nas

Hey guys! Looking for advice! Joined back in November but only recently remembered these forums, seems to be a lot of like minded people here with a passion for hardware as you'd expect! I'm here for advice... I'm 21 Y/O and am hoping to be buying my first house within the next month or so...

Dear All I have been struggling with the connection between my Synology DS215j and my BT Smart Hub for 6 months now (as well as my Nest Thermostat - although I think its the same issues) I can link to the NAS when I am on the wifi network but I can't log in when I am away from home and I...

Please could someone advise me? For a while now I've been desperately low on hard drive space and have been patiently waiting for 8tb drives to get cheap enough. I've now found a Seagate drive which seems the right price but it's a NAS drive. I really have no idea what "NAS" means, and...

Heya, I have decided to upgrade my current nas setup and try and shift my various different nas devices into a single unit. After a lot of searching for cases and solutions I have come up with a few different options and am having a hard time deciding which to go for. I was hoping some more...

I'm looking at a 4 bay NAS and up until about an hour ago was going to go with raid 5 with 4 3tb WD Red drives. That was until I read that raid 5 is very unreliable on large drives. I am wondering what the best options are, When I read about failures with raid 5 they were talking about large...

Firstly sorry if this is in the wrong section and feel free to move to correct sub forum. I'm looking at a 4 bay NAS and up until about an hour ago was going to go with raid 5 with 4 3tb WD Red drives. That was until I read that raid 5 is very unreliable on large drives. I am wondering what the...