 Infrant ReadyNAS NV that died a few […]
HDD Question Hi there, I am looking at getting a new NAS soon as an update to my old QNAP 219P. I am looking at the Synology 718+ and bringing in 2 x 6TB HDD’s. I read with interest about the WD Reds being suitable for NAS, but have also been told that the WD […]
I am looking at adding a 10gbe card to the NAS. I am assuming the original giga port will remain functional?! What I am wondering is can I have my main 10gbe lan connection run into the 10gbe port, then use the 1gb original port to go to a switch and run all my 1gb […]
Backing up my files to NAS (docs/photos/music/audio files) from more than one place on my laptop. I’d also like one or two folders to be encrypted to keep sensitive files secure – I don’t think the Synology Drive app can store stuff in an encrypted folder – can I do that with something else? Yes, […]
I am considering replacing my Macmini2018 Drobo5D combo to run Plex which is far from ideal to aQNAP TS473 or an equivalent Synology soup. it would be preferable to play 4k files, if it’s possible within my budget. what would you recommend? thank you very much indeed. Big thanks for the coffee supply. This keeps […]
1st Plex NAS Build I built a regular desktop to act as a Plex server a few years ago and am looking to move Plex to a dedicated NAS but have zero experience in this. I’ve been watching your videos and researching all over the internet but am getting conflicting advice depending on the source. […]
NAS with PCIe GPU graphics card slot GPU pass-through is currently only supported by the below NAS models. The graphics card must also be installed in a compatible PCIe slot. NAS Model Maximum number of graphics cards Compatible PCIe slots TS-X80U/TVS-ECX80U/TS-ECX80U/TVS-EC1580MU 2 1, 2 TDS-16489U 1 1 TES-X85U 4 1, 2, 3, 4 TS-877XU/ TS-1277XU/ […]
VP9 and other open standards? Why is there no mention of the VP9 video codec? Any modern TV supports it, and it has become the de facto standard for high res Web video for the past 3 years (while we are still waiting for AV1 to replace everything. Furthermore, playback of VP9 requires less processing […]
NAS – home user – photographer / designer Hey there i was wondering if you could give me a little advice. I watch your youtube channel quite regularly and have found it really helpful! so thank you for constantly uploading new videos. Im finding it hard to decide what the best solution for me would […]
Love the videos! I currently have an asustor 3204t running sabnzbd, sonarr, and radarr all in docker with a 12TB RAID 5. Plex is running on an recent i7 optiplex with the media stored on the NAS. I want to get something newer mostly for fun, and have 4 10TB drives sitting on my shelf. […]
I have been looking at the DL3617xs and other units and I have a technical question that relates to this unit and others in general. I would like to use a mixture of 2.5″ SSD’s and 3.5″ SATA HardDrives. SSD for being silent and fast. Plus 3.5″ HardDrives for the reducing the cost of bigger […]
There are many different ways you can connect to your NAS. Mount it as a network drive Access using Web browser with QuickConnect Connect using FTP software Mount it as a WebDav drive on the internet Connect via VPN Synchronize folders via Synology Drive (Dropbox alternative) Map network drive Most of the people will mount […]
DS1019+ wireless solution on 802.11ax network the project is to build a fammilly NAS to sync all Mobiles documents & photos & Videos in a centralized archive ( +15 Smart phone and +7 PCs ) ethernet ports are limited to 1Gb/s and would like to connect to Netgear Nighthawk RAX200 (Ax11000) Yes, dual LAN […]
TS-832PX & TS-932PX NAS News and updates UPDATE 28/05/2020 New Qnap Announced ARM Cortex-A57 Quad core 1.7GHz AL-324 CPU 64bit, 1X 4GB DDR4 SODIMM RAM (upgrade up to 16GB with single slot) 2X 10GbE SFP+ , 2X 2.5GbE RJ45
Fanless (SSD) NAS, w/10GbE WTB: Fanless NAS, with at least 1 10GbE port (can be SFP+). Would intend to start at 4 GB RAID5 and only needs to scale to 8 GB. Want all SSD drives. Thx. The only fanless NAS with 10GbE is HS-453DX. You can not have RAID5, but you can have two […]
Hi, I am looking to centralise all of my files and media, with the highest protection. I especially want to protect against “bit-rot” and other hardware errors that could cause silent corruption of my data files. I am looking to use 2x6TB HDDs for my storage. I am comfortable with the command line and happy […]
NAS with USB direct connectivity and directly accessible like C: drive NAS for a home cloud server that can be accessed outside by internet First of all thank you for doing these advice’s, so what i need is a NAS device that can do the following: 1- able to be accessed as a normal drive […]
First NAS Having used a mac mini now of over 8 yrs it time to move this to a full NAS media storage setup. I will be using this for 1080p Media using NzB etc and I’m not the most techie, can you share some advice, please Synology NAS comes with a built in app […]
