Hi Guys,

I’m a subscriber and regular viewer/reader. Thanks for the fantastic videos and website, you do a terrific job and are much appreciated. As Rob says, I’ll get right to it…

• My current NAS environment: DS415Play, SHR, (4) 3TB WD Red & DS 214 SHR, (2) 3TB WD Red.
o I use Hyper Backup nighty backing up the 415 to the 214 and I also nightly run an rsync copy via Hyper Backup.
• Dell XPS 15 laptop.
• DS 415Play has only one 1Gbe ethernet port which I have connected to my router, a NETGEAR Nighthawk A6000 Model RAX120. DS 214 also connected to router via 1Gbe.

Use Case: Amateur Photographer, edit RAW photos on Adobe Lightroom Classic, which I also use as my organizer/file system and Adobe Photoshop. Recently retired and doing more and more photography and plan to do more video shooting and video editing using Adobe Premier Pro. Single user for photo editing and myself and one other user, my wife on a laptop, both for general file service on NAS. Both currently work over Wifi.

Issues/Questions:
• Indexing on uploading larger volumes of photos after a shoot or trip is extremely slow and while crunching through it the NAS is slow to respond to even basic file service use and interaction with Lightroom (eg. importing photos) is very labored. After a recent trip uploading 2000 images of roughly 50-60MB each was quite painful. Then after edits the NAS will index each time which is also slow.
• DSM 7+ not recommended on my DS415Play and neither current NAS supports BTRFS
• I don’t like to be in arrears on operating systems and would like to get to the latest version of DSM and begin using direct connect for higher speed data transfers like 10Gbe. My Dell has thunderbolt USB C and specs say it will support 10Gbe. My NAS is in my office and I would direct connect, my wife’s office is in another area of the house and she will remain on Wifi for now.
• With your helpful videos I have investigated the DS1621+, the DS 1522+ and now the DS 923+. Armed with all of Rob’s fabulous work on each of these I am trying to weight the pros and cons of each and hope you can help me sort through what might be best….I like the notion of the Quad Core and the standard PCIe 10Gbe Card slot on the DS1621+ vs the new proprietary card on the 1522+ and the 923+, the standard can be had with dual ports and the new version only is available with one. But the 1621+ is kind of old at this point. The 1522+ has 8GB memory but only a dual core processor. The 923+ is dual core with 4GB RAM.
• Frankly I don’t know which feature(s) are most important to consider for my use case. CPU? Which is best for me?, amount of RAM? But RAM choice seems more forgiving as it is upgradable (how much do I need?)but the CPU is, of course locked in once we choose a unit.
• Also not sure of best way to connect the networking….Would I use a USB C/Thunderbolt 10Gbe adapter on the PC and connect to a 10Gbe switch with at least (2) 10Gbe ports connect the NAS to a 10Gbe port on the switch and then connect the NAS to the Router via one of the 1Gbe ports on the NAS? I have been told this approach would better than directly connecting the laptop through the Thunderbolt / 10gbe adapter directly to the 10Gbe port on the NAS and connecting the NAS to the router via a 1Gbe port. ?
• My intention is to populate the new NAS with new WD RED Pro (likely 4 or 6TB) as I think from your reviews that the 7200RPM will help and get me away from the whole SMR issue. But I would like to keep the DS415Play with the WD Red as my backup unit, if that is advisable. I am wondering if the DS415Play could handle the DSM 7+ if it were only being used as destination for Hyper Backup and rsync?
• From what I have gathered, it doesn’t seem like SSD Cache will not be of much benefit to my use case. Is that so?

I hope I have given you enough information in a somewhat cogent presentation to be able to offer some advice. I know my case is very unexciting compared to the heavy, challenging things you guys deal with but I hope you will favorably consider my request for assistance.

Again, thank you both for all you do.

Regards,
Joseph

Watched a lot of your reviews and understand the benefit of a DS920+ with a dedicated GPU... I have a DS918+ currently. However I would like to upgrade to a minimum of 6 storage bays, plus I am invested in Synology DS + VSM, hence not keen to swap to another platform. Given those constraints I am trying to work out which the AMD Ryzen Embedded processors (V1500B or R1600) is the strongest? I cannot find any R1600 benchmark information so wonder you have that info or if this would be a good topic for YouTube? thanks, Peter

Hello, new to the forum so I apologize if I'm in the wrong place posting this question.

