I have a Alienware Aurora R12 i7 32GB Ram & GeForce RTX 3060 which I currently use for my Plex server. It is also my at home computer for everything I do. I keep my files on a Drobo FS. I just purchased a DS923+ to replace my drobo and wondered if I should move my Plex server to the Synology?

I currently just use Plex to stream my own movies and music.

Thanks as always.

Happy New Year!

Phil

Hello, I would like some advice on hard drive types & setup for a new DS1522+. Currently I have 3x 6TB WD Red drives in an older Netgear ReadyNAS which I will be moving to the 1522+.
I have purchased a new 10TB WD Red. I'm now thinking of also buying a 4TB WD Purple.
I'm considering setting up as follows to optimise space used.
SHR - the 3x 6TB drives for general storage
Basic - 10TB drive for plex media server (files can be backed up rather than raid)
Basic - 4 TB Purple for my 4 cameras. (I have SD cards in all cameras anyway (7 days) & can back up footage if required rather than raid.

Do you see any issues setting up this way in the 1522+ ?
Appreciate your views.
Thanks & regards
Ewen

Hello,

I have the TerraMaster F2-210 but will be switching to Synology DS220J (yes, I want the 220J not the 220+). I have two 4TB Seagate Ironwolf HDDs which are configured in a RAID1 array using ext4 file system.

My question is will I be able to just take the HDDs from TerraMaster,plug them into Synology and have them work fine or will I have to do some reformatting?

How many cameras can I safely use on my DS920 plus Synology NAS? I run currently a virtual station, Plex, and Active backup. I have 12GB of RAM, or should I instead buy the DVA 1622?

Hello,

I would like to have a home NAS setup with RAID 5 ( or similar ). 4-6 bay. I want the ability to do backups ( to CD/DVD ? ) no need to spawn off virtual servers unless it is helpful. what is a good CPU / Mem requirement. What is the best interface to connect to a computer. Nice and effective software/gui. Secure. reliable. available thru WiFi. Best disks. I use to be a storage SA many many years ago ( Datadomain / Sun A1000 and used Raid 5 + 1 hot spare ). This will be used to store Music/Picts/Videos/Docs ( basic stuff ). I have a new DELL XPS 8950 with 32GB mem with a Intel i9-12900. so I have good strong desktop. i want something that will be good ( or have updates available ) for at least for a few years ( min 5 ? )
I understand that disks may not last for that long ( thus thinking hot spare - or available extra disks ) what happens if you have a 4-6 bay NAS for a few years and a disk dies and the model is no longer avail?

Help

Happy New Year

I have a new QNAP 664. I have a couple of old SSDs 180 GB and 256 GB. After my QNAP purchase, 3x 16TB drives, and 16GB RAM, I am on a budget.

Would it be worth it to install one or both SSDs for some performance boost?

Enjoy your videos very much.

Neville.

I'm a professional videographer who enjoys a spot of game development in my spare time. Both of these activities require large amounts of storage capacity for footage, sound effects, textures, and 3D models, as well as archiving the finishing results.

I'm looking to buy my first NAS drive, probably a 4-bay in RAID5. At the moment, only my desktop PC needs access, so I'm planning to use this NAS as a DAS. Ideally, I'd like to be able to edit 4K video footage directly off the DAS.

This is my first foray into NAS drives, so the user-friendly interface of Synology is attractive, but I'm not sure which model suits me best. The 923+ is new and gives me the option to upgrade to 10GbE in the future, but the 920+ has integrated graphics processing, which could be useful. Then there's the 420+, 420j, and 418 models, which whilst older might still be suitable and more cost-effective.

Any advice for a NAS novice?

I need to know what drives and drive enclosure is the simplest and most reliable for an 81 year old retired MD Ph.D who is fully alert and functioning but zero experience in command line instructions , although I could to simple tasks if I was told to do so.

I am expert in Photoshopand other photography software & need to consolidate 30 years of files - 40 drives ranging:
0.5 TB, 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 3TB, 4TB, 6TB.

The 8, 10, 12 & 18 TB HD have been mostly invested by linkage in a Mylio catalog on a MacBook Pro M1Max with a 2TB drive and 32 GB RAM. Each generation of hard drives likely contains 60-100% of previously used smaller hard drives. So it could be that once the current bunch of 8, 10, 12 and 18 TB drives are logged into the MacBook Pro Mylio catalog by a list of links to those drives, then I can instruct Mylio to copy ALL those files to the RAID (that I plan to create with your advice), and simultaneously, Mylio will deduplicate and I should end up a one copy of each image

Hello, firstly thank you for the content provided. I followed your YouTube video setup for QNAP NAS Setup Guide 2022 to setup my TS-453D now running QTS 5.0.1.2248 and am well pleased! My questions involve iOS integration with QuMagie and/or Photo Station. My goal is to have my wife arrange photo albums while on her iOS mobile device via QuMagie or Qphoto and have the albums created on the mobile device sync with the NAS so as to display the same photo albums created on the NAS. As of yet, I have not been able to find a practical way to accomplish this task. Any suggestions? Thanks again!

Rodney

Hi

Need some advice on synology 916+ nas upgrade

I’m contemplating of upgrading from a 916+ I’ve happily utilised it for many years
Although its not tired but i dare not run any more docker containers on it. My memory is fine at 5gb available from 8gb, but cpu is moslty hovering between 40-60% as i’m running homebridge with quite a bit of devices and cameras also home assistant and adguard.

The rest of the NAS is just used as a 4k hdr streaming nas …..direct to a dlna device for nvidia shield streaming etc
No transcoding as i can always see plex getting very laggy and tired so didn’t bother

Wondering if I should do the same but been pit off by the processor, at the same time just about got familiar with DSM.

Is there an alternative synology with powerful enough processor for me to get another 5 years of getting cpu hammering or is it a big enough jump from 916- 923 or even 920 …. Bear in mind my 916-+ doesnt have any ssd cache
Will that make a big difference??

I can possibly just use the 916 as additional backup or is the any other useful methods of utilising the second nas although my business need aren't huge

Any advice is appreciated