10-12-2024, 06:27 PM
Hi guys!
I'm a filmmaker and animator. My 4-year-old QNAP TR004 is about to run out of space and it's a bit slow. I looked around and bought the QNAP TVS-x72xt because of the Thunderbolt connection and loaded it with 18 TB drives. The speed is fantastic, but I was kind of under the impression, based on a misleading YouTube video, that I could use it as a DAS, and the drive would show up as local. This was wrong and it seems to mean that my Backblaze cloud backup would cost way more since the cheap subscription does not cover networked drives.
First question, is there a way to have Windows 11 see a network drive as a local one? If not, I think I have to get rid of the NAS and get a DAS with similar specs ie. 6 Bay, Thunderbolt (or equivalent), good software, RAID 5, not crazy loud or crazy expensive. Does anything fit that criteria?
I'm a filmmaker and animator. My 4-year-old QNAP TR004 is about to run out of space and it's a bit slow. I looked around and bought the QNAP TVS-x72xt because of the Thunderbolt connection and loaded it with 18 TB drives. The speed is fantastic, but I was kind of under the impression, based on a misleading YouTube video, that I could use it as a DAS, and the drive would show up as local. This was wrong and it seems to mean that my Backblaze cloud backup would cost way more since the cheap subscription does not cover networked drives.
First question, is there a way to have Windows 11 see a network drive as a local one? If not, I think I have to get rid of the NAS and get a DAS with similar specs ie. 6 Bay, Thunderbolt (or equivalent), good software, RAID 5, not crazy loud or crazy expensive. Does anything fit that criteria?