[Annoucement] QNAP x WD Special Giveaway | World Backup Day 2025 ─ Share Your Backup Story and Win the Prize! (Closed)

[Gwen]

【 Winner Announcement 】

Thank you so much to everyone who joined our World Backup Day giveaway campaign!
Every submission was read with care by our team, and we were truly inspired by how you all use QNAP products to protect your data in so many different ways. After much discussion, we’re excited to announce the three winning entries:

QNAP myQNAPcloud Storage 10TB One-year Subscription
@dan.ipcam.home - “…If a digital newbie like me could turn chaos into order with QNAP, you can too. And when you least expect it, your NAS will save your… backup!”

WD Red® Pro 3.5” HDD 26TB
@Renald - “…I go a bit beyond the 3-2-1 backup strategy, but at least I can host multiple people in my circle while ensuring reliable backups through direct and scheduled synchronizations.”

QNAP QNA-UC10G1T USB 4 Type-C to 10GBASE-T RJ45 Network Adapter
@Goldie - “…You never know what is round the corner & I have always backed up weekly and snapshotted on every backup as an extra. It makes sense your data is your life, look after it.”

The winning stories highlight diverse approaches to data protection—from beginner-friendly solutions to advanced, reliable backup systems. They offer real-world experiences that are both relatable and actionable, emphasizing the importance of comprehensive backup strategies to safeguard our digital lives.

Congratulations to all the winners!

We will contact the winners via their QID-linked email address shortly to arrange prize delivery. Kindly be sure to check your inbox and respond within 7 days of receiving the email to claim your prize!

Once again, thank you for sharing your stories with us. We hope this campaign sparked new ideas for smarter, safer backup practices, and created some meaningful conversations about how we can all do better with data protection.

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Did you know that 78% of people say they back up their data, but only 33% do it regularly? Whether it’s important work files, treasured photos, or critical business data, having a reliable backup strategy is essential.

This World Backup Day, QNAP and WD invite you to share your backup habits or experiences with us! Tell us how you protect your data, and you could win some exciting prizes from QNAP and WD!

How to Join the Fun
To enter, simply follow the steps below. This giveaway is open to participants worldwide!

1. Log in to the QNAP Community with your QID (QNAP Account).
2. Reply on this post and tell us about your backup story with any QNAP products or solutions you’re using.
   For example, whether it’s protecting family photos or critical work documents, tell us how QNAP solutions have made a difference for you. Ever needed quick access to files when you least expected it? Let us know how QNAP helped you out!

• Keep it at least 100 words — so we can truly appreciate your story!
• English is preferred, but you’re welcome to comment in other languages!

Prizes for 3 Lucky Winners

QNAP will pick the best 3 responses and send special gifts your way!

• Gold: QNAP myQNAPcloud Storage 10TB One-year Subscription
• Silver: WD Red® Pro 3.5” HDD 26TB (worth $569.99)
• Bronze: QNAP QNA-UC10G1T – USB 4 Type-C to 10GBASE-T RJ45 Network Adapter

Event Dates:

Now through April 6, 2025, 23:59 UTC

Winners will be announced on April 14 via this post. (The actual announcement time may vary depending on the number of participants.)

Whether you’re a backup pro or just starting to organize your data, this is your chance to share and learn from the QNAP Community. Let’s keep our data safe and secure!

Terms and Conditions

• Winners will be selected based on originality, relevance, and overall quality of their posts. All decisions made by QNAP regarding winner selection are final and cannot be contested.
• Entries must be the participant’s original work and must not contain any offensive, inappropriate, or plagiarized content. QNAP reserves the right to disqualify entries that violate these rules.
• Please note that due to logistical restrictions, we may not be able to ship prizes to certain countries or regions: Russian, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Belarus, Cuba, certain regions of Ukraine. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
• Entries must be submitted no later than April 6, 2025, 23:59 UTC. Late or incomplete entries will be disqualified and will not be reviewed.
• Winners will be contacted via the email associated with their QID. Winners must provide accurate information, including their full name, delivery address, and any additional details required for prize fulfillment.
• If a winner does not respond to the email within seven (7) days, the prize will be forfeited.
• Each participant may win a maximum of one prize. The use of multiple or alternative accounts will result in disqualification.
• QNAP and WD are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or damaged prizes once they have been shipped. QNAP and WD are not liable for delays caused by the courier, customs processing, or other logistical issues beyond our control. If the prize is undeliverable due to incorrect information provided by the winner, the prize will be forfeited.
• Prizes are non-transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash or other alternatives.
• QNAP and WD will cover standard shipping costs, but winners are responsible for any applicable taxes, customs duties, or import fees.
• QNAP reserves the right to modify, suspend, or cancel the event, including its content, duration, and details, at any time without prior notice. QNAP is not liable for any disruptions, technical issues, or unforeseen circumstances affecting the event. Participants are responsible for regularly checking official announcements for the latest updates.
• By entering this promotion, winners agree that QNAP and WD may use their name, photo, entry content, and prize details for marketing and promotional purposes worldwide, in any media, without compensation or additional consent.
• Participation in this post signifies acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.

