The Apple Time Capsule Reimagined!
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
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Discover how Apple revolutionized home networking and WiFi with the Airport and Time Capsule, paving the way for consumer-friendly NAS devices. Compare Apple’s Time Capsule to modern NAS solutions like the Ubiquiti UNAS Pro, a low-power, high-efficiency alternative packed with features like RAID storage, SMB support, and seamless remote access. We'll look at the evolution of NAS technology, exploring how today’s devices combine simplicity, power, and versatility-traits Apple championed in its iconic designs.
As one of the engineers that worked on the TimeCapsule and TimeMachine, thanks for the kind words!
That's awesome! It was a really great product and ahead of its time.
I still want one now, so sad they are gone
Wish they made them still. I’m still using mine works perfect
The worst part about that stuff is.... that Apple abandoned it!
After 11 years of using TimeCapsule, I have to replaced it with Synology router. Apple routers were nice, simple to use and not difficult to setup. In one device: router, wifi, TimeMachine disk. Synology is quite good, but it's bulky with protruding antennas and an external casing with a hard drive. I'd like to buy Apple router, but new ones aren't available, unfortunately. You did great work at Apple with this devices.
The Time Capsule was really magical when my MBP had a ram socket crap out and the Apple store swapped the machine out for a new one. Brought the new laptop home, connected to the network, and immediate was greeted with "It looks like you've got a backup on this network. Want to restore it to this machine?" and 10 minutes later it was like I hadn't had to swap at all. Nowadays with automated cloud backups it doesn't seem too wild, but at the time (mid-2015) it was an unexpected delight.
That's still pretty great for a whole computer. It's become normal on phones, but on Windows signing in with a Microsoft account will only sync some of your settings and I'm not sure a backup solution that tightly integrated even exists.
@@lfox02 for having done it yesterday, if you use a Microsoft account and sync your stuff on onedrive, it is now very straightforward on windows 11. It gets your apps, logs you in, connects your onedrive storage, syncs your browser (and I think your wallpaper too). Using a Microsoft account is finally getting useful
@@lfox02 i hate being a windows user
I know everyone has different needs, but with the advent of iCloud Files and all the things that iCloud restores to my new devices automatically I don't even worry about having to set up a new phone or Mac anymore. I can set up a new Mac and be ready to run almost immediately. Time Machine was amazing for its day, but I just don't want to deal with it anymore.
It was a great backup system that you could pretty much setup and forget about until you needed it. Unfortunately, I went though a number of these from poor heat dissipation.
OG airports ability to share out a dialup was amazing for many at the time, sure it could have used real antennas...
I'm 9 feet away!
@@snazzy HAHAHAHA
@@snazzy We tried using the darn thing at a net connect coffee shop in Toronto back then. HAHAHA What a fail that was.
there was a non Mac device (Avaya/Lucent/Orinoco RG-1000 Residential Gateway) that did that too! And weather it was the Apple version or Lucent a killer feature!
@@pjohnson21211 That one probably had better wifi reception. Cool.
Apple, Ubiquiti, NAS, and Bambu Lab.
These are exactly where my holiday money was spent.
That last one has not aged well...
I can’t say how much I’ve spent on those but I’m getting this NAS as soon as it’s in stock.
@@leonkernantruth. I have an XC1 I use for fun but now I’m ashamed I own it.
One thing I absolutely love about apples the fact that yes you’re hooking up what is it probably 15-year-old airport express and macOS that’s currently up-to-date. Recognizes it like it was built-in and I love that about Apple, especially with the iPods.
Using an used M1 as your Plex Server and leaving the storage device only to do storage is an underrated feature. The M1 handles transcoding like there is no tomorrow with very little power and heat. It's an absolute game changer for anyone wanting to host their own media.
I thought I was the only one
I am still using an Nvidia Shield Pro as a Plex server. It’s an older product but can still handle 4k video files with uncompressed audio just fine.
I‘m doing exactly this. A refurbished M1 Mac mini running Plex server and the media files on my NAS (yeah, it‘s an oooold Synology DS1511+). What am I doing wrong when I STILL sometimes get the nasty message in a Plex client saying that my server isn‘t fast enough to live transcode …?!??? 😳
@StefanWolfrum could be disk access speed. How fast are the drives and how fast is the Synology's disk bus?
Ya'll are my people. M1 mini here running Plex and multiple Synology NAS here for media storage.
