I bought the TS-364 4G for $272. QNAP Their software is lacking, but I am satisfied with the price and hardware performance. I bought 16X2 = 32G of ECC memory from Amazon for $42 and installed it.
There is another way, in fact the simplest one. IPV6. You just need to enable IPV6 in your Router, configure the NAS with a routerble IPV6 address, and the connection is direct from a IPV6 address outside yours local network to an IPV6 address ( your NAS ) inside yours local network. You still need to configure the IPV6 firewall to allow this connection yes, but is much more simple than IPV4, no port forward or NAT needed. Unfortunately most people don't have a clue what IPV6 is, but is in fact the simplest way to do exactly this.
@@yensteel Just remember, there is more IPV6 addresses than atoms on Earth, in top of that the same firewall rules apply like IPV4, yeah this thing of scanning the internet for IP address to hack is a IPV4 thing, not feasible on IPV6, yes can be done, but just became 1000x more difficult to do.
@@quantum5661 Only on a few models and I believe that you only get a warning that goes away after a while. They do have a compatibility list but I've never a problem putting Seagate and WD drives in mine. I'm sure there are plenty of others that work just fine.
Great overview and details of the various choices!
I bought the TS-364 4G for $272. QNAP Their software is lacking, but I am satisfied with the price and hardware performance. I bought 16X2 = 32G of ECC memory from Amazon for $42 and installed it.
There is another way, in fact the simplest one. IPV6. You just need to enable IPV6 in your Router, configure the NAS with a routerble IPV6 address, and the connection is direct from a IPV6 address outside yours local network to an IPV6 address ( your NAS ) inside yours local network. You still need to configure the IPV6 firewall to allow this connection yes, but is much more simple than IPV4, no port forward or NAT needed. Unfortunately most people don't have a clue what IPV6 is, but is in fact the simplest way to do exactly this.
Are ipv6 sweeps a thing now? I am hesitant to open ports. If it's for ssh, it's only with port knocking.
@@yensteel Just remember, there is more IPV6 addresses than atoms on Earth, in top of that the same firewall rules apply like IPV4, yeah this thing of scanning the internet for IP address to hack is a IPV4 thing, not feasible on IPV6, yes can be done, but just became 1000x more difficult to do.
@@pbrigham nice.
Can you please fix the series playlist? It's all jumbled up
Which is better in terms of price, performance, features and software: Synology or QNAP?
Synology. I made the QNAP mistake of
doesnt Synology require specific hard drives to work?
They're close in terms of quality. Price for features is good on qnap. They have the f*ing 2.5gbps Ethernet
@@quantum5661 the biggest downside of QNAP is their ecosystem. It’s antiquated and buggy. I ditched the OS and now run unraid
@@quantum5661 Only on a few models and I believe that you only get a warning that goes away after a while. They do have a compatibility list but I've never a problem putting Seagate and WD drives in mine. I'm sure there are plenty of others that work just fine.