I love your videos. But the "Synology DS1522+ vs DS920+ NAS - Which Should You Buy?" video raised a couple of questions that other videos didn't bring up.

I'm going to be using this to stream personal media, work on video and music files, connect via Wi/Fi in the house and remotely (due to being a Software Developer). I need it to connect fast. Is the 2-core 1522+ enough of an issue to go with the 4-core 920+? I have a 2022 Macbook Pro that is loaded with speed but I worry that the connection with a slower NAS might render that power moot.

I suppose I'm all over the place with my question and being new to NAS (or needing a NAS now), I just want to get the best buy.

Thank you in advance for your input and suggestions

Aloha sir! I have a question for you that Synology Tech support wasn't able to answer.

Scenario: Use TWO synology NAS devices to create a redundant web serve, with the 2nd device at a different location?

I am considering taking all my web-hosting in house.

Is there a (good) way to have one synology mirror to an off-site 2nd synology that would instantly become the primary web server should anything happen to the first? Automatically? I understand the heartbeat connection with HA setups, but this would not solve a problem with a large power or web-outage in the area.

Id like the 2nd device in a completely different location, ready to take over for the first should there be any reason the first goes offline. Perhaps you have already done a video on this? If not, any guidance would be appreciated. I was confiding two 720+ with same hardware, 2 locations. OR, a 1620XS+ as primary with a 720+ as backup offsite. (this would be better)

Thoughts? Ideas?

Thank you for all you do in the NAS community! I reference your videos and articles continuously!

I set up 3 iscsi drives on my pc windows 11 machine, they worked great. Yesterday I had updates to the pc and the 3 drives disappeared on the pc. On the NAS 1821+ the 3 LUNs show healthy and connected. All 3 have data on them so I would prefer not to delete and start over. Any suggestions on how to proceed getting the drives to appear back on my pc. Thanks

My hobby website creates a lot of small files 20 million in the last year.
Primary storage is 4TB nvme on the server and using truenas as backup, and another truenas as backup to backup, plus blackblaze backup of backup of backup. My server is connected to truenas with 10G fiber sfp+. Needed fiber because db backup took too long.

My truenas was cobbled together using old server and cheapest drives I could find. I am now fedup with truenas sw. Surprized that the cheap hw is not my problem. Little truenas documentation and forums with hostile attitudes. My z2 pool just disappeared today. So a sign I need something new, maybe a little more professional.

Is there a nas that could take the 4TB nvme as a cache and disks for slow storage and support sfp+ port that is more user friendly than truenas? Also use my truenas as back of backup to this new sas.

Please, I need an advice on a problem I have with my Drive that is connected via USB to my Synology RT2600ac router. My drive is a My Book 8TB drive from Western Digital.

I noticed my movies were not showing on my list and I thought some update on the software could have messed up my library. I tried to fix it and add the path for the library but the drive was not showing.

I turned to the SRM in the router to see if the drive was there. But it is not. That is bad.
I'm using SRM 1.2.5-8227 Update 5, when I setup the drive I formatted using SRM.
I think I can't mount it on Mac and Windows.

Is there hope to a fix for my case?

i cant find anywhere on how to change the transcoding driver plex uses by default as it dont play h.265 well but i heard there was a fix for it

Hello,

Following up on a previous communication when you gave great advice on how to switch from no raid to raid on my existing server.

Wondering if you can help with the sequence of my specific setup to make sure I don’t blow away any of my existing data. My server is a 2 bay Qnap TS-251-D

Current Setup:
- no Raid
- Bay 1 - 4GB Hard drive
- Bay 2 - 6GB Hard drive
- there is independent data on each drive

Proposed Setup
- Raid
- Bay 1 : 10GB Hard Drive
- Bay 2: 1 TB SSD

Where I’m getting stuck is how do I essentially consolidate by 4GB and 6GB hard drives into 1 10GB hard drive while creating a RAID configuration and not lose any of my data?
Really appreciate your thoughts, thank you so much!!

Hi guys, love your site and videos, well done! :-)

I’ve been watching a lot of your videos on the topic and yet I still pounder on which NAS to choose.

I use the Nas for my family’s personal files, run a Plex server and I will want to use Va for a home assistant servers.

My initial thoughts is that the 1520+ is better for me with the embedded gpu, but I hardly transcode anything.

I’d like the Nas to support 4K hdr for my theater but if I’m correct, as long as the client playing the file does the job, the embedded gpu won’t come into play?

I don’t think I’ll use the 10GB adapter option of the 1522+ for quite a while, but it seems nice to have that option for the future, especially if I wan’t to start doing work from my pc on files heavier directly on the NAS?

I will want to put all my photos on the Nas in replacement of Google photos if it’s nice enough, but I’m not sure the gpu is used in this case, or make significant difference.

I have WD red standard and plus drives so I think I’d be ok either way.

After watching you initial assessments I had set my mind on the 1520. But I now have second thoughts. The 1522 is essentially the same price and I’m struggling to make a definitive choice for my use case.

Would you have any additional recommendation that could help?

Cheers
Cedric

I'm looking for a _reliable_ outdoor security camera. (I have an inexpensive one currently that always seems to disconnect.) Ideally I'm looking for something solar-powered. I do have an outdoor plug, but it would be very easy for someone to access the plug to disable the camera.

Do folks like Synology Surveillance Station, or am I better off getting something highly rated that uses its own software/app with cloud storage? Any specific recommendations? Thanks in advance!

I recently got an ASUSTOR AS5304T and love it. Plex runs wonderfully but I was not expecting the NAS system to be so loud. I only have 2 drives populated, one is an 8TB Seagate Iron Wolf and the other is a Seagate Exos 8TB not in a RAID configuration. Do you have any recommendations for minimizing the sound levels. Most of the time it runs fairly quiet but there are times where it seems like the system is running/processing a lot on the drives even though I am not using Plex or doing any file transfers.

I am mostly using the NAS for Plex and file storage for pictures, documents, videos, etc.