I wish Apple hadn't abandoned this. The AirPort Express and The Time Machine were fine at the time. Can only imagine where they would have taken them. My Synology is way too loud. I miss silent Network storage
I read something the other day that said that apple might get back into routers.
Did you really compare this an apple airport (an ap with a disk). This thing isn't for a procusmer yet it is ok and basic and i say this unifi heavy user
thats why Ubiquiti was formed, P sure the CEO came from Apple networking team
Ubiquiti is literally from the person that was in charge of networking at Apple. Basically a modern airport
@oliverp7375 he was a hardware engineer 20 years ago apple was still making new versions of the airport when he left. He wasn't in charge of that.
Wait you started with power consumption on the synology but didn’t show what the actual power draw is on the unifi?
I too would like to see some stats on power consumption!
My UNAS Pro draws about 37W at idle and about 30W of that is going to the HDDs.
And was the Synology on idle as well? Mine with 4 HDDs on idle only uses 33W. Usually HDDs only add 2-3W on idle so it's probably around 40W with everything on idle. And the OS is not as limited with full docker suite support.
@@nownaga He had a much larger unit than a 420
Thanks for asking the probing questions, I'm happy I wasn't the only one to notice this.
calling the 14tb drives small hurt my soul. im primarily using a mix of 500gb, 1tbs, 2tbs and 3tbs 😭
Same for me : using HDDs from 500Gb up tp 2To 🙂
Not even in some NAS enclosure. I've repurposed a 4th gen i5 Fujistu (16Gb RAM) medium tower into a somewhat multi purpose serveur (thanks to Proxmox).
14tb isn’t small. Anything under 10 is. Prices have been cheap for years at this point.
@@Bob_Smith19 For the US maybe. I'm lucky if I can get another 2 TB USB drive in 2025... having a NAS even an old Synology is just an unattainable dream for me...
HA. I just paid $150 for 4TB drive. I have to find out where this guy gets his cheap 14tb drives. I am not a Seagate fan though, after their laptop drive failed prematurely.
The Jay-Z joke lmao
I thought they were talking about JayzTwoCents for a second.
@@herberttlbd classic.
I'm out of the loop, what's the joke?
@@lfox02 Google Diddy List and Linus made a similar joke on WAN show and nearly caused another PR nightmare
@@lfox02 Diddy parties
At 17:30. Please note that raid 10 is faster than raid 5, but offers less capacity. Raid 5 does a ton of parity calculations, hence slow. RAID 10 is raid 1 + raid 0. Fast to WR, but most importantly, fast to recover. When one drive fails due to age, all other drives are old as well. Raid 5/6 takes forever to rebuild, and a large window of recovery is not recommended in a backup device. So go with smaller capacity & faster recovery IF your data is very important.
This guy raids with drive failures
raid 5 is NOT faster than raid 10. Whatever the setup or reason.
In reality, basically no one has multiple simultaneous drive failure. Even if that were a worry it would be smarter to use the extra drive capacity to have a complete backup vs using raid 10 over raid5 or 6.
@@BeefIngot The total number of drives determines the setup. RAID 10 combines RAID 1 and RAID 0, allowing for higher redundancy and speed. For example, with 8 drives in RAID 10, the system can tolerate up to 2 drive failures, provided one failure occurs in each mirrored pair. On the other hand, RAID 5 with 7 drives is better suited for configurations with an odd number of drives, though it doesn't prioritize speed as highlighted in the video
@@avidcaster Your comment doesn't seem to address any of the points in my comment so I'm confused by it.
My point is that the fear around the speed of resilvering is not a concern based in reality because multiple simultaneous drive failiure is unlikely, and so for a home user, the savings on extra drives makes it more worth it to use raid 5 or 6.
Furthermore the speed doesn't matter for a home user, specifically one serving 1, 2 maybe 4 people at most. It doesn't matter for resilvering and it doesn't matter in terms of throughput.
Unlrss he plans to directly edit extremely large files off of the NAS the well higher than a couple sata ssds raw speed should be more than enough.
"Yeah I don't want to talk about this we don't have time" was the best line you have ever uttered on this channel. Genius timing and delivery. Hat is off. To you, I say!
12:23 I like your funny words, Snazzy man!
Still use my Time Capsule to this day I love it! want a new updated version
You lost me at a Diet Pepsi…
Hey, now.
Content creators need sponsors, let's not bully Quinn.
