I am looking for a NAS for personal use, like backing up our iPhones and our photos. Streaming movies on TV Backing up our files and other stuff Also, I am a passionate YouTuber, so I want to store some YouTube video and audio assets to access wirelessly. Kindly suggest a feature-rich, good one.

Hello gents!

DS 923+ is the machine and pondering of upgrading the stock memory.
I am thinking 16GB on a single module for starter and another 16GB to come in the future.

The question is:
Until all 32GB get to be installed, can I use the stock 4GB memory along with the upgrade of 16GB to total temporarily 20GB of memory or the different size of the modules makes them incompatible?

Would like to have a short reply from you, whenever you get to find some time.
Thanks
Stelios

Hey Guys!

First of all I want to thank you for your videos, they really help a lot.

And today I am writing you because I have a problem with my NAS, I have a DS918+ with 2TB HDD on each bay and it full, I wanted to upgrade to the Iron wolfs 8TB., but because it is full and usually it is being used by either me or my family to watch Plex movies and series, I do not know what is the best way to replace the drives and expand the storage, so any help I would appreciate it a lot.

Best regards,

Khalid

Budget includes buying the drives; but I am looking for something to replace and dramatically upgrade my Drobo 5N. I run a business and have tons of client files (images, photoshop designs, videos, etc); but also personally we have all our home movies, photos, etc…I’d like to also be able to use something like Plex to stream those movies to our TV, etc. I’ve watched so many of your videos and I’m torn between all the options. 4 bay? 6 bay? Qnap? Synology? I’m looking for suggestions. Thanks!

I think I made a mistake when I added a 2nd disc to my QNAP TVS-H874. My first 18tb disc was set at single raid, and I added a second 18tb disc that became raid group 2 (Single). How can I get the new (2nd disc) to be on the same raid group?

Hey. Love your videos! Thanks for all that you do. In your review of the 423+ I couldn't tell if you said you could or could not use a 2.5/5GBe USB dongle with the 423+. I'm assuming you can, since it's the same processor as the 920/1520+.

Also. It has 2GB of ram. I was thinking of just adding a 16gig stick, since its so cheap and I'm assuming it will add a ton of performance. Do you think more ram will help? Or should I just go with a 4gb stick?

I plan to backup my wifes photogrophy all of our iphone photos and videos and run plex/jellyfin.

Bought 4 18TB Hard Drive Exos X18. Plan on running SHR

Hi i want to change my 2x 250gb ssd in raid 1/volume 1 config to 2x 500gb ssd in raid 1/volume 1 config. My data is stored on 2x 8tb seagate hdd's as volume 2 and i cant afford to lose the data on these drives. I have heard you can eject these drives chnage over your boot drives and reinsert them with no issues. I just wanted to know if this is the case before i commit to changing my boot drive.

Many thanks.

John

Looking into getting the Expansion DX517 by Synology. I cane across this on the page "To have better performance, we recommend creating storage volumes physically located within the same NAS or Expansion Unit, rather than creating volumes across your NAS and Expansion Unit." Can someone explain this in layman's terms? Or point me to a YouTube link?

I'm Mac based and live in an old house with a Deco mesh wifi system enabling us to have wifi at opposing ends of the house (despite thick walls). I would like to have central work storage so that I can work on a laptop in one room and if I want to, be able to work at the other end of the house and access the same files at a good speed. I am a graphic designer so it might be quite large files. Is this possible? Thanks for your help Philippa

I've got a DS920+ that I am considering as a primary for Surveillance. However, as you know, it is HDMI deficient! Short of getting a DVA1622, is there a HDMI solution for the DS920 that works as well as the direct option of the 1622? Thanks