I am a beginner user of nas and know very little. I would like a nas strictly for Plex media server. I would appreciate any advice. I know my budget is low. I know not to expect it to be powerful.

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Hello, there is no urgency getting back to me on this. I am a high school teacher and i was trying to think of a way my classes (around 60 students) and others could access lesson content (mostly excel files) and my library (about half a TB of pdf documents) from school and at their homes from their personal computers. I was thinking a NAS could be ideal. But i would want them to be able to access and download the same documents at the same time (even if it is only read only). What do you recommend? Thank you.

Hi guys,
First I want to start by saying that your videos have helped me a lot with making the choice of what hdd’s I should go with.
So to give you some background on my system, it’s a I3 7100 with 16 GB ram, also I have 4x Iron Wolf Pro 4TB drives. I’m going to be using this system only for Plex and storing family pictures and videos. And I was wondering if I should do RAID or even RAIDZ, or do something else. I would greatly appreciate it if you can help me make that choice easier! Thank you

Looking for a device which can be used as storage,backup.Addon if 2 vm can run on same device

Hope alls well
Been impressed with your videos recently learning about NAS. My DS923+ arrived today. It's going to be located in my office which is in another room to my wifi router. I'm going to need to connect it wirelessly. My question is - do I get around this with plugging a USB wifi dongle into it and connecting it that way? I'd appreciate any advise you can give me - even down to which dongle (if it is a dongle I need) ~I'd need. The use of the NAS is for photo storage, some photos being 200mb's plus, so the heavier end of image weight.
My thanks in advance and keep up the good work.
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Harry

Hi,
I only use my WD PR4100 for PLEX in my home. I want it to be accessible on my home network only. I haven't activated WD cloud access hoping it would make it secure, but I can access PLEX away from home on my phone etc and this now makes me think others could infiltrate my NAS?
What setting could I change to stop ALL outside access including me as I don't need it?
Thanks very much. Love you YouTube videos.

I am a freelance photographer. I have 5 external Hard drives of various sizes. I need to combine and clean up this mess and also provide a backup. I need to store, backup and retrieve photos.

My desktop computer is Windows 11, 64 Gb Ram, i9-1290, 2.4 GHz, 2 TB ssd drive, 1 TB scratch drive. I work on the present projects on the Desktop and then store them after I am done editing them.

Thanks for your help.
John

I want to buy a NAS for using it with Kontakt and Protools on Mac in my home studio. Now i hace 9TB of libraries but i have external drives and its quite slow for charging the librearies into the sesssion.
I heard your name un a youtube video and i came to your webpage and it's EXCELLENT. thank you very very much. You help a lot of people. Thank you.

PD: sorry for my bad english

My SA3600 becomes inaccessible on LAN yet it's on and running until I restart it, and most times when I restart, it gets stuck at some point in the boot process and just begins racing its fans. Is there a way I can be helped?

I am a light user of WD My Cloud, which is now old and I'm looking to replace. I store tons of photos, tons of music, few videos, and many documents (docx/pdf/etc). I would like to be able to access all of that wherever I am-home/office/trip on my phone, laptop, PC, etc. I also once had a WD Live TV Hub which could slideshow my photos while playing folders/playlists of music from my music library-all stored on the WD Live TV Hub (including playlists & icons) and displayed/played on my TV.

I'd like to recreate that but cannot really do it with the MyCloud. I've been told Plex might be able to accomodate that, but with what hardware? Would Synology or Qnap work?

Thanks,
ned