Moving from DS220+ to DS1522+. Situation: DS220 has 2 x 12TB drives mirrored. I have one 12TB drive for the 1522+. Want to end up with all three 12TB drives in the DS1522+

If I want to migrate from DS220+ to DS1522+ what would be the easiest way to do that?

My thought would be to setup on the DS1522+ with the single 12TB drive. Use Synology migration assistant to move my files from DS220+ to the DS1522+ and then add the two drives from the DS220+ to the DS1522+ and expand the storage pool to create a Synology Hybrid RAID environment. Is that possible?

After thorough research, I've chosen the DS1522+ for my home NAS setup, planning to use 4 x ST20000NT001 - 20TB Ironwolf Pro HDDs and later adding a fifth 10TB drive for security cameras. To boost performance, I aim to include 2 x M.2 Gen 4 drives for caching, yet finding suitable RAM for a 32GB upgrade poses a challenge. I'm open to using your affiliate link for the RAM or M.2 Kit if you have any suggestions.

My primary concern is drive compatibility, as Synology's list doesn't confirm support for the 20TB Ironwolf drives. Could you verify this based on your testing?

Identifying any major concerns with my plan would be appreciated. Note: Noise isn't an issue, and the device will be UPS-powered.

Hi good morning

I bought 18tb EXOS ST 18000NMO00J, my purpose of buying it is for backing up my files.

Moving forward to make the long story short
This is the 2nd unit i recieved 1st 1 is damaged.

Every time i initialize the format its error.
It pop up like this

Erasing "ST18000N M000J Media" (disk4) and creating "Untitled"
Unmounting disk
Creating the partition map
Couldn't open device. : (-69877)

Operation failed..

I tried everything that is available format for other options but everything pop up same thing.

For info: ( ive tried it already 2 units)
* windows os (laptop)
* mac os (laptop)
We dont have desktop to try it.

Hope to hear from your team
Thank you.

I want to either build or buy my first NAS. I want it to be good for mastering video and sound projects as my business relies heavily on these two services. I provide videography services to businesses and musicians and I am also making online video courses.

I would like the system to be redundant and a good backup solution for all my data. I currently have 12TB of data floating around on multiple drives. So I definitely want to use something like RAID 5 or RAID 6.

I feel like 24TB is a good amount for future proofing , but I would like the option to expand.

And I would like the highest specs as far as processing, video RAM, and RAM. A mixture of HDD and SSD would be nice, but if not, I would prioritize speed.

I use DaVinci Resolve and I would like to host my own project server on the NAS.

I’ve built a PC before and I’m decently tech savvy. I wouldn’t mind spending the time to learn all about it because the knowledge will be valuable as I choose solutions in the future. Thanks!

do you have a review of the various 1st party photo programs offered as in the end this is what will sway me between Qnap and Synology

Hi - Love your site and I find your videos to be very educational.

I had a DS418play that fried on me and need to upgrade. My primary uses are for home and I run Synology surveillence station and streaming Plex. Mainly to set top boxes and smart TVs that allow for the Plex app install.

I'm looking at the
- DS224+ (I like this because of the integrated GPU)
- or -
- DS923+ because of the future proofing but unfortunately lack of integrated GPU.

I'm having a hard time deciding because I like the idea of having server side processing (DS224+) for my movies because my streaming devices don't have that conversion capability. But given the more power provided by the DS923+ will my streaming be impacted by the lack of integrated GPU?

Thanks a million

Cheers,
Steve

The review for the QNAP TVS-h874 includes this section about fan noise:

"I was always impressed by the cooling system on the TVS-872XT/X, but there is no avoiding that this is not exactly going to be a whisper-quiet system! Indeed, those content creators and editors in post-production that are considering this system for editing on PCIe4 Storage over 10GbE (or scaling up towards 25/40Gb on SFP or Thunderbolt) should be aware that close proximity to the device is going to be hard going!"

Since the review seems to be for the i9 version of the NAS, is the i5 version substantially quieter? I feel like I can assume it would be, although I would appreciate someone else's opinion on that, but even more so, does anyone have first-hand experience with the i5?

I have a QNAP TVS-872XT which I'm trying to replace because of a hardware problem which is no longer under warranty. I made a mistake in getting a TVS-h1688X, but that is way too loud. Even with the fans turned all the way down on the hardware settings page, it seems like there is at least one fan which is unaffected by the settings and is very loud.

The TVS-872XT was always very quiet, I just unfortunately need to replace it. (I don't care about drive noise, just fan noise.) Do you think the i5 h874 in quiet mode might have a similar noise level to the 872XT?

Have you heard anything about a RS1221+ replacement? I'm surprised Synology hasn't released a RS1223+ by now. I'm assuming we will get a 1224+ next year (or at least I hope)...

Thanks!

I am running a DSM 720, 2 bay and backing up 8 users, but space is filling up, how i can reset the back ups, to zero to start over. The synology web site says dont delete from folder, but i dont see method to delete in teh app.

I would like to reset by user and shorten the amount of time to hold files

My ST20000NT001 20TB drives were formatted NTFS on Windows 11 Pro. Task Manager reports their size as 18.2TB and Disk Management reports 18626.98 GB. Are my reported sizes correct for these 20TB drives?