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A 4K ready NAS with surveillance and encrypted external backup

A 4K ready NAS with surveillance and encrypted external backup

I’m looking to purchase a NAS. The main utility will be for having access to my movies, musics & other files. Around 300 4k movies that I will have to rip. The second thing would be able to use it for surveillance (8 cams at 4k). The third thing would be for backing up my […]

Cheapest wireless outdoor camera with PTZ and motion detection for NAS

Cheapest wireless outdoor camera with PTZ and motion detection for NAS

security camera What is the cheapest wireless outdoor camera with PTZ and motion detection the will work on NAS server. Usually you need to look for a keyword ONVIF which will mean that it supports universal IP connection standard. Here is cheapest Indoor PTZ camera for NAS I could find 1080P Home Wireless Security Camera, […]

ONVIF POE doorbell camera for Qnap/ Synology NAS

ONVIF POE doorbell camera for Qnap/ Synology NAS

Nas or qnap.  I am looking to have a doorbird system installed in our home and believe I need something to store the video on. I don’t know which would be ideal. And would like to use it to store system files that our four computers in the home can also access over the network. […]

POE NAS +surveillance

POE NAS +surveillance

  surveillance and plex nas recommendations. The first thing is to store about 300 DVDs (most are regular and not blue ray or 4K). Next will be too add about 4-8 cameras (which only record based on motion and be at 2-5MPixel resolution). The NAS will be in a LAN room and not near the […]

NAS and drives for mixed use of Storage and Surveillance

NAS and drives for mixed use of Storage and Surveillance

NAS and drive recommendation. I am looking at Synology 6 to 8 bay NAS for photography and general storage and possibly some virtual machines and maybe some limited video editing at a later date. I am looking to use iron wolf 3tb drives with one or two skywalk drive for surveillance station and maybe for […]

Synology and ONVIF Compatible cameras

Synology and ONVIF Compatible cameras

I’m thinking about buying a Reolink RLC-422 and I have a question about the camera, that you maybe are able to answer. Is the RLC-422 fully compatible with the Synology Surveillance Station over ONVIF? Most importantly: do the multi-streams and the movement detection work on the Surveillance Station? I’m asking because I have a WansView […]

Cheapest NAS for surveillance, backup, and music

Cheapest NAS for surveillance, backup, and music

I’m considering the TS-228A because it’s within my budget and allows four surveillance cameras. Most NAS come with only two licenses, and additional licenses are rather expensive. I’m concerned that only 1G of memory in the TS-228A might be an issue using up to four cameras. I also wonder if the Realtek RTD1295 is up […]

4K surveillance cameras and NAS

4K surveillance cameras and NAS

4K surveillance and NAS. I am looking to purchase a 4K NAS surveillance system with six 4K cameras with at least 2 months recordings and what NAS and 4K cameras would you recommend? Finding a right NAS for 4K surveillance is not a very difficult task. All you need to know is the potential size […]

4K surveillance and NAS

4K surveillance and NAS

4K surveillance and NAS. I am looking for NAS and cameras for eight 4K camera surveillance systems that has plenty of storage for at least a couples of months. I am tired of running out of space on my off the shelf Swann 1080 surveillance systems and crappy software interfaces. I like the idea of […]

NAS for Multimedia and Surveillance

NAS for Multimedia and Surveillance

NAS for Multimedia and Surveillance. I am looking at buying a NAS for my house. We are using Mac, both computers, tablets and phones. I will mostly use it for multimedia (Plex for now), backup and surveillance in the future with 10+ cameras. I don’t want to buy something now and then realize in a year […]

Synology Surveillance Station alternative NVR

Synology Surveillance Station alternative NVR

Synology Surveillance Station. Hi there, just bought A Synology 4 bay NAS from you, is there a surveillance station alternative, trying to avoid paying for licences as i have 7 cameras at the moment. Yes there are quite few open source solutions like: ispyconnect zoneminder shinobi kerberos There is no easy way to install it – […]

RAID 6 or 5 Multimedia NAS +surveillance

RAID 6 or 5 Multimedia NAS +surveillance

shared documents storing/streaming audio library (4300+ songs) storing/streaming pictures library storing/streaming video / DVDs library backing up computers (4 desktops, 2 laptops, 2 tablets, 2 phones, etc) surveillance (7 to 15 cameras; event/alert only recording) RAID 6 or 5 Prefer extra/empty slot for future growth Is it okay to do surveillance and streaming on same […]

combo of two surveillance drives and two NAS HDD

combo of two surveillance drives and two NAS HDD

QNAP 731 with surveillance HDD’s. Useing NAS for Using and Surveillance in HOME USE. I’m looking to populate the Qnap TVS-731 with HDD’s and would like to know would it be okay to use a combo of two surveillance drives and two NAS HDD’s in two different storage pools? Or would four NAS drived be okay? […]

2 bay or 4 bay NAS for Plex and Surveillance?

2 bay or 4 bay NAS for Plex and Surveillance?

 I was set to purchase the Synology DS218+ with a couple of Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 6TB Drives, on the advice of the IT manager at my workplace. This was to replace (instead of expanding) my current cobbled-together system of a 3TB Seagate Central (my first foray into NAS) and 2TB Toshiba external drive, and […]

NAS for CCTV and 4K video streaming locally and remotely

NAS for CCTV and 4K video streaming locally and remotely

I have watched your video comparing the 216+II and the 218+ and would really appreciate some advice. I am looking to set up a very basic home network and include some CCTV. I want to back up a couple of laptops and share 4k videos, lossless audio, photos etc. to my UHD TV, desktop pc […]

NAS for VPN, cloud service integration and surveillance

NAS for VPN, cloud service integration and surveillance

Hi, I am looking for a new NAS, my buffalo only supports SMB 1.0 so that is a challenge with Windows 10 dropping it (and the pogo plug cloud option never impressed me). Also I am back to college doing evening education in university in IT and there I need to integrate with services like […]

10 Year Future proof NAS for Plex and Surveillance

10 Year Future proof NAS for Plex and Surveillance

I am looking to replace a 10 year old file server with a NAS. I’d like to run Plex on it (for 10 users), and use it for storing security camera footage. I would also like to have redundant RAID capabilities in the event any of the drives fail (which is why I’m replacing my […]

NAS for surveillance – 8-12 cameras

NAS for surveillance – 8-12 cameras

I’d like your opinion on which NAS server would be best for a small business security system ( 8-12 cameras). I’d like most of the cameras to be 4K for quality. I’d rather pay more now to help future-proof the system as much as possible. Also is QVR Pro the way to go or is […]

Backup PC and Laptop and game console +surveillance

Backup PC and Laptop and game console +surveillance

Basically be able to back up Laptop (rough estimate’s (( 1TB))) and Desktop ((4 TB)), and back up gaming PC (( 6TB )) PS4 (( 3TB )) and possibly not essential security footage ( 1 TB). So basically high storage that is compatible with various formats that is easy to use and access. I know […]