With your guidance I got myself a QNAP TVS X72XT last year and had almost nothing but joy, until I swapped my MacBook Pro to a Mac Studio. Now the two NAS volumes I have set to mount on the desktop at startup regularly unmount almost every time I walk away from the computer for […]
QNAP TS-464 or the TS-453D NAS Drive – Which Should You Buy? Are you considering the QNAP TS-464 now it has been released? Or thinking of saving some money and opting for the predecessor TS-453D that is currently on sale? It’s a tough decision for some that want to ensure value for money, yet remain […]
QNAP TS-464 or the Synology DS920+ NAS Drive – Which Should You Buy? Choosing Between the Synology DS920+ and QNAP TS-464 NAS is more than just about how you are spending your money at checkout! Making the move away from 3rd public cloud storage can be a big, BIG decision for some users. The ‘freemium’ […]
The QNAP TS-464 and TS-664 NAS Coming Soon QNAP has now finally started sharing details of their prosumer/SMB 4/6-Bay for 2022 with the soon to be arriving TS-464 and TS-664 NAS Drives. Even at a casual glance, these are almost certainly the new version of their flagship series (though details on a 2-Bay TS-264 are […]
TS-664-4G CPU Intel® Celeron® N5105/N5095 4-core/4-thread processor, burst up to 2.9 GHz CPU architecture 64-bit x86 graphics processor Intel® UHD Graphics floating point operations encryption engine (AES-NI) hardware acceleration shift system memory 4 GB SO-DIMM DDR4 (1 x 4 GB) maximum memory 16GB (2 x 8GB) memory slot 2 SO-DIMM DDR4 For dual DIMM configurations, […]
QNAP + Plex GPU Decoding I had a question regarding my QNAP + Plex setup. I currently have a QNAP TS-873A device with Plex installed. The device has an NVIDIA GTX 1650 GPU installed that I intended to be used primarily for Plex video transcoding and decoding. I can see the GPU is detected by […]
Compatible NVME M.2 SSD for Qnap NAS caching If you know or use a certain type of drive, share it with others in a table below!
Qnap ES2486dc 2U Rackmount NAS ES2486dc-2142IT-128G ES2486dc-2142IT-96G CPU Intel® Xeon® D-2142IT 8-core 1.90 GHz processor, up to 3.0 GHz CPU Architecture 64-bit x86 Floating Point Unit Encryption Engine (AES-NI) System Memory 64 GB RDIMM DDR4 ECC (4 x 16 GB) per controller Maximum Memory 512 GB (8 x 64GB) Memory Slot 8 x R-DIMM/LR-DIMM DDR4 […]
Qnap ES1686dc 3U Rackmount NAS ES1686dc-2142IT-128G ES1686dc-2142IT-96G ES1686dc-2123IT-64G CPU Intel® Xeon® D-2142IT 8-core 1.90 GHz processor (burst up to 3.0 GHz) per controller CPU Architecture 64-bit x86 Floating Point Unit Encryption Engine (AES-NI) System Memory 64 GB RDIMM DDR4 ECC (4 x 16 GB) per controller Maximum Memory 512 GB (8 x 64GB) Memory Slot […]
Qnap ts-453d vs TS-464T4 So I had looked up what would be the best nas for having a movie library for streaming and what I found was the ts-453d, which I seen a video you did on this model as well. And I was ready to go ahead with that decision but then my buddy […]
Dirty Pipe Linux Weakness and Why You and your Linux Based NAS Should Care? For those that might not be aware, a vulnerability in Linux kernel 5.8 and above was disclosed by Max Kellerman last week and publically disclosed (with a proof of concept demonstrating the weakness) and this vulnerability was reported (tracked under CVE-2022-0847) […]
Qnap TS-h1290FX 12-bay U.2 NVMe/ SATA all-flash NAS with ZFS and ECC memory
TS-h1886XU-RP-D1622-32G and TS-h1886XU-RP-R2-D1622-32G