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Hello,
I find your videos to be very helpful but I still have a question.

I was planning to get a DS920+ running RAID 6 for picture and video storage (just family, nothing professional) and then an NVR1218 to add some cameras around my house. I went to order the NVR1218 and it's discontinued. I was attracted to this model because of the HDMI port and the camera licenses that are included.

Would a DS1520+ be a reasonable substitute? I'm thinking 4 drives used as a NAS and the 5th used as an NVR. Is this dumb? Is there a better solution? Is there anything I should know about mixing NAS and NVR drives? I thought about QNAP but I'd rather just learn one system and since I'm new at this I thought Synology was a little more user friendly.

Thanks

NVR1218 is not discontinued. Its HDMI port can be used to connect a screen to monitors camera feeds in a direct way. You can not use this port for movies or anything else.There is no other difference between other NAS models like DS920+. You can access the surveillance system via Ethernet instead and have the same functionality.It is good to go for the dual LAN model. You can have a separate disk or separate RAID which is connected via its own LAN. So all these recordings do not slow down bandwidth toa NAS and do not slow down the main disks. Celeron based NAS is also a very good choice for multimedia.I hope this helps.