can i use this product with multiple NAS drives? I have a huge DVD collection 2000+ disc's I want to rip and access, plus 2+ terabits of audio.
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Hi,You can certainly have multiple NASs and folders with separate jukeboxes for each hierarchy of folders. However if your question is whether you can join all of those into a single jukebox, I heard people talking about that being supported but I have never tried it. I haven't tried its audio capabilities.I general I would like to emphasize again how easy, automated and powerful the A-400 is. The time I spend maintaining my movie collection went down to near 0 and the quality of browsing is far better than anything I even had and I have had over 10 media players so far including dedicated windows machines. I probably have about 800 movies. Hi,You can certainly have multiple NASs and folders with separate jukeboxes for each hierarchy of folders. However if your question is whether you can join all of those into a single jukebox, I heard people talking about that being supported but I have never tried it. I haven't tried its audio capabilities.I general I would like to emphasize again how easy, automated and powerful the A-400 is. The time I spend maintaining my movie collection went down to near 0 and the quality of browsing is far better than anything I even had and I have had over 10 media players so far... » Read More Hi,You can certainly have multiple NASs and folders with separate jukeboxes for each hierarchy of folders. However if your question is whether you can join all of those into a single jukebox, I heard people talking about that being supported but I have never tried it. I haven't tried its audio capabilities.I general I would like to emphasize again how easy, automated and powerful the A-400 is. The time I spend maintaining my movie collection went down to near 0 and the quality of browsing is far better than anything I even had and I have had over 10 media players so far including dedicated windows machines. I probably have about 800 movies. « Show Less
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Hello SingSally59... Yep you can.. I use it with DVD.iso and Directory streucture DVD Rips of my collection and they work just fine.. you can even access the menu structures also...
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Yes, you can map as many network drives as you like and have access to each one separately. If you want to use the media juke box it will have a separate juke box per network share unless you use the NMJToolbox software on a desktop to make the juke box show media from multiple shares.
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You can but I believe there's some advanced configuration involved. I recommend visiting the networkmediatank forums if you're interested in an A-400. But if you really want me to be honest with you, the best advice I can give you is to skip the A-400 altogether and get a mede8er MED1000X3D instead. It blows te A-400 out of the water in every way.
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Yes. It can handle many nas. The more files you have the router out its to search for them.
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Yes. It will allow a single drive. When you add the second one, hopefully identical in size, you can choose to add it as more capacity or as a RAID. If a RAID, then the DS will create a second copy of the first and significantly increased the system reliability.
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It requests a wd red nas drive if the hard drives you have are nas drives I dont see why they wouldn't work the two disks do not need to match in size
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You may have found your answer already. I' answer anyway. Yes, Synology Hybrid Raid option allows for different sized disks and upgrading one drive at a time. The volume capacity is based on the smallest disk installed but SHR will let you use the excess as separate storage. SHR allows expansion by adding larger discs.
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Assuming you have the letters available for the drives and each drive is powered, you could but the transfer speed will be horrible. I don't think I've pushed harder than 5 drives hooked up
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You can start with one drive and add drives as needed. Of course if you don't use at least 2 drives you can't RAID them. The NAS will pick an appropriate RAID configuration automatically, but you can override it if you like. You can even mix disk sizes but that is not the best solution. You should use SATA 6 drives. As you add new drives the system recognizes them and reconfigures your system.
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I don't think so. Unless you could figure out a way to network a USB device but at that point you're better off buying a product meant to be a NAS. FYI, my unit failed after 1 month. Don't buy this product.
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It's not listed as compatible, your best bet is to use a drive listed as compatible from the NAS category of drives, purpose built for use in a NAS.
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it can handle as many TB as you'd like but it's better to use the data than the USB. also very careful when you take out the drives. it's very fragile. hope this helps. cheers
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There is space for only 2 HDD's in this unit. If both slots are used, then you would need to add larger drives. If you have (2) 1TB drives mirrored and needed more space, you could remove one 1TB drive, add a 4TB drive, rebuild the mirror, then removed the second 1TB drive and add a second 4TB drive then rebuild. This would keep the data online while you upgrade. After the HDD swapping and rebuilding, the new 6TB of space (3TB from each disk) could be made into another volume (mirrored or striped). Adding drive by the USB port is good for backing up your data to an external device, but I haven't tried to use a USB attached device to share data as it it's part of the NAS unit.
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I have 2 units In 2 locations. One is used with a WD Mycloud 6tb drive. The other with a 4tb Seagate cloud drive. I copy to them and back them up us a NAS. I stream from them using the built in DLNA server. They work great for me.
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I have 8 3TB WD-Red Sata drives in my QNAP NAS and store 500+ movies as VOB files and also converted to MP4...I have roughly 18 TB of space and it is around half full. The VOB files play on computers with PowerDVD, while I can use DNLA to watch the MP4's which I send to my PS3 and HDMI to my TV. Yes, you can do it, it's how you do it that counts. My smart TV's don't play MP4's or VOB's by themselves. Media Player will also stream video, but I don't use it.
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I'm afraid so. One drive will work; I'm using two. Even for a "newbie" it's pretty easy to set up, and they're very good about answering questions.
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I do exactly this with a Synology NAS. There are a few caveats with the library but I can watch or listen to my library on 2 Apple TVs and audio with some Airport Expresses. Should work the same with this.
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I would think that you could not do this with the device by itself. Since it copies sector to sector, even if you have less than 250GB on the source drive, some sectors near the end may be used. You could, however, use the USB3 connector to attach both drives and copy files from one drive to the other. Not as fast, but doable. HTH, Jeff
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I've used it for 9 DVD-Roms\Blueray drives just fine. You will have slowdown if they're all running at once, but I never had them drop like with other hubs.
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All NAS manufacturers recommend a list of hard drives to be used with their NAS. But I have been using hard drives from WD only but different models. I am using on my own risk and you certainly need to do it on your own too.I use exclusively for audio and video in my network (no documents or backup). Green drives with 5400 is OK for me to stream 15GB HD movies.