Hello. Your reviews are so helpful and we are so grateful for them. Allow me to express a few questions though... I was a WD user as from very recently, but after so many years WD decided to end support on MyCloudEX4 as they stopped the Cloud OS3 leaving us hanging.... So now I'm thinking to get the Synology DS420+ fror my home cloud. My questions are these: Is there a possibility that Synology will end support as WD did? How long do they keep supporting their products? Can I use any upgrade item such an NVMe drive other than the ones recommended? The same with HDD...
Can we ignore the compatability list that Synology recommends? I saw a video of yours installing an non-Synology recommended product, which worked fine, but can we really do it with any product?
these compatibility issues are such a pain and the only obstacle from allowing me to purchase it. Do you recommend any other Synology NAS diskstation fro heavy home usage?

I appreciate your time.
Sincerely
Nick T.

I have ran PLEX on my home MAC but need to move everything over to my Synology NAS DS418. I followed your instructions to install on the NAS and did so successfully however it does not ask for direction to be pointed to the media on the NAS. It sees to be just a plain Plex install. I only want to run PLEX from the NAS instead of leaving the MAC running all the time. Please help if you can.

Hi - not sure if anyone is able to help with this, but I've just started having issues with the media database on my WD MyCloud Mirror, and I'm not sure if it's related to the recent withdrawal of support from WD for these legacy devices.

I've been adding new MP3 and FLAC files to the drive, but they don't appear to be added to the media database I access via BubbleUpnp. It's set to auto re-scan, but I've carried out a couple of manual rescans and I still can't play the files. They're definitely in the folder when I look via the file browser. And I can still play all the mp3/FLACs that I've added previously.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Joel

Hi Guys Really appreciated your video's and time,

I Have got my self a
QNAP TS-664,
2x Samsung 970 evo 1TB SSD NVMe
3x Seagate iron wolf 6TB NAS HDD's
3x Samsung 250 Gb HDD's (will upgrade these 3 in time)

Current I have the
3x 6TB in raid 5 installed first as raid group 1 (apps installed here)
2x 970 evo's in raid 1 as raid group 2 (as I installed these 2nd)
3x 250GB in raid 5 as raid group 3 (where laying around so thought why not to installed them )

All in one storage pool

would this be the best way to set up this configuration.
or am I better to have two separate storage pools for the 2 raid 5's

My Main question is:
if using the 970 evos as cache is it a good or bad idea to,
install the 970's first in a raid 1 so the Apps install on these
SSD's and then add the x2 raid 5's to the storage pool
and then covert lets say 600Gb NVMe to cache


Many Thanks & Kind Regards
Justin.

I have the TS-453D and originally got it to setup a multimedia system using PLEX through the HDMI out. Yet that option went away. Will the TS-464 have this option or it the best way to stream to a TV through the network/wifi the nas and TV are on?

Hi !
I'm looking for a Synology NAS essentially to backup (from mobile phones) and share photos within the family. I currently own a DS220j and find the Synology Photos App really interesting but way too slow to use.
I understand that this is due to the lack of RAM of the DS220j and I'm looking for a better candidate.
I am orientating towards the DS220+ or the DS720+ but can't decide between these two models (the DS920+ could be also an option ?)

regards,

Hello! I have my home and two rental properties that I'm looking to put cameras in. My home will ideally eventually be a third rental. With detached garages on all three, it seems I could get up toward 16 cameras each place.

I currently have a DS220+ and two 12TB Red Pros sitting unopened. Curious if they should stay that way and be returned.

Would three DS220+ (perhaps with RAM upgrade) suffice, and what size drives would you recommend? Or would this be a waste and I should just go with the DS920+? I don't know much about NAS, but it would seem to me the 920+ would be better from the standpoint that is one drive failed, there is at least one other for recording, whereas in the 220+ is one drive doing "the work" and the other is solely backing up the primary and unable to do "the work"?

Sorry for the run-on sentences and poorly written questions.


Also, I have an old 1813+ that is still running. Is there anyway to try to make it viable or is that a waste of time? Perhaps it should be local backup.

Thank you so much for your time!!

Ive been hit by deadbolt, lost around 5tb or data mainly media stuff, all business data backed up elsewhere. Ive removed the storage pools and rebuilt new ones, but still get the deadbolt screen when trying to access the NAS with iots IP address.
Nas has been updated to latest firmware, but malware remover cant find anything.
Whats the best way to remove all traces of deadbolt and the screen its redirecting me to.

Thanks in advance,
Warren.

Hi there,

I'm an amateur (formerly pro) photographer, and research historian. My day-job is working in healthcare, and these are "very serious hobbies" for me -- My work as a historian helps support and recognize the work of a large international medical charity.

