Hello NAS Compares,

For years now I have been relying on cloud providers (Dropbox, Gdrive, iClould, now Proton Drive) and local desktop storage to have some semblance of a backup solution.

I really don't produce that much data, but I would love to have a solution that is independent from my desktop storage and not so ecosystem dependent (iCloud for photo backup).

For now, I plan on keeping my NAS at home and potentially using a cloud provider for an "offsite" backup, but eventually, I may place another NAS at my in-laws for redundancy.

Any advice on hardware, setups, etc. for someone like me who really doesn't have *that* much data to backup, but wants some peace of mind?

Best,
Patrick S.

First of all, your channel is brillant.

I have a problem, I have a QNAP TS464, I've got 4k movies, I've uploaded them onto my File statiomn 5 and it appears in Plex media server, however when I view them on my 4k TV in my lounge room I can only view them in Standard Definition.

Have you covered this in one of your past youtube videos?

I have both my TV and NAS connected directly to my WIFI Router via ethernet, i'm thinking I should connect my TV and NAS directly to each other via ethernet.

Thanks for your help in advance

I bought a Qnap X431X $GB Ram. I am seeting my Qnap as per your videos. I have 4 bays incl one hot spare, You in your videos mention you will make a video setting up hot spare. I can not find that video.
Ive watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnI5rhUdjGA
& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kCS6e1ZoiQ&t=1471s
& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y34jrKeQ1Uw.

Please Help?

Kind Regards
Ormonde

I have an RT6600ac with 3 MR2200 meshed. Would it be advantageous to replace at least one of the 2200’s with a WRX560? Any advantage or disadvantage other than cost. All 2200’s are currently wireless connected and no backhaul, letting 6600 manage 5mghz-1 and -2 and 2.4.

Thanks for all your great helpful videos!

I currently have a TS-431P with a TL-D800C expansion unit.  I am looking to move my TS-431P into a standalone unit and replace it with another QNAP NAS.  Ideally I would like a new QNAP NAS that can work with my TL-D800C but also supports SATA expansion units for later expansions.  I would settle for a 4 bay unit but would prefer a 6 or even 8 bay NAS.

When doing a recent live migration I noted that it appeared that the bottle neck was my CPU as the resource manager showed it at near 100%.  I understanding doing a live migration on a RAID6 means it had to recalculate parity.  I always encrypt my volumes if that impacts the choice.

As for my use case, it is fairly straight forward.  A single user (me) uses it to hold a number of RAW images and large video files.  For my RAW images I use software that catalogues these on my PC and as a result, have previews of these images stored in a cache located on a drive local to my PC.  I do not believe that having an SSD cache on the NAS would be of any use.

I do not use anything like PLEX or the media server components.  Whilst my current network only supports Gigabit speeds, I would like to to upgrade it in the near future to either 2.5 Gbit or 10 Gbit.

As the title says, I'm looking for a shuckable 2.5 inch drive. I'm not exactly spoilt for choice here, because my regional market only has some offerings from Seagate and WD, that's it.
So my requirements are

• CMR
  
• 2.5 inch form factor
  
• Shuckable
  

Hello,
I would like to somehow merge and handle my existing streaming services into one unit, on the nas. (disney+; netflix, spotify)

Is there any addon that makes disney+ available on the qnap?
Is there any kodi addon that really makes the title visible as in case of the original environment?

Can you direct me somewhere, where exists a detailed howto description?

Hope, you can help me.
Have a good day, b.r.:
András Fodor

Hello, I'm looking at purchasing my first NAS for home backup of documents, photos, and iphone media. I would also be using it for a Plex medial server, or similar platform to stream movies both locally and remotely. Transcoding for iphone might be necessary, but not a priority.

I'm currently looking at the Synology 423+, QNAP TS-464, and the TS-453E. Do you have any recommendations between these? I know the 423+ only comes with 1Gbe ports, which I view as a bit of a downside for the future. I'm also trying to figure out which applications are included with a purchase of the NAS, and which require an additional subscription. Do you happen to have a list?

I am also debating between starting with 1 larger drive, or 2 smaller drives in a RAID 1 to give some level of protection. Thoughts here would also be appreciated. I would look to fully populate the NAS over time.

Thanks in advance

Thank you for your very helpful series of videos on setting up an Asustor NAS.
I'm having a small problem syncing files with EZ Sync.
I have set up EZ Sync so that it syncs all my work doc files from specific folders on my PC to my NAS. I set it up as a one-way PC to NAS sync, following your YouTube instructions. It has worked, in that any new files added to these folders on the PC reflect on the NAS when both are on the same network (exactly what I want).
But I notice that when I change a file on the PC and save the file, these changes are not reflected in the file synced on the NAS. (ie. The file that was first copied to the NAS is not altered when the original is altered and saved on the PC).
My questions:
1. Is there a way to ensure that the changes to a document or other file are updated on the NAS whenever they are saved on the PC?
2. Is there a way to do the above while also ensuring that when a file is deleted in the PC it is NOT automatically deleted on the NAS?

Hi,

Hope you are doing well.

I need a buying decision for NAS,
Primary use of it to access and dump all media files and Movies and stream it to my Home theatre.either will use Zidoo Drive or access directly from the network.

the Three models which I selected are.
1.Synology DS923+.
2.Asustor AS6704T.
3. Qnap TS653B.

Waiting for your Reply and good suggestion.

Thanks & Regards
Manish Kumar