HI
Im planing to buy Synology Disk Station DS220j, im buying it without disk and planing to use normal 2.5 inch hard disk

my purpose is just to save photos from PC as well as from iPhone

my concern is will it have any compact ability issues with 2.5 inch hard disk?

Im looking for 5 years of storage, and its estimated to around 4 TB

Hi, thanks for Your informative site. The more I hear the more I get confused though. I habe a QNAP 223 NAS mainly for time machine backup. Due to the hardware limitations the GUI go the QNAP has become almost unusable. To male things worse I have shingled WD Red (without pro) drives that are supposed to be a no go. I am thinking about getting a new system with new drives. I need it to be rather silent, I won't bei doing much VM though I would like toying around with that too. 2x8TB Drives vs 4x4TB drives ? I was thinking DS220+ with 2 8TB Toshiba or Synology 3300. Thanks !!

Can the LAN cable be disconnected from the camera after setup. If not, how is it accommodated when the camera is installed?

Also, does it support WiFi6 ?

I need to replace my old Synology DS209+II. Right now I am looking at the Synology DS943. I need to know the best way to configure it to meet my needs today and in the future. Basically I want to
1 - use it as a media server - currently use Plex, eventually migrate to Zappiti
2 - Starting to do video processing on my PC. I hear how many applications can use the NAS as the PC hard drive, with little latency in processing the videos.
3 - Photo storage and distribution - currently use Synology Photo Station 6 so clients can see the photos I have taken for them.
4- Of course backup.

I saw your video about using M.2 NVMe SSD in storage pools. When the video was created, there were some caveats around using m.2 as storage pools. Is that still the case? Does it have to be Synology M.2's? How big a performance improvement will I see.

Thanks in advance
Anthony Phipps

I watch your DVA1622 review recently (great work by the way) and have a question about something you mentioned at around the 7:45 mark related to SSDs. I have 2 x 14tb WD Red Pro drives in my 1622 and was considering moving to 2 x 4tb WD Red SSDs in hopes of improving system performance. But, based on what I gathered from your video, I shouldn’t expect to see a lot of performance improvements with SSDs. Would you mind explaining why? I currently have 4 - 4k 30fps cameras that record continuously.

I'm being sold a solution with AP's that One 2.5 Gbps multigigabit Ethernet port but selling me switches with 1GB ports. How does that work?

I actually own a 10 years 2TB DS213j
I'm very happy with DSM but it's really really getting slow and it's almost not usable anymore. Photos app is not working properly
I need a NAS to access my camera raw files that are quite heavy (30MB each) and camera and drone files.
I also need docker to run Home Assistant and Ubiquity Unifi so it has to be x86.
I'd take DS220+ but I'm worried about the product lifecycle because it's 3years old now. I'd consider DS723+ but I don't know if my use case would benefit from caching and the different processor technology (less media oriented)
I'd also consider DS423+ but probably 4TB is not enough to consider it.
I waiting for the DS220+ successor but I don't know if it will ever come.
What do you think?

I currently have a Synology DS220J which doesn't support 1080p on Plex. It can also struggle if I'm downloading files to it while trying to watch Plex at the same time.
I was thinking of upgrading to a DS220+ but they are around $500 AUD on Amazon and I'm uncertain if I can simply swap my drives straight over.
I'd love some advice on whether there is anything I can do to improve my 220J's performance or whether I should consider another NAS.
Thanks in advance.

Hey,
If I manage a small office and want to backup our Google Workspace, Office 365 and company devices to a NAS (at all times, so it may include a VPN server), then backup all that content to a remote NAS. what would you recommend?

I saw Plex just laid off 20% (37). Should we be concerned? What do you recommend as an alternative? Do you want to address this on one of your YouTube releases?

Thank you for all you do. I bought a DS14play before I started following you, and a DS920+ and two Reolink cameras based on your recommendations