I am searching for home NAS device, there are many and easy to select on the bases of hardware specifications.
But I am looking for Home NAS Device which offer easy convenient mobile backup application. I am a photographer and have a lot of high resolution snaps and videos. which I really want to keep in arranged mannered.
Also, Plex service will be additional benefactor.
Please advise

I currently own a DS218+ with 2x 4TB hard drives.
Currently using Synology Hybrid Raid meaning I only have 4 TB of storage available.

I recently ran out of storage and was considering my options:
1) Replace 4TB drives with 8/12 TB drives.
2) Buy a 4 bay unit (DS423+, DS920+, DS923+) with 4x 4TB drives
3) Run plex on other device and use NAS only for storage & surveillance station
4) Any other recommendations ...

I mainly use the device for:
- Photo back-up
- Plex media server
- Surveillance station (1 IP, probably will add 3 more in the future)
- (some dockers containers)
- (file back-up)

I was considering buying the DS923+, but since I mainly use it for Plex and it doesn't have an integrated graphic CPU I didn't yet. My current setup doesn't have it but this does cause some issues sometimes when streaming from Plex.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance!

Hello, i wsnt to buy a nas at the characteristics of ds220+ with a bugdet of 380 euros. Is ds220+ worth buying in 2023 or will Synology produce something similar? Thank you!

I'm running Plex now on a QNAP TS-451D2. It runs without issue however at times there are lags and I have to convert the file separately.

I've always wondered if running the plex server on a more powerful PC (I have access to alot) while connecting to NAS over gigabit network would provide better or worse or the same results.

This is obviously a very general question, but, you can assume this is a wired gigabit network - and the PC will be an i7 or i9 processor.

Hello, I very much enjoy your videos!

I have a QNAP TVS1282, i7 with 32gb, about 7 years old now, with some fairly new Sienmens 4TB SSDs. The NAS seems to have packed up, I think dodge's slots, but it's now in read only, and I've had hassle over time with it, so would like to change.

I use it for:
1 - storing c12tb of music & streaming to my music player
2 - streaming movies to my TV over HDMI (but it doesn't like 4k)
3 - storing PC files backups

I wondered what you'd recommend. Ideally I'd like something not too big, and not as loud as the 1282. I was looking at the QNAP TS-H1290FX, but that's perhaps far too over specced for what I need, your review for the TS664 which looks decent.

I was planning on using a new MAC MINI, connected to the TV with HDMI, and then just having the NAS behind it storing the movies & music. I am not very technical, so really didn't want anything overly complicated. My priorities: fast, quiet, playing 4K, easy to manage... Thanks so much!

Hi I am an owner of old Synology DS412+ and I was looking at the DS1621+ for an upgrade.
The point is I was considering the released dates of the DS1621+ and wondering when this will be discontinued. I would like to avoid to buy it and then find it goes out of production.
I am using the NAS for digital storage, PC backup, but I was considering to have in future a couple of virtual machines for my programming experience with Java.
Do you have an idea when the successor of the DS1621+ might come out?

Hi NAS Compares,
I'm a videographer and I'll be using the M.2 slots as a separate volume to edit my videos from, over 10Gbe. I think I'll need at least 8TB in that volume. My ideal scenario would be to get one 8TB drive for now (like the Corsair MP600 Pro XT), which will leave a slot free so I can get another 8TB down the track. The NAS will be on almost all of the time (often sleeping). Do you recommend that Corsair drive in this use case? Are they reliable?
QNAP doesn't list any 8TB drives as compatible and they only recommend one 4TB drive - the WD Red SN700. I'd prefer to get a Gen4 drive though. My computer is a 2019 iMac 27", which has an NVME SSD built in. I think my current setup would benefit from having a Gen4 drive, yes? Gen4 would future proof it for when I upgrade my computer too.
My other notion is to get 2 x Firecuda 530 4TBs.
Thanks!

Hello! Looking for a NAS as primary storage of RAW photos and 4K videos. I am often off-site and need to access it to upload to and stream media from. If editing can be done on it it's a bonus, but I can do it locally and upload the results. I use Lightroom for organisation and light edits, Photoshop for larger prints, and Premiere Pro for videos. I currently have only about 2.5 TB of data, so there's no pressing need for massive storage space and would rather upgrade when required. RAID 5/6 is required, as well as possibility to have cloud backup. Thanks!

So I have a Synology and Qnap System and I have 1 UPS and I was wondering if theirs away to connect both of them to this 1 system so they both can shut off incase of an emergency or power outage? Here's the UPS I own CP1500PFCLCD

Hi there and thanks for the videos and help. I'm going to be picking up a Lockerstor2 Gen 2 for automated PC backup for 1 PC as well as using the NAS as an occasional Plex server for our family of 2.

Being that this NAS will be pretty low usage, I was wondering if I could put in WD black M.2 SSDs vs using WD Red.

I'm thinking of putting in 2 TB in Raid 1 to start which is sufficient space for now, and adding more storage later - either 2 more M.2s or traditional hard drives.

Love to get your thoughts on the WD black for my application. I have the WD blacks as the main drives in my PC which gets more use than the NAS would get - thus my question.

Thanks and enjoy the coffee :-)
Doug