I’ve been running a small business for many years, and data security has always been my top priority. About three years ago, I started using a QNAP NAS TS-453D-4G to back up critical documents, project files, and especially irreplaceable photos and videos from family events. One weekend, while traveling abroad, an urgent request came in from a client needing immediate access to important project documents. Thankfully, my QNAP NAS enabled me to quickly retrieve the files remotely, saving the project timeline and strengthening client trust. The reliability, speed, and intuitive interface of QNAP have significantly simplified my workflow. Knowing that my most valuable data is safe, accessible, and always ready has given me peace of mind both professionally and personally.
I use QNAP for the protection of all my data.
I appreciated the good quality at work and thought, it would be a good idea, to use it for my private stuff too.
My son is a photographer and has a lot of photos to store.
Sorry for my bad grammar, English is not my native language.
I do not have a technical background but have absolutely loved my QNAP(s). I’ve made a giant media library…so big, that I ran out of room on my first QNAP (RAID 5). Consequently, I got a second QNAP (RAID 6) device with more storage capacity and now use the first QNAP as a JBOD back-up for the second. I leave the first QNAP offsite at a family member’s house which they can also independently access. One fun thing was while traveling, we were watching a movie stored on my QNAP only to find that the movie was filmed in the exact location where we were staying! My kids were thrilled.
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Hey dear QNAP community,
I started small with a TS-228, which served me well over the past few years — but eventually, it became too limited for my needs, and there were features I began craving…
After putting — as always — way too much thought into choosing the right model with the right budget and the right features (QuTS Hero! <3), I finally landed on a TS-473A. I initially equipped it with an 18TB disk, planning to add a second one later. A quick search suggested this kind of expansion would go smoothly.
Unfortunately, that information turned out to be wrong. 
So, I had to get creative.
I set up a JBOD Storage Space on my HomeLab’s Windows Server 2025, presented it as an iSCSI target, mapped it to my QNAP, mounted it to the local filesystem, and fired up a backup via HBS3. The process took a few days (thanks to my humble 1Gbit network), but it ran reliably.
After that, I performed a consistency check (just the first level of paranoia — didn’t go full deep scan ), broke a sweat before deleting the old storage pool, broke a bigger sweat after deleting it… and then began restoring the data back onto my QNAP.
Currently, the restore is underway.
Beautiful. Happy Backup Day! <3
PS: you see I could really use a big HDD additionally to run the backups locally and sparing the Network all that Backup work or something to speed up that Network Process! 
My QNAP TS-473A is my primary backup solution. Each machine on my home network runs a script nightly to copy all new or changed user files to the NAS. Then, the NAS makes two backup copies of these files – HBS3 copies files to an external HDD and another copy is sent to Backblaze. I began this aggressive backup strategy after losing the only copy of my son’s wedding photos to a hard drive failure. I vowed to never lose another file! Now I can rest assured that my data is safe!
For years, my family photos were scattered across multiple devices—old laptops, external hard drives, and cloud services with limited storage. Finding a specific memory was frustrating, and I constantly worried about losing irreplaceable pictures.
That’s when I discovered QNAP NAS (model D4). Setting up my QNAP was surprisingly easy, and with its massive storage capacity, I consolidated all my family photos in one secure place. The automatic backup features ensured that new memories were instantly saved, and with QuMagie I could easily create albums and share them with family members.
The QNAP mobile app became a game-changer, allowing me to access photos anytime, anywhere. Now, I no longer worry about losing precious moments, and my entire family enjoys a seamless, organized archive of our shared memories. QNAP truly transformed the way I preserve and relive our history.
I used to use an HDD on my computer. I have been using Qnap for several years and it has given me new possibilities and copies in RAID1. Now I want to buy a second 4-disk Qnap and use the old one for backup.
“It’ll be on the Y drive”. That was the refrain from my three young adults, in chorus, complete with a twinkle in their eyes. The Y drive is mapped to a share for each user, a backup of their stuff from their laptop, auto-upload of photos from their phone, and where scanned documents go automatically from the networked printer / scanner. Everyone tolerates dad’s technology oddities, and then as soon as they need it, the Y drive is the greatest super hero of all. So when my youngest noted he had “lost his report”, the chorus resounded.
QNAP TS451+, external 6TB via USB, TS231 media server.
Thanks QNAP.
Little by little I convinced my family of the value of their data. From losing pictures when the phone broke, to important projects when the computer got corrupted.
I have been using my QNAP TS453 Pro for backups and it is configured as a raid 5. I currently backup my laptop and PC on a daily incremental backup and Once a week do a full backup on the weekends. Once a month a copy of the backups will be copied to an external drive.
