Hi there,

I'd love advice on what you guys recommend for home storage alternatives to ICloud and Google drive. I have been doing lots of research about NAS options. The most I've done tech wise is build a basic gaming PC myself. To be honest, I am tech newbie so I got easily overwhelmed on the forums with all the tech options and many acronyms. My main use for this will be personal data and photo storage. Essentially, going to use it as a e-photo album for all family photos/video for years to come. Would love any direction on the massive world of NAS.
Cheers,

Thank you for all you do.
The latest NASs from China offer good value. However, if you
note the EULA and TERMS for many NASs from Chine, e.g., UGREEN:
https://nas.ugreen.com/pages/useragreement
The EULA stipulates specific use of the NAS in section 4.3.
It would be interesting if you reviewed the EULAs and TERMS of USE for NASs for popular NASs. People might be nervous about travel to foreign countries given that I've no idea what resides on a NAS that I own which may violate these terms.

I am a part-time professional photographer with 2 decades of photos and video stored on a Drobo. Time to upgrade but I'm overwhelmed by the options. This will primarily be for local backup in a RAID configuration combined with cloud storage as a second backup.

Your website offers advice and assistance. I appreciate the offer. I could use some about the best system to buy. I've been considering the DiskStation 423+ but your article about the 1GbE ports instead of 2.5 or 10 and the older Celeron processor spooked me.

What do you think would be best?

Do you happen to have a video involving the above subj line? I am having trouble matching up the Front Panel wiring and the HD Audio connector. The Jonsbo front panel manual shows 9 wires, but it only came with 4 wires in the 10 pin connector. The B760 only has 8 pins in the motherboard, although it shows a 10 pin connector in their manual.

I do not believe that I will be able to use the HD Audio connection since I do not see anything even close to the pin configuration. Since it is probably only for headphones, I won't need it anyway.

Hello Team,
Looking for my first NAS to keep all my data, backup pc, android, iPhone and two way sync with pCloud (I understand it is not natively support). Also to keep and edit RAW file as hobbyist photographer. Start with one 4TB and add another 4TB at later time for redundancy.

Thanks,
Stanley

Hi Rob,

I’m currently using a Synology DS214play with 4TB SHR (ext4) mainly for backing up family photos and videos. We love the Synology Photos app but it’s become slow and sluggish on this older model.

I’m considering upgrading and would appreciate your advice on a few points:

For our needs—regular photo/video backup with no business or remote work use—should I go for a 2-bay or 4-bay NAS? I want something fast and future-proof but not overkill.

Regarding file systems, should I stick with ext4 or switch to Btrfs? Does Btrfs offer real benefits for home users focused on photos and videos?

If I switch to Btrfs, how do I migrate data from my ext4 drives? I assume hot-swapping isn’t possible.

Docker use (for Adguard DNS and n8n) is optional but a nice bonus.

Thanks for your expert advice!

Hey guys,

Love your channel, you guys seem to both know the industry and also are passionate about it.

I'll cut right to it: I'm working on pre production on a project centered around interviews with people about technology and finding a way through the confusion of modern life.

I feel like basically self hosted FOSS services are the best way for regular people to respond to corporations ruining their services, but I'm open to being proven wrong.

Would love to chat with you guys on or off the record about the industry and where you see things going regarding stuff like home servers, mini PCs, VPNs & Tailscale, whatever.


I'm not sure of the proper etiquette for this situation, just getting started at this. I do apologize if I'm making a horses ass of myself.

Yours from the lost land of America,

Patrick Simonds

Start off. Really learning from the YouTube vids.

Just waiting form my DS923+ to arrive at the door but I’m still waffling on harddrives Synology or Ironwolf or ironwolf pro. Your advice needed.

And a big thanks.
Scotty B.

I want to edit 4K 10 Bit RAW video footages without any interruption. I've selected QNAP TVS-h874T but it's providing my only 160 TB and I Need 250 TB. Recently I've seen Orico CyberData Series but heard the name Orico for the first time. So I am getting confused to choose best NAS for my video editing. We are maximum 4 Editors that will work at the same time. but over video files getting too much high in size. So it's very tough to change hard drives while editing. So please help with this. Thank You!

Heyo,

Love the videos and all your on NAS info.

I've been using a DS918+ since launch, it's been great with one of my major uses being Synology Photos.

MAIN Q:
Do you have any insight on comparable NAS OSs in regards to photo management?

The latest Ubiquiti NAS was interesting, but lacks such program.

I only ask as I'm looking to upgrade to a rackmount system and debating sticking with Synology or not.

Thanks for all you do!

- Dan