I live in Indonesia, and there are occasionally 3-4 hour power cuts. I am using an ASUS NAS with 62W power draw. I know that UPS typically aren't supposed to power things for hours, but could I buy a powerful UPS that could power my 62W NAS (lets say 120W for the calculation) for up to 4 hours. Recommended APC model?

I get the following error after the power adapter failed & I replaced it.  The drives were not changed.  Lenovo ix2-dl Not Ready Your device is in an inconsistent state because the original drives were replaced. You can either put the original drives back or perform a factory reset to erase all existing data and use the new drives. To perform a factory reset you must first clear the administrator password by pressing the reset button on the back of the device.

I want advise on suitable NAS to fulfill below demands,

- Two NAS at different locations (100 miles away)
- Both NAS will have same data
-When I work on any of the one NAS other should be synced with same data

Hi,

I've recently upgraded my router to a Synology rt6600ax one. I'm looking now at switches to complete the wiring and I'm undecided between a unmanaged or managed switch. I've been looking at the managed ubiquiti unifi flex mini but afraid the managed part of it won't be very compatible with the Synology router functionality. Right now I've split my network into safe home network, IoT and office for work laptops that are isolated. Does this makes sense or should I go for a simple unmanaged switch?

Thanks,
Andre

Dear Eddie / Robbie,
I am wathich your youtube channel and already found a lot of valuable information that helped me with my QNAP TS-673.
As I plan to move forward, I started thinking about Synology NAS (my sister got for her business 923+) and I liked the simplicity of Synology.
I am puzzled if I should stick with QNAP based on my new requirements.

NAS requirements:
- min 4 bay, 6 is OK
- 4 CPU cores (preferred)
- sync between NAS same brand (over internet too)
- backup email and workspace (google), data, photos
- video pass-through (Does Ryzen has it?)
- multimedia streaming
- survileance 2-4 cameras
- user friendly interface, straighforward, responsive, smooth experience
- good tech support
- min 2.5GB lan or PCI port
- virtual machine (1 is OK)
- encryption of data
- nvme ports (option)
- integrated GPU (preferred)
- no need to buy additional licences
Not needed: scalability, video editing
Don't like about QNAP: slugish, not intiutive, for IT geek, security issues.
Thank you

Thanks so much for instruction vid on setting this up PLEX on NAS.

I was using NAS for Content storage and running Plex server on Windows PC.

I have 2 questions

1. Created new server on SYN DS920 and all worked fine with the exception of Music. Plex can find any albums. Have pointed to correct folder and granted permission to Plex to R/W. Not sure how to trouble shoot. TV,movies & Pictures worked fine.

2. Is there any way to copy metadata (predominately on watch I have watched) from windows Plex server to NAS plex server.

There was a help on plex around copying all meta data but thought this might cause issues because directories ( although both same physical location) are described differently in windows OS & NAS OS

Thanks is advance for any help you can provide

looking at picking up 923 model and wondering what drives would work best and what nvme modules as well as memory upgrade would work.
thanks
Vince

Hi,
We have a small business. There are only 3 of us. We currently have our data on Dropbox and share our files between us this way. Can we go with a NAS system? We only need to be able to access our files between us, and it would be nice to access them outside the office as well.

I was thinking of backing up the NAS to carbonite? What do you think is our best option?

Our files are between 100MB to 250MB. They are Autodesk Revit files. We would need to prevent someone else from accidentally accessing a file if we have it in use.

Thanks!

I would very much like to be able to be able to exclude select Windows PC folders from the Active Backup (device) backup process. I see that I can instead target specific folders for backup if I'm willing to set them up as network shares on the Windows PC but that is a totally impractical solution. I bought a DSM723+ with a pair of 12TB drives to replace an old HP Windows Media Server (getting difficult to maintain) and it had this ability to exclude folders from backup and it really is a necessary feature for any Windows PC backup application.

Hey Guys! I cannot believe how many countless hours I have spend researching into storage solutions for my small business and can't seem to decide on the best solution. With your wealth of knowledge I would love any & all insight you could provide. Here's what I am up against-

Currently, I store client content virtually on iCloud Drive for easy access to photos or short videos for clients to create marketing/social content.

Additionally, I have a client whom we shoot a podcast for & are aiming to sell space for tv where our recording -3camera 4k set up becomes extensive in the storage realm.

With these in mind, my 40tb (2x 20tb) external HDD aren't cutting it. Too much valuable information & content to risk. Also, the iCloud Drive solution works perfect for my business minus 1 flaw- iCloud doesn't share tags which makes it difficult to work on things together with an employee or contractor making organizing more difficult (also protecting the client data *redundancy)