Hi There.

I recently purchased a Synology NAS DS220+ as I want to move away from Apple iCloud for my photos and videos across all my family mobile devices. I have watched some of your you tube videos about Synology Photos as the application to use in this instance.

I'm looking for some advice (although I appreciate it's not technically about the NAS itself), I'm having difficulties on deciding the best approach to migrate away from iCloud. Apple present some challenges when trying to copy all my photos/video from the iCloud web portal - it limits the number of photos that can be downloaded at any one time and I'm also finding that meta data is being lost which is really annoying! Would like to know if you have come across this problem and if you have any hints and tips?

Many Thanks!!

It's come to my attention that my Drobo 5D will likely not be compatible with updating my MacOs operating system to Ventura, which is necessary for other programs. What is my best option here? If I have to replacing my current system what would be most cost effective?

Thanks!

Hello, I am building out a new NAS that will have 3 main functions.

1. Ultra fast storage for Video and photo storage viewing and editing: using 2TB Usable NVME Mirrored RAID 1 Crucial NVME P3 (Storage Pool - Not cache)
2. Synology System OS and apps: 2 x 1Tb Crucial SSD MX500's in Raid 1 SHR config
3. Surveillance Station storage: 2 x 4TB Crucial SSD MX500's in RAID 0 Config 8TB usable storage with zero redundancy for the videos themselves.

I know many will say all SSD is overkill, but I CARE about latency and response time more than throughput... I want my searches to be as fast as possible.

Also plan to max memory to 32GB (crucial) and add the 10Gb interface module.

I welcome any feedback/warnings and recommendations.

Hi gang (Robbie/Eddie),

Is the reviews for the QNAP x74 series coming soon? I think it was out before the DS923 which you have covered extensively (all good reviews).

Still waiting for your thoughts on the QNAP series.

Thanks

Doug

Hi, thanks for the help.
We currently have a Synology DS918+ with 16 TB which we use with 5 Macs hooked up via a 1GB ethernet network. The speeds are just not cutting it for us, especially now that some of our newer machines have 10gb ethernet built in so we would like to switch over to a 10gb network.
Would really appreciate advice on which direction to go with a new NAS as well as use of SSDs. We use Final Cut Pro as well as Adobe Premiere and After Effects and the speeds are around 100Mb read and write, which we would like to significantly improve (Considering our new Mac studios can run at around X50 of that on their internal ssd)

Thanks so much for the help!

Hello, I would be grateful if you could help me, I am new to NAS's and have what is likely to be a very straight forward issue. My QNAP TS464 is warning me that Storage Pool 1 has reached its threshold, which I think is 13TB. There is barely any data on the drives (2 x 14TB and 2 x 1TB NVME, RAID 1) so not sure what its referring to. Think its a simple configuration issue but Im not too techie and cant see how to resolve. Also top light on NAS has red solid light light. Hope you can help, and much appreciated.

I am running 3 Synology NAS and bought this one as it was recommended by a friend. I am trying to access the BIOS to install TrueNAS on a NVME. I have searched for information and watched several videos to no avail.

Hello!
First of all, I want to thank you for your great videos on the subject, it helps me a lot and confirms me in my choice to self-host my Plex on a NAS.

I am currently renting a dedicated server in a datacenter, but it is no longer possible because of the capacity limits and the monthly cost is too high.

So I (finally!) decided to choose a NAS that will broadcast my multimedia content to me and my family.

I just bought 4 HDD of 4Tb in order to have 12Tb in RAID 5 (or SHR if you tell me it's better) and I'm very interested in the Synology 920+.

However, I would like to know if this NAS can serve me several years without being outdated in two years (because it is still from 2020). I guess it might still be suitable, but when I see models like the Qnap TS-464-4G coming out, I wonder (although I much prefer the Synology interface, which I already used in business).

I would like to move towards a NAS capable of broadcasting 2 or 3 simultaneous video streams, knowing that it is rare when more than 2 or 3 members of my family watch a movie at the same time. But it can happen and I don't want to exclude any possibility.

I thank you very much for your work and the ease with which you share your knowledge with us!

Best regards from France!

Max.

Hello,
I own a start-up company that is active in the game testing industry and we want to buy a NAS or a SAN, but can't decide which one.
We need the NAS for data storage mostly and backup since we want to keep our game builds on it so that all of us can access them. We also want to keep pictures and documents there.
I would also want to keep my website on it, since I want all the things to be in one place, instead of having a server hosting it for only 400mbs storage.
Thank you.

Hello!

I had a few questions and was hoping to chat with someone about a few things. I was looking at getting the DS1522+ Synology NAS. BH has a deal for $1650 with 60TB Seagate Ironwolf drives.

With the 923+ 4 bay coming out, should I get that or is the DS1522+ still good? I didn't see much difference.

I am a wedding photographer and with this deal on that NAS, it seems like the 5 Bay is what I should get.

Questions:
- Is there any benefit of the 923+ over the 1522+? They seem almost the same except the 1522+ has an additional bay, comes with 8GB ram.
-If I have that NAS, would I want to get 3rd party RAM and m.2 drive?
-I was looking at Samsung Pro m.2.
- with the m.2, should I get the one with the heatsink? Will it fit and is that OK?
- For the RAM, what would you recommend and does the RAM benefit with the a heatsink too?
- If I use two m.2 drives in the NAS, can I use one for NAS cache and another for storage pool?
THANK YOU!!!