I’ve been watching your videos, and I must admit I’m so confused. I started with aDS243+ then the DS723+, but now I’m going to buy a 4 bay model after watching your DS 423+ video. Then I saw the 923+ video, the DS 923+ is only around €80 more and you get an extra 4GB ram as well as the other upgrades you don’t get with the 423+. It seems as if the DS 923+ is mode future proof. It’s processor with integrated graphics I’m not sure about. I have an old DS413J at the moment and I use video, audio and surveillance station with my iPhone sometimes, but not that much, and I have software to change the video files just want to be future proofed as much as I can. Can you give me a bit of advice. As I’ve mentioned earlier the price difference is only around €80, and that's less than the cost of upgrading the ram on the DS423+

I have decided to buy a Synology 423+ NAS. At the moment I have a Synology 413J with 4 WD red 3TB hdd’s. The Diskstation has been turned on 24/7 for the last 10 years with the original Hdd’s, so I trust WDReds. Now it has come to my attention that the new WD Red plus hdd’s show a warning in the Synology diskstations. I have also watched your video on the subject. It’s also mentioned that the firmware is not updated. It seems that Synology only want there own drives fitted into there devices. WD Reds have been around for a long time and have -roved there worth. Does it matter about updating the firmware on the drives, and are people still putting WD reds in there diskstations or are people being more or less forced into buying Synology hdd’s. Can you give me your opinion. I’m not really sure if this problem still exists or is it something most people can live with. As an example my WD reds have never had the firmware updated, but maybe it’s more important with the newer drives.

Looked at OWC ThunderBay 4 RAID 5 with Dual Thunderbolt 3 (but their SoftRAID XT is software and requires payment after warranty),
QNAP TR-004 (but connection is USB 3.2 Gen 1), and even QNAP TS-464-8G-US (yes, I know it's a NAS, but the money was about the same as the ThunderBay). Also looking for reliability. Synology was on the list, but their AMD chipset is concerning.

I am searching for a media storage solution with redundant backup/recovery for critical video files. That, at the same time, enables me to edit 10-bit 4K UHD video (Encoded in Apple ProRes 422 at 30 frames per second. Depending on the event or assignment, the resulting files can be as much as 350GB or more. Sharing projects for approval is also a must. Currently, I am using OneDrive by uploading the file, but it has limitations.

I must keep the original digital negative for potential use in the future. I use a Mac mini M1 with 10GB Ethernet.

I only recently learned about NAS devices and this website and did a deep dive. I looked at Synology, QNAP, and TerraMaster. The Terra Master T9-450 seems to fit the bill. With 2024 just around the corner, would you still recommend a NAS device for editing video and storage? How does the T9-450 compare?

I believe I have decided to stick to synology since they are highly rated and seem to work seemlessly with their apps and hardware. I have a wired home network with 4 computers on it. We have 5 phones and two remote PC's. All I really want to do is automatically backup the data on each of these devices (photos, documents, and home movies). DS224+ or a 4 Bay? After initial data input, use will be small. What do you suggest? 2 Bays seems simple, everything backed up to one of the drives and the second drive copies the first for redundancy...?

Can I use my Synology Router 6600AX as a sort of NAS? Can I install synology backup software onto it to do this work?

Hi
I have a Synology DS920+ (with three 8TB hard disks in a RAID5 configuration) used for archiving and a little work on stills images and some Video (not 4K For now?), The data is backed up on an external HDD.
I was thinking of purchasing a NAS to save movies and TV shows (with Plax) and physical backup to my Dropbox account.
I prefer to distinguish between my work\arcive NAS and my other data, but I'm debating between adding the DX517 extension and a DS420+ or DS423
my questions
1. Will it be wise to install DX517 as an extension for my DS920+ instead of buying a new NAS (DS420+, DS423)?
2. I have a free Bay in my DS920+, can I use it with the five bays (of the DX517) to make one partition? or should it be at one NAS\extension?
3. can I add another HDD with the same volume as the three at the DS920+ and combine it with the Raid5 that exists?

Thanx in advance
Amir

Do you know ANY motherboard that can do PCIe bifurcation (x4x4x4x4) for 2 of their x16 pcie slots?

thinking...

16 lanes of pcie (x4x4x4x4) - first card carrying m.2's
16 lanes of pcie (x4x4x4x4) - second card carrying m.2's
4 lanes of pcie - m.2 boot device
1 lane of pcie - video card
3 lanes of pcie- other motherboard things/NIC etc
===
40 lanes. haswell XEON? 2650Lv3? or similar?

so, 8x 4tb m.2 drives with 2 redundant ones.. = 6 drives worth of storage. = 24tb?

Is this a reasonable thing? and also, is it a possible thing

I’m on the fence at the moment, I don’t know whether to buy the new DS 224+ or buy the DS720+. The DS 720 comes with a lot more expansion capabilities 2 NVME slots on the bottom. The processors seem to be the same and you can expand the ram on both. Which are they both future proof? Can the DS 720+ be more future proofed even though it is already 3 years old. Can you give me your opinion, on what you think I should do. I have files, photos and multi media, and I would like to run virtual machines so I can try Ubuntu.
Kind regards

I have a large opera CD collection database that needs to move from unreliable Bluesound Vaults (4). It would be great to link to Discogs but not essential.
I have an old HP Inspire and newer iPad Air.
Single User primarily.