We currently use a lot of storage from my home office network & have 4 drobo systems but lately I've been having more connectivity with these devices so thinking of trying something different and have been investigating Synology systems for my next purchase. I was thinking of continuing to use the drobo for backup but using the as a working drive. We use lots of large video & compositing files so hoping that we could have fast readible speeds over our ethernet network. Was looking at the Synology DS220+ 2-Bay NAS Enclosure as we (my wife and I also work in the same business) and we often move from London to Northern Ireland with drives in tow so a smaller system might make sense. On another note I purchased 4x4TB drives from the drobo a few years back and made the mistake of buying Exos Enterprise drives which we not compatible with the Drobo systems. An expensive error at the time but would the Exos drives work on the synology devices. Any suggestions would be very welcome.

So many NAS devices!!!

I'm leaving Drobo and moving to,....who knows!

Here is what I am looking for:

- 50-70TB of space on one volume
- Plex, Plex, Plex! Gotta have Plex for movies
- Remote access of files
- Data Storage for the family at home (like a shared network drive

I'm looking to spend around $1,000.00

I have a bunch of mix and match hard drives, of different brands, and sizes I would still like to use. From 4TB to 12TB. Terrified that Synology will just stop working one day because you are not using their "certified" drives.

How I wish I could find a Drobo like setup/interface where when a new bigger drive is installed or an old one dies, I just pop in a new one and it takes it from there!

Thoughts?

By the way,...love all of your videos! I have learned tons and tons.

I purchased a Qnap TVS-H874 on your recommendation, populated it with 8 new 18TB EXOS drives in a RAID 5, 2 1TB Crucial NVME, added the 2x25GB NIC and upgraded the RAM to 64GB. I also put the same NIC in my PC for better speed/compatibility. I upgraded from a Terramaster F5-422 that I ended up sending in for warranty replacement and have 5 of the same 18tb EXOS drives left over which I would like to utilize. I am sorely tempted to purchase 3 more drives and use the 8 drives total to populate a Qnap TL-D800C expansion and have much more space, but the logical part of me says I should do a backup NAS instead. I am thinking about the TS-873A and I could use the leftover 32GB of RAM to upgrade to QUTS Hero.
Two questions:
1) From my understanding the TL-D800C can be used to add another RAID 5 essentially resulting in a RAID 50. Does the 10Gbps of USB gen 2 throughput on the TL-D800C add to the throughput I am currently getting? (AJS Tests at over 2000MBps)
2) Would it be smarter to backup

Sure glad I followed your advice on getting the DS920+ a year ago. Along with that I purchased two WD Red's 8TB and two N300's 8TB.

Wondering if you have any information / knowledge of the Toshiba SMART info ID 220 - Disk_Shift attribute? Mine are reading over 150m counts for Raw Data. Probably a hex format but nonetheless, the definition states this is a measure of the a distance the disk has shifted relative to the spindle.

Even Toshiba's tech support can't tell me if having those "counts" constitute the drive is faulty. I have read some comments that others have RMA'd their drives only to get replacments that have large Disc Shift counts.

I have run both short and extended SMART tests and all pass with no errors.

Do you have any info on this at all?

i have now 1 ssd Synology 400 GB (3400) in my nas for read.
Does is have sense to change it for 2 pieces of 1 or 2 TB WD red SSD's?
So for read and write.
My internal memory is orginal 8 MB Synology memory

I have a 2 bay buffalo NAS configured in RAID 1 (1TB total) that is full. I back it up on an external 1.5TB USB drive. I'm needing more storage and am leaning towards a 4 bay. I would still like to back up my NAS as well and know that going too large will make backing up to an external USB really expensive. Any suggestions on what to get and how I could potentially utilize my existing NAS in my backup architecture? Love your website and videos by the way. Thanks for all the info!!!

Hi, looking for a good plex Nas either 2-4 bay for playing 4k media at home, not much remote access. Thanks for your help

I'd like an all in one solution that can backup my primary workstation files and laptop when on network. Files include photos/videos/documents and the like. Would like PLEX to play videos on the TV's. I have the computers and TV's on 2 different networks. Is there a device that has two NIC interface cards such that it can push or pull on both networks? I'd like to know RAID options such that there is a duplication of files and also an option to backup onto the cloud in case of complete failure of the NAS. Thank you!

Hi,

I have an DS1621xs+ and are looking into upgrading it with NVMe SSD's.

It's a jungle out there when it comes to whats compatible.

I think the Synology ones are overpriced and are looking into buying something else.

Could you recommend something to me that you know works with my machine?

Best regards / Daniel Rendrup

Good afternoon i have been following your video in relation to setting up the mars app on my Qnap TS 464.
Everything goes well with the install but when i come to add my service and connect to my google photos it comes up with an error message

Error
Page not found or the web server is currently unavailable. Please contact the website administrator for help.

Im new to this so any advice will be super
Kind regards

Mark