Yes, there's no way that he would have a whole fridge full of Diet Pepsis if it wasn't for a sponsorship...right? Right? 😭
Pepsi max better
Lol
@@HydraCFW agreed Pepsi max is sooo much better make it the max wild cherry…
As someone with no server rack, limited space, and no youtube career, I got a Ugreen DXP480T, a tiny NAS that only supports nvme SSDs. Best thing ever.
Wow, that seems nice (In a very overkill and useless way that's appealing to an enthusiast)
The moment you start buying ubiquiti gear you will get addicted
Free backup to china included
All well and good until those SSDs fail. I’ve had three fail this year alone. I do not use them for longterm storage. Spinning rust and proper 3-2-1 backups are still king.
@@Bob_Smith19 I've never had a single SSD fail for me since I started using them in 2013. Can't say the same about HDDs. I guess you just have to get the good ones?
I would consider using HDDs, but as I said I don't have the luxury to store the massive whiney boxes in the apartment unfortunately. Would be a different story if it's all sitting in some basement.
One thing that's unique about your videos, and the reason I always watch them even if I'm not at all interested in the actual subject (like this time 😅) is the history and context you provide. I love that.
Your beard grew back really fast! 😂
I still use an Airport Extreme. A local school was throwing away all their Extremes and I literally got 4 of them from the trashcan. lol. From what I can tell all are in great shape. I trust these more than I trust stuff from Netgear, ect.
unifi is the apple of network
Unifi was apple
@@TheMetaldudeXtheir founder was former Apple
@@andrewtfluck for 2 years..... that is like saying i worked for microsoft and made some software after that so i am the new Microsoft
Ubiquity was started by an Apple engineer who worked on their wifi stuff, so you aren't wrong. It's net eng with Apple like functionality and UI. Supposedly he tried to get Apple to do it before he decided 'I'll do it myself'.
@@tommeirmans okay and...? He's still former Apple
I still use my AirPort Express hooked up to my speakers most days! It’s super cool and still works great. Had to switch WiFi a few weeks ago and it was pretty simple to move over
I shit you not, i spent so long in my samba conf on my server that my mac belives it is some variety of early ipod, gives me the giggles every time.
Raid 5 with 14tb drives…living dangerously
Why if its not a backup?
Didn't Phil jump to demonstrate their new hard drive technology that kept it safe when dropped with being it rubber mounted on the iBooks. It was nothing to do with airport or wifi. I think you were thinking about the hula loop demo.
indeed
Thanks, I was trying to figure out what that had to do with airport. Indeed, it was the hula-hoop demo.
The jump demo was done by Phil Schiller showing the wifi because he had a website that sent accelerometer data as he jumped. The Sudden Motion Sensor drop technology wasn't added until the 2005 PowerBook line. Steve was the one who did the hula hoop demo.
My house had an AirPort Extreme for years. It was super reliable until we just had too many devices on the network.
We also had an original AirPort Express which originally connected to our iMac G4 to get it online, since it lacked an AirPort card. It was then moved to the basement to connect to the home theater as an AirPlay endpoint. We used the heck out of it. It only stopped working reliably this year.
I still have an AirPort Extreme in my bedroom for my own personal network lol. Everyone and everything else is on the Ubiquiti APs.
I use UniFi UDM Pro as router.
AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme
Time Capsule as access points.
From a thumbnail, saying Apple Time Capsule, I thought we are looking at a refurbished Xserve 😀
Now this is a name I have not heard in a very long time!
That was what I was thinking from the title.
IDK how many times I just LOLd during this video but I am entertained and sold on Ubiquiti
that bambu sponsorship slid under just before everything happened 😂😊
With recent macOS versions, you're prompted to set an optional size limit when setting up TimeMachine (in the UI). You can also set up how often it backs up now (hourly, daily, weekly) in the UI as well. Still, UI should add a feature to strictly limit this from within their UI. Also, RAID 1+0 should be faster than RAID-5 for both write and read speeds.
How recent is "recent"? I'm not seeing size options with the latest Sonoma
@ Definitely an option on macOS Sequoia, only during initial setup of Time Machine.
I saw you have a Ubiquiti landline VOIP phone thingy on top of that rack. I'd like more details about it. It seems really interesting!
It’s true the time capsule has been amazing. I’m using mine til this day for media storage and network access. It has been a great device all these years.
uzing a 2011 timecapsule for a NAS media server to this day. goddamn thing is going strong still *knock on wood*
I have had a TC for 10+ years. Love it! Sad that they discontinued it.
