Hello,
First thanks for the great videos on the site and for any help you all can provide. The videos helped convince my brother and I to jump into the NAS World.

But I am about to blow my brains out!

I have spent hours scouring you tube and the internet looking for simple clear step by step advice on how to

(1) move my music library from iTunes to the NAS. Should I mirror the library on my old iMac? Give up on iTunes and go all in on either Audio Station or maybe Plex? If I move exactly which files must be part of the migration? Why use the iTunes server app on the NAS - does it offer advantages over audio station? Or should I skip the Synology apps and go straight to Plex?

(2) Same questions essentially for photos and home videos. They are a mess now and in different file formats some that the iMac will not read (think old camera phone videos from 18 years ago). Mirror iPhoto or move it all to the NAS? I assume it will be best to go to Moments to have that program clean up and organize things. At that point do I move the cleaned and organized files to photo station?

I am surprised there is not more hand holding in Synology's setup to help newbies like myself. Any help or guidance or resources would be appreciated.

Thanks again for the videos

Greetings...have been a subscribed supporter and customer over the years and have learnt much so for the, I thank you.

Two power cuts in the space of 8 hours this week has caused me to bring the timetable on searching for a UPS forward dramatically.

I run an old QNAP TS239Pro and a newer Synology DS918+ (3 10TB drives). Also running a Mac mini 2012 model (this runs my Plex media server, with all the content sitting on the Synology...legacy from when i tried running PMS on the QNAP years ago..it failed miserably due to some kind of bottle necking).

I am keen not to lose any data or the hardware through failure of power unexpectedly.

So, having watched a couple of your video's (twice and thrice over), i'm a little embarrassed to say that although i have a little technical understanding, this time, it's just not translated enough to enable me to decide WHICH UPS to for in terms of VA rating.

I'm hoping you can help...My issue (mentally) is knowing whether to look at the power 'consumption' rating of the devices OR the power rating of their respective power supply units? Hope that makes sense.

Synology - PSU = 100W but Consumption = 28.8W

QNAP - PSU = ??W but Consumption = 24W

Mac Mini - 'Max Power' = 85W but 'Normal/Idle = 11W

Asus AC68U Router - 33.25W but Normal/Idle = 10W

Can you advise which of the UPS i should be looking at based on the above ratings? Should i be adding up the consumption/normal/idle values or the PSU/Max Power ratings and then woking out the headroom based on the totals representing a 40% value?

APC or Cyberpower? Decisions decisions.

Hope you can help...

Regards

Have you tried using a USB 3.0 hub on a QNAP NAS? I plugged an Anker USB 3.0 SuperSpeed 10-Port Hub into the USB 3.0 port on the rear of my QNAP TS-251 NAS and it seems to work okay with multiple external USB drives plugged into the hub. If this works, then it seems like a way to add more USB 3.0 ports to the NAS. I would assume that there is a practical limit to the number of USB drives you could add this way. I'm wondering if you have tested something like this.

I don't have a NAS yet but was wondering if the DS220J had good enough hardware to support one or two 1080p surveillance cameras. I would not use it for much else besides file transfer related jobs. I already have a plex server so I wouldn't use the NAS for that. I know the 512MB RAM would be an issue but I would plan on only using one camera with the slight chance of two. This woudl be for home use.
Would 720P resolution be better for hardware limitations?

Hi,
recently jut bought the DS920+ synology.
Like to use this device to backup all pictures and inportant files...and more
To this time I done backup for files, images, videos on numerous HDD, many times same files dumped for more HDD to not to loose data. You can image for searching files is nightmare. Some of them was power off for a year/years.
Like to copy to my nas but got same file on more hdd.

