Hi, I'm looking for advice on the best NAS for me. Please see the bullet points below for how I hope to use it:
-Store personal/family files, documents, music, etc.
-Store and share photos/videos (Like Google Photos)
-Heavy use of Plex in 4k - I'm considering buying a Plex Pass so I can watch Plex content on my devices in the future

Just hoping for something low maintenance and powerful enough for the next 5-10 years. I think I'd only need 2-bays, and I would buy 2 X 8-12 TB drives, storing everything on the 1st and just using the 2nd for backup (Redundancy).

After reading some of the articles on your site, I think the DS224+ or DS723+ will work best for me, but I also don't want to break the bank if I don't need the +series.

Any advice would be very appreciated, thanks!

Mike

I saw your video that the TS-464 is the all around best but I am looking for more storage so I am considering the TS-664 with WD 20 TB or 22 TB NAS Red Pro Drives set to RAID 1 (3x3). My question is would the 664 be a good option for Plex? If so how do you setup Plax and RAID options on the NAS?

I’ve just watched your video on the WD SN700 NVME. I have bought a Synology 923+ and have decided to buy 2 of these drives for caching.
Should I buy 2x 1TB or 2X2 TB?
I’ve been looking at heat sinks on Amazon and have seen an aluminium one 6mm high and one 3mm high. Which one would fit in the DS 923+.
I have ordered Kingston Premier ECC ram after your recommendation’s.
Kind regards.

I’ve just sent a message on NVME ssd for caching. I forgot to ask should caching be read only or read write. Is there any danger of looseing files with read write. I think SpaceRex mentioned something about a system could be corrupted to read only if using read write caching.
Kind regards

Hi, nice tutorial on proxmox install on asustor Nas. How did you get the drive to show up in proxmox and be available for zfs etc. As proxmox states it can't work with a hardware raid controller in place.

Regards

Mr Henry

Hi there,

I have a Qnap TS-673A full with 8tb Ironwolf pros in raid5 and I've ran out of space.

I was going to buy a TL-D800c and start by populating it with 3 x Toshiba n300 16tb's in raid5 and add one drive at a time when I needed/could afford them until I filled it.

Ideally I'd like to populate my TS-673A with 16tb drives and have the 8tb ironwolfs in the TL-D800c. But don't have available storage to back it up before moving everything around.

Could I move my 6 x 8tb ironwolfs from my Nas and put them into the TL-D800c and the Nas still recognise them and their raid? As if so I could leave them there and populate the Nas with 16tbs. I know you could do this with two compatible Nas's, but cannot find any info on expansion units.

Many thanks

Yasha

Hi,
I hope I am reaching out through the correct channel. I already sent a coffee maybe a year ago and submitted a question you answered. So, I hope it's the correct way to ask a generic question.

I'll paste the specifications of my NAS below.

Basically, I want to be able to access the photos on my NAS from outside my WIFI network. I have setup a shared space (/photo folder) and a personal space (home/photos), which are both working and being accessible from the IOS "Photos Mobile" app... when I'm connected to my WIFI network at home.
The problem I have is that I can't access it when I'm outside with my mobile data. I originally set it up like this on purpose (aka not accessible from outside), but now I want to access it outside, I can't find what I need to change to be able to do that.

Can you help pointing me to the correct direction?

See below more details about the specs.

Thanks so much !!

Phone: Iphone 8
Sinology: DS220J
2 x 4 TB seagate ironwolf Drives

Hello,
**Requirements**
Currently dont have more than 2tb of data.

Automatically backup two Macbooks, (maybe utlising Apples Time Machine... but not essential)
Storing my photography images as external storage, I use

Lightroom to manage my catalog so I dont need any photo manager, just the ability to access on demand if I need to edit them.

**Thoughts so far**
After reading/watching reviews I understand a 4 bay would make logical sense for upgradability, BUT I dont think I can stretch to that budget at the moment, unless sales are kind. So I have been looking at the Synology DS223 or DS224+ and then to house either two 4tb or 6tb hdds to then use either RAID 0 or SHR, (I think SHR would allow me to buy a 4 bay in future, mix the old drives with some new ones and carry one)

For my rather simple usage, do I even need to look as far as a 224+ or would something like a DS223j be enough even with its meagre proccesing power?

Any advice / ideas welcomed.

Hi - By any cahnce can you offer any advide on where to get a DS2020+ repaired (out of warranty)?

I simply plugged in a USB (powered) hub into the rear USB which seems to have blown what I hoped would be a fuse inside the NAS.

I can't believe it has no fused protection on the board and that it was so easily damaged, it's really put me off buying another.

Thank you - any advice is gratefully recieved.

Mark

Hi! I have a 423+ and got the 16 gb crucial RAM in there today and the system won't boot. I tried it with all the drives out and it still won't boot.
I got DDR4 3200 SODIMM. Did I get the right thing? Are there any troubleshooting steps I should take?

Thank you