Hi I am just in the process of renovating my house and decided to install a home network / media server. So far I have started wiring the house with Cat 6A F/FTP solid core cable which I've been told it's over kill but picked it up cheap so not really bothered. Also picked up a QNAP TS-673A nas about 8 months ago at auction brand new in the box for £640 without doing any research and then on black friday I bought 4 wd red pro 16tb hard drives. Thing is I've actually started doing some research now (I know its a bit late now) but really starting to feel really out of my depth now and worry that it might not be suitable for what I want which is backing up files and pictures but mainly for 4k movies and possibly cctv. I also wonder if I need more ram or I should buy a 10gb network card or if i need to buy a gpu card. I'm really at loss and could really use some good advice! 
Thanks Matt

Hi! I’m planning to finally get a NAS in January and I’m researching my options. I’ve already decided on Synology after looking at reviews/demos of DSM, advice from people I know, etc but I’m not sure what would be a good fit. I’m a photographer/sometimes videographer and a bit of a mild datahoarder/archivist. I’m looking for something simple to replace an external 2.5” 5TB WD drive that I’ve been using for a while. I don’t need VMs/Docker, I already have PCs for that. It would be just for bulk/archival storage, not a NAS to work from. Only extra task I’d be wanting is a Time Machine server for my Macs. I may want to try Synology Photos but it’s not likely I'd switch from my current photo manager. I’m looking at either the DS223j or the DS223 for the doubled RAM and black casing. Would these models would be fine for these needs? I’m good on finding drives myself. Thank you very much!

Looking for a low power and low noise NAS.
2+ bays would be nice.
Plan to get the Toshiba Cloud-Scale Capacity MG09ACA 18TB.

Want to run: piHole, PLEX, downloader
Want to stream to smart TV

Future expansion possibilities would be nice.

Was looking at:
DS224+
Ds423+

Since friends mainly recommend me Synology, I am a bit biased but I’m open to try any other company fulfilling my desires?

Thanks for your great YouTube channel and the content you provide. I’m sure that you will have great recommendations for me.

Regards and thank you in advance

I am a photographer and have recently started doing 4k videos for my clients.

This has highlighted to me the need for more storage that has redundancy and can be easily backed up.

I would think that I would dump all my camera files onto the NAS and work from there.

Cache files would be stored locally on a NVME ssd drive

The NAS would store my video and photo archives as well.

I'm scared of going overkill mode on this, but my thought is to have a 4 bay drive housing, and initially use two 18TB drives.

I did see your video where you used 3 drives, with two being raid, but I didnt understand that fully!

I work by myself so not needing others to access files at the same time.

I was also wondering how expensive are these devices to run since I presume you leave them on all the time.

Thanks,
Alan

Hi,

I would like to seek your advise on the best way to upgrade 4 numbers of HDDs in my existing DS920+ to 4 numbers of bigger capacity SSD.

I am planning on setting up an offsite NAS for backups. My question is how offsite is "offsite". For instance, I have a detached garage that I could put it in so if my house burnt down, water pipes burst, or thieves broke in and stole my stuff it would probably be fine. However, in the event of a local natural disaster I could loose everything. So how offsite do professional network people consider to be "offsite"? would my garage be ok or should I put it 100 miles away at one of my families houses?

Thanks!

I have Synology DS118 with 12 TB HDD. Using DS118 NAS as media library (Movies, TV Shows, Documentaries, etc.) to stream to TV via Nvidia Shield with Kodi app. NAS is already set up for SMB and NFS (for Kodi) and mapped to my laptop. I have a 5.45 TB library on an external HD. I would like to directly connect my DS118 to my laptop as it seems this would be the fastest way to transfer (copy) my large library to the DS118. A few questions: 1) Is it possible to set up an iSCSI on the DS118 (which only has 1 ethernet port)? If possible, would I have to setup iSCSI again when I disconnect from laptop and put DS118 back on the router...then, at some point, directly connect back to laptop to transfer (copy) future large amounts of data?

Seasonal Greetings

I have a DS920+, with 3 x 8TB Ironwolf's. I am starting to fill it faster than I thought I would. My current load will not fit on only 2x8 drives (7.8 TB 55% used). If I add a 20TB drive, I know I will only get 8TB of it, but if later I remove one of the 8TB drives, then add another 20TB drive, can I expand the volume to use the full 20TB (resulting in 32tb - the Synology raid calculator only goes to 18tb so I wonder if 20tb is even an option) Or am I stuck in the this 8TB per drive world. I do have 4TB of external SSDs which I can pull stuff off the NAS if reducing to 2 drives and then adding the 20TB drives would solve this. I have a local 14TB external HDD backup of the NAS and an off-site so I am not too worried about the risk of moving stuff to SSDs for a few days while the volume rebuilds

Hope this makes sense.

Best regards
Neale

Thanks for your recent series on DIY NAS. With the recent releases of the Flashtor NVME NAS and QNAP tbs-h574tx NVME NAS, it’s exciting to see this new trend emerging.
I’m seeking your advice on a DIY solution for NVME NAS please.
i come across this motherboard that supports 6 bay NVME https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-ad650i
It looks like a good solution for a DIY NVME NAS. The only downside is a 2.5GBE instead of a 10GBE. What do you think of this as a DIY solution? Would an external 10GBE adapter work with this MB? Do you know of an alternative DIY solution?

Thank you for your advice.
Cheers,
Quynh

Two questions with the basis that I am upgrading from a 920+ so that I can get some extra bays (bonus) and access to 10Gb ethernet.

#1 - Can I just unplug the 920+ drives and plug them into either the 1522+ or 1621+ and have it boot up or do I need to buy drives to populate the new machine and copy everything over?

#2 - Possibly answered by #1, which of the two is a better unit to consider?