So I have Macs. My iCloud is full and they want nearly 10 quid a month for 2 TB. Nope. Time to get rid of the flimsy WD my Cloud for Time Machine and upgrade to a NAS. I need one with sone power to handle a large amount of photos jpg/raw Time Machine for a local laptop and keep things in sync across three Apple devices. BTW love the site but my head hurts Synology seem to have very similar devices and some with built in graphics on intel and other no so HELP! Cheers Andrew

I have a DS1515+ with upgraded RAM and 5 WD 6TB drives. It runs backup,File serveris, Plex (to Apple TV's) and 9 cameras in surveillance station.

Ive h=just had a drive go down and so ill replace to getvthe SHR pool back, but it got me thinking about splitting the system.. one NAS for Plex and Fileserver and one (the DS1515+) as a dedicated camera NAS as its spends a lot of time hitting the drives (all 2015 drives) and so when they die, It snot mission critical stuff.

Teh question is what to buy.. a 4 bay ?... a 2 bay with SSD's ?.. a $23+ or a 923+ or... etc etc etc.

Ill probably reduce the pool on the 1515 as I don't need all 27TB of SHR many options... any advice would help.

PS- I do not own a. PS5 and would not stream remotely to phone. Im mainly concerned about offloading the heavy camera work and splitting the workload.

Also... Im using Ubiquiti switches and it highlights the NAS load even more.... Two of the four rear ports are aggregated to the switch. best Adrian

I can't decide between 3 of the 2-bay NAS options available. Help!!!

I will use the NAS primarily for storage only, with my Nvidia Shield acting as a Plex Server (so no need for the NAS to do transcoding).

i have 2 x existing WD red 6TB WD60EFRX drives to use in the NAS.

I am tossing up between the following:

* QNAP TS-233
* Synology DS-223 (or 223J - not sure what the difference is?)
* Asustor Drivestor 2

Which one would you go with for my use case?

Afternoon NAS Compares team, I have stumble upon your videos through a friend's recommendation. Your reviews are pretty good depicted, have important and necessary specs even for me, a non-as technological person like probably a lot of your followers. I will learn more, I am learning more, I will get better!

Here I have a question I do not seem to find an answer. What level/type of internet bandwidth should I have to support the DiskStation® DS423+, for a 4 person team minimum, maximum 7-8 people, sharing files, software and using it in a business setting.

I was told I need to check on that prior to purchase the gadget and I do not know what is it I need to have/improve internet plan we currently have in order to support the diskstation's functionality. Any suggestion? Recommendation on where to look at? or answer will be very appreciated.

Thank you,

Lidia D.

I own the DS214play. I mainly use my NAS to stream music files (FLAC and WAV). I also use it to do long-term storing of pictures and some videos. I keep most of my videos and pictures in Google Drive, though. I also keep a few important text, Word, Excel and PDF files, but not a lot of them.

So, my question is, keeping in mind that I mainly use my NAS to stream HiRes music files, would my best upgrade option be to go to the DS220+, DS224+ or the DS723+?

I have 1 Gig home network, wired CAT5e.

Thanks.

Cheers!

Hi everyone,

 First time poster here.

I have currently a 453D (4x10Gb, RAID5, business data lives on there and some more used picture files, separate backups on external drives) and need more space exclusively for picture files (photographer here, tired of external drives).

I am thinking of getting a TR 004 with 4x16 GB  - in the end. To be a bit more cost-effective I am thinking of doing 2x16Gb on Raid 1 on the Tr004 for now and later add 2 more 16 Gb's to switch to Raid 5.

And I've seen that when you do it software controlled (separate pool) over the NAS it switches automatically to RAID 5 , software controlled...BUT
my question is
if someone knows how it would work if I wanted to use the switches (hardware raid) on the TR 004...???


do I set it in the beginning there (expansion) to RAID 1 or JBOD ? 
and how would it work when I add 2 drives later to switch to Raid5...
do I switch there (expansion) to Raid5 and on the NAS or only on the nas and leave Tr004 at (?? Raid 1/JBOD) or will there be a conflict??


reason for asking is that somewhere on the youtube channel it was mentioned that utilizing the hardware raid on the TR 004 takes a bit computing pressure away from the NAS but not sure if the raid switches on the expansion would interfere/cause trouble with whatever the nas thinks it should be.

any help appreciated
thanks
Wolfgang

Hello, I like to store my photos and other personal information that i can access it remotely. Specially for photos, wish to view them on iPhone. I also like to store videos in Plex so can view them on my home TV.
I am not a power user, so like to purchase a system that is easy to setup and use.

Hi, I'd appreciate advice on a NAS to replace photo cloud storage (android and apple) as near the free limits, have one eye on the future (3 kids) and control over my data. Basically after seamless back-up from mobiles, minimal dragging and dropping, instant access. Saw Synology is well reviewed, as well as coping with iPhone backup and whatever other documents etc we might need. Seen enclosures + disks near budget. I'm an average home computer user, could probably cope with the set up but wasn't clear if I'd got the wrong end of the stick, or whether any better/cheaper options. Tbs of storage are overkill currently but expecting to use half as a mirror. Also wasn't sure about any issues with a mesh network - have Vodafone router (wireless turned off) and a Linksys mesh, presumably can plug into any ethernet port? Thanks for your help

Looking to purchase a Nas for home use, main use would be for Backup of Photos from family mobiles, Plex (90% home use maybe a few remote users and odd one whilst traveling)

Would be looking for it to be a Homelab with maybe 1 or 2 VM's

I have been looking at the following.

Qnap tvs 474
Flashtor 6 or 12 (cost of storage putting me off)
asustor lockstor 8
Synology 1621+

Chas

Hi Rob

Just upgraded to QTS 5.1 today and according to to QUFirewall the number of access denials has gone through the roof today... Over 6000 in the last 12 hours.

WTF is going on?


Rob