We have a club where we use around 5 Pcs and 3 surveillance camera systems. We want to have network storage to have our shared files and also to back up our PCs and our Camera systems.
not everyone should have access to the shared files and also we want to create passwords for the users.
It would be ideal if we can have logs to know who made changes to the files and we want to have versions of the files back to 3 months.
What are your suggestions?

Hi. I'm thinking about buying Synology DS923+. I want it to work with my LG TV (C1 oled). I'm aware that DS923+ doesn't have internal graphics so I understand that media/plex streaming is no option. So my question is - Is it possible to use the NAS on the TV similarly as I put USB drive to the tv and just play videos/movies from it? I mean just reach the file from NAS and let TV play it instead of streaming.
Kind regards
Aleks

Hello!

I’m looking into replacing my 415+ with newer model. Which one you would recommend in term as of better performance? The main use will be file storage and Synology Photos, may be 1 vm . Primarily I do want Photos to be lightening fast because on the current 415+ has awfully long preview load time
I’m more geared towards 1621+ but with release of 923+ I’ve started to worry if I’m buying up to date peace of equipment?

Thanks a lot for your help! I’m always enjoying your videos and you made me passionate about NAS. Thanks a lot and wishing a great success to your YouTube channel.

Hi

I currently have 3x6TB SATA drives configured in RAID 5 with Intel RST. This is on a new W11 PC. I would like to move to a hardware based RAID system, but I have no need for a NAS (I only have one computer). Performance is a consideration and I would like to make use of the fastest USB port on my PC (USB 3.2 Gen 2x2).

I'm struggling to find a DAS enclosure that would use the speed of that port. Any recommendations? Or would the SATA drives be the limiting factor rather than the USB port? Or should I just make use of 2.5gbe port and go NAS (though I expect to pay a premium for NAS features that I won't use).

I use my PC mostly for editing photos and 4k video, but my Lightroom catalogue and the video files (while being edited) all sit on an M2 SSD. So the DAS is mostly for static or archive data. Read performance is more important than write.

Any thoughts?

PS I found you by watching your excellent review of the QNAP TS-464.

Hi,
I followed your instructions (https://nascompares.com/2022/11/21/how-to-properly-backup-your-google-photos-to-qnap-nas/ and copied the photo from google to my QNAP NAS using the MARS app. However, the creation date of all files is the current copy date. Therefore, all files from the STATION PHOTO and QuMagie are displayed on the current day. Is it possible to copy photos while preserving metadata (photo date)?
Thank you

Hi there,

I wonder if you can help me. I’m looking to replace an old existing desktop workstation that I’ve been using as a Plex media server for the last 6 years. I’ve got quite a collection of 4K HEVC video that’s spread across 2x 12 tb Iron Wolf HDs and 18tb Exos drive. A lot of the time I access this media remotely, on a connection with potential upload speeds of 200mb. I’m sure you’ve worked out that I have no idea what I’m doing. I’ve done my best to research the most appropriate NAS that I can scale over time, and don’t particularly want to ideally make use of the HDs that I have currently have. I’m looking for a NAS that I can keep adding to, that will not need replacing in the next 5 years, and can handle multiple 4K streams and will backup on its own. I’d be really grateful if you could share any advise with me. Thank you in advance.

Matt

Will the ps5 ElecGear heatsink you tested fit on top of a Seagate 530 w/heatsink SSD installed in a PS5. If yes is it redundant to have a heatsink SSD with an additional heatsink installed instead of the standard metal m. 2 cover the ps5 comes with?

Hello I have been following your YouTube video comparisons on the DS920+ vs the DS923+. I was going to wait to purchase the DS923+ because I figured the latest release would be better than a model which is already 3 years old. The reason I am looking for a NAS is we own a home based business and we have data stored on too many devices and cloud services like Google Drive. We want to amalgamate all our data in one convenient location. We also want to make use of the raid as we are always concerned with losing data. So the DS923+ seemed like an ideal fit, however after watching your YouTube videos we learned many users of these NAS devices use them with PLEX. Although we aren't using PLEX it is something we are interested in. We currently subscribe to a TV satellite service, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. We would be interested in lowering our expenditure on these services if we could have access to good content. So we are unsure if the benefits of the 923+ are really even needed of our use. If we did purchase a DS920+ will we be able to use it with the latest version of DSM? Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

One thing that has been impressed upon me by Robbie and Eddie is that RAID is not a backup. With that in mind, I've relegated my QNAP to backup duties for my Synology. One thing that really baffles me is that on a home network with mostly Windows devices that easily communicate with each other, just how difficult it can be for two NAS's to communicate with each other. And backing up one to another is a major pain. NASCompares did videos on backing up a Synology to a QNAP and one on backing up a QNAP to a Synology. This process uses Rsync and one of the NAS's native apps. My limited experience in doing this was just awful. Awkward software, a bunch of files and folders at the destination that I didn't want or expect. And finding that I needed to enable my previously disabled Admin account to delete this junk. Scratch that.

Previously, because my Windows PC was usually running, I continued to use FreeFileSync (FFS) to do my backups. I use Windows Task Scheduler to run it once each week without any user intervention. There are reasons why I do it only once each week but won't go into that here. FFS is extremely flexible and easy to configure. And it's free.

Finally, I found SyncThing. I haven't tried it yet but it may just be better than FFS. And from the YouTube videos that I've watched, it too should be very flexible. But much more complicated than FFS.

Whatever my final choice is, it won't be Rsync.

I'd love to hear how other users back up their NAS's to another NAS.

Hey NAS Compares,
I needed some advice if you can help with please.
I have a DS218+. For few weeks now, I am not able to find or connect to my NAS at all. Even connecting the NAS (on synology's advice) directly via ethernet does not work. Synology thinks that probably there is a fault with the main system board. But since the NAS is out of warranty now, this is what they replied with - "we would not be able to assist with this issue as we do not provide a repair service for out of warranty units. In this event, you may wish to find a 3rd party company who offer repairs on Synology products (though, we are unable to recommend any companies for this)". Basically they want me to buy a new NAS from them.

Do you know if this can be fixed? Do you know of any 3rd party service provider near London who can help me with this? To me everything else seems to be working fine. I really don't want to buy a new one and add to e-waste if this can be fixed.

Appreciate your help on this.
Sushil