[tuttlebob]

I have been working with 4 QNAP NAS drives, two each 433, one 233, and one 133. I had been using a Drobo NAS drive, but the company went out of business. One of 433s is being used by a company with multiple employees and volunteers. The other 3 NAS drives are being used by my company. The 133 is being used as an external access drive for military veteran videos. So far I am very pleased with these products and have recommended them to a number of companies and friends that need to store large amounts of data but want local control.

[Woodchuck]

I started with WD personal home cloud 4 years ago and now TS-216G configured RAID-1 to backup 3 PC’s weekly.

[grouillier]

I use my QNAP NAS in a home environment to back up PCs on my LAN. My primary NAS is a TS-253A, and backup is TS-230. I actually bought the TS-230 first, but grew frustrated with its slow speed, so then purchased the TS-253A.

I backup my LAN computers to the TS-253A, then do a partial backup (due to smaller storage space) to the TS-230A. For extra security of my crucial documents (financial records, etc.), I snagged the free 100 GB offer for MyQNAPCloud, and I then sync the TS-253A to MyQNAPCloud for those crucial documents.

This arrangement has been working well for me for several years. I originally set up an old computer with Linux for backups, but when that died, I switched to QNAP so I would have less to maintain. I greatly appreciate the work the QNAP team does to make these solutions easy to use.

[TechX]

I license mid eighties music and have had to do deep cleaning of audio tracks where the master no longer exists and we have to create a master from a record or cassette. It can take a hell of a long time and requires consistent backup. I thought I had that all covered until the internal drive I was using died and took with it hundreds of hours of work. I changed to an external drive but with 3 years that hard drive died. It was at that point I knew I had to get my back up act in shape, I got a QNAP TS453D & shortly after expanded that by adding a TR-004U. I also backup to a new external drive the cloud. My demands for space keep growing as I add more and more digital files to my archives. I deal quite exytensively with Bandcamp and am now over 6200 releases purchased.

With the addition of my NAS setup I feel much more comfortable about the security of my back up process, Especially as all music backs occur at eaither 3 or 4 hour intervals.

I also use my NAS to drive the music to my streamer. This way I have access to all of the music I have digitized.

[barryknowd]

I have a two bay QNAP NAS used for Plex server to Sonos and TV media, I also have a couple of cameras that I store video on via the QVR Pro software. My most recent interest has been using Container Station to run Home Assistant and HACS, I found getting HACS installed difficult each time I upgrade HA.
I have two NVME drives running on a PCIE card alongside an 2Tb SSD Drive and a 8 TB Hard Drive in the bays. I back up My Media and Data to the NAS and an external 8 TB hard Drive and key data to a couple of OneDrive accounts
The most interesting / fun thing recently has been using QuMagie to organise and store photographs as I am currently archiving Family photographs

[Glyptothek]

My backup starts used my QNAP TS-464 as the main backup with NetBak PC backup for my desktop, mini desktop and 4 laptops running a mix of Windows 10 and 11. Further backup as part of 321 Strategy is backing up my Google Photos through MARS on my QNAP TS-464. Additionally, I use Hybrid BackUp Centre to remotely back up Dropbox and Google Drive (for thos Android Phone Google Backups) . My final is backing up Google Photos and Dropbox onto my WD G-Drive with Thunderbolt 3 via my newest laptop with USB 4 port. After backing up onto this drive weekly, I store this drive offsite. Mt Dropbox account syncs accross all my PCS, Laptops and android Phones

[Gray]

A while back, I digitized my grandparents’ wedding photos to make sure they were preserved. I stored them on my computer, thinking that was enough. Until my hard drive failed out of nowhere. My backup drive was also corrupted, and for a moment, I thought I had lost everything.

Luckily, I had set up a QNAP NAS a few months earlier for general file storage. I wasn’t even thinking about backups at the time, but when I checked, all the wedding photos were safely stored. That experience was a wake-up call. Since then, I’ve set up a RAID configuration on my QNAP NAS to protect against drive failures. Now, even if a drive fails, my data stays safe.

QNAP has become my go-to for backups, and I feel way more confident knowing my important files are secure. Lesson learned, always have redundancy!

[SeanC]

Ts653d configured with 6 4tb toshiba drives give me almost 24 tb of space. I manage 12 workstations on two wired networks all access the nas, all are backed up to the nas. Simply put, i can image any drive on any machine and place the image in a retiring folder always keeping three images of that drive.Yes its complicated but it is possible and once setup almost ( and i emphasize almost) automatic.
By nature i do not trust automatic backup schemes, but I’d have to say Qnap/QTS/TS653D/ has been the closet I’ve come to " not thinking about backup"…jeez, did i just say that? Yep, yep i did.
Thanks
Sean

[MikeSpragg]

I’ve been using QNAP for years - both in business as a reseller and for home use. I love the varied options QNAP provides but, ultimately, their reliability and configurations options. At work I use 2xQNAP TVS-EC880 as a master/slave backup unit - also using Nakivo as a native QNAP app and also to provide NFS filestores for ESXi and Proxmox. At home I have a TS-886h which stores my own PC backups but also provides the media sharing for high-res music and video. I’ve also sold various units from low-end 2-bay up to 16-bay to other businesses. They are perfect, quiet in operation and the UI is consistent throughout and the units are just so versatile for business and consumer operation. Love them !! I should also mention that I’ve upgraded several to use 10Gbps fibre cards and, again, they just work well with no major issues !

