I've got an ancient R710 (or 720?) Dell server running unraid that I want to replace. It's a huge rack mount server that takes up a ton of space and a ton of power, and pretty noisy too. I'm looking at either a DS1522+ or a DS423+ that was just announced. Really the only reason to even think about the 423+ is for the hardware transcoding. All of my Plex streaming is done locally since I'm on Starlink and upload is not great for streaming that direction. Clients are Apple TV HD, modern iPhones, iPad, and an old cheap Roku. I just ran int a problem with the Apple TV HD and some 4k HIEC encoded media. The Apple TV is not a 4k model and can't handle that format and my old unraid server is a Xeon and has zero ability to hardware transcode. Luckily it has a ton of CPU power and we made it work.

Honestly I'm thinking just got with the DS1522+ to get the extra bay, the additional RAM, the higher upper RAM limit, and all the other modern goodies. But is that a mistake?

I own 4 Drobos, the 5 bay FS, 8 bay Drobo pro, 5D and S connected to my Mac laptops (wifi) and Mac Pros directly (networked and 1 running Plex). With so much data across 4 devices, it is difficult to choose the right system that has the feature of beyond raid. I am leaning towards Synology DS1821+ but am not sure where to jump in. Whatever box is chosen, it will start with all new 8tb drives and the old reds will find a home someplace on eBay. Mmoving from Drobo to something else is really important right now and would love advice.

Can I upgrade RAM

I would like to setup my new QNAP TVS-h674-i3 NAS using QuTS Hero (zfs). I would like to install the OS on my two Samsung 500GB NVME SSD drives, and utilize the Seagate HDD's for all applications and data.

Does anyone have a tutorial for doing this properly?
Also, by doing this, can I NOT have the NVME be the 'default' location for my files/apps? I don't intend to store ANYTHING there except the OS.
Thanks,

I have a Synology Shared Folder named DATA within which I have subfolders containing my media files by type (MUSIC, MOVIES, TELEVISION, etc).

When I try to set up my Library in Plex, in the "Browse for Media Folder" step, I can only drill down to to the DATA shared folder, none of the media subfolders are "seen" by Plex.

I would like to keep this existing file structure, but it appears I must instead have each of the media subfolders as a Synology Shared Folder on the root drive.

Is this correct?

Hi folks,

I'm going to migrate my current DS1817+ to a new TVS-h874-i5-32G, because I need more CPU for 4k transcoding (Plex server) and for some virtual machines.
The idea is to have almost 100Tb space in the NAS, and a cold backup offline with the 10 10Tb hdd I'm using now in the DS1817+).

What I'm think is ... if for my scenario is better QTS or QuTS.

QuTS forces me to take 10 x 20Tb hdd, while with QTS I should start with 6 hdd, then add 2 hdd when needed. On the other hand the big advantage of manage quicker the swap of a faulty part is huge.
Media blocks (Music, Movies, Photos) won't take any advantage from ZTS features right? I won't use deduplication nor compression.
But what about VMs blocks? Better to use compression or not?
Last question: cache. Shall I have a very small cache to improve Plex database (not the movies themselves) and VMs? shall I say to Qnap "use caching only for that particular block"?

Ok, so I will have my 920+ up and running soon (4x4Tb). I was thinking to attach an external USB drive of 12TB to the NAS permanently and then setup a permanent back-up so that either instantly or weekly all changes on the NAS will be reflected in the back-up.

But if my NAS gets infected with  ransomware and the USB is permanently attached to the NAS, then I guess there is a risk that the back-ups will get infected too.
- what is the best solution to prevent the USB drive attached to NAS getting infected with ransomware?
- I guess that instant back-ups increase the risk of infection? IS it better to detach the USB and work with incremental backups and attach the USB drive only and manually during the back-ups?
- Does Synology have any software to detect ransomware, I mean not the ransomware itself, but rather the effect it will have on stored files, e.g. massive changes of extensions, heavy disk activity due to ransomware encrypting the source files etc.

any advise is appreciated,
Bboy

Hello. You helpfully provided me with some buying guideance - thank you.

You also mentioned that Synology has a good guide for how to set up the NAS to use the PC for transcoding, but after searching I cannot find it.

Could you please provide the link to this article?

Also, does this article cover the automation of transcoding on the PC? That is something I would like to understand more about.

Many thanks.

Hi there chaps.

Long time viewer of your channel.

I am suffering from analysis paralysis with my NAS pre purchase research.

I am interested in the 923+ because of the 10gbe option. I run a Mac Studio which has a 10gbe network port.

If i connected the 923+ directly to my Mac Studio through additional 10Gb port - is it possible to also connect one of the 1gb ports to my router (also 1gb) and proved network access back out to the Mac via the 10gb connection through the NAS box. (LAN and Internet connection etc.)?

secondly I presume I want 7200 rpm drives but buying four to start with is going to be pricey so i thought I would start with a partial system and build capacity over time with SSD and extra ram and HDD.

Presuming i populate with just 2 HDDs what would be the best way to get about 6TB of storage with redundancy. I will also be hoping to avail of cloudsync to mirror this into my cloud services for an off site BU as part of my overall BU strategy.

Many Thanks
James

Hi!

I'm a video editor and photographer that is looking to purchase my first NAS. I currently use about 16TB of storage, and would like to plan for expanding to accommodate at least 24TB of media. I also plan to use it to store my film library and would like to be able to stream movies from it. My current setup is a mac studio with two 10TB WD MyBook HDD's for backup and a 4TB SSD drive that I keep current projects on for editing.

I've been looking at the QNAP TS 664 and the Synology DS923+ as possible options, with either the Ironwolf Pro or WD Red+ drives. I'm not afraid of spending time learning and setting up a system, but of course user friendliness is a nice bonus. I'm more concerned about reliability and want to make sure it's a system that will serve me in the long run. Any advice between those two systems - or is there another option I should be considering? And what amount of memory should I be considering - should I upgrade to 8G? 16G?

Thanks for any advice!
-kegan