Can I access my library of Photos of a NAS (QNAP) safely?

I have 650 GB of photos stored on my iMac which is clearly take too much space and slow down my machine (I also have a libraryMy great iTunes I)

My pictures are saved on iCloud photo library.

I just bought a NAS of QNAP TS251 and would like to move my library of photos to the NAS. My questions are:

  1. Simply by moving the photo library will work? The drive QNAP NAS should be formatted in a special way (HFS +)? I have to open a sparse image/sparsebundle on the NAS to move the photo library to?
  2. The synchronization of the iCloud library will still work?

Thank you!

1 - iCloud is not a backup - you need a local backup

2 - photo library can be on a drive as Mac OS extended (journaled) is connected via a fast wired connection FireWire, Thunderbolt or USB, and which is not used as a unit of backup Time Machine - so far, I have not seen a NAS that responds to this

LN

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