I have a Synology DS1621xs NAS with 6 x 12TB drives as a RAID 5 volume and have just reached 80% capacity so am looking to expand the storage without removing all drives at once and having to reinstall everything.

If I were to buy 6 x 18TB Ironwolf drives then would replacing one drive at a time and letting the system rebuild each time be the ‘easiest’ way to do this? I realise I’d be vulnerable to a drive failure and losing all my data during the rebuild. Is there a better way? I’m hesitant to remove all the drives and swap them for higher capacity drives all in one go as last time I did this it mucked up Plex.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

I'm considering the DS224+ and adding Crucial 4GB RAM CT4G4SFS8266.
For UPS, I'm considering CyberPower CP850AVRLCD.
Is this a good combination? Any alternatives or suggestions?

Hi, I have just ordered my parts to do the £250 build Jonsbo N2. Great guide btw. Next im looking at drives and going to use unraid.

Currently, I have a 16tb and 12tb drive with data on them, and want to get that data onto the NAS when it's complete.

How many additional drives do I need to get to make this work? Assuming I cannot put the drives in as they are and keep the data on them.

Will I need to buy 2 16TB drives, 1 data 1 safety, get the data from one of the drives copied across via USB to the data drive, then add that drive, and then the same again for the second drive?

Thank you

Tim Briggs

Seeking to purchase my first NAS.
It will be used for:
Photos (100K uncompressed HUGE files), with AI object/face recognition;
Video (100s, mostly 1080); and
Audio (100K files: flac, wav and mp3) - remote access with 'Alexa' would be nice

My work includes photography, video and audio production; media storage. and remote access.

Desired specs:
Integrated Graphics
Ease of use
Fast connectivity
Future proof

I plan to migrate my (many) portable SSD drives onto the NAS you recommend.

Open to spending more now, (and do it right)

I'm looking to buy ds1522+ during Amazon prime day. But wanted to know if can mix ssd and hdd in the box. I want to use ssd for photo editing and hdd for storage. Can ds1522+ handle this or should I be looking at something else?

Hi,
i have tried to look on your youtube channel and on the website but i cant see you saying about this:
WD Red Pro HDD vs WD Black HDD in a NAS
whats best? are they the same? does it matter?
i have seen your videos explaining the colours of WD but not how they differ in the NAS.

Thanks

Hi NAS Compares,

Long-time lurker on the site here who is hoping to make a purchase soon and wanted to pop the question.

Looking around I have found that synology seems to be reasonably well received - although every single unit has pros and cons.

In a nutshell, what I need for my purposes ideally, is a device that will:

Be a two-bay NAS device

Host 2 x 10TB drives - the drives I keep seeing reviewed positively are WD Red devices but i am open to suggestion on this

Connect to a LAN and run on Windows 10 or 11 PCs

Run plex (well) over a LAN to an LG television

Run plex (well) over WiFi to two additional devices

Provide storage for digital documents

Not need a bespoke software solution just to copy files over the network to and from the PC - that is, the device/drive should show up in Windows Explorer and allow cut, copy and paste functionality

The very rough budget is around £750.

I'm certain that I may have missed points here, but many thanks in advance for any advice.

Good day,

I hope you can help me.

I am looking into setting up some services at home.
1. Data Backup and Sharing
- Mainly Media
- Phones and PCs
- Home and Away
2. Plex or JellyFin
- To be able to stream backup media on all devices
- I guess I can write a transcoder to make sure that there will be no transcode on demand.
3. Would like to use docker and spin up VM
- this could be setup on a mini PC I guess.
- learning
- Discord bots
- Home automation

I have been watching lots of your videos and reading your blogs and seem to come to these three NAS setups.

QNAP TS-464-8G
- Worried about security

Synology 4-Bay DiskStation DS923+
- 1GBe will need a adapter for 2.5GBe
- No GPU for transcoding

ASUSTOR Lockerstor 4 Gen 2 AS6704T
- Software

Apart from choosing the NAS itself trying to see what HDD/SSD/nvmes i need to buy and in what configuration confuses me.

Thanks for your time.

Kind Regards
Malcolm

Hello, I currently have a RS1221+ and was following your upgrade guide. I was wondering if you know what the max supported RAM speed and quantity is for that system?

I was looking into either 32GB or 64GB of this ram: https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct2k32g4sfd832a

Would prefer PC4-3200 RAM if possible.

I'm looking to buy the Synology DS224+. I will attach it (wired) to the back of my (wifi)router. I will add my desktop pc (Windows) via LAN. But can I also add the two laptops in the house to the NAS via wifi? The wifi will (ofcourse) be provided by the one and only router we have. The same one the NAS would be wired to.
Searching google has learned me nothing so far. Thanks in advance for your time and trouble.