To some degree, I wish this was a thing when I got my Synology RS1221+ as I don't think the extra features in the Synology are worth $700 more than this, but a shallow rack mount NAS was what I really needed at the time, and that was basically the only one available. I might still end up getting one of these for solely backup.
I’m using an AirPort Extreme for my home now. Works just fine.
I still have one working as well but only for backup reasons.
The time machine config isn't ideal but lack of Backblaze support for backup is a deal killer. For the price, I like that it isn't trying to do everything. I currently use TrueNAS which I use only as a NAS. The price is attractive.
From iOS, why wouldn’t you log the NAS as a server in the files app. Then if you’re remote use WiFiman to VPN in and gain access to it directly then you don’t run into the file size limit?
Came to the comments to ask this question -- would be curious if that would resolve the issue.
@ I don’t see why it wouldn’t. The files app doesn’t seem to have a file size limit and as long as you can access the nas via a network share it works for me when connecting remotely via WiFiman or the VPN function. But I don’t have the UniFi NAS.
I think we're maybe 2-3 years away from Arm powered home servers with significantly lower power consumption, all whilst being able to serve data 24/7 and run basic apps (Jellyfin with light transcoding, torrents/magnets etc).
That AD fits well on this “Time Capsule” video 😂
We won’t talk about Jay Z anymore
50 Cent was right the modern Internet will judge you based on what they say you did and not actually what you did
It is enough to accuse somebody of anything and destroy them for that, not even if they found not guilty.
No backup to S3 or Backblaze?
Nope not natively. I guess you could use AWS Storage Gateway with S3 to present an SMB target for this to use. Massive omission, but maybe it'll come in a future update.
I enjoyed this video. Your way of explaining is efficient and easy to understand. Thank you.
As someone who just had their first checksum errors on a TrueNAS Scale... the Ubiquiti UI seems so much better. Dang. I don't have room for such a large device but one day, I'll come back to this video.
Great video and thank you. Very awesome…. I’m looking for a replacement for my Drobo(s)… as, for reasons, the clock is probably ticking.
I’m wondering what the Fan noise is like out of the UNAS-Pro? If it’s less than the sound of the hard drives… that would be great.
seeing Snazzy Labs talk Ubiquiti is the best of both worlds
I appreciate knowing what realistic options are out there, but I am sooo thankful I don't need it for my personal setup. But I very much appreciate these features for the people who need it.
And how does the power draw compare to… especially with drives installed?
I have been looking into it, but I also need to be able to setup rsync to receive a backup from a remote location. I am still thinking about ordering one once they have them back in stock.
You said JayZ and I was thinking "Has he not heard what happened and what hes accused of with Puffy 'freak off' daddy?!??!" And then you did that little joke there, phew.
Great video thanks. WIting for unifi to get them back in stock
By the way in macos sequoia after 15 or so years .. apple added time machine size limit for container created on shared device (i dont play with that much, but when you selected encrypted slider for size limit shows up)
Your voice when you said you were ill sounded uncannily like Chris Parnell's!
As for my current NAS: Synology DS918+ with 16GB of RAM and NVMe drives mounted as storage instead of cache. It works well for my needs, though I've got an Unraid licence I'd love to put to good use.
"it's going to take a screenshot"
I don't think that'll be particularly helpful. 🤣
Jay-Z - @09:00 : Uh, everything's for sale, I got five passports, I'm never going to jail ~ From The Song "Otis"
USB Backup would be good too, I'd need that before I replaced my synology.
Fun fact: I actually use my UDM Pro as a NAS by running Samba in a systemd-nspawn container with an 870 Evo in the drive bay. 4 TB isn’t huge by any means, but it fits my needs for now. Will definitely look into getting one of these in the future - thanks for the great video, as always!
how the hell is a 14tb drive tiny? i must be living in another verse!
Time capsule was, and still IS awesome. I have transitioned to Unifi a long time ago though and I’m not sure that would change even if Apple reintroduced their routers. That said I still back up my Mac to the same gen time capsule you have in this video. It has rested a few years in a box since I didn’t own a Mac for a few years but now that I do, it’s in use again!
Still use my TC from 2012 as a lan hub, usb hub and a Time Machine attached to Keenetic router. Stopped using it as a router only like 3 years ago.
