My dad recently started using Lightroom with a brand-new Synology DS1522+ NAS. He transferred all his photos to the NAS, while keeping the Lightroom catalog on his Dell XPS 15 laptop.
Everything worked fine at first, but now he's running into a major issue: everything has become painfully slow, importing, exporting, editing, even loading previews takes a long time.
He’s been connecting to the NAS using Tailscale, since he's currently away from home. That’s when the slowdown started.
We’re wondering:

• Is this kind of performance drop normal when using Lightroom with a NAS over Tailscale?
  
• Is there anything we can do to make things faster and smoother from the NAS side?
  

Thanks for your setup video - very helpful

I tried to make the ip address fixed and it asked me for the primary and secondary DNS servers. Unsure what to put in here and the video didn't provide suggestions. I've set it up initially as a DHCP allocated address, but want to change it now in control centre. Can you suggest how to easily do this ?

Good afternoon,

I am an owner of a Ugreen DXP4800 plus and I have a question that I hope you might answer. I believe there is an option to self-host my own website from my NAS, but I haven't been able to set it up correctly. In case this is possible, it would be great for me as a photographer. I have tried with docker and Nginx but I haven't been able to make it work for the past couple of days. If you have any suggestions or any of your videos already explain this, I would really appreciate it.

Have a nice day,
Ales.

Hi,

I've been putting off getting a NAS for quite some time. Now that i'm finally willing to commit, I have trouble selecting the correct NAS. I intend to use it mainly for media storage and our photo backup. I'd like to run the plex server on it so I can watch whaterver is stored on there on the devices around the house. Not really planning on sharing it with people outside the household, but I expect that may be the case within some months.
Was really looking forward to the easy interface of the synology systems, but the lack of gpu embedded cpu's and now the whole issue with the limited selection of available drives is putting me towards QNAP.
That being said, I'm aiming for a 4-bay to start with, and populating it with 2 drives (between 8 and 12 tb, depending on availability). Exact size isnt an issue for now, and I can always expand.

I would like your opinion on 'the best' system between synology and qnap in this situation. Budget would include 2 drives.
Many thanks!

Hi NAS Compares

I’m a beginner when it comes to NAS but I’m thinking about getting my first one. I’m a part time photographer. Currently I have my images on two external SSD, which are backed up to an external HDD and the cloud. Used storage is around 8 TB at the moment, growing 1-2 TB a year. As my two external SSD are getting full I’m looking for a different solution as I’m tired of plugging in different external SSD.

I was looking at the Synology DS1825+ and DS1525+ being fully aware of the drive limitations Synology put in. My concern is mainly the availability of the drives, I guess if you go that route you almost have to have a spare drive.

Performance:
My understanding is that with more used bays in a NAS you get better read and write performance. Which is important for me as I flick through thousands of images through Adobe Lightroom and if the read speeds are slow the workflow gets quite annoying. However I don’t know how much the performance increases from a 5 bay unit to an 8 bay unit is, because in general I should have enough storage for my needs with a 5 bay unit. In addition I read that you shouldn’t use up all of the space on your drives because you will lose performance. Is that the same experience you have? What is a rough rule? 70-80%?

Back-up:
Currently I’m backing up to an external drive which I would plan to continue to do. I also have a Backblaze back-up in the cloud. What I read is that Backblaze doesn’t let you back up a NAS under the plan for private customers, but that plan is great value. I was thinking to back up my external back-up drives to the cloud in order to keep the current Backblaze plan. But I’m not sure if this is a big „No No“ when it comes backups. Could it give me extra troubles when restoring a backup?

Synology yes or no:
First of, would you highly recommend going away from Snyology? My needs are a reliable system with strong security and I don’t like to tinker with things myself too much. I just want something that runs smoothly, is easy to use and what I read is that the Synology Software provides that. 

Upgrades:
If I go with either the DS1825+ or DS1525+ are there any upgrades you would recommend in order to improve performance for my main use case of going to through lots of images. This is where I sometimes get annoyed by performance because I only need a quick look, decide to keep the image or not. If it takes quite long to even load the image it is a never ending task. 

Recommendations:
Are there any other options that I may should consider? I have not yet mentioned SSDs. I’m happy to pay a bit extra for better performance but for Synology I could only find the enterprise series which is ridiculous expensive. Maybe there are other options I’m not aware of.

considering this Motherboard. ASRock IMB-X1314. Is there a power efficient processor that will work with this board. Or is there another comparable MB

Hello, im looking for large/fast/simple/ and budget friendly storage solution. Im looking at the QNAP 288TB TVS-h1688X 16-Bay NAS Enclosure but Im not sure it would be fast enough.

If I set up the four 2.5" drive bays with SSDs, or use the two M.2 drive bays with 2 x 4tb drives as a cache, and only connect via thunderbolt 3, would that get me faster speeds when working directly off the h1688X?

Or would I be better off running raid 6 on a large array or drives in a DAS? Downside = future storage growth and not supporting multi users connected.

We have a small office, of 3 people, and I could run all three work computers to the h1688X via the thunderbolt 3 card connections with 6 to 10ft cords so that we are running the fastest line to the h1688X. But I feel like there is quite a bit of setup and might not be the simplest solution, or the h1688X has way more than I need in terms of apps and settings.

Maybe a rack would be best with some sort of software running on my Mac?

Thanks

I run a small video production company and it's time to buy our first NAS - I want it accessible by 2-3 editors at a time (mostly 2), editing in Davinci Resolve on Apple hardware. Need about a 40tb capacity to handle the feature doc we're working on, plus all our other projects. Debating whether to keep it smaller and be more active at archiving once projects are done, or bigger and lazier. Either way, need a backup solution too. QNAP seem to be the bees knees, but is it overkill? Could I get away with a Synology at a third of the price? Or should I dive straight into a TrueNAS build? Help!

HI,

I am a researcher, and I want to buy a NAS to back up, store, and access that data in real time. My lab group consists around 12 members and we store our lab research data. We want to connect the nas to our institute server infracture so that we can access it directly from our computers when we log in with microsoft.

Our budget is around €2500-3000. Can you suggest which NAS will be suitable for us and also I had doubts about RAID, wether to use HDD,SSD hybrid or also use M.2 NVMe SSD.

So before buying any unnecessary NAS i want to be sure which suits best for us.

Tasks which we want to do is access files in real time which are photos, Docs and 3D images files which ranges from 500Mb to 2Gb each. This files we want to store it in NAS directly and run on our desktops.

Thank you,
Dhyey

Hi all,

I've just bought the F4-424 Max to combine/replace my Synology DS718+ and micro Dell Optiplex 7000 server that's been slung under the office table for 3 years.

I'd like to run my two Micron 7450 Max NVME drives as NVME cache once I get Unraid installed on the new Terramaster NAS/server.

However, these drives run quite hot ... can anyone who has access to a F4-424 (Pro/Max) or F6-424 (Pro/Max) tell me how much space there is to mount M.2 NVME heatsinks on the drives? The cover closes over the motherboard on these and I haven't been able to find a photo or measurement of how much space there exists under the cover.