Preface For the analysis of general users' needs for NAS, please refer to my another article (Tips and Tricks Series: A Brief Discussion on How to Choose the Most Suitable NAS for You), I won't go into details here. The main target of this article of mine is people who have a large demand for NAS storage space, including but not limited to: those with a hobby of collecting...

Preface: In recent years, the concept of NAS has been more and more widely accepted by everyone. There are many brands of NAS, and the prices of different models vary greatly. I believe everyone is also quite hesitant when choosing. Therefore, this article of mine is mainly based on my experience as a heavy NAS user (having bought 8 NAS devices...

For Synology and QNAP, under normal circumstances, if you want to achieve the ideal state where accessing data on a specific hard drive only makes that hard drive work while other unrelated hard drives remain in hibernation, it is not possible by default. This is because, by default, both products use RAID 1 technology to write critical system data simultaneously...