Hello,

I've been watching a lot of your videos which have been very helpful learning all about NAS. I am looking to install a NAS at home to act as a media server, as file storage & have the capability to include video surveillance down the line. I feel the Synology Ecosystem is my preferred option.

My biggest uncertainty is for running Plex/Jellyfin. I don't have 4K movies stored (& I'm unlikely to do this in the near future), only DVD/Blu Ray files with at best H.264 Codec for the latter. Therefore, I thin max res I have stored is 1080p. Do I need to worry about the lack of integrated graphics on the DS923+? Looking at the DS423+, the lack of RAM and expandability worries me.
Looking at your videos of the DS423+ & DS923+running plex, I'm guessing theDS923+ will run just fine however I'm looking for an opinion before committing to anything & hoping you can help?

Thanks in advance & for all of your online content,
Yannick

Need a NAS with the following capabilites

1. Supports a fair number of User Share with and without permissions.
2. Can act as a Cloud Storage for IOS and Android (mostly for pictures taken and actively moved to Cloud) as well as for PC's outside my home network.
3. Will support USB drives attached
4. Will support a USB printer so it can be shared across multiple PC (low priority)

Note: I am currently using a Cable Modem connected to COX as my ISP.

I'm looking to upgrade my DS416 Play that has (4) 4 TB drives to future proof for the next 3-5+ years and to add in another 8-10TB's of content I have on USB external drives.

This will be shared via Plex on AppleTV's (or native Plex on some TVs) in my house and while traveling via ipad, AppleTV etc.

I'm debating 1522+ vs 1621+ and would plan on upgrading the RAM and adding in the 10g Network Card to which ever I decide to go with.


What do you recommend?

Robbie, KUDOs for your fabulous series of YouTube vids. These are an entire education series onto itself. By way of these, you have educated me about QNAP and (despite their cock-up twice) appear to be a comprehensive hardware solution for a "wank" the likes of me. I am keen to shop 453e per your own videos!

Important question needing one more confirmation... IF I don't plug the unit into my router and run it as an archive ONLY terminal... (with kvm attached) my risk from outside ransomware is NULL. Did I get this correctly?

Thanks in advance for your reply. Thanks ever so much for your channel and especially HOW you deliver this very complex content to novices!!!!!

Cheers!
ed in the USA

I have just ordered a QNAP TS-664 and I already have 5 WD Red Pro 8TB drives and I am out of money. I plan to set the 5 drives up in the NAS in RAID-5. In a while when I can purchase a sixth drive and install it can the NAS convert from RAID-5 to RAID-6 on the fly without loosing any data?

Thanks,
Gary

Newly venturing into NAS territory for 4-member family, allowing our growth with look at our current device list and my newbie thoughts below. After review of 2022/2023 best picks article, I find myself a little on the fence about which I should choose and why. I'm open to any feedback/suggestion with my main newbie question being: Do NAS box systems price WITH hard drives for storage, or must the drives be purchased individually?
Devices (all pc, unless stated otherwise): One family desktop PC, 3 laptops, 2 iPad tablets, Ps5, Nintendo Switch, 2 iPhones (in another few years, will have need to support 4 mobile phones).

Thoughts on NAS storage structure: 6-Bay NAS, filled solely by SSDs broken down as follows:
1 Master (largest capacity drive - for receiving backups from the other 5). This drive would then back up to Cloud Storage.
1 Security cam/system (planned future install)
1 Misc. saves (word, excel, scans, etc..)
1 Music files
1 Familty photo/video
1 General computer backup

I have a 2 bay ds220+ with 6gb of ram and it is constantly running at 54% ram usage.

What could I upgrade to that would be faster than a 220+?

I host a couple of websites from my NAS and run 4 dockers constantly as well as Plex

Many thanks for your help

Jon

I am totally new to the NAS world...  If you have answers / advise please let me know...

My wife and I have two homes. One in Washington state, the other in Oregon.

I travel between homes with my laptop.

Is it possible to set up a NAS at the Oregon house and backup to it real time while my laptop (and I) are at the other house?

Can I hookup the NAS to the internet and backup to it from anywhere?

Lastly can I access the NAS from my laptop/PC and my wife backup her MAC as well?

Any answers will be greatly appreciated!

I have 2 questions:
1. Should I defrag HDDs on my NAS? They are on btrfs. If yes, how often? I read that I should delete all snapshots before defrag and recreate them afterwards. What is the most efficient way to recreate snapshots? How to handle immutable snapshots if I have any?

2. My current array: 3x ST16000NT001 on SHR. I have only 1 empty bay. Planning to add another ST16000NT001, but the model is out-of-stock. Closest alternative is ST18000NT001. So, if I opt for 2x 18TB (so I won't waste the 1.8TB), I need to remove a 16TB. Would it be wasteful to use that 16TB drive as an external backup destination for my NAS?

Thanks.

Currently, I have 3 units of Seagate Ironwolf Pro (ST16000NT001) in a SHR Storage Pool on DS1522+.

Can I add an Exos X18 (ST16000NM000J) to that same storage pool to increase storage capacity?

My research indicates there's potential issue due to the 512e/4kn format.

Can you also explain more on 512e/4kn?