I want to build NAS for photography, with outdoor access/upload., 2-3 separate users, good android/iphone app, low power. Subject recognition is a big plus. I'm deciding whether it is market brands (QNAP,Synology,Terramaster,ASUSTor...), using my old laptop, or buying a non-brand Celeron NAS machine.

I'm willing to try non-brand NAS, but I don't know whether 3rd party photo management/mobile app is good enough. Is there any 3rd party photo management with subject recognition, multiple users support, good mobile app?

Could you please do comprehensive reviews about 1) 3rd party Photo management software on NAS 2) Mobile Photo apps from 3rd party 3) The most recent version of mobile photo apps from brands?

I've heard that QNAP recently removed mobile backup from their recent version of QuMagie mobile, and Synology seems not interested in bringing back the subject recognition. These are really show-stoppers for me. So I'm also looking for 3rd party solutions/non-brand NAS.

Apiwat

Dear Robbie and Eddie,
thank you so much for offering this service, I really appreciate that.
Concerning my NAS dilemma, my situation looks like this, right now I own a WD MyCloud Ultra Ex2 (2-bay NAS), with 4TB of HDD storage. I used it mainly as a Plex Multimedia station and Apple Time Machine but since I am sick of paying iCloud Storage for all of my photos and mobile device backups, I consider switching to a upgraded NAS since the WD MyCloud speed is just around 30mb/s which isn't that fast because Backups of my iPad are around 100GB. I heard about the Synology DS220+ and saw your YouTube video but I wanted to ask whether this NAS should bring up better upload speeds via LAN when backing up all of my devices, whether there is an option to directly backup iPhone and iPad without the need of an iMac in between and whether this device would handle plex and fit my needs, maybe you would recommend another device, Thank You very much in advance

I want to store and play back my media collection which currently uses about 6TB for my DVD/BD collection. I don't anticipate adding a lot more to it in the future. I think the PLEX server will work for me and it is unlikely that more than 2 users will ever be trying to play media at the same time.

I HAVE RIGHT NOW A WD EX2 ULTRA. MY SPACE IS RUNNING OUT. I AM A MAC USER AS WELL AS AN IPHONE IPAD MAC USER. AS WELL AS DLNA. I AM WAVING FROM WD EX4100 PR4100 OF SYNOLOGY.
YOUR ADVICE WILL BE APPRECIATED. I WATCH EVERY SINGLE VIDEO FROM YOUR CHANNEL.

THANK YOU SO MUCH

I AM NOT A GEEK EXPET. MOSTLY STORAGE VIDEOS PHOTOS BACKUP MAC AND MUSIC IN HI- RES AUDIO

BEST REGARDS,
ORLANDO

Hello , really enjoy your youtube content. I am really struggling to get to grips with NAS and how it works ... I have done my best but its all over the place and wanted an expert to provide assistance. Am slightly cautious who to approach as I don't want my NAS compromiosed by someone putting or doing settings that would compromise it as I have all my photos on it ....
How much would it be to sort streamline it. Have up to date settings, file management. Ensure the non-admin account has access where it should , but not things it shouldn't , etc?

I would like to find out if Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD 4TB would be compatible with QNAP TVS-h874X-i9-64G.
I do not find this SSD listed in the compatibility list at QNAP site.

But considering this SSD is PCIe Gen4, it should ideally be supported. Appreciate your help in confirming before I go ahead with purchasing this SSD for caching

Thank you

Hi, I am a music producer mainly focused in Scoring to picture, Advts and Songs.
Upgrading to NAS for the first time from External HDD's.
Please suggest me best NAS.
My Main purpose for upgrading storage system is automatic backup RAID and accessibility.

Please Help.

Thanks in advance.
Warm Regards,
HrishikesH.

So I have follow your step on youtube. Everything look right. But when I launch Plex webpage and go to manage libraries I see the shared folder that I created but I don't see the upload file that I did on the NAS. So between my Plex page and no Snyology page. Something is not talking to each other. Please help if possible.

I am looking to buy 1st 4bay NAS. It will be used primarily for media either an Emby or Plex server. I would like it to be expandable if possible. I do not plan on playing movies directly from Nas either thru the Nvidia shield or a vidoo device. I dont mind spending a little money. But not looking to spend more than is needed for my intended use. I am open to Asustor, terramaster, synology, or qnap. Thanks in advance

Hello!
I am building a new home and I am planning out my new HomeLab /network and security cameras. I already have installed 8 POE drops for security cameras and APs, and another 8 Ge network drops around the house. I have not locked down any equipment vendors yet.
For the HomeLab, I am looking to play with Home Assistant and NextCloud services, and anything else that catches my fancy. I also want to play with Proxmox. So, I am thinking of starting with a NAS to support my initial dive into HA and NextCloud and general file serving. Then get a dedicated server (a miniPC ?) when I want to jump into Proxmox.
My questions are: Can a single NAS support both my initial NAS services and NVR functionality? If I get a 4 bay NAS and I want to use 3 bays for a RAID, can I configure the 4th for NVR storage? Does that make sense? Might I run into running out of local network bandwidth when I get a dedicated server which might do some media streaming?