Does the QNAP HS-453DX Silent NAS live up to the Hype? 2018 has been an incredible year for network attached storage. We have seen some truly groundbreaking pieces of technology come from QNAP throughout the year and none more so than the newest silent NAS that was originally uncovered way back in the spring. Finally, […]
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How to Use your Playstation 4 and Plex
How to Access your Media Server NAS on your PS4 with Plex and DLNA Back when the PS4 first launched, Sony didn’t include any way to easily watch videos or listen to music from your other devices. It took well over a year for the problem to get solved properly, but there are now multiple […]
Upgrade from Seagate Cloud to Synology or QNAP NAS
Upgrading from Seagate NAS to Synology or QNAP I’m looking for replacement of my old (6+ years) Seagate Home network drive. Some of the features that I’m looking in the new NAS: Storage redundancy RAID 1 (don’t need more than 2 disks) Backup both Mac/PC Photos backup for phones (to replace google or Amazon) Sharable […]
Brand New Synology DVA3219 NAS Drive on Show
Brand New DVA3219 NAS Drive from Synology Uncovered Whether you know it as the DS1419dva or the DVA3219, the brand new Synology Surveillance NAS is now fully confirmed and now with much, much more information on the specifications and capabilities of the new AI-powered and deep video analysis NAS based NVR. When we first mentioned […]
NEW Synology E10M20 NVMe and 10Gbe Eabled PCIe Card Revealed
Brand New E10M20 10G and NVMe SSD Card from Synology Uncovered Good news for those looking to find out about brand new network attached storage upgrades from the guys at Synology, we are at the Synology Solution Exhibition in Taiwan and are being treated to find out what the company has in store for the […]
The UC3200 RackStation NAS from Synology Finally Revealed
Brand New UC3200 NAS Drive from Synology Fully Uncovered If you are a business owner, enterprise file hosting platform, surveillance NVR user or just generally someone whose infrastructure cannot withstand even minor disconnection (even down to the minute), then the UC3200 Rackstation NAS from Synology (First revealed late last year as the UC300) is definitely […]
DS620slim NAS Drive from Synology Coming in 2019
Brand New DS620slim NAS Drive from Synology Uncovered Arriving later in 2019, the brand new Synology DS620slim has been revealed at Taipei in the Synology Solution Exhibition and though we were already informed of a few of the up and coming units in advance (a rare thing from Synology), it is still great to know […]
Synology FS6400 FlashStation NAS Unveiled in Taipei
Brand New FS6400 SSD Based NAS Drive from Synology Uncovered The new tech being revealed here in Taipei continues from Synology. Next, up in our continued coverage of new NAS server for later in 2019, we have the brand new Flashstation FS6400 Rackmount NAS for enterprise-class users who want some of the fastest internal and […]
Synology DS620slim NAS Drive Price, Specifications and Details
Full Hardware and Software Specifications on the DS620slim Revealed Greet the unique and compact DS620slim, ready to boost your productivity at work, and its mini design allows it to blend in any workplace harmoniously. With feature-rich DiskStation Manager (DSM) at your disposal, DS620slim is an ideal file server delivering seamless file synchronization and solid backup […]
Synology FS6400 FlashStation NAS Price, Specifications and Details
Synology FS6400 FlashStation NAS Specifications, Cost and Abilities Revealed FlashStation FS6400 is a highly reliable and ultra-high performance all-flash server for I/O-intensive and latency sensitive applications, such as multimedia post-production, virtual machines, online transaction processing, or databases. FS6400 is backed by Synology’s 5-year limited warranty. The FS6400 FlashStation server features truly unparalelled hardware, greater than […]
Synology NAS in 2019/2020 – Your Questions Answered
Why you should buy a Synology NAS in 2019 and 2020? Those that have followed this blog for a while will know that one of the biggest brands that get’s mentioned is Synology NAS. With the end of 2019 fast approaching, we were lucky enough to be invited to the Synology UK headquarters and speak […]
Exciting NEW Synology DS1620xs NAS Drive Revealed
Brand New DS1620xs NAS Drive from Synology – BEST NAS EVER! The Synology 2020 Launch Exhibition is still happening here and I am pleased to confirm ANOTHER new NAS for 2019/2020. Is the Synology DS1620xs NAS server what you have been waiting for? I will admit, that is pretty unlikely, it is still remarkably new […]
Synology RS1220+ NAS Server for 2019 for Home and Business Users
Brand New RS1220+ NAS Drive from Synology Uncovered There has been yet another new release revealed from the top tier NAS brand, Synology, at their latest event to promote both the 2020 range and almost 20years of providing NAS solutions. Today I want to tell you guys about the Synology RS1220+ NAS for home and […]
It’s here! The Synology DS916+ NAS is finally released – Starting at £380
Is the DS916+ the most powerful 4-Bay Synology NAS yet? Unless you don’t follow NAS like me or you have been living under a rock (and a rock with poor WiFi) then you will know that Synology have been working on their latest big Network Attached Storage server release, the DS916+ NAS server. Now, Synology […]
Good News – The New QNAP TVS-473, TVS-673 and TVS-873 Gold Series NAS are coming
The QNAP TVS-473, TVS-673 and TVS-873 Gold Series NAS are now Available We know a number of your have been waiting for it and we are pleased to tell you that the highly anticipated AMD R-CPU Quad-Core NAS, the TVS-x73 Series is arriving with us and we expect demand to be high! We thoroughly recommend […]
The Synology DS1517+ NAS is available NOW
Synology unveil the DS1517+ NAS data sheets, PDF and more for 2017 Synology DiskStation DS1517+ features a quad-core processor with AES-NI hardware encryption engine, providing outstanding performance even with encryption. Supercharge your storage with the optional M.2 SSD adapter card for dual SSD cache drives. DS1517+ is the ideal storage solution for centralizing data backups, […]
Prebuilt plex server

MY CLOUD PRO SERIES NAS – Prebuilt plex server With an Intel Pentium processor and massive capacity, My Cloud Pro Series NAS have space to save your media collection and the power to transcode and beautifully stream it all on virtually any device. PLEX MEDIA SERVER With the Plex Media Server installed, your My Cloud NAS […]
Synology DS418j NAS PLEX Media Server Transcode 720P and 1080p H.264 + H.265 Test
Transcoding HD Media on the Synology DS418j NAS Plex Media Server? As you may have heard, Plex is now available on Realtek and other ARMv8 based NAS devices. This is a big deal, as till recently if you owned a Synology DS418j or other cost-effective NAS, you were feeling a little left out. Luckily now […]
Synology DS118 PLEX Installation Guide – Step by Step
How to Install Plex on the Synology DS118 NAS As you may have heard, support for the Plex media server application on the Synology DS118 NAS has now been made possible. This long overdue update to the Plex media server software so it will run on Realtek processor NAS devices, has taken more than half […]
Synology DS418j PLEX Installation Guide – Step by Step
How to Install Plex on the Synology DS418j NAS As you may have heard, support for the Plex media server application on the Synology DS418j NAS has now been made possible. This long overdue update to the Plex media server software so it will run on Realtek processor NAS devices, has taken more than half […]