Hello,

I store music on my NAS. Its a mirror of the Music folder/subsfolders I have on my home iMac.
Do you have any recommentations on keep the music library clean/easily managed with correct id3 metadata?

Bliss looks good but is expensive.

Hi,
I am trying to find what's the best NAS for me for home use. I want to be able to share and access my files from anywhere. I want to use it as a music server and be able to secure it down to individual file access. I would like to be able to use it to view pics and videos on my smart tv's. It would be used by my partner and son so it needs to be able to be accessed via a mobile (iphone) and i want to be able to access all of my files from anywhere in the world.
There is so much out there i was looking at the synology range but even they do loads. Probably a 2 bay with 2 4TB drives but what sort of processor size and memory do you think i will need? My son has a Xbox that he only has online games so can they store this for him?
Thanks
Mike

Rob, wow, great website (nascompares.com) and YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFyP17HoU-vpxhIpGXnXx2g). Thank you!

We are an SMB with a small IT budget. We have an older Windows 2003 "File and Print" server. It's out of support, and hardware-wise, on it's last legs.

Focusing on Backup & Disaster Recovery (BDR), in our efforts to find an affordable (for us) solution, we stumbled on Synology DS1018+ vs QNAP TS-673-8G-US. (6 bays for future growth, 4 x 4TB drives, RAID-6). We are thinking of getting two of these NASs: one for on-premise, one for offsite.

Note: we will not be using the extra functionality, eg- surveillance or media server. Our focus is BDR, file server and cloud accessibility

Goals - Can these NASs meets these needs?

1) For backups -- Backup data from a Windows 2003 server to NAS, guessing via SMB shares (first-party or third-party app is fine)
2) For BDR -- Synchronize data from one on-premise appliance to another offsite appliance)
3) For file server -- if Windows 2003 server does have a hardware failure and dies, could we use the NAS as a replacement file server on our Windows network (via LDAP or Active Directory integration)? With the added possibility that I could remap Windows users drive letters that point to shares on Windows 2003 to "shares" on the QNAP.
4) Now that users are working from home because of COVID-19, offer users the ability to access the NAS (with all of our company's Windows-based data) from a cloud portal.

Thank you, KJS, Sys Admin

I currently have virgin broadband 200Mb which on a wired connection is fast but wifi is poor with multiple devices connected. This is the main reason for upgrading now. I dont have any real need for improved range just yet but will do in the future. The virgin router has wired connections 4 devices - TV, XBOX, Sonos and STB.

I saw your youtube video comparing synology and google mesh systems at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFl1w0d9sMs. I am leaning toward the synology but what I was not sure of from the video was whther I would need both the synology MR2200ac and RT2600ac. If the RT2600ac is required just to give ethernet connections, could I get the MR2200ac and use that with an ethernet switch (there are some spare ones knowking about in the office)

Also, Im looking for a NAS solution to give me 1TB storage. A friend has used a synology NAS DS918+ and is very happy with it. Is this something you would recommend. I would also need the actual drives to put in the NAS system as well.

I would appreciate your advice

Thanks

T

Hello,
I keep searching online, but not very manufacturers have that information. I want to buy new NAS, What I have read that on mostly products, the NAS OS is stored on a particular partitions on HDD that you put in NAS. My question is are there any NAS that has specific storage space in its own system to install its OS? Therefore, NOT the ones which installs OS in HDD...

Thank you

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Adding a NVR Dva3219 for home security, also looking at a 1019+ for small business file serving and plex media serving. Is this over kill or can the 3219 handle it all?

Hi !

I'm a french photographer/videomaker and i have a question about RAID and NAS...

I currently have two 4To HDD in RAID 1. These two HDD are mounted on a HDD reader (like this : https://amzn.to/2R0n17e).

I want to buy a 4-Bay NAS and keep the two HDD that i already have and buy two more 4To HDD.

Is it possible to extend my RAID without loosing data from the two disks that i already have ?

I search on your site and youtube channel but i didnt find anything

I hope all is well for you in these complicated times.

Regards,
Michael

Dear Rob,
First of all congratulations for your website, it is very impressive the amount of infomation.
I am selecting a NAS server for home. I come from a WD My Book Live (1Tb) that I used for backups and sotring videos that I play from my TV.
As 1 Tb became not enough and I was worried about redundancy of data, I thought about buyong a new one.
First I tried a WD My Cloud Ex2 but the experience was very bad: noisy and slow, so I returned the product.
From that experience I decided to sutdy a bit more the topic before buying a new one. I saw the new launch of the DS220j and I thought it could be the best option, but after reading your comments, I thought that perhaps memory was going to be a problem and a different model from Sinology or another brand could be a better option (or even wait for the launch of a new model).
Basically, as I said, I work with a Mac mini and a Windows 10 (with usual work done in SSDs); we are a family of 4 so we have some iOS and Android phones and tablets; and also a very new 4k TV.
I would like to do backups in the NAS, copy photos and videos from the phones, play movies on TV... I would like the device to be a longlasting one (perhaps compatible with SSDs in case in the future I want to change to them; USB 3...) as I wouldn't like to feel that I need to change to a different one soon...
Sorry for the long explanation, but your advice would be highly appreciated. Of course if you need more information, please tell me.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Kind regards,
Rubén

I recently bought a 1019+ based partially on your reviews, and so far so good. I saw your post saying I could bump it to 16 GB RAM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPU_XEepVfM), but I didn't see a link to buy compatible RAM. I just added a Win 10 VM and it's crazy slow and laggy, so I figured my best bet would be to add RAM. I already have a 512 GB M.2 SSD installed as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated.