Good afternoon. I just got a notification from my router's software that a suspicious connection was detected and blocked on my Synology NAS. Any suggestions on what to do next? I've almost got a set it and forget it attitude for my NAS. I'm going in now and changing the password for the "admin" account for sure and maybe all the others, all 3. Then I'll look around on the NAS where it shows logins or attempted logins, see if there's anything unusual.

Thanks for aby help.

I'm looking to buy a NAS for home/small office use, that serves also for file sharing, web and mail server. I've looked at Synology's DS920+, it's a good mach for my needs, but i'm not shure on choosing HDD or SSD. Please give me an advice on what would be more reliable and secure. Thanks!

As I want to mix drive sizes, Terramaster seems to be my only option. I am eyeing the Tx-4xx series, but wonder if: 1) isn't the NVMe port on the T9/T13-423 actually a double decker port, allowing to install 2 drives? And 2) is there (for my use) a significant difference between the N5105 and C3558R CPUs?

Thanks.

Good Day to you,

I am very new to the NAS world, but on looking around came across your channel and love it. I am subscribed.

I will be mainly a plex pass user on mac.

Looking at your reviews, I have been looking at the
Synology DS920+
Synology DS923+
Synology DS1522
Qnap Ts-464
What do you think is the best way to go, or is there another NAS I should be looking at. I can pick up the Qnap TS-464 for £490

What would be the best make of HDD been looking at the Seagate iron wolf

Thanks for all the great reviews and your advice

Hello,
First of all, thank you for all the advice! We are looking into getting a NAS at home with the main goal of having a file server, photo server to share our pictures with each other and family, Home assistant through docker and the occasional game server for just me and my friend when we get into a game. I am looking mostly towards the DS920+ & DS923+, combined with 2x SSD WD Red 500gb, a ram upgrade of 16gb added, and then either 2x Seagate ironwolf 4TB or the WD red 4TB. Without any deals at this point, prices for the entire setup vary from 895€ for the DS920+ with the seagate drives & 910 with the WD drives.
As for the DS923+ prices go from 973.8€ for Seagate drives and 990.5€ for the WD red drives.

Hey. Happy New Year.
I’d like to switch from streaming services to my “own Netflix”. I have a TV and a beamer to watch movies on. Also I’d like to make my “own Netflix” available to my parents living in another city and using an older TV with a google Chromecast. I have movies in different languages and I need a possibility to have them divided by the language in the library as not all users can understand all the movies.
I also would like to have an AI recognition for backed up photos to share the pictures of my kids with my parents on their TV or a smartphone.
Then I saw a video about cool things to do with NAS and would like to try the surveillance, mining Chia cryptocurrency and play some retro games (optional)
I would appreciate a possibility to control my NAS through a smartphone away from home.
Which NAS is the best bet?

Hi,

I'm looking for two NAS'es.
I'm a photo and video grapher. Currently looking to make my workflow better.

The workflow I'm looking at
Project on external SSD manually back-up to NAS 1
NAS 1 automatically syncs/mirrors to NAS 2

NAS 1 at home (in RAID 5)
NAS 2 at location of family member

Need to be able to browse my files on NAS 1, to find folder or files.
NAS 2 is just meant as a back-up of NAS 1.
Question, can NAS 2 be smaller in storage size?
For instance NAS 1 36TB with less than 12TB files stored.
Can NAS 2 be 12TB?

Currently at around 6TB of files.
12TB would be a minimum.
My computer is a MacBook Air M1, might add a Mac desktop in a year or two.
As I'm currently on a laptop, transfer of files to NAS only wirelessly. No cable, this is the reason I'm looking at NAS.

Thanks,
Regards

I am currently running plex media server on my Dell XPS-8900 pc with the following specs:
Intel® Core™ i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz 4.01 GHz
16 GB Ram,Windows 10Pro, 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor.

I have tweak settings within PMS to allow my system to serve as a viable PMS. At times, I get buffering when watching videos that are either in 1080P or 4K. I have watched the system dashboard and my system does not seem to ever be really ever taxed but yet I get buffering on occasions. When I look at Synology DS1520+ units that seem to have great reviews acting a PMS, they seem to have specs that don’t match current system running even though my system is 7+ years old. Why would a Synology DS1520+ unit would be expected to run better than my current PC? Just trying to make sure I don’t invest in a mid-level nas system & still have buffering due to other issues in my set-up that to other issues in my set-up causing my buffering.

Primary use will be for Plex with uncompressed 1080p and 4k movies, but also 2-3 cameras and music storage. The NAS will be in a cupboard so noise isn't an issue. 4k HDMI output will be to a receiver and amp. Thanks!

Hi
I am looking for a good NAS with 4 disks (may be with RAID 1) to use for my home office. Currently I have DS-220+ with 4TBbut it is already outgrown.

Also, i am interested in using 2.5 or 10GB higher bandwidth and a good level of RAM.

If possible, i would like to use it to store and play vidoes.

From user perspective, we have ~ 6 users.