QNAP has officially launched its own High Availability (HA) cluster, bringing automatic fail-over between NAS devices to its ecosystem. Until now, QNAP users relied on SnapSync for replication, but true seamless fail-over wasn’t possible. This new feature closes that …
QNAP launched the ES1686dc-R2 last week, and if you’re anything like me, you might be wondering — how is it different from the original ES1686dc? At first glance — and even after digging into the specs — you’ll notice they are practically identical. Same CPU, same …
Transmission is a powerful open-source torrent client that integrates seamlessly with applications like Sonarr and Radarr. Unfortunately, the QNAP App Store doesn’t offer a native Transmission app, requiring users to rely on Container Station for installation—a process …
with watchtower, you can automates container updates, ensuring your Docker environment stays secure and up-to-date with any manual work The Challenge: Why Command Line Access Is Required While QNAP’s GUI makes it easy to manage containers, installing Watchtower requires …
If you’re a QNAP NAS user considering an upgrade from QTS to QuTS hero, there are a few things you should know before making the switch. For starters, it’s not possible to directly update from QTS to QuTS hero. Let’s dive into why this upgrade requires more …
At Gitex this year, I encountered the world’s largest SSD: a U.2 60TB Solidigm drive ( D5-P5336) . As a storage enthusiast, I was immediately fascinated, especially thinking about its potential in a QNAP NAS setup. The drive was sitting there unassumingly at the …
Air-gaps are one of the oldest and most reliable methods to keep critical information secure. In this section, let’s dive into what a traditional air gap is and how QNAP’s Airgap+ modernizes this trusted strategy for today’s digital environment. What …
The QNAP QuTS hero operating system utilizes the ZFS file system, which inherently supports inline deduplication and inline compression. However, to enhance efficiency, especially considering the 4K block size, QNAP has also incorporated data compaction into QuTS hero. …
Due to escalating concerns surrounding ransomware and cyber attacks, many organizations are seeking to implement measures to make their data immutable, meaning data that cannot be altered once written. For both QNAP and Synology devices, immutability can be achieved …
TL;DR Both Synology F1 RAID and QNAP QSAL implement uneven writing patterns on SSDs to minimize the potential risk of multiple SSDs failing simultaneously within a RAID configuration. While they adopt different methods, the ultimate goal is the same: favoring one SSD …
QNAP has introduced many new products this month including the 3 models in X77AXU series. These models will replace the X77XU-RP models TS-h1677AXU-RP-R7-32G ( replaces TS-h1677XU-RP-3700X-32G) TS-h1277AXU-RP-R7-32G ( replaces TS-h1277XU-RP-3700X-128G …
The ongoing capacity of QNAP to innovate and introduce unique hardware units is apparent too, more so with the newly introduced TS-AI642, distinguished by its integration of 6 NPUs (Neural Processing Units). If you find yourself wondering about the definition of an NPU, …
Both Synology and QNAP have developed virtualization solutions that allow you to run a virtual machine (VM) on your NAS. In this article, we explore the features and capabilities of Synology’s Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and QNAP’s Virtualization Station. …
QNAP has been actively promoting AMIZ Cloud lately. They unveiled it during Computex, and there’s been a lot of marketing buzz around this product. Let’s break it down in simple terms. AMIZ Cloud is similar to Q’Center, which is a tool for managing …
One of the ways to add applications to your NAS is by running containers on the NAS itself. Both QNAP and Synology have user-friendly interfaces that allow you to create, manage, and run your containers. Synology calls this feature “Container Manager,” while …
QNAP is the sole manufacturer offering Thunderbolt 4 NAS solutions (as far as I know) , setting them apart from other contenders like Terramaster, which solely offers Thunderbolt 4 Direct Attached Storage (DAS). What truly sets QNAP devices apart is that they bridge …
Previously, QNAP provided network printer sharing, which has since changed. The default print server function is gone, but there are still ways to share a USB printer. There are three current methods: running a VM with USB passthrough, deploying a print server via …