HOW can I check integrity on files which is better version / on for storing version, files not changed/ on which harddrive. running some program to check it is any corruption . I heard that data could be rot when data just sitting on drive not rewrote on disk.
Example got 9 disk and 3of them have File A, other 4have File B . How can I know which is not rot?
The files is in Folders, the Main folder name is AAA then only A files inside, so there is no mismach for running program. I could run some program on disk 1 folder AAA, disk 2 folder AAA.
Just not sure which data is correct or which is corrupted. To open one by one would take a year/years

Please help me out if you can, if not understand let me know

Thank you

I have a DS216se with two WD drives (8tb each in Raid 1). The one drive is showing 3 bad sector count in the SMART test. Should I be concerned? It is only a backup NAS to the DS218+ as the 216se is underspec for streaming ( which I only found out later --arghhh). The 216se was purchased after my QNAP died on me with both drives showing faults (although managed to get the data off it). I have also been thinking of upgrading the 216se to a 220+ and then keeping the 218+ off site as 3-2-1. Currently I am using 2Brightsparks to back up the 218+ to the 216SE and it just works. Should I move to a DSM back up solution or continue using 2brightsparks when I move to the "cloud" where 220+ will be my master and 218+ will be a remote slave?

Hi ,I have qnap 469l pro, with 4x4tb drives , running in 5, my main us is home entertainment, 3 tvs,NUC i7, 1 Android box,2 Bose soundtouch and a number of iPads/ laptops.
Several cat 5e points running through standard plus net router ( suppler of internet service), NAS located in large cupboard.
Use Plex and Kodi on devices.

Issues ,slow connection buffering on devices ( wired) old NAS.

Would like to update NAS, have Bluetooth via usb.

I am not a experienced on matters of NAS but manage ok , due to having time being retired

Hi, love the videos, thank you for what you do! I need help in a bit more direction of what to purchase. Currently, I have a DS1513+ (purchased when it first came out) I put 5 x 3TB WD Green Drives (5400rpm). I was complete newbie to the NAS world. My Drobo had died so I just purchased the first thing that was recommended to me by friends. It’s setup in SHR-2 configuration. After 7 years, it is 95% filled, the RAM was upgraded at time of purchase. Everything is sluggish. I am beginning to receive emails of bad sectors. I figured it was time to upgrade. I was initially leaning towards the RS1221+ (I have a rack in the closet) but the video you posted gave me lots to think about spending the money elsewhere. I started looking at the DS1821+, I was debating of starting fresh with either 6TB or 8TB drives (in an SHR-2) configuration. Now after watching lots of videos, I am not sure what to buy (or maybe the DS1621+)?

Current uses for our NAS: it is the master archive of our home/home office/family/friends for the last decade. I have a backup to the cloud for the important things and a passport drive for the utmost emergency items (in case of death, etc). Lots of multimedia creation happens in the house, audio recordings, editing, photography sessions, we haven’t really focused on video at all. Mainly lots of audio and photos. Plex as well from time to time, not huge. The DS1513+ will be repurposed for either backup or anything else that I can mess around with.

Lastly, I have Unifi Router, Access Points, and PoE switch in the house. Main computer is the M1 Mac Mini. 2 Macbook Pros, and a handful of iPads, iPhones. All of which ultimately connect to the NAS and backup to it as well.

Recommendation for which Synology NAS?
How much would I benefit from a RAM or NVME upgrade?
Would you go with 6TB drives or 8TB drives? (I have a bad habit of buying all drives in one shot versus adding as I need)

Thank you for your help!

Hi and thanks for answering my question. Based on your reviews in 2020, I finally purchased the QNAP TS-653D with 8GB RAM. It is fully populated with 6 WD 10TB drives (RAID 5). The NAS holds all my music files (mostly high resolution *.dsf (SACD) files, 4K movies, photos and also records/stores 8 surveillance cameras.

Currently, the NAS is connected to my router via cat 6a and my PCs (1 PC and 2 laptops) are all connected to my router via a switch and cat 6A cables. I have 1GB internet service. I play music from the NAS through J River Media Center on each of my PCs. It works fine. But, is my PC media software getting the music data perfectly? Or, should I connect my main PC directly to the NAS? Is there any difference in the quality of the music file between ethernet connected LAN or direct ethernet connection from NAS to one of my PCs?

Thanks!
Marcus