Hi, we’ve had a couple of power blips recently that have made me think about getting a UPS for my NAS, which I never purchased.
Whilst the NAS has recovered successfully from those blips I think it’s tempting fate to leave it.

The NAS I have is a Netgear ReadyNAS 214 running OS 6.10.7.

I believe Netgear are no longer selling new NAS devices, so I may be in the market at some point for a replacement/upgrade. Therefore I would like some advice on options for a UPS solution which will work now and have some future proofing.

Thanks

Dave

I like to think of myself as reasonably competent but I'm failing in my efforts to set up my NAS for use with photos. I've been following your videos but I'm still in trouble. Do you know anyone who can spare me a few minutes to see where I'm at and explain where I've been going wrong?

Desperately yours


Glenn

Hi, Great video thanks! I can’t seem to find the answer to these criteria for me I hope you can help! After lots of research I’m pretty sure I want to go for Synology NAS To store my photos at home instead of paying iCloud,but

1) is it true to say that a cheap secondhand Nas from eBay will have an old operating system might not run the new photos app?
2) sinology seems to be the only NAS that will let me have two drives in 2 different locations that mirror each other so I have a back up should my house burn down! Or is a 2 bay NAS set to RAID better even tho the disks are always spinning?
3) linked to the above, my daughter goes to university in sept, would her photos back up to a NAS located at home? All the online info just says ‘photos can be acessed anywhere in the world’ but doesn’t say if the photos have to be on same network to be saved.
Cheers muchly! Dale (Brighton)

looking for a NAS , i am a Pro Photographer , currently running a 6 year old Drobo 5N2 with 12 TB storage (Full).

want something with decent upgradeability and some SSD cahing..

Appreciate any help you can give.

thanks
Noel

Hi,
I am interested in a NAS for storing my dslr photos, videos , phone photos and videos as well as computer backups for me and my family . I am estimating I would need around 12Tb to be future proof for the next 5 years. What would you recommend ? Should I opt for a 2bay NAS with raid 1 which would serve as a backup for redundancy? Or should I keep my backups somewhere else

Regards,
Raj Patel

Hey there,

first of all I want to gratulate you for your gr8 content and thank you for all the information I've already gatherered.
I'll try to make it short (I will fail).

What I need NAS for:
90% - 95% family photos and video storage in raid for redundance.
Today I have no need for any of the extra features like VMs, transcoding (I can play videos running out of PC) or any additional stuff like e-mail services etc.
The only extra thing I would like my NAS to cover is my home surveillance in the future. I have no cameras installed yet, but I plan to do it. That will be 4 or 5 main cameras around the house and maybe (don't know if thats posible, I assume it is) intercom camera.


So the first question is: 4 bay or 2 bay.
Just for my photo and video backup I suppose 2 bay would do. However I want to keep some headroom for extra features I plan to utilise in the future as mentioned before like surveillance, and also perhaps some more options that at this point I don't know yet I want to use, since I have no experience with NAS (that's why I want Synology for ease of use #iphoneuser).

I assume that I can use 2-3 of the 4 slots in a 4 bay NAS for my raid storage and the last one for surveillance dedicated drive like SkyHawk, so for that I need more slots than 2. I rather would not want to use my NAS drives (in case of 2 bay NAS) for recordings, so either I'll buy bigger nas, otherwise when cameras thing will kick off I will need additional device dedicated for surveillance.

So I was thinking DS418. However, I'm not in rush and as far as I know there will be new devices in 2022 released - both in 2 and 4 bay lineups, so for now I'm gathering info and waiting for new releases. Even if new devices will not offer me anything I really need, perhaps older models will drop in prices when 2022 Synology NAS come out.
I am tempted to go forr DS420+ but thats like additional 1/3 price of DS418 and I might not utilise the plus model fully.

Also maybe thats not a bad idea to consider 2 bay NAS for now for my files, and then get 1 bay for surveillance?

Should I consider other brands?

Any thoughts?


Thanks again
Maciej

Hi, I have 2 apple tv's - 5th generation and 3trd generation. I can download the Plex app on 5th gen and it accesses my movie no problem. Now the 3rd gen doesnt allow app downloads - so u have to fool the system to access plex by altering the dns server on apple tv settings. I got this also to work. The problem is that to get this to work I had to download Python and PlexConnect. Then from my desktop I ran the software and it allowed me to access my movie libraries from apple tv using the app Trailers. This is running off my PC and if I shutdown the PC appletv 3rd gen cannot access my Plex. I want to load this info on my NAS which runs 24/7. I am not sure how to do this and if my NAS server is DLNA.
Thanks for any helpp u can give me

I'm currently using an online subscription for cloud services, and I would like to have my own storage and backups, however, having an app that I can pull up my files is important as well. Is there anything that is simple enough for a 1st time user to get? My main focus is security and privacy. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi sir!

I am an EX2 -ULTRA user. I plan to upgrade to 4 bay NAS. I am strongly considering WD PR 4100 (familiar software/basic NAS functions). The news of end of support in 2026. are worrying me. I would love to hear your thoughts.

Thank you

Neven

Hi mate,

So, I have a qnap ts-451a

It has a 10tb seagate hard drive which is full

I bought a 16tb seagate last week.

In my error I migrated the drives and do not have access to 26tb

Is there a way to undo this without losing data?

My aim is to have access to the 26tb

Please let me know if you can help

Many Thanks
Dean

Ps. Do you do telephone appointments, I’ll be happy to donate