We service many clients who use Google Workspace. We'd like to offer them managed offsite backups of their GW environments, and we plan to use Active Backup for Google Workspace (on Synology) to bring their backups onto our NAS (all good so far). From there, we'd like to offer an add-on service to store an additional "air-gapped" offline, immutable copy of their data, but we're not sure how to implement that. We could purchase a 2nd NAS and keep it offline, and then use external hard drives to shuttle data from the main NAS to the air-gapped NAS, but that seems so labor intensive... Or maybe there's a way to use snapshot replication? We're wondering what a guru might suggest in this situation.

Hi,
I've recently discoverd Jellyfin and I want to build my first home media server. I previously watched my movies and shows directly on my compter using vlc/potplayer but I love that you can watch your files from any devices in your home network with Jellyfin.
I do have some 4k movies so I'm not sure what nas I need. I did however found the Synology DS220+ and wanted to know if it was a good choice.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards.
Boran

I currently have a WD MyCloud (2nd Gen)

My current settings:
> My Cloud device mounted to NVIDIA Shield TV
> WD Elements (external HDD) connected to My Cloud as backup
> I transfer all files (media, pictures and music) from my PC to the My Cloud
> I have private & shared folders setup in My Cloud for different users
> I stream movies using Plex on NVIDIA Shield TV

What would be a good replacement for my single bay WD MyCloud (2nd Gen)?

- thinking about to purchase DS923+
- capacity min 4x4 TB, max 4x12 TB
- must not be noisy, looking for the drive with biggest capacity, which makes the least noise
thank you for help!
regards leander

Hi, I'm new to Plex, Video formatting and NAS Servers. Your website is incredibly helpful, though much of the technical comparative data is beyond me right now.

I am trying to set up a NAS based Plex server to host my own 4k home videos. They will only be accessed by an AppleTV, and the whole system will be wired on a 1 gbe network (though I may upgrade the network to 2.5 gbe within the year). I'm comparing the QANP TS-253E vs the Synology DS220+ (I know the later does not have 2.5gbe, but the cost difference is decent).
For my singular needs do you have a recommendation? Relatedly, is there a video format/resolution you would recommend to allow one or both of these options to perform well?
Thank you in advance

Hello,

I have a DS1621+ and at the moment i backup on an USB Device. Í am searching for am alternative. I think I can use an DS620slim or the Expansion DX517. What are your thoughts on this szenario. What do you think are the pro and con for this Devices. Do you have an better Synology NAS advice.

Thank you for your time

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Hans

Following watching your videos I have purchased a Synology DS 923+ together with 2 x 8TB Seagate Ironwolf HDD. Currently I have 4.5 TB on the NAS. Again following your videos I am thinking of buying a second Synology NAS for a local backup. My question is , if I was to open the first NAS to access on the internet but not the second how vulnerable would the second NAS be to Malware/Ransomware.

I have an out of the box QNAP and want to connect it directly to my Windows 10. After “installation” I should go to login, but it shows me again the “Start Smart Installation”. But I already done that step.

We are looking forward to install DS220+ and we have a non network printer (Canon LBP 2900 ) would we be able to install this printer in our nas and share it across network for prints and we will be installing 2 4 TB(Total 8 GTB) as SHR or as your recommendation and what all are to be looked in while purchasing and recommended HDD and printer support.

I work with geotechnical engineer who has about 3TB of work data (drawings, reports, numerical modelling, spreadsheets, soil tests, survey, etc) who needs to move from various cloud services to a decent NAS structure. My personal computer is a Mac and a lot of my work is done on Windows PCs. The main uses I would like to get out of my NAS:
- File server with cloud access and version history
- Photo library (it is my hobby and I have ~50GB of photos on (paid) Google Photos
- Book library (as a researcher and consultant I have ~100GB of books, conference proceedings and whatnots that I would like to organize on a Calibre or Kavita environment
- Reference management storage (Mendeley or Zotero)
- Possibly a movie/series library from downloaded files, unlikely 4K for now.
As for the book library, I will need Docker, so it seems DS220j is not my best option. Should I go for a DS220+? Maybe something better? Please help, I am getting lost in videos.