I got my first QNAP 14 years ago, a TS-219p+
It was a great machine, but as I got a new HP server, I sold the QNAP. But 8 years ago, I returned to QNAP by getting a TS-873, a true beast! 
I have a small TS-230 at my parents home which acts as a remote backup of the most important files on my main NAS.
I swear to QNAP now, and even got my old employer to buy one for their server-room
Before entering the QNAP universe, I used to back up my data using the classic method—on HDDs. I had a NAS from a lesser-known brand that I used as a personal multimedia server, but I constantly encountered various issues with its applications, especially when trying to use it for its original purpose.
When I decided to transition through the “portal” into the QNAP ecosystem, I made this choice because of a key positive aspect QNAP offers: balance in what it provides. A mature software ecosystem running on quality hardware.
After choosing my first QNAP NAS (TS-230) as an affordable solution for a home media system and some minor data backups, I decided to take a more advanced and long-term step by purchasing a QNAP TS-464. This model offers extremely advanced capabilities in terms of backup, media center functions, and more.
The applications within the QNAP ecosystem are perfect for eliminating the need for external HDDs for direct backups. Now, this approach is more of a secondary technical and usage rationale. Plus, QMAGIE is incredibly useful for creating a personal cloud for photos and videos.
If I ever feel like playing Victor Frankenstein, I can create a virtual system that allows me to use the NAS as a mini-PC capable of handling almost anything.
Moreover, the fact that AMIZ Cloud Agent can be used to manage certain remote functions is a valuable advantage when handling multiple QNAP devices. A single NAS can be easily managed through the Qmanager app, but managing multiple units becomes a hassle—something that AMIZ helps to eliminate.
With the TS-464 upgraded to 16GB RAM, two SSDs for storage, and two SSDs for Qtier (which boosts speed for frequently accessed areas defined by the user), this is an extremely interesting platform for home users. I highly recommend it! Additionally, seeing that QNAP is continuously expanding its software ecosystem rather than stagnating is a huge positive. They are actively competing for NAS market supremacy, without being stuck in a rigid, outdated mindset. 
Preserving lost media. That’s why I invested into the QNAP ecosystem. I expanded the original NASbook with the TR-004 expansion bay and a couple 20tb HDDs. I’m still in shock about one of my 20tb harddrives failing recently. About 600 tv shows lost, and maybe 300 unsold pilot episodes of shows that never got picked up. A lot of them are considered lost media, ie Boston Public, Popular. Oftentimes tv shows don’t get a physical or streaming release because of music rights issues, completely erasing them from history. I want to help preserve those shows. I’m currently running Disk Drill hoping to recover some stuff off that HDD. I’ve supplimented my original NASbook to the TBS-h574TX last week. Ordered a WD Black 8tb M.2 SSD off WD’s amazon page to get a started on a second backup option. I was sent a 128gb M.2 stick; infuriated. I’m patiently waiting to get refunded while filled with rage feeling like I’m being scammed. Sorry WD, you’ve made my World Backup Day the worst day of the year thus far. I spent six hundred bucks for you to send me a 128gb stick. Seriously?
NAS서버는 오래전부터 여러가지 제품을 써 왔지만 안정성이 보장된 제품은 많지 않았습니다. AS가 안되기도 했고
버그 패치가 이뤄지지 않았으며 html5로 바뀐이후 업데이트가 되어야 하는데 그렇질 못했습니다.
QNAP의 경우 TS-21P부터 사용해보았으며 주력으로는 TS-259Pro를 사용하다가 최근에는 TVS-472XT까지도
경험이 있습니다. 472XT의 경우 썬더볼트를 지원하여 새로운 경험을 할수 있었습니다. Qfile 어플리케이션으로
인터넷만 되면 언제든지 스마트폰으로 내가 필요한 파일을 불러와서 메일로 보낼수 있다는게 상당한 메리트가
있습니다. 특히 최근 나온 제품은 16GB이상 메모리를 탑재시 중복제거 기능도 가능하여 용량낭비를 줄일수 있으며
백업 방법이 여러가지로 다양한것도 타사대비 훌륭하다고 보입니다. 스마트폰의 내장 메모리 용량부족도 QNAP NAS로
해결할수 있습니다.
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NAS servers have been used for a long time, but there were not many products that guaranteed stability. AS was not available,
and bug patches were not made, and updates should have been made after the change to html5, but they were not.
