Hi,

I looking at building a NAS system for home and use as a software engineer. I am thinking of the DS1522 with 5x4TB Iron Wolf Drives or 3x8TB

Reasoning:
1. Current data requirement for home use is relatively small about 4TB. The business use which is the driver for this is unknown but looks to start at 2-Tb. With SMR I will have 10TB for expansion over the next few years.
2. The business use is I have some large datasets to do analysis on. My idea is to leverage using docker to run analysis tools in the background on the NAS.
3.In post pandemic world being able to access data remotely is key. Cloud or NAS are my two options. Looking at NAS as an option, would need to be two-factor auth on encrypted drives to protect GDPR sensitive data.
4.at most 2 two people would be accessing the NAS at concurrently, so 1GB/s ethernet is fine.
5.Would the AMD 1500 CPU with say 16GB. Processing data would would be quite heavy assume 50% of the NAS resources but would need to be continuous. I could easily leave 4GB for NAS use.
6.I am Mac user I don't want to become a NAS expert so the easier to maintain the system the better. Using docker containers being the only task I would want learn in great detail.

From the looks of it all this is doable. Is the DS1522 a good choice. I think any 4/5 bay would be fine as long as it had reasonable memory, the more powerful the CPU the better could even leverage a GPU if it supported CUDA.

Good day,
I am a photographer that works by myself. No staff.
My setup current setup is:

MacBook Pro 2019 16" last of the intel chips, 32 GB Ram

G-Tech EV 2 bay JBOD 1 TB each bay.

First drive is for photos for the current year

second drive is for backing up OS and is swapped monthly of location

Newer technology toaster voyager S3
Drive is the backup of ingested photos to the above G-Tech drive. Also, I swap it out to access past year's photo drives.

CalDigit 3
I can connect the G-Tech (1st gen TB), toaster, speakers, and external monitor (NEC PA272W 2560x1440. Yes, it is old as the hills) to my laptop.

This is my first adventure dipping my toe into a NAS/DAS system.

I am looking to upgrade my current CalDigit TS 3 Plus to the new CalDigit 4 and replace my G-Tech two bay with a new NAS/DAS 4 bay box that can be a minimum of 8-10GB for now. (room to grow) Caldigit TS 3 and G-Tech will become a secondary workstation more than likely.

My idea is to set it up by running RAID 1 or SHR with two to three drives, one as a rotating backup or one drive backup to OS using Superduper.

Hoping the CalDigit 4 with the new 2.5Gbe connection will play nice with the NAS/DAS box.

I'm not looking to connect to the outside world for now, maybe later. I'm lucky to have 20MB where I live in Ecuador. We are way behind the times. FYI.
By moving up to a NAS/DAS am looking to have easier access to a more extensive portion of my past work in Capture One's catalog. I do not need to access my images from outside my office for the time being.

My take from your YouTube channel, it sounds like Synology DS418 or DS420+ may be my best choice for expandability and software.

Cheers~
Kevin

I've been a long time Drobo user. My Drobo 5D is making loud fan noises and I've pretty much decided it's time to replace it. At the moment I think I've got 4 6tb drives in it and one 8tb. I'm a video editor, I connect direct and edit from it. I've been replacing drives in it once every 2 years or so to slowly get more storage space. That's the thing I've loved about Drobo. So now I'm looking at the Synology DS1821+ or possibly the DS1621+. The only thing I'm curious about is the difference between Drobo's BeyondRaid and Synology's SHR. Are they pretty similar? Ideally I'd like to backup all my data and then use my drives that are currently in my Drobo in the new Synology. But I know I'll need to swap a few of those 6tb drives out for something larger in the next few months. With Drobo, that was as simple as popping out the smallest drive and putting a new one in. Then it would take a day or so and fix itself. Does SHR work the same way? If I start with a few smaller drives and slowly start putting in 12tb or larger drives over the next few years, will that be a smooth transition? Basically the same process as with Drobo?

I returned from a two week vacation to find My Cloud Home with a fast strbing white light on the display. After many rests, technical support contacts and other investigations, the drive is no longer accessible through the network. The disks are still moving, so I believe the data is recoverable. My first thought is to piggyback the mycloud off of a WD upgrade and pull the data, and since I am upgrading, I want avoid the current headache of having to break open the drive to retrieve the data (as a last resort), so I am interested swappable bays and the ability for expansion. Is Synology NAS compatible with WD and if so, comparing WD with Synology, which offers the better product value?

Hello, I've been trying to remove the heatsink cover but it doesn't budge, may i know how you have removed the heatsink? Thanks

persona file and system file backup system.
i need to backup all my personal files and system files.
and have instant access to all in my Dell G5 Laptop crashes.

Hello been watching your videos. Problem, I had a synology DS 920+ and had it set up with one 6 TB drive. I returned it for a DS 220+ based on my needs and purchased an addtional 6 TB HDD for a RAID configuration.

Got the new DS 220+ setup going. However my first drive is set up as an SHR. How can I change it to a RAID 1 configuration? I really want the back up and redundacy. I appreciate any help you can provde. BTW I installed DSM 7.1

Thank you.
-Allen

Hi Rob,

First and foremost, thank you for your highly detailed reviews.
I saw a review where you mentioned the DS920+ as a good PLEX alternative, but it failed at 4K, and I also noted your concerns about future-proofing regarding the OS updates on a 2+ year hardware. Should I wait for the DS922? What's the ETA, do you know?

Nevertheless, I would love to get your help in finding the best Synology NAS that not only has 4+ HDDs (for backups) but also can stream within my home network at 4K without any issues via PLEX.

Thank you so much for your time and help.
All the best,
Renato

I have downloaded the Plex app manually to synology DS920+, granted read/write permission and when I log into plex with the quick connect link from Synology, Plex is not recognizing my volumes when I try and create a folder to add to my Plex library.

Any help/advice greatly appreciated!!!

Hello there, first of all id like to say a fantastic to the point NAS Youtube Channel you have, im very new to this NAS and since finding you channel and watching your videos on impulse i brought a nas drive a LOCKERSTOR 2 Gen 2 AS6702T Iv connected this to a mac and pc and works great with 2 8gig ironwolf drives in raid 0. But i would like to buy the 6 bay version with as this can do 10 gbs transfer.
My question is could you advise what 10 Gbs network card on amazon that would be compatible with this LOCKERSTOR 6 Gen 2 (AS6706T)


My current setup is LOCKERSTOR 2 Gen 2 (AS6702T)
2 x 8 TB seagate iron wolf raid 0
2TB Cache Samsung.
1 TB SSD

I would like to add 2 x 12 , 2 x10 and 2x 8 drives in the new system
what raid setting would suit me .
We run a Youtube Channel ( Bournemouth Jet Washing )
so out 4k camera footage would like to go on on drive and then post edting on another etc.
Hope you have time to read and reply.
So much enjoying you content, cheers.

Ps could i back up my videos direct from youtube ?

Regards Ricky Banjo