Does anyone know what generation of PCIe the built in M.2 slots are on a DS1821+?

Thank you in advance!

I run a Plex server on a M1 Mac Mini w/ storage on a Drobo 5c, connected via USB 3, which I want to replace. I'm considering a QNAP 464 or 664, and looking at upgrading my home network to 2.5G. From what I understand. 2.5 ethernet would be slower than USB 3.

So, I am wondering if I'd be able to connect the 464/664 via USB 3.2 to my Mini (with an a Thunderbolt 3 adapter) to act as a DAS while also having it connected via 2.5 ethernet into my home network for availability to the rest on my network?

I hope this makes sense and I am thinking about this correctly. Your videos have been incredibly helpful.

Thank you!
Bensonn

i was going throught your videos but I think I have found one about this topic

I currently have a ds1819 and am trying to safe as much energy as possible

have you made any comparison between the power usage of HDD and SSD drives on a fully populated nas like mine

if you have any information will be great

Hi. I was thinking of buying TS-464 but it is out of stuck in Canada in most places and more expensive than the TS-462, which is in stock and lower price.

Main differences are:

TS-462: Dual-Core: N4505 CPU and 2GB RAM
TS-464: Quad-Core: N5105 CPU and 4GB RAM

I will be using NAS for file sharing, and Plex Media Server serving Apple TVs

Hello
Please help, I am just looking for sales advice and guidance here I am totally new to NAS and the associated technologies.
I am looking for some advice on which QNAP NAS system would be the best for me.
I am happy to buy new or 2nd hand and I have watched one of your videos on youtube which explained that you can sometimes get a better deal with 2nd hand systems

I will be operating the system from home.
I am a mobile DJ/VJ and will therefore require storage for music/music videos and photos.
I run my business from my home address.
I am guessing 4 to 8 tb would be ample to begin with, however I would like the opportunity to be able to increase my storage capacity should I need to.
I would also like to be able to host 2 to 3 websites on my new system. One of the websites will be quite large in size which will be my DJ/VJ website. www.floorfillas.co.uk
The ability to run a home security system on my NAS would also be great and ideally I would like to be able to stream media via Plex to my TV.
Please could you recommend a suitable QNAP system.

Kind Regards
Anthony Johnson

hey guys, hoping you can help me out, i followed all your videos on youtube from learning about nas to buying a terramaster f4-421 and setting it up,
i have 3 x 8tb drives in traid and a volume1 contains 13tb of media ive been using to stream plex off the nas.

ive got a problem where my public folder that i was using to share data from volume 1 has disappeared, even if i create a new shared file on volume 1 i dont know how to get it to access the data from my volume,

so im left with all my data i cant access!

please help me!

Hi Rob,
Just been watching your excellent video on how to use Synology Photos. My question is, I hope, simple.
I have three accounts on my DS220+; the Admin, my own, and my wife's. We both take photos with our phones of course, all of which are currently sync'ed and shared inside a Google Photos account (mine) which is then shared between the two of us, so she has access to my pictures, and I her's. Would you recommend setting up Synology Photos with the Admin account and then having my use of Photos as shared access to that admin account (and the same for my wife)? Or should I create a Syn Photos space for each of my wife's and my photos separately, and then share each space with each other? My only worry is whether I will have to continually update the shared settings. That is, as new photos are added to (say) my wife's account, do I then have to go in and make them shareable with my account (and/or vice versa) every time? Would setting things up via the Admin account give me any advantages with this sharing aspect?
Many thanks for any thoughts you have on this topic.
My best regards,
Tony Coates.

I currently have a DS920+. It was recently replaced with a Synology refurbished DS920+. How are Synology's refurbished products?

I can't decide whether to keep it, buy a new DS920+, or buy a new DS923+.

I use the NAS mainly for file storage and backup. I have a few hundred thousand photos and many small videos in 1080p from my cell phone. I use Synology Photos. I'm planning on setting it up again to share photos. Other than that, I may stream music or a video at times.

I've watched the comparison videos from you guys and others as well. I just can't decide what to do. What do you all think?

Thanks