I am a pure home/family NAS user.

I back up a few Macs with Time Machine, store pictures on the NAS, and have a folder with important documents in Synology cloud. (instead of iCloud or google drive)

Do I need SSD cache?

Thanks for your advice

Dear team
I hope you can help us with 2 hopefully easy inquiries.
Today our family uses 3x DS916 NAS devices for our family data (e.g., photos, family movies, data backup etc.).
We would like to increase our storage capacity. When we bought the devices we set them up with 2x 8tb raid 1 and then we added another 2x 16tb raid 1.
1. the DX513 is no longer around and we'd like to know if the DX517 is compatible with our DS916 devices, s owe can buy 3 expansion devices for each NAS. Then we'd like to know if we can buy standard drives (our preference would be for 24x Ultrastar DC HC590 24TB in SHR mode for usage with the DX517)
2. As an alternative we found some good offers on some older DS1821+ devices, but again we cannot find any information if they would work with Ultrastar DC HC590 24TB in SHR mode as the official compatibility list is very small. Could you help us clarify this point or does the DS1821 only works with a very limited list of enterprise hard drives?
kostas and eleni

I've a Sandisk 1TB Extreme Pro SSD. It cannot get detected (or better said it shows up for few seconds, then disconnects and the reconnects).
I see Sandisk drives are trouble by HW faults and a SW Firmware issue. The drive serial number is 2127MT401506. According to Sandisk, it's not part of the faulty batch (FW issue).

Currently have Synology 920+, 8 MB Ram, 48TB in drives and 2 NVME cache. I primarily use this for Plex. My brother-in-law wants to mirror me so he can have local Plex and share movies. Things have changed, any recommendations? QNAP?

Hey. I'm looking for advice to build a power efficient 16tb nas. I would like a more diy type of solution, excluding. I was quite interested in the n100 celeron cpus but it seems the lack of pcie lanes really limits this. I also looked into used office hardware, which I am really interested in.

I intend to run a lot of docker containers (various webapps), use this as some sort of backup, as well as a media server.

I am having a lot of difficulty finding a reasonable solution without breaking the bank. I am open to and would prefer using used hardware.

Thank you!

Hi all, 

I'm a photographer and have been using a DS1513+ and a DS1819+ for the last 10 years for the majority of my storage, daily backups etc.

The DS1513 is still taping along and working fine.  I syncs with my dropbox and stores all the nightly backups.

The DS1819 has the photography Archive and some working files.  (it has SSD read write caches and the 10GBE nic)
I'm running out of space on it (8x16gb hdds)

I need to increase my archive storage.
I don't need remote access, but I do need speed for large photography files (20gbs) and raw video footage.

I see my options as:

1. purchasing a DX517+  with 5x 20tb drives and extending the ds1819+ with an extra volume for older less accessed storage.
   
2. purchasing a DS1821+ with 5x 20tb drives and 10gbe NIC that would replace the 1819+
   1819 would be used for older storage and 1821+ for more current (move SSD cache over to 1821+)
   1513+ would remain as a backup unit.
   
3. Leave Synology for another vendor.
   

Hi
I am getting concerned that my Synology DS115j is getting old and ought to be replaced before it actually fails. I purchased it in August 2017 so it is 7+ years old.
It was my first NAS and at the time was an experiment in digitizing CDs. Turns out the experiment was a success and I am now committed to maintaining my music library on a NAS in FLAC format.
The DSM seems slow, but I can live with that. I am okay with the single bay because I run Cloud Sync to backup my music to OneDrive...unless there is a better way.
Should I replace the DS115j now or can I wait until it actually fails?

Hello, I'm looking to replace my Synology 918+ with a newer model, preferably with 2.5G or 10G network speeds to match my HDDs. I plan to purchase 20TB or 22TB drives. Currently, I use my 20TB for all backups, Plex, and would like to host books. I have a separate 20TB for Blu-ray rips and another 20TB for retro gaming, which I'd like to centralize. I'm considering either two QNAP/ASUSTOR units with n5105 processors, an ASUSTOR Lockerstore Gen 3, or other potential solutions. Ideally, I'd like to run a modded Minecraft server using Crafty or Pterodactyl, and handle 4K Plex transcoding of my Blu-ray rips.

I have managed Windows Storage, Servers, Authentication, and Network Services (DHCP, DNS, Authentication, Storage Security) in both Private Business and State GOV Datacenters for over 35 years. Want to move AWAY from Windows Server and Active Directory.
Have 2.5G managed, 1Gb unmanaged switches and a hi-end WiFi Mesh.
Would like NAS to support:
- Win10/11 Clients File access & backups.
- Asstd Linux Clients for same.
- VirtualBox? (other?) VM support for occasional Win10/11 VM's & persistent Linux VM's (i.e. Pi-Hole Secure DNS Server)...and LDAP Services if needed?
- 1080p and 4k media to AZ FireTVCubes.
Like mixed drive RAIDs if the performance and reliability doesn't suck (Hybrid/TRAID?).
NAS with VIDEO Output (KVM) for DIRECT Administration (not a fan of 100% Web base Administration).
Your VIDs DO help, but I'm drowning in RETIRMENT time re-education - THANX!

I just purchased a QNAP TS-264 with 1x8TB HDDs use for intended for media and backup but wishing to expand into other "server" type areas. Would a RAID-1 SSD storage pool for the system volume plus some generally static file storage be (1) viable and (2) worthwhile vs. deploying just as cache? Advice on SSD as storage pools is rare, since the use case with NASes is relatively new. I can't find definitive guidance if the SSD durability concerns that favor NAS-focused SSDs from WD and Seagate equally apply to storage pool use... QNAP's compatibility list has many examples of SSDs that would fair poorly (long-term) for caching, but might be okay in less strenuous situations... any thoughts there? Bottom-line, what are your thoughts on SSD storage pools for lower-end QNAPs and what SSDs do you like for them?