Hello,

i am looking for my first NAS. It will be used as a surveillance system 6 cameras (5Mpix). i would like to install on the same NAS a virtual machine with Homeassistant used for smart home stuff. And some storage for photos.

Thank you

First, thank you for your youtube videos, they were a great help.

The issue I am having is how to map a folder we created to be accessed by the user at their own computer without having to login to the NAS application.

We used to have windows server 2012 that died on us, and we had a folder that was mapped on the desktop so we could access the files and upload new ones.

When I tried to setup the mapping as you shown on your video I am not able to find the map part

Can you please help?

We have a NAS F4-210

Hey! Love your channel, you guys do a great job and clearly know your stuff so I thought I'd ask the experts!

I have a new Drone company, we work for clients on a monthly basis and have to store their footage (usually 20GB/month/client). At the moment we use onedrive to store the footage and our business files, though we are only 6 month old company. I was looking for a NAS solution for better value for long term archive storage and we will also use it as a shared drive hub for the employees to all access and save daily files into. The drone footage can be 4K video, which I presume would need to be able to be streamed from the NAS if a client was accessing it. It would be good to have password protected folders in the NAS which different clients can access at will from our website too?

As we get more clients we can upgrade the NAS but at the moment we only have 2, so 4-8TB would be sufficient for a decent amount of time and the price seems to hike up in the 4 bay, 4K, 8TB+ NASs.

I am looking for my first NAS. I would like to use it as back-up for pc/phone, network drive, Google drive/photo backup, and Plex server.

There will be 4 users, maybe up to 6.

I think ECC RAM is preferable but I do not now how much would be acceptable (as minimum). If 4 GB more the adequate or is 8GB not nearly enough.

I've seen M.2 NVME drives as cache upgrade, is it really necessary and if so. How much would be recommended.

Hello!
My name is Miguel and my colleague and I are currently tasked with setting up a small pipeline for visual effects and video editing work at a small studio. I just wanted to get your opinion on the setup we are planning on implementing. We are planning on purchasing a Blackmagic Cloud Store (20TB) for our main storage and we would like to have multiple PCs connected to it. This Cloud Store comes with 4 10G ethernet ports but we were thinking of purchasing a 10G switch to connect to the Cloud Store and then at least 5 computers (Mac and Windows) connected to the switch. This would be a 10G setup for all devices. Is this the correct way to set something like this up? We would also want all the computers to see each other on the network since we could potentially be implementing a render farm in the future. Based on some light research I've done so far, I found the TL-SX3016F JetStream 16-Port 10GE SFP+ L2+ Managed Switch. At what point would we run into any limitations? TY!

Hi! I'm a professional photographer and graphic designer. I'm looking for a whole NAS system. Your videos are helpful but my brain hurts. Can you just put together a package of everything I need to buy? I'm Mac OS and have less than 14 TB of data scattered on several drives. I'm currently adding about 2-3TB of data a year. But, that may change as technology and workload changes. I want to be able to work directly on the NAS from multiple Macs in different locations. Mobile device access is also necessary. I'm currently backing up my drives to CrashPlan. I don't know what RAID to configure for the best/safest file protection. I really just want you to send me a package/list of everything I need so I can check this off my list. Thanks so much!

I am upgrading my 15+ year old home network. The planned setup:
RT6600ax router, Synology NAS (most likely DS1522+), 16-port managed switch. In the 2nd step I will add an 8-port unmanaged PoE switch with a set of security cameras and Surveillance Station on the NAS.
Currently, everything is wired with Cat5e and I plan to only upgrade a few cables to Cat6 if needed.

I wondered whether you can advise on a 16-port managed switch for this setup. It will connect to all LAN points in the house (7x), plus printer (1x), TV and the PoE switch. I plan to connect the NAS directly to the RT6600ax (potentially 2.5 GbE or 2 x 1 GbE aggregated). I want to reserve one 1 GbE port of the router for a potential ethernet backhaul as I may need a Mesh router. Does this sound reasonable? Any suggestion for a 16-port managed switch?

You are doing great work! Love the videos. THANKS – Peter (Liverpool)

I'm looking to use the Synology to host photos.
If purely for performance of indexing photos/performance of viewing the photos via remote app, would the DS923+ be better or DS920+ be better? And How much better? (Is it marginal difference etc)

Hi there and thanks for the support as always. A quick question. You mention on your videos that the IronWolf (non-pro) drives get noisy above 8-10 TB

I'm going to be picking up a Lockerstor 2 gen 2 and wanted to stay with a pair of quieter drives if possible.

With the Ironwolf (non-pro) is the 10TB as quiet as the 8TB and is it the 12TB and up that are noisier?

Thanks so much,
Doug

Hi there. I am a home user but can take on more than a basic system setup (used to be in the software game, although who am I kidding, I love user friendly platforms). My husband and I are looking for a NAS so we can have a centralized place for our photos (that we take on our mobile phones, no actual cameras are involved), documents (very basic PDF scans of personal documents), DVDs that we upload from original disks (will use Plex or something like that to manage), and general backups. I am an android user, my husband is a iphone user. We have 1 macbook at home for our home computer and 2 tvs. We want it to be quiet bc we are tiny homers (home is about 400sqft). Right now we use icloud and google one cloud storage to manage our data but are not happy bc it is spread out and does not allow us to easily manage our photos and music to our liking. We want automatic backups from our phones for photos and the ability to listen offline to music/watch movies (we travel a good amount).