New QNAP HS-264 NAS Coming – Latest Entry to the Popular Silent NAS Series I think it would be fair to say that QNAP has quite a lot of NAS hardware under their belt. From rackmount monster servers to petite desktop value systems, they have released a wide variety of solutions over the years. However, […]
New QNAP TS-264, TS-464, TS-262, TS-462, TS-264C, TS-464C, TS-364, TS-564 and TBS-464 NAS Hinted At in 2021/2022 For those of you who have been wondering about any new desktop NAS drives arriving in the near future, there may be a whole new series of releases coming from QNAP. Although we have already highlighted that a […]
QNAP NAS QTS 5.0 System Software & Services – How Well Does It Review? When buying a NAS system, it is easy to forget that you are getting more than a bunch of hard drives connected to the internet/network. In fact, most modern NAS systems arrive with software and services included in the price that […]
New NAS Expansion for a New Decade – But Is the QNAP TL-D400S Worth Your Data? Expanding a NAS DRIVE is something that most business users that come to depend on their storage system will have to consider at some point. Whether it is because you are saving one today and/or bought small because your […]
QNAP QMiroPlus-201W & QMiro-201W Mesh Router+NAS System Review Of all the devices that I talked about here and on YouTube, there is one device that I would wager is inside 99% of people’s homes these days, namely a router. For most users, the router provided by their internet service provider is more than proficient for […]
QNAP QMiroPlus-201W & QMiro-201W Mesh Router+NAS System Review Of all the devices that I talked about here and on YouTube, there is one device that I would wager is inside 99% of people’s homes these days, namely a router. For most users, the router provided by their internet service provider is more than proficient for […]
Choosing Between Buying a 2-Bay or 4 Bay NAS For many users who decided to make the switch from subscription-based Cloud services and to their own private NAS server, it can be tricky to understand exactly what they need in terms of storage and power. Network-attached storage NAS has evolved rapidly over the years and […]
Brand New QNAP TS-h973AX NAS with Triple Tier ZFS Media Support I have said it before and I will say it again, QNAP is the brand that you should look at when it comes to pushing innovation in the NAS industry. They were the first to introduce Thunderbolt NAS, fully-featured HDMI 2.0, DAS like connectivity […]
Bargains and Deals on QNAP NAS Drives this Black Friday 2020 Yes, it’s back again. Black Friday has come around again and many of us will take the opportunity to take the plunge and investing in some new IT hardware. A QNAP NAS was once a rather niche item, however, in 2020 the ability to […]
Why Are there Hardware Shortages and Price Increases in Hard Drives, SSD and NAS? Where has all the stock gone and why is everything suddenly more expensive? This is the question that lots of users who are are getting ready to purchase or upgrade their data storage solutions in 2021 are asking. From hard drives […]
Choosing Between Plex and Emby on a NAS in 2021/2022 Despite the fact that network-attached storage NAS has a vast number of services and utilities for home and business use, many users predominantly use their NAS for a media server. From streaming multimedia to numerous devices in the home, to sharing their entertainment collection with […]
WD My Cloud NAS or Synology/QNAP? Which Brand Should You Buy? For many users, the first NAS they ever owned was the affordable and sturdy WD My Cloud NAS drive. From students and teachers to console gamers and small business, the WD My Cloud range of NAS devices was one of the earliest attempts by […]
Synology DSM vs QNAP QTS NAS Software & Hardware Comparison If you are looking at buying a new NAS drive (either as a first-time buyer or you can considering jumping from one brand to another), then the software that brands like Synology and QNAP include with your NAS purchase is always going to be an […]
Synology DSM vs QNAP QTS NAS Software & Hardware Comparison We continue with our comparison of the two biggest brands in Network Attached Storage (NAS) and after comparing how each brand presents their platform, how they differ in releases and hardware, then finally the web-based GUI. Today we are going to cover how Synology and […]
Synology DSM vs QNAP QTS NAS Software & Hardware Comparison Welcome back to the final part of my Synology vs QNAP NAS comparison, where I go through the main differences between the two biggest brands in the world of NAS in 2021/2022. So far we have covered the brand’s rhetoric, the hardware, the graphical user […]
Brand New QNAP TS-251D Intel NAS in 2020 Today we want to talk about a brand new QNAP NAS that arrives with familiar hardware inside and outside, spread across multiple 2019 NAS devices and promises to combine them into a new and attractive NAS drive for 2020. The new QNAP TS-251D is aimed at the […]
The Best NAS and Hard Drives for the Home on a Budget of £500 If you are looking at buying a NAS drive (whether it is to move away from the likes of Google Drive or Dropbox, or to just have all of your data in a single controllable location), then it can be a […]
QNAP TS-473A, TS-673A and TS-873A Desktop NAS If you have been looking at the QNAP SMB range of hardware solutions in desktop, you may have noticed that there is a range between the Prosumer and Business Class that has been rather overdue for a refresh for a while The existing QNAP TS-x73 range, first released […]
QNAP Issue a Public Statement About the QLocker Ransomware Attack on Thousands of NAS Devices It has been a rather turbulent few weeks for QNAP NAS users (and indeed the brand itself) since the initial impact of the QLocker ransomware impacted the storage systems of thousands of users. With many users waking up to find […]
A Guide to Recovering Your NAS Files from the QLocker QNAP NAS Malware Attack Good news for those of you whose QNAP NAS systems were affected by the QLocker Malware attack last month – a recoverable solution has been produced by QNAP on this (with assistance from 3rd party open source project PhotoRec) that, although […]