hi good morning I have a firecuda 530 2tb without heatsink, I would like to mount it on ps5, I bought an alecgear heatsink, I have some doubts as the 2tb f530 is double sided, how should it be mounted? should the spongy shims be placed underneath? What thermal pad should it be placed on? should it be put all over the surface or just on the controller? waiting for your reply, I send you my greetings Enrico

I'm currently using a DS212j for home use.
Largely storage of video, audio & photos. Download station enabled with VPN.
The CPU of the NAS is regularly at 100% resulting in a slow GUI (I don't recall this being an issue initially)
Would I likely see snappier performance in the GUI with a 223 model ?

Video streamed to a Nvidia Shield with Kodi so no transcoding required

Thanks
Matt

Hi! I'm Enrico producer in a Film and Photo production. After every set we normally provide a backup for 6 month of the shooted material.
Thats why I'm looking at the best solution of a nas where we can backup from 300gb to 2tb of material everytime.

Thanks for your help
Enrico

Hi i got almost 15tb of data on both external and internal HDD. Most about 90% of them is multi media range from .mkv and my collection of hvec with hdr is getting more and more since there are more show that has these kind of option. My question is, is still good ds920+ is still good. Since i will.mostly use.it for plex. My current problem right now is since january there are still.lots of ds920 on ph market but now lots.off them is already out of stock and they say its already face out and im about to buy these month. To start im going to put just 1 12tb wd plus and will.add more on the later dates im.wd use not on sygate

I was considering buying two 1 TB WD Western Digital Red SN700 Solid-State Drive for read-write cache in my synology DS1821+ NAS. you mentioned heat sinks in your youtube video. Will I need to purchase separate heat sinks and if so do you have any recommendations for which model#? will my NAS accomodate such heat sinks?

thank you very much!

Hello, I am iCloud and Dropbox users. I bought WD my cloud ultra in the past but with no luck (I am not that tech person, found it a bit complicated and was worried about security). I am thinking to give NAS another try. I use Dropbox and iCloud almost as internal hard drive, and work perfectly for me. But I am looking for long term solution, also to store personal photos etc. I am a Mac user, so I need something easy to use and work well with Macs, iPad etc. Do you think NAS is good option for me, and if so what you recommend? I am also thinking about turning Mac mini into NAS, what you think about that? thank you very much

Hi,

I have just bought a Seagate 20TB Ironwolf Pro ST20000NT001 and inserted in to my DS920+ which is already populated with 2 10TB Ironwolf Pros.

I can't seem to get this new drive to work.

I am running DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 4.

It shows up on the drive list, but I can't create a storage pool or add it to the current one. It says it can't add because there is no health status.

What could be the problem?

Thanks

Dear Sir

Currently I have had a DS1513+ with 5x3Tb in SHR2 for 9 years. I am gradually looking at a new system for streaming (via a TV box), backup, surveillance and downloading (newsgroups, ...)
I was looking at the DS1821+ for a long time, but that didn't seem like a huge upgrade. The DS1823xs+ has now been released, but you have a number of limitations, e.g. choice of HDD and the like.
Which device would you recommend as a good replacement for my ds1513+?

Thank you in advance
Kenny

Looking to upgrade my Plex server, everything I see is pointing towards a NAS. Newbie when it comes to NAS and having a hard time deciding if the QNAP TS-464 or synology ds920+/923+ would be best. Have even looked at a cheaper DAS option in the Terramaster d5-300c.
As most of my media is H265 I do a fair amount of transcoding, don’t have or really care about 4K media. My family uses my server, all over Canada and some in the USA. Also unsure the best drives to put into the device, WD or Seagate seem to be good, any reason to not get the largest TB size available? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Happy to provide more info if needed. Thanks in advance.

I have some questions about optimizing my first NAS setup for my needs. 

QNAP TS-673 (not the "a" version).
I just purchased this (used) and is not yet set up. 


I have 6x 6 terabyte hard drives.
Three of the drives are wiped clean and ready for install. Two of them have data from my previous desktop that I used as individual JBOD type setup.

The NAS has spots for two m.2 SSDs.

I want to be able to run my own home lab on this with Plex, a few containers, including pie hole, maybe a Minecraft server for the family, and ability to run OwnCloud for family google photos and apple drive replacement. 

I plan on upgrading the memory from the stock two gigs to at least 32 gigs and maybe 64 gigs.

Should I buy an SSD for the drive slot number one {1ssd &5hdd}? My assumption is that will help with performance because the system will utilize that drive slot for the OS.
Combined with that, or possibly Alternatively, what can I actually do with the m.2 slots. Is that only for drive cashing? And do I have any direct control over it or will the system utilize it as it needs and I might or might not see benefits from it?

Or will the speeds be just fine with the WD Red HHDs?