Recent content by BrianBloom

I appreciate the speed testing, but these days, NASes are so much more sophisticated than just external storage that posting a bunch of Read and Write benchmarks doesn't paint much of a picture of its capabilities. No elaboration of *what* multimedia capabilities it offered other than observing...

I went with the TS-653B (the 6 bay version of the TS-453B) and so far have been reasonably happy with it. Still adding functionality to it, but no regrets yet.

The bitrate probably has zero impact to the search response. Apps like Sonos build an index of all your songs with hashed pointers to each. The search scans this database, not the files themselves. Traversing the collection entries is the slow bit. Once found, it has a link to the song in...

I'm looking forward to see how this new one fares versus QNAP's new TS-453B/653B models. I ordered the latter given that it had a faster CPU, more connectivity (dual HDMI, SD Card, audio jacks, USB C direct access) , an extra drive slot, similar PCIe option for caching, 10 Gigabit, etc, for...

[This is a repost of something I had appended to another thread, but think it was kinda lost there, so I deleted that post and am asking as its own thread] Do any of the typical home routers or popular firmwares support easy granular network and syslogging, and/or SNMP? My interest is in...

The other difference, and the reason I decided not to go with them for the NAS I bought this week, is that the F4EGs are Samsung's first 4K sector drives (to the best of my knowledge). The WD 4K drives "broke" quite a few NASes and needed new firmwares to perform right and I decided I didn't...

While I would love to be able to use enterprise caliber disks - $280/pop is simply sometimes not in the budget, especially when you are buying two or four of them. Can anyone offer a recommendation for the "next best" thing, perhaps using under $200 2TB drives? (I'm looking at setting up a...