Hi there,

My DS212+ just died today (it was not reachable, blue led was blinking). When I tried to do the good old "have you tried to turn it off and on again" - the fan tries to start for about a mm and stops and the whole thing is not doing anything (without drives inserted)

I wanted to upgrade soon anyway, so I ordered a DS923+ today. 
I saw a video claiming i can just put the hard drives in and it will magically migrate - is it really that simple or are there problems to expect?
 I do not think that the drives have damage, i accessed them yesterday without issues. My guess would be power supply/motherboard.

Or is there any other way to access the file system before I try to upgrade?. I tried connecting them to my PC - Bios found them, but windows did not see them.

thanks for any tipps/tricks/warnings in advance.

Juergen
P.S. "Funny" how it just died so soon after the end of life e-mail from synology... right before my vacation.... perfect timing... not

I want to build a HTPC/NAS for IPTV/PlexServer/KODI. I use the IPTV function 60% of total usage. I use Nvidia Shields on 3 TV's and although they are OK, they do buffer and stutter when streaming IPTV and using KODI. I have to often reboot to clear settings so as to minimize buffering and stuttering. I have a fiber optic 1GB connection so plenty of bandwidth. When using my notebook with a i7 CPU I have no problems with any service buffering or stuttering.
I was thinking a i5 or i7 (12th or 13 gen) for CPU. I don't think I will need a GPU but should have option to add later if necessary. The unit will connect to main TV via HDMI. Will likely use Sonarr, and Radaar to keep my PlexServer going with TV and movies. If that works out as expected will reduce needs for KODI. Motherboard should have 6 SATA ports so was thinking MSI b660 might be a good fit with 32 gigs RAM. Start with 4 drives of 16 or 18 GB's. Not sur about case, maybe a Silverstone. Want it to be small. HELP

I've built a large unraid server that's replaced all the services in my home. I travel a lot and it's been the best solution out there. I'd like to find a NAS that I can put my own motherboard/cpu in or at least a NAS that has a pretty powerful intel cpu with UHD 750 or greater graphics. I once tried a QNAP 16 bay NAS which I considered pretty perfect but unfortunately the manvel (spelling) cpu was not supported by unraid.

Do you know of any large "all in one" solutions?

Greetings I have been watching a lot of your vids trying to educate myself. I think I'm ready to make a purchase but I feel reached an impass. I have flip flopped between the qnap 464 and Ds 923+ for a number of reasons. I'm mostly looking for a Nas to help back up photos and videos of me and my family, But I want to option to do it from our cell phone almost like a cloud backup. I want to make it easier for my wife so there's no tinkering on Her end. I also planned to store long-term audio and video recording of game guides we have worked on and continue to work on.

Extra details
We live in a small apartment With a toddler. Very little experience with Nas setups. Fairly advance with PC setups, can troubleshoot most issues. I built all of our PCs.

Hi, I have found your Youtube vids to be really informative. Thx a lot for those.
My problem: I bought a DS923+ NAS. Installed all the bits & pieces, checked everything out, loaded up a few TB of data, all OK. All done from a single PC. On the PC, it all works as expected. Explorer/Network show it, files can be accessed fine.
Then I moved to a second PC (both PC's Win10-pro, all up to date). On the other PC, Explorer also shows the NAS. Chrome Browser happily accesses it so I can run DSM (7.2), change anything I want.
BUT, if I click on the NAS in explorer, I'm asked to enter user/password (for Credentials). I enter the correct name and password that it was set up as, and get told the username/password are incorrect. They are absolutely definitely positively (OK, you get the point) correct, but for the life of me I can't connect to it, to use it.
I'm guessing there is a simple tick-box buried in DSM that I need to check, but have no clue where to look. Can you help ??

Hi there,
I came across your great videos on Youtube. Thank you very much for the effort in educating uneducated people like me

i am completely new to QNAP NAS and am currently trying to wrap my head around following issue:

I installed the ownCloud application on my NAS. If I am trying to download apps for ownCloud in the Market place I get the error SSL certifivate expired/not valid. I downloaded the QNAP Ubuntu application to ssh into my NAS and create my own SSL certificates. Not working. Until it came to my mind that I am only installing a virtual machine on my NAS but not really accessing the NAS itself. What can I do to get the SSL installed?

Thank you so much for your advise.

best regards
Gunther

I have a 4 bay Synology NAS (DS421+). It has two WD Red 10 TB (WD100EAFX-68LPN0) and two 3TB (WD30EFRX-68EUZN0) drives fitted. I have purchased two new WD Red Plus 10TB (WD101EFBX-68B0AN0) drives to replace the 3TB drives and later will migrate all the drives to a new NAS (yet to be purchased). I swapped out one 3TB drive for a new WD plus drive and the noise and vibrations are really noticeable. Before I didn't not notice the NAS noise and now it can be heard 2 rooms away. I have measured the vibrations of the drives when powered up individually  in an external caddy. The old 3TB (5400rpm) drive has a peak frequency of 89.9 Hz and peak acceleration of 0.1 m/s². The new 10TB plus drives have a peak frequency of 119.9 Hz. One has a peak acceleration of 1.1 m/s² and the other 1.3 m/s². Is this acceptable? Will the vibrations damage the other drives. NAS noise means no longer suitable for a desktop environment Vibrations were measured using an accelerometer app on my phone.

I wanted to find out if I currently have one disk and data stored on it, can I create a RAID 1 after adding another disk without losing data. My NAS is QNAP

Synology 920 PLUS

As a NUBI to NAS I am still setting up my Synology 920 PLUS unit.
In File Station I have set up 6 Master Folders.
The unit has 2 users plus the admin user.
There are some folders accessible by both users.
One of the folders will be connected to our Home Projector.

I also want to setup an ISCSI Connection and assign a drive letter for each Master folder.

If I set up an ISCSI Connection will it FORMAT or effect the pre-existing Shared Folders I have already created and started to populate.

If I install docker or another package will it affect the info I have already installed in File Station or is each package separate.

I guess these are very basic questions but no one explains these things, or at least I cannot find the answer online.

I binge watched your Synology NAS Setup Guide, I found it fantastic but I am still am a bit lost about the ISCSI set up, or maybe I missed it in the 17 videos I watched.

Alan

Hello to you,

I want to upgrade my NAS's (ReadyNAS Netgear NV+ and Seagate BlackArmor 400) to have only one NAS faster, easier to configure, PLEX application on it and more available spaces for future adding HDD or SSD to increase in size over time.
Presently my application PLEX is running on a server apart from my NAS because not supported. I was looking for the Synology DS1821+ because it’s 8 bays and not so expensive. I think it will solved most of my problems now (slow transfer, disconnection from network, better support-protection and not much applications on it). From what I could understand also, Synology can use different companies of HDD mixed so I could reuse my current HDD in the new NAS.
What do you think? Did I forget something important? I think not but you will tell me. ?
Thank you.