[omar]

I just bought my Qnap 3 days ago.I never own a server is my very first time.
The OS is increadeble and the apps are too.
In 3 days a was able to backup my pc , cellphone , and install Plex and Jellyfin.
All that in a few days , all because the software (OS) is too easy to use and understand.

[SpyderZ]

Two years ago I got frustrated managing multiple external drives and made the investment into a QNAP TS-h973ax and consolidated all my data. I was able to backup all my Apples computers using Time Machine to the NAS. Recently, I ran into a problem where I had to restore a desktop after a failed upgrade. It went very smooth, everything was restored perfectly. The 10Gbe connection made the process extremely quick so I could get back to my work. I’m truly satisfied with purchasing this NAS and can’t wait for 4GB SSDs to plummet in price to upgrade to full NAND.

[bmg]

Back in 2019, my first and only QNAP NAS came in the form of TS 453B. Starting from tinkering with the device by upgrading the RAM to 16GB, to using it for docker containers and windows servers with RDP, I started doing many tinkering.
Then at some point, upgraded to 4x 8TB HDDs and installed a 10GB connection with failover (pet project during COVID). Since then I am using the device both as a NAS and as a docker server for small home projects.
It has been 6 years now, and I am hopefully looking for a newer device, a bit faster than my old trusted TS453B, to upgrade it.
I am participating with the hope of at least HDD upgrade
I wish best of luck tp us all!

[Wilbur]

Nothing worse than a hard drive that fails that has hours and hours of your hard work on it. It can be a couple of letters, spreadsheets, power point slides that you pen for someone, cd’s & home movies that you ripped or tens of thousands of photos that were cataloged just right. I currently have 3 QNAP NAS’s (TS-453D,TS-231P and TS-231 this one being offsite) and backup daily, weekly and monthly because I don’t want to loose anything again.

Backups is only one of the many things that I use my QNAP for, Surveillance Station, Music Station, QuMagie, Video Station with Multimedia Console, my QNAPcloud.

Having over 100,000 pictures at my fingertips, I can access them on my phone, iPad or other computer and can share them instantly making memories for all. People are amazed that I can pull up pictures from years ago and share with them. I tell them it seems like everyone takes pictures on their phone and eventually deletes them or ends up buying more cloud space.

With my music library I can stream my music (in the car or throughout the house) without paying for a service that is expensive and tells me what I might like.

[Kasun]

i installed QNAP TS-1887XU-RP at my former workplace. i migrated 20+ physical servers to the VMware & i used QNAP HDP-HyperData protector as for VMware virtual machine backup. dedup - compression perfoming well & my maximum single virtual machine capacity was 2TB. as well as i used HBS application feature services such as SMB/CIFS/ FTP for some Backup/Sync tasks. in HBS i used active sync with versioning & i used some cloud sync features also. since 2024 January it’s still running 24/7 with QuTS 5. i used Scheduled basis QNAP snapshot service against of ransomware encryption, for version level recovery. apart from system features it’ hardware design is amazing. it’s a hybrid storage which allows to install SSDs within the chassi without any extra expansions.

[ADAMICO]

My experience with QNAP products has been incredible, especially when it comes to protecting my important data. I have been using a QNAP TS-332x for a few years now, mainly to back up my family photos and work documents. I have thousands of photos that are very valuable to me, as well as various documents and spreadsheets. Although I know that with QNAP I can set up automatic and secure backups, both locally and in the cloud, using Hybrid Backup Sync, I don’t think I use even 5% of what is possible, because I am a beginner and I don’t have cheap support in my country to learn how to use it. This is the first NAS system I have built. I had never heard of QNAP; my reference was Seagate. However, QNAP has become my reference for when I can have more professional equipment. It really fascinated me and won me over with the number of functions that are available.
I have complete peace of mind, knowing that my files are always protected.
In addition, I have needed to access important work files while I was traveling. With the Qfile app on my phone, I was able to quickly access the documents I needed directly from my NAS, without having to carry an external hard drive or rely on public cloud services. It was super practical and efficient!
QNAP really made a difference in my life, both in protecting my data and in making it easier to access it when I needed it most.
I highly recommend it!"

[WarriorOfIce]

I´m using a old QNAP for my business office with no problem on many years but last month shut off many times, my heart is running fast when shut off.
I think it´s time for a change to a new Qnap NAS.