I am considoring selling my newly purchased 923+ and go to a 423+ instead. The issue lies when I playback certain home videos and movies as with transcoding, cpu of the 923+ gets hit hard casuing buffering. I am hosting Jellyfin on it which serves the content.

I also have two other options which include re-encode all content to a supported format by most players on my android devices and TVs or else I host Jellyfin on an external HP elitedesk micro pc with an AMD ryzen 5 2400GE which I use as a Proxmox server and 64GB Ram. The downside of having another PC running is the extra electrical cost which I can maybe mitigate by having the PC only run with Wake on Lan and switch it off when not in use (It will require teaching my parents on how to use it). Most videos are family videos as well as a library of 1080p and 4k movies which I will need to encode to x264 or compatible format. I have some x265 and old mpeg1/2 videos from an old camcorder which will need transcoding.

Going with a 42

Hello,
I would like to setup a ssd nas server, preferably synology.
I wonder is it better to use 3 disks, each 2tb, in raid 5 or to buy 2 disks, each 4tb. In case of failure of one of the disks it looks as it would be better to use lower size to replace failed one, but what are other advantages/disadvantages?
I was eyeing 2,5" SATA 2TB WD Red WDS200T2R0A as a candidate for my use.
I would also like to know your opinion about what unit to choose. I'd prefer rack unit, but its not a must-requirement. I plan to use unit in 2,5gbe networking environment so it should has 10gbe upgrade card?
I found RS1221 - are there better alternatives? How long will this product be supported by synology? Is there a chance of synology rolling 24 series unit in upcoming months?
And lastly, do you have any networking switches with 8-ports and 2,5gbe networking that you could recommend? I found QNAP QSW-1108-8T, do you have maybe better alternatives?
Thank you in advance
Regards,
Thomas

Can you recommend a 2 bay NAS that doesn't suffer from the LPC bug. I bought a QNAP TS 251 and followed you excellent series on setting it up. Great channel and great content but I could use some advice.
Regards Ron Webster

Hi,
I'm using an old asustor AS6404T, but I'm having some trouble with it and thinking about changing it for a new one. I'm currently using for archiving all my movies/tv and using it with plex and storing all my work files (not working directly, but having the storage connected to wifi). I already have 4 HDD seagate that I'm using witthout RAID. Nothing fancy but would love to be silent and powerful, thinking about having it running transmission also.
Not a super tech guy, so I like something easy to configure.

Thanks

Hi,

I'm looking to replace my Synology DS215J - With a larger 4-bay.

I'm trying to decide which model is best for my usage and with it currently being August is now a good time to buy?

My use case is:

1. Backups (2 MacBook's, 2 Windows 11 PCs, iPhone, iPad second backup aside iCloud).

2. Storage (Videos/Photos) - Mainly to free up space on my iPhone/iPad. Nothing huge there (5GB?). However, Game stream clips/highlights in 1440p60p maybe larger but this currently isn't a huge size currently just 50GB.

3. Maybe store films/movies on and stream to my LG C2 TV. However, this be a maximum of like 3 films a month if that at best.

I've been looking at the DS420+ and DS920+ - not sure if this is my route to go if so which? Or a completely different model you can recommend.

Thanks!

Hi - have an old 2 bay Synology. Has served me well. Time to expand though - need a 4 bay for storage only. Going to run my own OS (TrueNAS, Unraid, something like that). Just need storage and fast networking. Thinking Terramaster F4-424. Is that what you would recommend?

I just watched your video How to Restore, Reinitialize or Factory Reset your QNAP NAS and Drives. I have watched a number of your videos and found them very helpful. Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to help. Can you tell me how safe it is to do the reset process? Can data on the NAS be recovered by a knowledge person? I look forward to your response.

Hi, great in-depth analysis of the drives. I am wondering if you could give me a quick idea why my 2 new WD 18tb Red Pro drives have varying scores from week to week even after a reboot.

I posted to r/pcmasterrace with screenshots running CDM

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1etx3kh/comment/ligbc8a/?context=3


Thank you.

Thanks for reading me.

Hello I plan to purchase my first home nas next months and am a bit confused with the requirements for a media server. Here are some infos I want and how ai want to use it.

-I may go for Jellyfin instead of plex.
- For now 2x 20TB max is necessary (I think) but of course having 4 disk slots would be best if I grow my library.
-I have 3Gbs internet connection
-Want to stream locally and create users for family and close friends (stream over internet).
-Some of family members don't have 4k tvs, or older led tvs. So transcoding might be good.
-Movies/series both 1080p and 4k will be present.
-Outisde streaming, I'd like to store personal images/videos, and documents.

Thanks again for your advices!

Hi, I am a fan of your video. I have a dell latitude 5490 to repourpose as nas. Is that doable? What os use? External drive? Was thinking to buy an external enclosure to put nvme to save space. The main use will be to run plex/jellyfin, and as cloud to replace google drive/photo to syncronise with my phone. Maybe learn so.e automatization for my home. Could you please ad ise on this project? Better to find an alternative used pc o build one with ised/cheap parts? In this case amd o intel processor?