Hi,

Great youtube channel, well done!

I'm looking to invest in my first nas. Use cases are backup, video storage/retrieval, photo backup from iPhone.

Nas looks like a more economcal solution compared with Google Drive/iCloud etc.

I'm finding that I'm running out of space on these quickly mostly due to photos and video.

Any recommendations for a 2 bay nas for 500 knicker?

Thanks,

Josh.

Hi,

I'm looking for a robust NAS set-up for back-up of my photo's and back-ups of all the phones (Android and Iphone). I'm thinking about around 10TB, should be enough for the coming years.
Possiblity of extension in the future would be a pro, but not a requirement.

I would like to have it as energy efficient as possible and low noise.

I would like to use M.2 or SSD storage, but I did read some negative articles on power consumption and life time expectancy.

with respect of photo back-up, this should be in stead of cloud-storage, so it should be reliable and easily accessible from phones and laptop.

Thank you for your help.

Kind regards, Jurjen

This question is about capabilities in Synology or maybe other providers allow this.

Is it possible to create this setup:
- DISK 1 (2TB)
- PARTITION 1.1 (1TB)
- PARTITION 1.2 (1TB)
- DISK 2 (2TB)
- PARTITION 2.1 (1TB)
- PARTITION 2.2 (1TB)

RAID 0 = 1.1 + 2.1 (2TB total) assumption - faster to read and write (striping), no redundancy
RAID 1 = 1.2 + 2.2 (1TB total) assumption - redundancy, but slower than RAID 0

I'm looking at buying DS220+ I care about speed for some and redundancy for other data. And the ability to have two types of RAID on partitions not disks would be perfect for my needs.

Does this make sense?

I have a full Drobo 5C. I have a PC with two thunderbolt 4 ports. Was hoping to get a Thunderbolt 4 drobo but just found out now that they have gone under. For me the most important thing about drobo is that I can hot swap out drives as my needs grow. My 5C is full. I have a box of hard drives from the past that I was hoping to toss into a 2nd Thunderbolt 4 drobo and grow it to being full just as I did my 5C. From your video it seems like there are no viable/afforable truly Thunderbolt 4 devices out there. Hoping to spend not much more than $600 or so on the enclosure, start with my current extra drives and grow it as I have my drobos over the year.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi,

What I currently have: TS-231P with 2x WD Red 6TB drives, so very much entry level. I do not want more storage (more disks).

My main use cases are:
1- Music Streaming (using Plex), the 231P works fine for that.
2- TV Shows and Movies (that I own) using Plex. It isn't powerful enough for the majority of use cases (not supported messages), and I'd like to stream to one person (I'm by myself) to a web browser over the network, or my TV app (Plex), or have the capacity on a tablet/phone. Always 1 stream.
3- Offload my torrent downloads to my NAS (currently possible)
4- (Very) Light use of Docker Containers (not currently possible with 231P)

I do not want to overpay just to have encoding or Docker containers, but really just want to have at least 1 stream and have Home Automation (Docker) running (not many containers running).

Hi Rob,

I'm looking for a good Synology NAS. My main interest is in photo editing and file protection (backup). I'm mainly looking for a Synolgy 4 bays.
At the moment, I use Lightroom Classic to edit images. My Lr catalogues are on an iMac M1 and the photo files are on a Synology DS220j NAS (2-4GB HDD) connected to the iMac by an Ethernet cable. It's not very fast for image processing!
Which Synology NAS would best meet my editing and backup needs?
Is there a better way of connecting to the NAS than RJ-45, for working, while retaining the redundancy (RAID) that a NAS provides? I'm thinking of the USB-3 port... If so, how does that work?
Thanks for your work and your always good advice!
Have a nice day,
Michel

Looking for a video solution for our creative agency. We are the creative section of HEAD sports, looking to get a nas system and cloud workflow solution. Our video team, currently 3, looking for NAS which will allow us to edit from as well as back-up and store files.

Any help would be great!

George Willment

Hellow,

Newbie here recently bought Synology DS118 ,Need advice for best android backup workflow with NAS ,backup including photos & music ,as my phone is running out of storage.

Thanks.

Hello,

I would like to ask you this.
If i have the chance to buy a ds720+ for the same price of a ds220+/ds224+ (300-350€), do you think it is a good deal?
I am asking this because i am afraid i can loose some feature DSM update because of being an older model than ds224+, despite being the same hardware, or will they become obsolete at the same time?

I also would like you opinion on amazon pre-populated NASes with hard drives. Do you think there are any disadvantages? Regarding to quality/price/performance/warranty or any other you can think of?

And regarding to RAM, is it completely safe to upgrade it to (unofficial) 8GB?
Is it possible to have problems in the future by a DSM update breaking the compatibility?

Thank you very much for your help.

Looking at building my first NAS. Does the synology DS220+ pair well with the Seagate ironwolf pro 16TB (NE-ST16000NE000). Or any recommendations for a better system/configurations.