Hey Mate,

been loving your thoughts on the Orico CF1000 - wondering what your thoughts are in comparison to something like the DS918+ that I'm already running, in particular in relation to Plex, which we're heavy users of.

How do you go about installing Plex on the Orico? Is it a Linux shell that you install via, or would the use case to install it with Docker? The OS Orico are using is a bit of a black box to me at this stage, vs Synology with their modified Linux implementation.

Bang for buck, it's definitely there compared to other Intel-based systems with that drive capacity, and I'm IT savvy (not terribly afraid of Docker), but the family acceptance factor is highly desirable.

Cheers,

Andrew

Hi! I have followed your reviews of the WTR Max from Aoostar with great interest. Seems to be a good fit for my needs. However, Aoostar seem to never have it in stock, only occassionally offering pre-sales of certain configurations. I am curious why this may be the case. Sales tactics? Lack of parts?

Hi Gents! I have a Synology DS212J (2012) and doing rsync/hyper backup jobs to a QNAP TS-231 (2015). Running an SHR volume in the DS212J with two 3TB drives. QNAP, been running each disk as separate volumes, each receiving a Hyperbackup rsync weekly, and then a multi-version backup as well nightly. I keep the TS-241 in other location in house and pop out one of the drives to keep off site and rotate them periodically. Mostly family photos/videos, family documents like financial/medical. I have also been considering cloud backup for an easier off-site backup. Synology C2 might be the easiest thing and cost about the same as Backblaze for 2TB storage, with backups approaching 2.5TB. 1 drive failed on QNAP, and 1 drive getting read errors now in Synology, seems like time to consider upgrade, to take advantage of snapshot replication/ransomware protection. Looking at ds923/5+ ds423/5+. Would like to backup kids PCs as get to college, iphone photo backup, and do Synology photos. Thoughts?

I am seeking advice on the best upgrades for my Synology DS918+. My primary use is hosting 30-40+ containers, and the current bottleneck is RAM. I do not use Surveillance Station or Plex on this NAS>
I have concerns about RAM upgrades causing data corruption due to the CPU limitations of this model. I am also open to considering M.2 upgrades if they would be beneficial for my container-heavy workload.
What are the most reliable RAM and M.2 upgrades for the DS918+ to improve performance for containerization without risking data integrity? Or should I get a new NAS/Hardware instead of pushing DS918+ to the limit?

Hi. What’s the recommended specs for a single shared folder with mainly movies. I currently have a truenas box and infuse in an Apple TV to watch but I’m looking to reduce to a smaller nas box. Any suggestions regarding the brand and the specs for each

Hello,
I currently have a Raid5 in my PC, its been running on 5x 6TB WDC WD80EFZX-68UW8N0 drives.

I finally hit the storage wall and without too much research, bought an additional 3x 6x TB drives WDC WD80EFPX-68C4ZN0 drives.

Only to discover, my Motherboard has 8 Sata ports, but only 6 can support the Raid. Furthermore, I attempted to just add 1 of the new drives, only to be told by the Intel RST software that the volume cannot be extended because the number of clusters will exceed the maximum number of clusters support by the file system.

So i now have a delemar as you can imagine. At this stage I am thinking of backing up the data, and then re-building the raid into a NAS, but my concern is the Qnap TS-873A is somewhat 4+ years old now, and at $2.3k australian, seems a bit rough. Really hope you can provide some guidance on what the best ladder is to climb out of this mess. Further more the retail i bought the 3x HDD, has a terrible returns policy so now I'm stuck with them (1k

What's the need for software to run on the NAS unit?
IOW what software is there on the synogology that I would want to run on Ugreen?

Unit is there as a Dropbox replacement
So, live backup and sync. For Android, Windows Desktop and MacBook
And version history for files from Windows and MacOS
I use Goodsync currently on Windows

Hello
I have a Synology DS 224+, with two 8TB HDDs installed. Most of the data I have is not critical, so rather than mirror the whole disc as with Raid 1, which would halve my storage capacity, I would like to just mirror my important files. Is this possible?
Thank you in advance
Graham Milner

Good evening,

I love watching your videos, and I bought a ds920+ based off your recommendations and videos on them. It has been fantastic for a few years, now I am looking to upgrade and build a much larger storage device. However I also want to build a gaming pc, so my hope is to build an all in one.

This is a link to a build I made on Newegg I just don't know if there would be any issues with it.

https://newegg.io/ce23daa8

I've seen some of your videos saying how certain CPUs are better for servers. To make this I basically googled best gaming components added those, searched best tower pc cases for nas build, and looked up cards needed for 10gbe and sata cards.

Any input would best fantastic.

Hi, great video and article, here is my issue.
I have a PC and Mac connected at 10Gpbs to a qnap NAS, all jumbo frame enable, and using speed test by openspeedTest, I get the 10Gbps speed no issue.
Now, with the mac, I can get about 800MB/sec write and 1101 read which is not too bad, even if it would be nice to have a bit more write performances
With the PC, I only get about 500MB/sec write and 900 read, clearly there is a bottleneck on the Windows 11 PC somewhere, do you have any idea how to optimze it? I did use the recommended cmds in
power shell
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal

Set-NetAdapterRss -Name "10GbE Adapter Name" -Enabled $true

netsh int tcp set global rss=enabled
netsh int tcp set global ecncapability=disabled
netsh int tcp set global chimney=enabled

The last one does not work by the way, but it really did not change anything...
Thank you