Hi - I am trying to set up a storage server for home use with approx. 12 users in the family with predominant usage for media including photos, videos, documents and other back up. I am confused whether or not to be content with ds220+ or future proof our storage server with ds1522+. If you were to suggest the 5 bay system please also help me with choosing the right storage capacity.

We might have upwards of 3 TB data already with growing needs since I am a street photographer & would need a good back up, accessible solution.

I want to set up a NAS for my home network. I have multiple HDD's full of media (Photos, Films, Music etc) as well as all my usual home documents. I would like to put them all together. So I can access from anywhere and also view media on my tv, music on my amp etc. I don't really know where to start, will my Sky router/modem be okay or do I need to upgrade to a differenet router and is there a specific type of NAS that would suit my needs?

Thanks for any help.

I actually just wanted to comment about the new 10g nvme cards that Qnap has, it's really hard to find any information about them besides from qnap themselves and I really enjoy the breakdown of the nest compares YouTube videos. I was wondering if you have any plans on doing the QM2-2P10G1TB or the QM2-2P410G1T as they are PCIe gen 3 and 4 which will fix some of the bottleneck issues with the QM2-2P10G1TA. I would love to see some benchmarks ?

Thank, Chad

Hi

I have beed looking at your videos about Hyper backup, and one thing that I didn't see in your video, but that popped up during the setup for me was a question (I can't remember it exactly) if I would give C2 access to the NAS or something like that. I think it was in a pretty big greenish window. And I think it was pretty late during the whole setup of C2 Storage in hyper backup.

Do you know what I mean? What permissions was actually asked, and what should I have chosen?

Is there a way to take that permission back?

I chose yes, but now afterwards I am afraid of what I gave permission for (for ex Synology to look inside my NAS, or permission to gather data from my NAS or look into my backup or something like that).

So I wanted to reach out to you since I couldn't see this permission question in your videos.

I bought the components to rebuild/improve my home network. I need help in how to properly set it up in the right order. I bought what I think based upon some of your recommendations the right equipment to make a 2.5gbe small network. With other 1gbe components. And need to know how I should set up the 2.5 switch? I have a cable modem that I need to know should it run to the 2.5bge port on the router? Or the 1gbe? What order do I hook up the 2.5 switch to get the faster speed from the router, 2.5 gbe asustor Nas, Mac computers with usb 2.5 adapters, and 1gbe Poe+ switch for surveillance cameras and other 1gbe devices.

I'm going to be using the NAS primarily to store and stream video content. I will be ripping DVD videos and audio CDs from my existing collection.

What would be the best video format to store on the NAS?

Hi I’ve been watching your YouTube videos for just over a year and waiting for the synology ds922+ to make an appearance but since it looks likely to be next year I was wondering if the ds920+ would still be ok for photos.

I’m looking at synology as it seems very beginner friendly and I like to idea of being able to add drives later on without needing to match capacity, basically what I want to do is have a central point for all photos to be accessed by different computers etc so edits will be made over the network in Lightroom Classic directly on the NAS. Will it be fast enough or am I better off getting the ds1522+ which I think can be upgraded to 10GbE or will that not matter? I’ll be copying images at around (20mb each) 64gb or less at a time onto the NAS but as long as it’s not going to take hours a few minutes won’t make a difference to me. I’d like it to be reasonably future proof and would rather spend more now than need to upgrade in a couple of years. What would you suggest?

Also is there somewhere you recommend buying from other than Amazon?

Thanks in advance
Katie

Hi,

I have my NAS now for 3/4 years with the 6TB setup in RAID1, so 3TB usable storage. I am looking in upgrading the storage since I have been struggling for quite some time now by deleting stuff etc. Now I was looking at different sizes of storage and brands. WD Red plus/pro caught my attention, I know pro is more enterprise usage but they seem to be a bit cheaper sometimes?

The thing I am struggling with is the max amount of storage that can be insert in the NAS per bay (if there is any?) and what you would recommend to be future proof. Also keeping in mind I would like to have more than just me using the NAS for backups and file storage.

Looking forward to reading your opinions, cheers!

I had recently set-up 2x500GB nvme cache drives and decided to slot in 2x1TB instead. The synology beep and messaging lead me to 'remove cache drive' which i opted for but now the entire previous volume across the 5 drives has 'disappeared' (SHR). Not wanting to do anything else is there an easy rebuild with the new cache drives in place to recover all the data (around 30TB of media!) or should I reinsert the original cache but guess having 'removed' it means it wont be valid/available. Any thoughts or suggestions would be most helpful.

Hi,

I watch alot of your vids on youtube and read your posts.
Im looking to buy my own NAS drive from home use.
Primarily i wish to use the NAS to store and organise mine and my families photos.
This will be from multiple devices and with multiple users.
I wish to have multiple users have their own storage and backup (which has to be automatic) from their iPhone devices. This would need to include both photos and videos.
Then be able to use facial recognition to make managing and organising easier.
I also dabble in IT so I would like to see if I can have virtual server setup, either windows or Linux.
I have installed Synology devices before for people (218 Play and 720+) but those had been for business uses.

I might wish to dabble in Plez which would need to be viewed from either mobile devices and Android TV's.

In your esteemed opinion, which make and model would you think best suits my needs.

I thank you in advance

Faizal