Hi! I'm a professional photographer and graphic designer. I'm looking for a whole NAS system. Your videos are helpful but my brain hurts. Can you just put together a package of everything I need to buy? I'm Mac OS and have less than 14 TB of data scattered on several drives. I'm currently adding about 2-3TB of data a year. But, that may change as technology and workload changes. I want to be able to work directly on the NAS from multiple Macs in different locations. Mobile device access is also necessary. I'm currently backing up my drives to CrashPlan. I don't know what RAID to configure for the best/safest file protection. I really just want you to send me a package/list of everything I need so I can check this off my list. Thanks so much!

I am upgrading my 15+ year old home network. The planned setup:
RT6600ax router, Synology NAS (most likely DS1522+), 16-port managed switch. In the 2nd step I will add an 8-port unmanaged PoE switch with a set of security cameras and Surveillance Station on the NAS.
Currently, everything is wired with Cat5e and I plan to only upgrade a few cables to Cat6 if needed.

I wondered whether you can advise on a 16-port managed switch for this setup. It will connect to all LAN points in the house (7x), plus printer (1x), TV and the PoE switch. I plan to connect the NAS directly to the RT6600ax (potentially 2.5 GbE or 2 x 1 GbE aggregated). I want to reserve one 1 GbE port of the router for a potential ethernet backhaul as I may need a Mesh router. Does this sound reasonable? Any suggestion for a 16-port managed switch?

You are doing great work! Love the videos. THANKS – Peter (Liverpool)

I'm looking to use the Synology to host photos.
If purely for performance of indexing photos/performance of viewing the photos via remote app, would the DS923+ be better or DS920+ be better? And How much better? (Is it marginal difference etc)

Hi there and thanks for the support as always. A quick question. You mention on your videos that the IronWolf (non-pro) drives get noisy above 8-10 TB

I'm going to be picking up a Lockerstor 2 gen 2 and wanted to stay with a pair of quieter drives if possible.

With the Ironwolf (non-pro) is the 10TB as quiet as the 8TB and is it the 12TB and up that are noisier?

Thanks so much,
Doug

Hi there. I am a home user but can take on more than a basic system setup (used to be in the software game, although who am I kidding, I love user friendly platforms). My husband and I are looking for a NAS so we can have a centralized place for our photos (that we take on our mobile phones, no actual cameras are involved), documents (very basic PDF scans of personal documents), DVDs that we upload from original disks (will use Plex or something like that to manage), and general backups. I am an android user, my husband is a iphone user. We have 1 macbook at home for our home computer and 2 tvs. We want it to be quiet bc we are tiny homers (home is about 400sqft). Right now we use icloud and google one cloud storage to manage our data but are not happy bc it is spread out and does not allow us to easily manage our photos and music to our liking. We want automatic backups from our phones for photos and the ability to listen offline to music/watch movies (we travel a good amount).

Hi
I need a second NAS for my business which I run from home. I need to be able to store photos, videos and I need to work off the NAS directly = 10Gbps. I also would like to run a few VM’s.
I own a DS918+ w/DX517 with 4x WD Red Pro & 5x Seagate Ironwolf (non-pro) 8TB drives (SHR) already, and I like the Synology eco-system, but I'm open to moving platform, if it can communicate/sync with my DS918.
I like the idea of an 8-bay NAS, as it allows for plenty of drives and expansion if needed. Noise may be an issue though.
I want to use 3x EXOS X20 20TB drives to begin with as they are cheap, but not being supported by Syno scares me. Should it?
I've looked at the 1823xs+, as it supports storage on M.2 slots, but no SHR and lacking drive compatibility also scares me.
And is the 1821+ a bad buy (considering age), and is there a new version coming out (eg. 1823+, non-xs) soon?
Help!
Kind regards
Thomas

my PC is on pretty much 24/7, except for updates, would it be possible to use nas drives? I have very old barracuda 2TB that is running hot and getting noisy that I want to replace

Hello there,

do you thing there still will be a 4-bay value series a.k.a. a DS423?

I‘m looking forward to swap my DS2419+ with an ARM 4-bay system, equipped with 3 SSDs.
Weird downgrade, I know. But I only need a place to store data and energy efficiency is a priority these days.

Kind Regards,
Georg

I'm wondering if this is the right nas solution for a school. Including requirements such as streaming, backup of all teaching data as well as ipad and notebook backups, virtualization and provision of network services. In addition, the fulfillment of requirements that may only arise in the future, because no one knows in which direction the teaching will develop.
Many thanks in advance for any helpful hint!
Kind regards,
Stefan

is there any alternative to Synology Photos? My primary use case for Synology is backup, not multimedia like plex. For Backup it includes photos on phone. I heard Synology photos works like Google Photos a lot just for NAS, and thats exactly what i need.

Does any other brand do it? or maybe a one time payment 3rd party backup solution?

Because if any other brand like Qnap or Asustor does it, i may not be bound to Synology and choose other options since i dont need Plex/Jellyfin.