I have a Plex Server with data on 2 external USBs, now I am planning to have a 4 bay NAS with 48TB Raid 5 based.

- My first question is whether Plex Server easily read media data hosted on NAS via ethernet cable or data drives should be directly connected to server (SATA, PCIE, USB) to Plex Server ?

- Second question is whether is there any NAS available which has network connectivity and as well as direct connectivity via USB C ?

Hello There
I'm a new beginner and i would like to start from the very out of the box and starting from scratch to starting with 2 hard drives. I watch plenty utubes that were very helpful ,but a little assistance from some experts. Your help will be appreciate very much.

Thank you kindly
Mr Stevenson III

I'm looking at buying the QNAP 4 Bay NAS with 12TB Storage. Do you think this is a good choice for Plex. Also, I heard that QNAP has had some security issues. Is that still an issue? Thanks for your help.

Been using multiple portable drives for years now. As movies are growing larger in size and the drives growing older, performance is starting to slow. I've been out of the loop for a couple years so need something fairly simple to help get me set while I learn things. Been looking at the DS224+, but just want to know if that's the right thing for me, or if you may have a better suggestion.

Hi, I saw your video on Plex and the Synology DS423+ and it looks like it would fit my purposes. I'm a long time Plex user and and I currently have all media on a Synology DS418J and Plex server on my PC, along with Sonarr, Radarr etc. I want to move all media and servers to a new NAS but I'm not sure how to migrate from the current NAS to a new one without buying new drives and recreating everything. The DS418J is not an Intel chip and the Synology website says HD migration isn't supported? What path would you recommend?

Thanks!

Hi
I have a small photo collection I want to maintain and backup and share access to the NAS with my wife and her family (2-4 users max).
The collection is about 500GB in size and our collection is growing at about 1TB yearly
I'm technically savy (Linux user) and would like to get to an affordable solution ideally out of the box, but I am prepared to do some tinkering with docker containers.
Fatures I need:
1. Stable and safe backup
2. All data (available) including face tags and other storage generated metadata as I'm trying to avoid vendor lock in by software (got burned on Google Photos)
3. Automated face tagging
4. Support for existing face tag format
-Currently using XMP sidecar files generated in Digikam for face tags
-Also using Google photos export with their JSON files for face taga
5. Open standards / Open source software if possible

I need to retire an old Drobo S which currently has 3x 8TB and 2 x 4TB drives installed.
I currently use an old 2012 MacMini as a Plex Server but am hoping an up to date NAS will provide better performance, although I'm not sure on this.
I want the ability to mix drives like the Drobo allowed.

Situation:
- had a DS 216+ with 2 x 3TB drives
- got a new DS 423+ and set it up with 2 new 4TB drives in SHR
- when I try to add the 2 old 3TB drives to it it says I cannot because they are too small

I thought you could mix different size drives in a SHR configuration, there's even a SHR calculator that says that with the drives I have I should get a total of 9.1GB storage.

What am I missing?
TIA

Hi
I am looking for advice.
What I want is something that will host my photos and videos, and being able to play those videos from my phone or computer or TV via streaming capabilities.
Maybe also use something like Plex?

I might also stores some documents and files which I can download onto my device as per need.
Are the synology entry level devices good enough? I kinda liked the software and all

Would appreciate your advice

Is it poss to connect to a QNAP TS-873A using 2 different IP addresses ie 192.168.0.5 and 192.168.1.5

I have the first mapped at \\QNAP1\Main on the 192.168.0.5 on my pc and works. so i can access is by typing \\QNAP1\Main

But when i try to Map the 2nd one , I can only use the IP address.
I need to have a mapped drive on the 192.168.1.5 as \\QNAP1\Main as well because of the naming when i save to SMB shares. not sure if this is even poss to have the same name?

I need to save the data from my PC on the 2.5Gb 192.168.1.5

and then everything on the 1Gb 192.168.0.5 network can see the data.

tks