As nice as the photo station is inside of the QNAP, sometimes you just want to do your own thing with your photos and videos. But what if they are organized into albums on the QNAP? Couldn’t you just pull down the photos/videos in the album? Or, better, get local paths on your QNAP network…

The last few years of using my QNAPs have been great. QNAP isn’t perfect but it is a good, quiet, Linux-ish platform for serving up files. Since some of my family are buying their own, I thought I would document some of the settings I commonly change: General: I force HTTPS (its silly and unsecure…

WARNING: This is risky. Just assume that you would only try this if you were ok losing your data. When I got my first QNAP almost two years ago it didn’t support storage pools (or if it did I was oblivious). One of the advantage of storage pools is that they enable QNAPs snapshot replica…