Hoping to get some advice, was looking at the DS923+ but I see on reviews transcoding for media might be an issue.

Use cases, for own business, lots of scanned documents and photos using nas as backup / self cloud storage. these would be on the 2TB drives.

Home media on the 8TB drives for personal photo backup, plex and potentially backup of reolink security footage.

Currently I have a few have x265 files that stutter quite a bit on local direct play through plex and jellyfin. current server setup hardwired Mac native SSD. Play clients: ipad pro / iphone 13 pro and chromecast with googletv. I thought all of these devices support x265 playback so confused whats causing the buffering? Would the limitations of the DS923+ have any affect on this?

Should I get the same HDD across the board or considering the different use cases, different types for the 2tb drives to the 8tb drives?

I liked your video from Computex 2023 regarding the Asustor's Nimbustor Gen 2 AS5404T.
Any idea when the new Asustor AS5404T might be released? What can we expect?
I asked Asustor but he replied "soon". That could be next week of next year...
For my first NAS to work with home drone videos, 4k movies, etc. I was debating to purchase Asustor Lockerstor AS6704T or QNAP TS-464. Ed suggested leaning towards QNAP for the software and I appreciate that, but I saw the introduction video about the the AS5404T.
Still undecided. Stick with the TS-464 or wait for the AS5404T ? Your thoughts?
Thanks for all of the videos and your response.

Good morning NASCompares. have watched your channel for several years and am a long-time SYnology user - 15+ years. Have a DS213+ and DS1813+ - both getting very long in the tooth. I am in the process of upgrading and have decided DS1621+, given 15 years has passed I can now install larger drives than what I have in the old NAS's having decided on the above 6 x eagate ST10000NT001 10TB IronWolf Pro 3.5" SATA NAS Hard Drives. Have previously used WD but am sick of their unreliability so changing to Seagate. Whilst there are Seagate Iron Wolf drives on Synology's compatability list I can't source the ones highlighted. Given these are still IronWolfs , whilst not on the compatability list in your oppinion do you think these should still install on the NAS?

The whole point of this inquiry is to narrow down the models. I would like to use the NAS for back up and like the idea of 2.5 GbE but will need to fill the bandwidth – HDD are slow so how many bays will I need? When do SSD help? It is for a small business, so I expect 40-60 TB nominal enough. The data must be secure. But which RAID? How much of the nominal capacity is lost in the RAID? HDD do not work well without space free - threshold 80-90% maximum. Nominal capacity is therefore reduced by RAID overheads and HDD reserve. Sweet point for HDD is 10 GB. Drives should be quiet. Does this mean 6 bay is best? Which CPU?

Hi, I have a laptop collection of html and pdf files dynamically linked by a menu system--really a system of html bookmarks. I require remote access for only myself, but desire to use my files in the same manner remotely as I do locally on iphones, ipad, and other computers. I have about 30 gigs of files presently but I expect it will grow. I do not need a website, and this is only for my personal, exclusive, noncommercial use. I used to employ Opera Unite and then Tonido until those services were discontinued. I want a NAS based personal cloud to accomplish all of this. Help! Thanks, Phil

Just looking for info on what you would suggest for the Synology model you would suggest for me to use as my first NAS device. Lots of photos, videos, movies, and lots of documents to back up and access via iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air when travelling internationally. Desktop at home is an iMac 24-inch M1 chip 2021 model

Hello!

I just discovered your channel and website and you guys are just awesome, so much information and guides.

I want to set up my first NAS system, and as you already know, the number of options and the similarities between a few of them makes this a challenge. My needs are:

- backup system for personal photos, documents and etc, that I can rely on (some failure protection and redundancy). Having online remote access to it from multiple devices would be a big plus.

- running docker containers for work and also for my own personal learning. I know this is very generic, but here I was hoping for at least 8GB memory (ideally 16GB)

- running a Plex server where ideally the NAS would transcode everything (but I could live without this if necessary)

I'm contacting you because, in every video comparison I see, the "ideal" solutions are missing at least one of those features, and maybe you can point me in the direction of a solution that checks ALL of the boxes.

Regards
Bruno

Hi there, I have a DS3617xs and I'm upgrading to the E10M20-T1 so that I have a 10Gbe port and 2 x NVMe slots, for which I installed 2 x Samsung 970 Pros that I already own.

Do you know if there are any drive compatibility issues with these Samsung 970 Pros? Synology only lists their drives as being compatible with this expansion card, but I don't like being limited to just a single brand of SSD which may or may not be in stock when I need it.

Thank you for your help.

I just got a Synology drive DS1522+ and I am currently going through your You Tube videos on setup process. The articular you have posted on your nascompares.com site about cache setup is making me rethink my approach on cache setup but I need some clarification first.
I thought the cache work from the "Pool" which was described as a house and not a "Volume" which was described as a room. I wanted the extra memory available from any volume I worked from, thus a pool. From your instructions it sounds like this is not possible. Am I understanding this correctly? If this is the case what is the best method to decide which volume to add cache to.?
Thanks in advance for the video and clarification on this matter.

I am new to NAS. This will be my first. I am trying to decide to purchase AS6704T Gen2 or QNAP TS-464. I want to save drone clips to edit and camcorder files to edit. I dont do complicated, just basic editing, maybe color grading and save some 4k UHD movies to play on the TV.
The OS on the Asustor looks good but so does OS for QNAP.
I just ordered 2 WD 12T Red Plus drives because they are supposedly quite quiet and on sale.
Which would you suggest to use?
I just saw your YouTube on the Nimbustor AS5404T. This sounds real good also. When will it be available for purchase?
Suggestions?