Hi, I'm looking to replace my synology nasses. I was intreged by one of your articles saying that there are nasses without OS. You name a few there. I'm looking for the best of them (and nothing less of it). Since I already have my hdd's, I want to go that route, 4 bays or higher, 2 ethernet ports (prefer 2.5 Gbps). Also, it needs to be able to have truenas, unraid and pve. Video and therefore transcoding, music and files need to be functions, and it needs to be able to get to it from the internet as well as local. What would you recommend?

Hi, Robbie, Eddie
Studio simultaneous editing 4K video... QNAP TVS-H1288X-W1250-16G is the system we have in mind. Do you still recommend it, after 3 years? Thinking about 5-6 WD Gold 18T disks in RAID 5 or 6 (?) and 4 WD Red SA500 NAS SSD. (1 or 2 TB?) Does the Qnap come with NVME installed or needed to buy separately? Do you recommend RAM upgrade? We obviously want to maximise storage but have security as well (hence RAID6)
Feel free to shuffle!
Thank you very much!
Akos

I currently have a Synology DS412+ that I use as a Plex media server both locally and remotely. I would like a new NAS that I can use as a Plex server, store photos that can be accessed remotely and as an iCloud replacement for storing documents and data. I am happy to wait for newer models if something suitable is on the horizon. I would like a NAS that has good support for MacOS and IOS. Thx

Hello, I have a quick question about the Terramaster D8 hybrid, I know slots 1/2 are used separately with their own raid function, but if set as separate disks could you control all the hard drives even SSDs in a software raid or does slots 1 and 2 specifically need to be separate from the other hard drives even in a software raid? Thanks.

Looking for advice, I have a UDM pro but I’m not using the camera section of it, I also have this synology DS 923+

I only need to add 1 cameras as my nvr is already full.

I want a 4k cam with color night vision. I saw a reolink is compatible with survalance station, or should I just go with the ubiquiti G5?

Or is there anything else better you would recommend

Hi, I have a Synology DS920+ NAS and have been searching for how best to approach backing up iPhones to it, fairly unsuccessfully (getting the message that there is not enough room on my phone to backup to iCloud, and suggesting I pay Apple for more storage - a pain when there's loads of room on my Synology NAS....). The ideal use case would be to carry out the iPhone backup direct to the Synology NAS either via wifi or USB and bypass iCloud entirely.... realise that may not be possible else that would be the first thing that pops up in a google search.
Any advise greatly appreciated as to what is possible to automate....

Is Media Server likely to survive future updates, given Synology's new strategy as of DSM 7.2.2?

Thanks!

Hello. I just bought the DS423+ as my first NAS. What are tips tricks and essential phone apps that I need? Any help is appreciated. I have set it up based on YouTube video from NASCompares

So, essentially smart phone backup (address book, calendar) and offloading a sh!t load of pictures and videos that my wife produces in no time! Some sort of RAID and maybe if possible that takes different sizes of HDDs so I don't have to buy all of them at once to upgrade it. No plans for video streaming or gaming. Read-only mostly and 1-time writing - she doesn't want to part with ANY of her pictures. Don't know much about NAS, but would think 50/50 between drives and the rest in terms of cost.

Currently running a Lenovo Windows Server 2012 R2, with dual internal RAID boot drives, an internal 8TB SATA Storage Space with 3 drives for media/PC backups, and two external eSATA JBOD enclosures with 4 and 3 drives respectively in a 14TB Storage Pool for overall backup. Primary use case is for Plex/Sonarr/Radarr and the like, as well as multi-PC backup. 2012 R2 is EOL, and I'm trying to figure out how to update the platform to something supported and secure. Do not need Windows Server, it's just what I had and what worked back in the day (Essentials role). I've looked at TrueNAS, UnRAID, Docker, Jonsbo, UGreen, Synology, and I think I can convert the Storage Pools and install something on the server to get what I need, but I've been out of the game too long to know the best path forward. I used to be a UNIX systems admin back when it was still called that, and I've played with RPi, but Linux frustrates me compared to Windows. I would really appreciate your thoughts.