Hello. I'm trying to get the best use out of my Synology NAS. I am a videographer that needs to share videos with clients, and I would like to be able to share a link not only to download but to play a video through their browers. Simply sharing the videos files or folders is easy, but is there a way or an application within QuickConnect that acts like a "web portal" of some sort that I can send them, they can log in, download their video or just click play and view it in their browser? There is a similar service to this offered by MediaZilla, but I would rather not pay for that since I already have a Synology NAS, I figured there would be some way to set something similar up.

https://mediazilla.com/

I've tried the Video Station app, and it kind of works, but it's not quite exactly what I'm looking for. You can share a video and play it in your browser, but it's lacking the download feature and you can only share 1 video at a time instead of sharing a folder.


Hopefully that makes sense. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Hi, another hardware question. I am still setting up that new TVS-473e, following the videos by NAS COMPARES. To which I have subscribed--thank you.

I have spent the last few days trying to determine why the NAS will not recognize the installed m.2 SATA drives for cache that I have installed in the internal m.2 sockets. Once installed in the sockets, the drives are grayed out on both the Storage Disks and Cache Acceleration tabs. If I click Locate, I do get a red colored slot id message on the display.

I have installed two separate brands: an ADATA SU800 m.2 2280 SATA 6Gb/s SATA and a pair of Western Digital WD Red SA500 SATA SSDs. None were recognized by the NAS. I have verified the 4pin connector is properly aligned during each installation. I have moved the SATA drives back and forth between sockets. I have RESET the NAS. (I have viewed several youTube help videos.) Nothing I have tried has made the NAS recognize the internal m.2 SATA drives.

I have called Western Digital support, who theorizes it is likely a NAS issue. I have ordered an SATA M.2 USB external case to use to test each drive for viability. I have also attempted to contact QNAP support. I have completed a service ticket and gotten a ticket number. Unfortunately, I have failed to speak with QNAP support in Pomona, CA due to an over burdened voice message system failure.

I am so frustrated. I can say this has me totally stumped. In WIN10, I would initialize the drives next but I do not know if that is even possible with a QNAP NAS. Is there a trick that I am missing or do you think I might merely have a defective NAS. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi
I have an 18 terabyte hard disk and intend to buy 20 terabyte hard disk
Does this product accept a hard disk capacity of 18-20 TB?
Which models are compatible with such sizes of 20 TB
Thank you

I am currently using a 4 TB Seagate external drive to do my computer backup and was considering if I should migrate to a NAS solution in the long term.
So far there are no plans for what this NAS will do beyond computer backups at home.
The thing I find interesting is the redundancy and SHR technology from Synology as my current external drive has been with me for a few years already.
If I do proceed, I will most likely find a way to reuse the 4 TB HDD from the external into the NAS, after copying the backups from it to the NAS.

Dear,

Thank you in advance for the free advice you are offering through this means.
As google is greatly reducing their photo's service, I started searching for alternatives.

After some research I found information about to the possibility of NASses and the role they can play here. I have seen some of your videos and red articles on your blog.
These brought me to the following solutions:
- QNAP TS-253D
- Synology DS220+
- Synology DS720+

But I can't decide which one wil bring the most value. I will be using the NAS for the family (we are 5 people). The intend is to use the NAS as it where google photo's:
- Whenever someone takes a picture with their smartphone, the picture is automaticly backed up in the &quot;cloud&quot; to her or his private spot, it is important that everyone has his or her own private spot for their photo's;
- Albums can be shared and filled by users with read/write access in common family albums;
- Albums can be shared to family out of the household circle (grandparents, ...) and friends without them having write access, only read access, in a very user friendly way, like the link you can make in google photo's to share (not everyone we share with has direct IT support at hands);
- Perhaps, set up a vpn on the NAS used by the smartphones, whenever we use free wifi provided somewhere in the city. Altough this is not a must. Somewhere I understood that this is a functionality that could be provided by a NAS;
- I will use 2 HDD's of 4 TB or 6 TB in RAID1 mode as this will be more enough calculating on the photo's we have today and what we will be having in the future.

Further will the NAS be used as storage. As I have my pc or laptop where I use an SSD for the operating system and swap partition. There is a HDD for all the software and to serve as storage. This storage would thus go to the NAS. For me and for the other family members, again in their own private space.

I am thinking of the Synology DS220+ as it is cheap and has a low power consumption (since the NAS will be almost 7/24 online). It seems to be enough for the use case I described but I am afraid it will not feel fast enough or it will fall behind in the future.
I do have an extra 4G 2666 sodimm spare RAM which should be campatible (although it is not the recommended one by Synology) to give that extra boost. The DS720+ has a little more power (the processor is a little better) but comes with features that we will not use, I can not see, for example any benefit from the M.2 cache possibility in my use case.
The QNAP TS-253D comes standard with 2 gig extra, I should be able to plug in the same spare RAM and it has a faster ethernet connection. It feels as if it would give a smoother user experience. But it uses more power and is more expensive. As for the Synology I have understood that creating multiple users accounts where everyone has their proper play ground is possible. And altouh I found that there are more user accounts possible on the QNAP, I could not find if it is possible to put screens in between user's play grounds.

I am working in IT and am not afraid of even building my own custom NAS, but for my family the experience has to be smooth and out of the box.

So, before going in and buying a NAS, these are the questions I have.
Will the Synology DS220+ be enough for a good experience of a private &quot;google photo's&quot;?
Or will we notice the QNAP TS-253D's extra power and can the QNAP handle the use case as described for each user and in a private photo play ground?

Thank you!

Hello,
I am an aspiring music video producer (producing 4K-6K multi camera shoots) and am a subsciber to your truly informative YouTube Channel..

After some deep research have purchased a QNAP TVS-872xt and am considering the following HDD drives.

8x HDD - Seagate EXOS 14TB X14 drives (ST14000NM0018)
2x-SSD - Samsung EVO Plus 1TB NVMe Drives (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM)

I would be grateful if you advice me on if these drives would seamlessly work on the QNAP TVS-872xt.

Any suggested improvements to the above choices?. The QNAP Compatibility list seems to have an advisory note on the screw ports of the x16 Seagate Enterprise drives.

Many Thanks for your help in advance!!

Best....

Prasanna

Thank you for all of the information you continue to share. I currently have a QNAP TS-453Be that I intended to install in a new home construction but I've decided to keep it and get a rack mounted NAS for the new place instead. I will be using the new NAS mainly to run Plex, Home Assistant, and QVRPro with 11 POE cameras (powered by a separate Unifi switch). I'd like 10GBE, and the Unifi switch has SPF+ ports. I was planning on getting a four bay enclosure, mainly to save rackspace, but depending on your recommendation, I'd be open to going to eight bays. I would normally do a RAID 5, but is there an alternative approach you would recommend (separate drive groups for NVR, etc.)? Lots of questions here, but I'm happy to receive whatever info you can share. Cheers!

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I am setting up a TVS872XT NAS, and I am stuck- should I do a static volume or thick volume?

I am using it for my photography archive, currently at 42 TB, and is growing fast. I have 6 16tb EXOS drives installed, and will do a RAID 6 configuration.

Do I need snapshots? Or should I just make one static volume on the RAID? I know I will get better performance from the static volume, but do I sacrifice flexibility?

Thank you, Ive been trying to figure this out for hours.