Hi there,
I 'am in the IT business for 40 years, but not very experienced in the network and NAS area. What I 'am looking for is an inexpensive NAS , no fancy feature, but reliable and capable to provide my core requirements.
1. Backup my 6 PC's data
2. Store hi-res audio files (flac) for replay with PC media player software JRiver via high-end sound card
3. Archive video files (HD only) from my DVR for replay when the internal disk gets full
4. RAID 1
5. Speed is always nice to have, but my network is only 1G with Cat5 cabling

I would be very happy if can recommend some NAS. QNAP sounds great overall, from SYNOLOGY I heard some bad things, but not sure whats true.

Kind regards,
Thorsten

What can be done? What should be done? What should be ignored?

Yesterday I got this message from my Synology NAS:

Dear user,

The following is your monthly report regarding the health of disks on niels1819. You can also check the health of individual disks at Storage Manager > HDD/SSD > Health Info.

Only drives with problems are displayed.

Drive 3
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Normal
Bad sector count: 2
Drive reconnection count: 0
Drive re-identification count: 0

Drive 6
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Normal
Bad sector count: 0
Drive reconnection count: 20
Drive re-identification count: 0


Sincerely,
Synology DiskStation

I am new is that. I have too many movies. max 1200 euros home I have 7 terrain movies, music and photos Greece

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Hello, i've watched your videos and they have been very helpful! I'm a Mac-based video editor on a 2013 MacPro with Gigabit internet, thunderbolt 2.0 and USB 3.o. I will upgrade to a brand new mac pro with thunderbolt 3 sometime within 2 years. I'm wondering if there would be any direct advantage to using a NAS with gigabit ethernet directly connected to my machine and using it as a simple RAID 5? I don't exactly need any of the IOT features of NAS right now but maybe in the future. I am also kind of far from my internet modem and just use Wifi and not wired ethernet. I'm wondering if I'm crazy to buy a NAS? Would a Synology or other NAS be good for me or should I just buy a &quot;dumb&quot; RAID 5? Any ideas would be helpful

Hello,
I have a Synology DS1520 and it is currently backing up to itself via HyperBackup.
I would like to backup the backups to my Drobo 5N2.
I have ample space on the Drobo.
Everything I read says to use rsync. rsync is not supported by Drobo anymore.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Really enjoy your content.

Hi Robbie

I am not a pro IT person like yourself and followed your advice and purchased a TS-251D and have been very happy

I am looking to expand the NAS with some SSD cache and I am confused about the difference between QM2-2P-244A vs QM2-2P-344 cards except that the 344 is slightly more expensive.. :-)

I just want to expand NAS with 1 or 2 SSD's and not bothered about 10GBs RJ45 and confused about the difference between the 244 and 344

Appreciate your feedback if you get chance?

Thanks
Charles

NAScompares FAN !!!!

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Hi
I'm looking for a Nas storage, that will allow me to easily extend the storage space by adding disks
and if possible white list ip-addresses to allow access.

I currently have two 8tb HDD , but expect to extend over another 2 or 3 disks
I'd like to be able to extend the inital volume when addind disks.

I also want to restrict access, i'm familiar with allowing access with account names and passwords. But my LG tv does not prompt for username & password when accessing a restricted share.

Is it possible to whitelist access based on IP address.

I'm new to this so appreciate the advise

Many Thanks

Andrew