I would prefer RAID 5. Enough to handle family cloud storage in our home. Advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm a little overwhelmed with choices.

Hi have been looking at the DS224+ or the DS423+ as all i am currently interested in is to use it to store home family photos & video and being able to view on mobile.

Am i going in the right direction or would you suggest a diff model. the reason why i was looking at the celeron cpu was due to the integrated graphics to cover the AI aspect.

any advice would be apreciated thanks paul

Hi, and thanks!
Is a DS124 enough to support 2-3 2K cameras recording motion in Surveillance Station, and still have enough resources to act as file storage and Tailscale connection to home network for nightly offsite backups?

Or is that exceeding the DS124 resources?

Im interested in the newest software release 7.2?
and cheep cheep used ebay ?
would like basic Security cam - ip
basic apps
is there a list for 7.2 - hardware models

thank you

Any of you use Synology's IDrive package to back up your NAS? If so, a few questions:

1. How long does it usually take for an updated IDrive package version to show up in Synology after IDrive has released it? (e.g. IDrive released the latest version two weeks ago and it is not yet in Synology.)
   
2. Have you experienced the issue where you cannot get to the IDrive Backup screen? (the Backup tab on the left is highlighted but the area to the right still displays the previous screen I was on (e.g. Logs, Restore, Scheduler)
   
3. Jobs and logs created one day are missing the next.  It's like things got reset from one day to the next.  I had deleted the default backup set and it has reappeared.  
   

Paralysis through analysis: Asustor Flashstor 6 FS67 vs CWWK i3-N305.
Flashtor: Intel Celeron N5105 Quadcore; 6 x M.2 x 1 NVMe PCIe 3.0 drives; 2 x 2.5G lan; turnkey setup; w/ software; Est price w/ 3 x 2TB drives ~ $800
CWWK: Intel i3-N305 8 E-Core; 1 x M.2 x 4 NVMe PCIe 4.0? accepts expansion card to 4 x M.2 x 1 NVMe drives; 4 x 2.5G lan; roll-your-own setup w/ unraid; No software; Est price w/ 3 x 2TB drives ~ $650

Information on PCIe version of CWWK - may be incorrect. Would like NAS to be able to run MS SQL Server Express in Docker container, but that may be wishfull thinking with either choice.

I would like some feedback on software upgrades. I presently own an old Netgear Nas that I can no longer use because Flash player end of life was 2020 and I have not been able to find anything that will allow me to use it. I also owned two different Lenovo Nas that because of software I also can no longer use.

What is the life expectancy of software updates on the Synology DS220+. It seems that for what I will be using it which mostly photo storage and management for family use, this product seems to fit me best but I do not want to end up with another brick that I can no longer use because of lack of software upgrade ability.

Thank you in advance, looking forward to your response so that I can make a final decision.

Thanks again and have a wonderful day.

Roberto

I current have a Synology DS211+ (MARVELL Kirkwood 88F6282
1.6 GHz/512MB/DSM 6.2.4-25556 Update 7) ~10 years old

Nothing wrong, but I would like to proactively replace it.

Mainly used for streaming videos (non-transcoded) on my home LAN to either Infuse on my AppleTV or Kodi on my Firestick. Mainly 1080 but a few 4K creeping in now, which can cause a bit of buffering.

Also used for backing up my docs/photos, although I've only just realised that I could backup my whole Google workspace, which I think would be a step forward. These in turn are backed up to Synology C2 (but not the videos).

I might like to add some surveillance to supplement/replace my Arlo system. Maybe 4-5 cameras max.

Guessing there's no point in SSD's - I currently have a mirrored pair of 2TB HDD's and would probably go for a pair of 4TB, although if I do some housekeeping on my videos I could use my existing HDD's for a year or two.

Thanks, Peter

Hi!

My team and I are looking for a portable NAS storage system. We want to be able to transfer footage from cameras to one system that ~4 editors can edit from at the same time.

Ideally, this system would be small enough to bring with us on shoots.

Let me know if you have any recommendations.

Thanks!

Dear NASCompares

Thank you for your great work to the NAS community. I have recently came across your channel and they are all but excellent content on NAS.

My use cases are as follow:
1. Back up two iPhone backup data (256GB x2)
2. Back up with remote access to ever growing photo library for my kids (1TB atm, growing ~50GB per year)
3. Store and remove access to kids media including story sound tracks, pictures, videos (3TB atm, growing ~ 200GB per year)

Interested in DS923+ because of the new CPU and I don't plan on setting up a Plex (unless necessary to play back those kids videos/sound tracks/images via hardware transcoding?). I am interested to explore Dockers/VMs but I spent hours looking at some use cases and at this point, just don't feel I have a real need for this.

I'd prefer 4-bay for future upgradeability but looking at my storage growth, I might as well buy 2-bay now and a different model in the next upgrade cycle.

Advice would be appreciated. Thanks!