For a long time I had resisted converting my DVD and Blu-Ray disks into any other format because I didn’t want to lose any quality. I had lived by this rule for a long time, and thankfully companies like QNAP and Thecus came to my storage rescue. However, the day has come where the cost of storing all the extra garbage that comes along with these movies has opened my eyes to benefits conversions. With that, I have began converting my movie collection to a format that allows me to lose all the excess fat, but keep my movie loss-less. Read More…
QNAP has limited the amount of resources dedicated to their NAS lineup when rebuilding a RAID array or performing rsync backups. The decision here was to limit the amount of impact these types of processes have on your system in order to maintain an acceptable level of responsiveness. This is very considerate of QNAP, however, I prefer a bit more control over my system and would like these processes to complete faster; well-knowing I will be sacrificing system responsiveness.
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