Rob,

Just wondering if you have heard of any complaints about Synology Hyper Backups almost doubling in time to complete the backup?

Have two offsite backup locations that the clients DS718+ NAS backs up to. Have verified network bandwidth to both locations (300/300Mbs  and 500/500Mbs links).  It is slow to both locations. What used to take 1-1/2 hours for nightly backup is now 3hrs.
Hard drives check out, network is good and backup integrity checks okay at both remote locations.

Resaerch hasn't revealed any relevant possibilities that I haven't verified and leads me to believe this may be due to an update from Synology DSM ver 4.

As always, appreciate your insight.
Thanks,
Robert";}

The Reolink RLC-423 you recommend is currently unavailable and I wonder what you think of the Reolink E1 Outdoor. Thank you for your help, and all the great work you do.";}

I want to Replace My Old DNS-320 ShareCenter.
I have all the Goodies to make a Smashing Unit.
But Can't figure out How to Wake it up.
With the DNS-320, Once you Map your Network Drive ( in this case the nas ) , it's easy to do, just click on it and bingo a couple of seconds later it's awake.
Now all this is done without using wake on lan.
So my question is how does d-link do it with the dns-320, in windows 10 all i did was map it, no setting up wol.
I found setting up wol very picky and a pain to setup, and for me with 6 computers a Pain. I realise a standard computers motherboard is made differently to a nas, but there must be some way wake it up from a normal pc";}

HI see myself as an semi IT Pro, despite for my poor english

Over the past several years I have had several NASs from sonology - DS209+ DS211+ DS415 and most recently a Qnap TS-653Pro,
but my Qnap is now defective.. won't always boot up - just writes system booting for several hours.
Data has been saved by FTP from the NAS.. which took quite a long time ?

My final question is: should I wait for the new synology DS923+ or continue with Qnap?

As written earlier, my primary focus is photos, movies and securing our data via some backup.

Also thanks for the cool youtubes - Keep up the good work
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Hello, i want to move my entire photo library from ipad to a nas. About 700 Gb of photos of different sizes from 2mb screenshots to big 60 mb raws. Then use it from the ipad through wifi connection using local network browsers like FileBrowserGO or File Explorer. I was thinking about a 6-8 trays Qnap with core i5-core i7 and m2 ssd drives for caching. Will this give me a seemless operation with no lags or delays for making preview icons, instant opening photos, zooming in/out, browsing, swiping left or right etc. In other words is there such a nas that would give the same seemless operation as on an ipad itself? Without cacheing the photos on the ipad. What would be the bottleneck here - the wifi or the nas latency? My older nases were very latent when working with many small photos, although fast with large files transfer.
Thank you!";}

Hello, I've been following your YouTube series "Synology Nas Setup Guide" but I've become a bit stuck and wondered if you could give any advice?!

I have a Macbook Pro Mid 2012 running OS 10.15 and my nas is the Synology DS220+. I want to use Synology Drive but it seems the on demand sync option is not available on a mac of this age (OS 12 and later I believe). So without on demand sync, what is the best way to stream files to my mac without having to sync everything and taking up space locally? I want to be able to access everything on the nas both at home and at work (the nas lives at work) but I don't want everything pinned to the mac. I use Google Drive currently which offers this type of file streaming and I'm wanting to replace that.

Thanks! And thanks for the YouTube series, it has been very helpful.
Lauren ";}

I did not hear you mention if the DUO2 uses 1 or 2 synology surveillance station licenses? The original DUO required two so it is a big plus if the DUO2 only uses 1.";}

Looking for a recommendation on a home NAS server.

My rack:
1. Ubiquity Dream Machin Pro SE with 8TB surveilance footage hard drive, (will store my Unifi Protect camera footage)
2. 48 port enterprise POE switch, all 2.5gbe ports, with 10gbit sfp+ uplinks
3. Internet will be fiber internet 1gbit synchronous

For the NAS, I was planning on:
1. hosting my own email server for my domain (family only... no business case)
2. AdGuard for DNS filtering/tracker filtering 3. Homebridge for connecting all smart devices to Apple Homekit
4. backing up our apple devices and our photos, also photo/video editing for home use only (family albums, etc.)
5. not really sure beyond that what i'll be doing.. but would like a little headroom in case i find something else i'd like to dabble in as far as apps/options on the NAS server.";}

I need to replace the old WD Red HDD in my Synology 1515+
I read using WD RED Plus is better for my Raid 5 system, However, when I check the compatibility in the Synology site, the DS1515+ is compatible with WD RED and WD RED Pro, and not included for RED Plus. I didn't expect this and already ordered the drives. What is your opinion? the Red Plus will work? ";}

Hello,
Would ssd caching help to improve thumbnail generation and qsirch indexing? I just bought a qnap qgd-3014-16PT and I have a couple of TB of photos and videos to organize but the has thumbnail generation and indexing has been going for a couple of days and still has a long way to go. thanks

Kris";}