I’m in the Unifi ecosystem already with the router and access points. I really like their stuff, they really bridge corporate with SOHO / high end Home extremely well, better than anyone I’d say. I will definitely be looking into this
Thank you @snazzy for another snazzy video! At 23:40, the preview you show us is hardly a good test-bench. The image file is 1.04MB! Slightly off-topic, this is the second video in a row of yours that I've watched where I have actually sat through your sponsor's message. Usually I skip these, but obviously the sponsors you choose are more in-tune with your content, and they have cool products =)
more unify/ubiquity videos please. they are my fav ltt vids these days as someone who overengineered their new home setup. if you start doing home assistant vids I'll be in heaven lmao
Funny you should mention it! Home Assistant stuff planned for January!
@@snazzygreat to hear! Please go deep!
I use most UI hardware but a Synology DS1621xs+ for my NAS. I’m definitely tempted to move to the UNVR-Pro. It looks like a great option!
Holy Christmas
when the sponsorship started I thought it was a Dubbed part 🤣🤣
Those Backup options seem very limited though, my Asustor has support for backing up to like 10 different cloud service providers.
Also, is it just me, or did anyone else while watching the video feel like Snazzy just hasn't used other NASes recently?
Ubiquiti isn't the only one making ARM NASes. People just typically don't buy them, because they are slower and not as upgradable as the x86 variants (and the software support can be hit and miss)
Not sure I understand your comment about Time Capsule and drive size.
With the current macOS Sequoia, and maybe older versions as well, you have the option to limit Time Capsule to a specific size of the network drive, it provides a slider for you to set the size limit.
As the Admin of the UNAS I left access to the full drive size for my personal drive but when I setup Time Capsule I limited it to only use 5TB.
By the way, when setting up the drives in the UNAS the option for "Advanced Protection" is also available when you click the drop-down menu.
Ubiquiti defines "Advanced Protection" as RAID-6 whereas "Basic Protection" is defined as RAID-5.
One thing to keep in mind, if you select a different drive setup option a reformat is required.
I have this. Love it. They really do need to fix the Time Machine stuff. I’d love to be able to create and expose “drives” for each Mac I’m backing up. Oh and being able to create more than one pool would be nice.
I wonder how well these scale, if they're able to.
Prove he didn't film the sponsor segment later.
I love Ubiquiti and have it for my home network, but I do like the Western Digial NAS when it comes to Time Machine as they have the Time Machine max storage limit as a really easy option to use. So I’ve limited my Time Machine to be 2 of 8TB NAS
Where can I get that fancy little rack?
from Ubiquiti
Speaking of time capsules, we made fun of my friends' parents for using the word 'rad' to relate to us. This was 1989.
What's old is new again, baby!
@@snazzy Nostalgia ain't what it used to be 😄
It's an awesome unit, but you also need to figure in the upfront cost of replacing your NAS for something that might save you $50-$150 a year
what a high quality video. best review of the unas pro on yt.
Man I love his networking videos
Would love to see a 12 bay version of this. Get rid of the screen and move the network ports to the back.
After having a few Ubiquiti devices on my network, I really love their software. Everything's in view. There's no commands to remember. Can see why they're the go-to in home or small business networks.
Can you do a video on how to use a Mac mini to access the unas for plex?
Very nice video. :)
I'm running an unRAID NAS with a dozen Docker containers. Works lovely and I've got like 30 TB (26 HDD / 4 SSD; all under parity or mirrored ) of storage idling at 17 Watts or so. I could easily check a few boxes and add a Time Machine share, but Time Machine backups are so so so slow. Even to USB attached drives it never comes close to the speed of rsync, clone and what have you. 😕
I use a Synology 1821+, and you are correct. It is seriously over complicated for my purposes. That said, it does everything I need it to do.
I’ve had used all three Apple Airport Extremes, I loved how easy Apple made it to use and configure. I’m currently using the latest Airpot Extreme, the tower one, as a wireless AP/switch for a certain part of the house. Plan on moving over to all Ubiquiti equipment in the next few months.
As for NAS, while like the idea of the UNAS Pro from ubiquiti, I’m using hexOS on an old PC my father-in-law was no longer using.
I would order one immediately if you could allocate a specific size for Time Machine backups as my Synology NAS isn‘t very reliable and draws way too much power.
Active Backup for business is extremely reliable assuming you set it up properly. It will backup to whatever triggers you set.
