Hi. Read your article regarding unofficial memory upgrades. Just got my RS1221RP+ a couple days ago but yep, only 4gb of memory installed. I'm interested to know how the gear will react if I installed the two 32gb Kingston memory modules. I have never exceeded the listed capacity of a piece of equipment and being able to do this would be a real plus. My son is putting together a AI system that requires a large amount of memory & being able to allocate half of the 64gb of memory into a vm for him would be ideal. I am by no means a hardware expert but seems installing non-ecc memory would defeat the internal process programmed into this NAS but, if it is still a good option as indicated by at least one persons comments then I'm willing to go at it as well. Let me know if you would please.

There seems to be a workaround now so you can use non-Synology brand HDDs. Take a look at this video: https://odysee.com/@Carey:0/Synology-Unlock:f

Which is better of ts 464 and ts 464eu

How do you preserve file creation dates when copying files between a Synology and Mac?

Dear @NASCompares . Since you have done such elaborate reviews of the FS6812x Gen 2, I have gone and bought the 12 bay model. However, to my big dismay, I cannot seem to be able to attach to my TB PC using the USB4 ports. Asustor seems to say on reddit that this kind of connection is not (yet) supported. May I kindly ask how you have managed to get that working please? Also, my 10G network is in great shape (which is to say that I get 10Gb speeds between my other devices) but the top speed I am getting from the 10G connections to this unit is around a weakish 600MB/s. Even when I set up a 4 disk Raid0 just to make sure that there are no bandwidth limitations re the SSDs. Any ideas how this can happen? Your tests seem to indicate that higher speeds are totally possible. PS: I am using Gen 4x4 4TB SSD drives from Samsung and WD. On internet. If you can enlighten me I'd be really grateful. Thanks.

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

Complete NAS newb here. And would love some help! 

I've been trolling through product reviews and tech spec's for days and cannot make a deicison. 

I'm a home studio audio engineer who previously had a Macbook Pro with 8TB storage, and since purchased a Mac Studio with 2TB - so figured I would invest in a NAS. I also use PLEX at home, so would like something which can store media and playback from my living room TV via PLEX App.

Bonus points if I can use this as file sharing with my band members, so I can get away from using GoogleDrive, Dropbox and OneDrive. 

Here's what I think my requirements are:


- Loudness: Whether I am putting this thing in my Music Studio or Living Room (TV), I am extremely concious amibient sound. This is probably my biggest consideration. 
- Storage: I haven't got into whether I want to put the NAS in a Raid5 config yet, so as a start I'd need at least 2x2-4TB SSD. I've read a lot of reviews about M.2 being a lot better than 2.5 SSD in terms of read/write speeds. 
- Cost: I'm happy paying between $1k-$2.5k AUD, but would prefer that to include the cost of the NAS + drives. 
- PLEX: Being able to save media directly to the NAS, and play from my living room TV in 4K streaming. 
- External Connectivity: Able to share files with people outside of my home network, but locking it down to user by user access to specific folders on specific drives.  

I had shortlisted the following devices, but they all had their pros/cons which stopped me from purchasing:

- QNAP TS-410e: This was what I almost purchased based on reviews from Music creators, but three things stopped me - #1 the longevity of something which doesn't have a fan, #2 the network speed (2.5GbE), and #3 you're restricted to use 2.5" SSD and not M.2 SSD. 
- QNAP TS-i410x: My reasoning for reviewing this was that I thought it was the same as the 410e but allowed for a faster network speed than the 410e (e.g. 10GbE vs. 2.5GbE), but after reading the tech spec it doesn't seem to boast the same "noise-sensitive environments" use case, and instead more towards industrial use. 
- QNAP BS-h574TX: At first glance this SHOULD be my choice, although the cost (i3) was more than I wanted to spend. But I watched videos of someone in a Podcast studio and the Fan noise when pushed to higher limits seemed to me to be a lot. But I'm unsure if the fan % would actually get that high in general use. If the sound was too much I would need to home it in my living room, but then I lose the benefit of the Thunderbolt Network connection direct to my Mac Studio. 
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Hi there, hope you can help. I have 2x 873AeU NAS. 35TB data. Snapsync is working great keeping the two NAS units sync'd with each other. I want to have a daily incremental backup that is sent offsite to Backblaze B2 or similar. I have hit a wall with everything I have tried (too many things to list). Preferably the offsite backup will be in some sort of immutable format like Macrium Reflect would achieve (Macrium Reflect backup from ZFS shared file is way too slow). Has anyone got any suggestions on how I can achieve a daily off-site incremental backup? Cheers

Looking to replace an aging home built NAS with something more power efficient.

Current server specs:
Supermicro X9DRL-7F mobo
Dual Xeon CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz
32 GiB DDR3 Multi-bit ECC RAM
1 TB SSD cache drive
8x 10TB WD HDDs (shucked drives) with 2 used for parity, and 6 for storage (60TB)

UnRaid OS
Dockers:
- Sonarr/Radarr/Readarr/SAB+
- Plex
- Roon
- Immich
- Hoarder/Karakeep
- calibre

Looking to replace existing server before it starts to fail.

New build constraints:
UnRaid OS
Intel CPU
40 TB storage minimum
Enough 'oomf' to run the dockers listed above

I'm OK to put together a system, but would prefer purchasing something 'off the shelf'.

Hoping to migrate all media to new server, and use old server for backup only.

I'm in Canada, so need to be able to source parts here.

Thanks for your advice!

Hello
I would like to buy a Synology NAS for 4k plex streaming require multiple streams at the same time, file sharing, and Data Storage. I was looking at DS1621xs+ but I think that has been discontinue.
Any other advice would be appreciated.Thank you for your time.