In the case of QNAP, I have used it since TS-21P, and as a main, I used TS-259Pro, and recently, I have even experienced TVS-472XT. In the case of 472XT, I was able to have a new experience because it supports Thunderbolt. With the Qfile application,
I can load the files I need on my smartphone and send them by email at any time as long as I have the Internet, which is a significant merit. In particular, recently released products have a deduplication function when equipped with more than 16GB of memory, which reduces capacity waste, and
the various backup methods seem to be excellent compared to other companies. You can also solve the lack of built-in memory capacity of your smartphone with QNAP NAS.
I was on a birthday trip to California last year with my best friend, driving through Yosemite National Park from Los Angeles up to San Francisco. Every day, I was transferring the photos from my camera to my laptop, thinking that they’d be safer there than on the camera in case of an SD card failure. What I hadn’t anticipated was the theft of the laptop right at the end of that drive while we were in Oakland. Someone smashed the back window of the car and took my laptop, which was hidden under a suitcase that was also taken. I was devastated because all of the photos I’d spent so much time taking were gone forever.
I now have my laptop set up to synchronise my laptop’s downloads folder, as well as the DCIM folders of my phone, to my QNAP TS-453D remotely, so any photos I transfer to my laptop for ‘safe keeping’ are also transmitted to my NAS at home. From there, they are synchronised to a cloud storage solution thanks to HybridMount and Qsync.
My photos are my memories and I love taking them, editing them, and showing them off to my friends. The silver prize would increase my storage capacity greatly and allow me to continue doing what I love without worry.
Don’t laugh, but this is as much a story about true love as it is anything else. My wife has been making moves with her management firm, she’s been working from a master sheet since forever and has data everywhere so when she asked me how to turn it all into a database… and a front end… and get analytics, and portals, and backups, and storage, and management tools, and employee resources for remote workers, and a share drive, and help getting it all organized - of course I rolled my sleeves up, because even though it’s just her right now, that all changes soon, and she wants to be ready.
After figuring out all the storage requirements and understanding compliance requirements I decided that what was needed was a 1277afx to get things going, but the need for a dbms and hot data, and another array for the OS and apps, and then another array for warm data and analytics and backups, and did I mention she’s basically running this firm by herself right now?
Well, I’ve almost pulled the trigger on that 1277afx a couple times now, but I needed a couple gen4 pcie cards to come with it for the additional nvme m.2 slots, and of course it’d need a bump in ram. So now I’m seeing the quote and thinking, why don’t I just get her the 1290fx.
And that’s pretty much how I came to be here for this story. And this is just the beginning, and yeah of course I know I can build my own server or buy one but that’s not what I want to do because as we scale these services I’ll migrate the dbms and hot data to the cloud and portals will go too but I’ll continue to need this NAS and as things go from data injections through Google Workspace to a ticketing system and field operations through mobile apps I’m still going to need this NAS to ensure her data is always accessible for an executive view of operations, and I need any front end it’s feeding to be snappy.
So while we may be a small business, we have critical and demanding needs for data and backups. And did I mention cold storage?, that need is coming quick.
I still remember the day when I was in a school. I needed an additional drive. Seagate was so popular in my country, I never heard about Western Digital.
WD came (or heard) for the first in my reaserch. I went through bunch of magazines to read about WD drives and benchmark for the drivers. Then, I ended up purchasing silver external drive with blue glow button. I never looked back, WD has always been my first preference for all digital storage needs ever since. I will be using this drive for my AI workflows and automation
I have a QNAP TVS-872XT with 8x8Tb Ultrastars in Raid 10. That backups to a remote QNAP TS-431X with 4x10Tb Ironwolf raid 5. So far I haven’t needed to recover anything from failure. But late last year whilst my daughter was on a holiday to the Gold Coast in Australia, she had taken her phone on a special snorkelling experience with turtles. She had taken a lot of photos and videos of her adventure. However when back at the hotel that evening, she was taking photos from the balcony when she dropped her phone. Lucky for her I have setup Qfile to backup all her photos and videos. The phone was destroyed, but thanks to QNAP her memories are not.
Been using QNAP NAS for ages starting with 1 bay and moves to 2 bays and currently using a 4-bay TS-471. The NAS is my hub for sharing data and backing up all of the computers, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and more. I have always said that data is the most important thing than any hardware and I cannot image living without my trusty NAS.
Once i was called in to assist a post-production studio after a storage failure wiped out crucial film footage. I deployed QNAP’s RAID-protected NAS system, ensuring automatic backups of raw footage, audio files, and project renders. Using Boxafe 2.0, I restored critical files that had been previously backed up from the team’s Microsoft 365 workspace, saving months of work!