I am a UI fan but my ancient synology 4 bay allows me to upload certain folders to individual OneDrive accounts. I have a family office 365 account with 6 x 1tb for each "user" and I can tell Synology to upload separate folders to separate accounts. I can have all 6 onedrive accounts active on my Synology, backing up different files. I have my music (cd collection) backed up, Artists (1tb) to "account a", compilations to "account b", work files to "account c" and photos to "account d". I can tell it to back up some of the same files to Googledrive, I just set up the routine, have the option to mirror or 2 way backup etc. The cloud backup on Synology is great, does everything I want. It's clear that the UI device isn't as flexible in that regard with regards to Cloud backup services.......
I love Ubiquiti, and I love Synology. I would buy one of these in a heartbeat if I could backup entire workstations, restore files to said work station remotely, or load the entire backup to an ISO and boot a new PC from it like I can with Synology. I’d also really like to see other cloud based options for backups besides google drive. If they add those features I’m in
Great review. Currently using Synology NAS. Just installed a Unifi network at my home, looking to upgrade to Unifi NAS when they back available. You made a comment about using an older MAC as server, how does that work?, would love for you to a video on this subject.
Apple really needs to bring back the concept... I would love to see a small travel router type device with a couple of m.2 slots inside with full time machine compatibility
I personally use an old desktop PC as a host running Proxmox which has a mix of VMs and containers on it including TrueNAS for media hosting
I’m just waiting on raid 6 to pull the trigger. That Time Machine fix too actually.
This sounds great, this is what I need. My home built file server just sucks too much power and so it remains turned off and unused.
I’d love to know if you can mix and match drive sizes (ability to upgrade capacity one drive at a time), if you can add SSD for cashing files and how many units you can link together into one pool?
Based on the current options of Raid 0, 1, 5 or 10 I'd say you can't mix and match drives yet unless they allow bays to be allocated to different pools. You should be able to upgrade the pool one drive at a time. SSD caching would be nice, the hardware is essentially the same as the NVR model they sell except its running NAS software. The NVR doesn't have any SSD caching options so I assume this doesn't either. NVR does have a 20 bacy expansion unit to go along with the 7 bay brain. I hope the 20 bay hardware will be ported over NAS use as well.
The moment they add backing up to Dropbox is when they'll have me hooked.
Very well explained, thank you for sharing 😊
I have a synology, working ok now.
But It would be good to have backup to USB drive.
Looks really interesting. I am looking into some NASs for my college film production club and this looks like it hits almost every box
Perfect. I’ve been trying to decide what to do to build my own, and this seems like it might be 1,000% less of a PITA.
Nice video Quinn! Question - Lets say I get a buddy to also get a Ubiquiti’s UNAS, would it easy for each of us to dedicated a portion of our storage to the other persons backups?
Somewhat related, I have been thinking about getting away from icloud for my iphones backups, I think you could make a follow up video showcasing what alternatives are available.
Cheers!
I still own and use two of those Time Capsules, both for Time Machine backups of various systems around the house. I turned off the WiFi feature more than a year ago, as we have TP-Link Mesh routers which run circle around the wireless provided by the old TimeCapsule. TimeCapsule... 15 years old and counting! I expect the drives in one or both devices will give up the ghost soon and I'll replace them with shared storage hosted by one or more of my Mac minis.
Crap, it's SOLD OUT!!! I was just about to purchase a QNAP 6-bay when I watched your video (great, as usual). I need to make a purchase before the end of the year for tax purposes. Damn, this looks great-I would likely get two. This would be for my home; I work from home and have four computers: two Macs, one Threadripper, and one PC laptop. I already have 10-gig switches and networking. I do like that the QNAP systems, depending on the model, have provisions for M.2 SSD media to help with throughput. My use cases, like most, will be mixed-general asset storage for 3D animation, backups for different computers, some media storage (Plex), and some video from Final Cut and After Effects. I love that it's running an ARM.
Also, when you showcased the BambuLab A1 (great printer), the desk you were using looked nice-I’m considering the Uplift v2 and really like the wood style of your desk. I’m interested to know the brand of the desk and what type of wood it is, if you don't mind.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family! 2025 will be such a great year for you since you're expecting.
Thanks also for the bluesky link - didn't think you would join but happy to be wrong.
What's the recommended drives for that NAS?
I’m really interested in getting one of these. I would love to see you try and edit video off it. When everything is initialized
Can you get two UNAS’s. One for file usage and one for Time Machine?