I am confused whether Plex and Multimedia Console apps like Qmagie can share the same folders. I will be using HD Station and noted that the Plex apps for this had been removed. It would be safer it seems to just use the apps that come with HD Station. I found only one reference to this issue which suggested that sharing libraries/folders between Plex and Qnap apps would upset Plex.

Do the new transcoding options on the QNAP TS-251D benefit Plex and if so what is the best transcoding options to setup.

Hi, I'm setting up my Asustor NAS and have no idea on how best to setup the ADM Defender in settings. I want it for 2 pc's home at the moment but may well need it for mobile phone access later. Win 10/android. i have several IP's showing the main provider, DNS and LAN IP's? Thanks

I have a Qnap NAS and two WD Red 6TB hard disks. Trying to decide between static/thick/thin. I know there is a performance hit but quite like the flexibility of thin as would setup three volumes with snapshot on one and over-provision. I can't get a handle on how much the performance hit might be.

Also I was horrified to find out my WD Reds are using SMR. As I will setup as a RAID1 I wondered if thin would be a problem with these drives versus static. Cheers...

I have a QNAP NAS, and my friend asked if he can buy his own HD to add to my NAS to host his own PLEX server, rather than adding all his films to my PLEX, we think this is a better solution.

Is this possible?

So I have a 2 way sync set up with HBS between my NAS ⇔ Dropbox.

Whenever I move/rename a file on Dropbox, on my NAS:

1. the old file ends up in the Recycle bin
2. the file is re-added in the correct folder/with the correct name

The problem is that if I don't go manually clear out the recycle bin from File Station, my NAS' storage just ends up becoming FULL really quick...

**My question:**

A. Is there either a way to have HBS Sync not move files to the Recycle bin at all, but just delete files that don't exist anymore, like how Dropbox works on a regular Macbook?
OR
B. Is there a way to have File Station automatically clear out the Recycle bin ever hour or something?

I'm thinking of backing up some folders of my QNAP File Station to Dropbox with "HBS Backup & Sync".

I want to do this with encryption, so the files on my NAS are not encrypted, but the backups on Dropbox are, so no regular files are ever sent to Dropbox's servers.

In this case I wonder:

1. Where is the private key stored?

2. Do the HBS developers have access to this private key?

3. If my NAS gets destroyed in a fire, and I buy a new NAS, will I be able to un-encrypt my backup after retrieving it from Dropbox? (I'm sure I'd need to have a copy of the private key in this case)

Any advice much appreciated!

I have a NAS I'm planning to expand to 4~6 TB of Data

For external backups: I'm thinking of having a single external HDD (maybe around 8TB to begin) I would periodically insert to make backups.

I saw that I can get an 8TB regular external HDD from both Seagate and WD Elements for about 200 USD, I'm not sure what to look out for though...

Are there any recommendations for me?

In 2020, what is a recommended backup service?
Right now I have about 1.5 TB of data, I expect that to grow until about 5TB over the next 5~10 years.
I rather pay a little extra to know the service is reliable, like Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.
But I wanted to see if there are recommendations for me from this community?

These are the choices (see attached image):

I set up a backup with QNAP "HBS3 backup & sync". I'm trying to back up 1TB for the first time.
-- First 12 hour it did 46% -- It's been 6 hours since then, but now is only at 53%...
Backup options: (1) backup to Google Drive (2) client side encryption (3) these (default) compression settings (see attachement)

Question: Is it normal it takes so long?