Setting up a new QNAP TS-462 mostly for Plex Multimedia. Is it best to first install the SSD's as Raid 1 and set them up as storage and install QTS and the apps such as Plex Media Server on these 2x1TB devices? Then install the 4x6TB HD's as Raid 5 and setup the shared Movies Folder, etc. on the HD's? Or is it best to just install all the drives at once setting the SSD's in Raid1 as cashing and the HD's in Raid 5 and install QTS and everything on the HD's.

2 - SSD's are WD Red SN700 NVMe - 1TB each
4 - Seagate IronWolf ST6000VN00451 - 6TB each (Repurpose from non working QNAP TS=453Bmini)

Thank you for any suggestions you can provide...........Jose

Hello, can you tell me how many User can access the DS220+ at the same Time. I want to use the Nas as iCloud Apple Music alternative for my family wich has 10 Members who would use the nas. Thanks for your help

Hi, I've been setting up hyper backup for my synology DS423+ and was wondering if the application data which is uploaded takes up a lot of space? I'm just trying to work out if it's work it.

I've already got 7.5TB i'm backing up to C2, and just wondering if it's going to add a lot more.

Many thanks,
Lee

Hello. I have Synology DS215j right now. I use it to backup my Photos and some critical documents. I wanted to use it to store my music, notes from phone (replace Google Keep), calendar, contacts, some financial spreadsheets - BUT - it's extremely slow. I mean UI. For backing up my photos and docs it's good enough though I'm sad that backup takes a lot of time, and browsing photos even in local network is slow. I moved email and calendar/contacts to fastmail, passwords to bitwarden but I wanted to give Synology another try. But I want fast working, responsive solution. I wanted to run some docker containers (for some notes and finance/music stuff) and I really don't know if DS220+ is enough (how much ram?) or should I use DS723+ or DS923+ - and with or without NVMe cache drives and how much RAM would be necessairy? I'd like to browse UI services smoothly. Can you help with that? Thanks

My Mom broke her iPhone 11 recently, my last manual iTunes backup was from 2020. She doesn't want her stuff on the cloud. We were able to get the phone repaired and perform an itunes backup. This started my quest to locate a NAS that would be capable of handling simple automated backups. The only youtube videos relating to backing up an iPhone to a NAS were for Synology. I'd prefer an itunes quality disk image backup solution if possible but the most important data i'd like backed up are: pics, vids, contacts/calendars, texts.
Due to the cost of NAS devices, it doesn't make sense to me to spend $500 (including drives) on the cheapest NAS just to back up a handful of my families phones. I'd rather spend a bit more for increased capabilities & longevity. I work as a computer repair tech. Prefer 4-bay, was looking at TS-464 or DS423+. Use for file storage/backup, video storage (like plex).

Hi there, new viewer to the chanel and taking you up on the offer of free support.

Looking for a Home 2 bay nas raid to achieve the following:

Backup and viewing of family photos/video. (over wifi from Apple phones would be a plus)
Direct playback of movie & tv files up to 4K 10bit (no transcoding needed) to an Apple TV 4K Box / Tv with built in Plex / Kodi
Able to run sabnzbd, Sonarr, Radarr (Docker would be a plus)
Able to attach extra accessible drives (like ssd).

Don't mind goin gdown the used market route.

Keeping things short and sweet as I imagine you get a tonne of these.

Thanks for your help, much apprecited as I feel my head may explode at the rate i've been consuming information on the subject.

Tim

Been following the channel for a while, and have decided to go for a Synology, based on the software they provide. Main app I'm interested is Active Backup for Business, to backup the multiple devices in the home, and be able to do bare metal recovery.
Looking at DS1522+, DS1621+ and DS1821+ (possibly use SHR-2)
What is Synology's update roadmap for these 3 devices? Do I wait 6 months for a possible update to the 6 bay or 8 bay? Any thoughts on possible future CPU (Ryzen?)
Thanks for all your good work.
Chris

I have a quick question I have a ds1019+ that decided to fail on me today spoke to synology its a few months out of warranty so they wont help me but we have a hardware failure. All the drives are fine and there really isnt much data on the hard drives but its important documents i really need. How do I pull the data off the hard drives and store it on a working nas? Is there special software needed if so is there one you recommend? I have a ds1621+ that is working i use for my movies its full of 8tb drives not sure if that can be used to pull the information off the drives

thanks for the help

Looking for a new nas to store my pictures and videos of my kids hockey games. Most games are at least 100GB of data per game.

Hi,

I am a photographer/videographer and currently have a terramaster raid storage which I actually just use as a hdd hub and store bulk files until the hard drive runs out of space. I dont have it setup as a raid.

I am wanted to purchase a new setup which I am looking at a nas setup so I can have our editors access our footage from anywhere in the world.

So we will need decent file storage capacity, the ability to access it anywhere at anytime.

We will never be editing directly off of this but simply just use it as backup storage or after a shoot I store it here and our editors can download the shoot onto their ssd and edit from that. Once they are done they can upload it back to this system and we can then final check and deliver it to our client.

We would love to know which nas system you recommend for our needs.

Thanks for your time and talk soon.

Joel