Dear NAS Compares,
I don't have a NAS and have never had one. I'm a movie enthusiast and have over a thousand of movies that are around 20-160GB each. I have an Nvidia Shield, that is now locally fed with my media files via local 20TB hard drives. At the moment I love Kodi, but I also have gotten a Plex Lifetime contract with a NAS in mind.
I also have a small amount of personal files that I'd also like to back up.
In my ideal situation I have a NAS that I can expand every time I'm reaching my storage limits. Therefore, I'm thinking of having a 8 to 12 bay NAS and fill it up slowly with 20TB drives. I'd like to start with 3 drives RAID6.

I always thought Synology was the place to go, but now I'm reluctant because of their new harddrive policies. Now I don't know what kind of device to get nor the type of hard drives.

I'd like to be able to download from news groups and torrent sites and be able to access my files in 4K on my Shield. 2 People max.

Can you help me? Best regards! Niels

interested in DVA1622 - I have a problem with a couple of people with dogs whose owners don't clear up after them. Would this be able to identify them (and their dogs) when they walk past.
Thanks for all the videos etc.
Phil

Hi there. With your assistance i recently set up an iSCSI drive on my Synology NAS (1019+) for my IMac. Having set this up I can access the new drive via Finder but cannot see it on the NAS / Filestation. Is it possible to see the drive on the NAS ? In particular I wish to ensure i am backing up the drive on my NAS Idrive application. If not I presume I can back up the drive on Idrive via the alternative online access (ie not via the NAS app ) ? Please let me know what you think.

Thanks Mike

Thank you for your time and help.

We are estimating 10GB a week (recorded videos from a 200MP camera phone) for data upload to the NAS we will build. I'm overestimating and building an 12TB Raid 5 array using Three Synology 4TB drives at 5400RPM (The HAT-3300).

This upload will be via a link with password and expiration from the NAS, so external download outside our internal network.

Our router is a 1GBS connection where we see 500-700MBS tested from each of our wired and wireless devices. Due to this I am implementing a tplink Layer 2 managed switch to aggregate the RJ45 LAN ports.

Is the 423+, 923+ or 1522+ (or Other) the best recommendation for this application. We may also put 2 IP cams on as a VM or simply a folder but I want to limit the surveillance storage to 2GB initially. eventually we may build a site where people may view the videos,

I appreciate your time and help. (Of course I asked Synology but got mixed answers from 1 rep to the next).

Hello
I am in the process of setting up my Terramaster F4-223 NAS security firewall and I want to allow Plex server on the NAS to have access to the internet so it works properly.
If I set a allow rule for my local network of a IP range of 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.255 and select all ports to access the NAS without allowing outside access, will this interfere with the operation of Plex with this rule.

Thanks in advance.
Mark.

PS. You have one of the best Youtube channels out there hands down. Keep up the amazing work.

Hi there,

I currently have a qnap ts-462 (unused, new) but thinking that this will not meet the needs of my Plex server (nothing too big - I have about 250 movies - majority at 1080p, some ripped 4k/UHD) and about 25 or so shows (5TB). I am thinking unless I buy an expansion card (QM2-2P2G2T : 2 x PCIe Gen3 M.2 NVMe SSD & 2 x 2.5GbE port expansion card to enhance performance) to improve performance and expand memory to 4GB this may not be enough. I am thinking if I am spending that additional money, maybe it's better to buy another unit all together much more robust. I was planning to spend about 1200 and was wondering what you would recoomend? Thanks so much!

I'm planning to buy a 2TB SSD for my PS5 and have settled on the Seagate FireCuda 530. Could you help me decide which heatsink would be best to use with it? Your advice would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Currently my NAS is next to my Home Lab and I need to separate it, I currently use an MS-01 with NVME for storage, but I want to build a future-proof NAS, initially with 100TB, but with expansion capacity, I thought about doing something using the Jonsbo N5 as soon as it launches, I thought about using it precisely to be future-proof, since I don't imagine changing everything for the next 5 years, and the amount of disks will grow quickly since I edit video files.

Hi everyone,
I’m running out of space on my Synology DS220+ and am unsure whether I should upgrade to a larger NAS or simply add external storage via USB. How would adding external storage impact performance, and is it a better long-term solution compared to upgrading?
Thanks for your input!

I play Ark and need alot of storage space.