I've got several hundred GB of archived photos, another few hundred gigs of scanned books and archival material, and a few hundred more gigs of various... stuff... including backups of my wife's computer, old academic work, historical research... It's a long list... Much of it represents a decade-long photography career, and years of research-time. Nearly all of it is largely irreplaceable.

In total I have about 1 - 2 TB of data that is very, very important to me, though some projects I'm working on now could see that grow to 3 - 4 TB in the next year or two...

Right now, I have a small stack of ... 6-ish mis-matched hard-drives on the desk beside me that I manually copy things to to maintain backups, with a running Google Drive sync for about 100GB of offsite backup of the really important stuff... Everything is redundant across multiple drives, and it's just mayhem. It's clearly time to get a NAS...

Access speed is of moderate concern to me. I'm NOT going to be streaming anything (We just watch Netflix on our laptop in bed, and don't even own a TV!), but I will be opening, viewing, editing and saving, large files and large groups of photographs representing a few GB at a time. Ditto for large-ish (900MB+) PDFs. I also sometimes do video editing of educational video content, though I'd probably move what I'm working on onto a local SSD, and then archive to the NAS when I'm done.

Being able to access everything remotely while I'm on the road is a huge benefit to me, and while I can't do it right now, I suspect that once I can, it will become an essential feature to me.

Almost nothing I do is time, or up-time, sensitive, at least not compared to most IT infrastructure use-cases. I can usually tolerate a few days of downtime with a shrug and a "Well, guess I'll go work on some projects around the house." ... That doesn't mean I WANT downtime, but I'm not Google or AWS, and my head won't implode if I have to slow down to handle a drive failure or something. Again, long-term data-security is most important to me.

I live in a rural area with occasional (4-6 times per year) power outages, especially with winter storms. I can tolerate "Oh, my computer shut off, I lost a few hours of work" or "I came home to find my computer had rebooted itself" power outages, but I can NOT tolerate anything that will compromise my archived data.

Please remember that I'm a historian and nerd, not an IT specialist. I want to make these decisions now and then probably not think too much about my storage ever again, unless I have to restore/rebuild something, or upgrade in 5 - 10 years.

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I think I've settled on a Synology DS420+, mostly for the price-point and the four-bay capacity. I plan to run SHR (Or maybe even SHR-2?) for ease-of-use and data redundancy...
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SO... That's my use-case... And the NAS I think I'm looking at...

Now, my questions, sort of in reverse order:

1) Is SHR or SHR-2 the best option for me? I feel like these are more idiot-friendly than RAID 5/6? And more flexible if I want to upgrade individual drives in the future. Am I correct here? or am I missing something?

2) How will a Synology 420+ "at rest" (i.e. when I'm not around) running SHR/SHR-2 handle an unexpected power failure? How about mid-file-transfer? Or during other functions? I presume I'll be adding a UPS system to drive the NAS, but would like to know the answer to these questions...

3) How about if I have a power-failure mid-file-transfer?

4) What drives to populate the NAS with? I see so many options, and while I'm somewhat tech-savvy, there are so many possibilities to wade through. What actual physical drives offer a good blend of performance and reliability for this sort of use-case? From what I've read (mostly various analysis of the Backblaze stats from 2021), I feel like I should avoid Seagate drives, but beyond that, I'm again overwhelmed by the dizzying number of options.

5) What about file systems? BTRFS sounds like the coolest thing since sliced cheese. Is it really that good? Should I care?

6) How does this all work if/when things do actually go bad? I understand that SHR (or probably SHR-2) will provide data security in the event of a drive failure, but I'm not clear on how much of a pain-in-the-@ it is to recover from such a thing... (Will the software *warn* me when a drive fails? I presume so, but ... How often does it check? Might a failure go unnoticed for a long time, and have a second drive fail in the interim? )

If I have a drive failure and I'm running SHR, can I just pull the bad drive out, shove a new one in, and wait for it to rebuild/repair? Do I even have to push buttons? Go through a data-retrieval service? Or ?

7) I think an array of 4x 6GB (or maybe 4x 8GB, to give me room for growth) drives with SHR-2 makes sense to me... Does that sound right? Am I missing anything?

I have an approximate "comfortable" budget of $1000 Canadian Dollars, but that number is flexible. I have a decent-paying day job, and can easily work some overtime to save up a bit and get the right solution. $1500 is probably a sane upper-level cap.

Thanks so much for any and all input!

I have the DS1821+ under control for file sharing and wanted to start leveraging Plex media server etc.

I'm watching this (albeit a little dated):

"Synology 2020 NAS PLEX - First Time Setup Guide with the DS420+" (sorry unable to post URL).

I've gone to the Plex site to download the latest version and I see this (again unable to post a URL to the image):

   

I've assumed that "x18 series" is not for me and got the 64 Bit option, since "AMD Ryzen V1500B" isn't "Intel" nor "ARM"?