Hi, started watching your YT channel and appreciate all the info and help you're giving.

I have some basic questions. I purchased the 920+ just today for $450. My QNAP TS-451 bought in 2016 crashed and burned a few months ago and have been using regular ext HD ever since so I'm relieved the 920+ was on sale today as I was trying to hold out for the 1522+ or the potential 922+.

Although I've had the QNAP from years ago, my knowledge with networking and security is still very basic. One day I woke up to see my QNAP was inaccessible (beyond the typical dynamic IP address change). I suspect it was hacked and was encrypted. The QNAP became unrecognizable and inaccessible and I couldn't pull any data off the QNAP anymore. I had an old backup but the whole situation was still painful.

My questions are:
- I'm currently using a 2018 iMac 27" that has a 0.5TB SSD. I take photos and edit with Lightroom. I first copy the photos onto my iMac's HD, do the edits, then offload to an external HD over USB 3.0. I previously hooked up my QNAP to the router and access it as a file server wirelessly to my computer. For the Synology, I bought some WD 8TB 7200 RPM Red Plus HD's. If I connect my iMac to my router, and in turn, the router to the 920+, will editing photos from the Synology in Lightroom be comparable to editing the photos directly on my SSD? Would that be the best way to connect my iMac to the Synology while still allowing other computers to connect to it wirelessly?
- What are some security steps to take at the very minimum to secure my new 920+ so what happened with my TS-451 doesn't happen again?
- In terms of privacy, are storing personal info like family photos better than keeping it on Google Photos/Amazon/Apple iCloud? I trust Apple's privacy policy more than I do Google/Amazon. I use iCloud for my phone pictures, and my archiving is done on the offline ext HD described above. But I'm considering my. photos onto the NAS and backing up my phone photos there too. But I wonder if Synology can be trusted not to send customer info (names of files, even facial recognition algorithms), metadata including GPS coordinates, or even copies of the photos back to the company. What are your thoughts on this?

Thank you for your help!

Been holding out updating my SYNOLOGY 1511+ for some time. Love the unit, but seems like I should update. Prime Day 920+ pricing is hard to pass up. Seems like a logical stepping stone till we see where SYNOLOGY goes with GPU support. Looking at QNAP TVS-872 and h1288/h1688 per your articles/videos. The price point of the 920+ seems hard to pass up.

I'm expecting the performance of 920+ will be night and day to my 10 year old NAS.

Thanks for the assist.

Hello to both of you.

Good morning, afternoon, or evening whichever suits the best for the time you read this message!

I've been watching your channel "NASCompares" for quite some time now, which led me here today. You guys are awesome! I've learned a lot... a lot lot lot from your uploads!

In short: I would like to install a NAS for my parents for safety measures. I have watched a tone of your vids about different NASes. memory upgrades, ssds. and routers and against all the information I could get from you unfortunately I am still stuck.

I need your expertise. opinion!

Recently I have upgraded my parent's 2, old PCs and since both of them are in their 70's I thought so perhaps some automated backup system would be nice as well to make sure they won't lose any of their precious photos. or documents. etc.

Thanks to you guys! Now I have some idea about NASes as a whole. but just cannot get around those tiny little details.

Their two PCs:
PC 1 has roughly 3,4 Tb storage capacity (Windows PC)
PC 2 has around 4 TB storage capacity (Windows PC)
Both systems are around 20-25% full

and just to make it a bit safer I would like to make an off-site backup of their data as well on a separate NAS at my place and vice versa.

My laptop (MacBook) has only 1 TB capacity. On the other hand, I have roughly 5 TB of data on external storage devices that should also need to be backed up.

At this point, I was thinking about Synology Hyper backup. that could solve this issue.

If It could back up their phones as well with as little daily tinkering from their side as possible (as they either cannot or simply will not do it anyway) that would be awesome!!!


My first question would concern the ideal NAS for the task and the number and capacity of drives for the NAS(es) that should serve two to three separate PCs? What would you suggest?

I thought that e.g. a DS920+, filled with 6 TB drives. would be nice, on both sites but perhaps it is a bit overkill.

I went with the 6 TB drives in mind as I would like to hyper back up around 2-4 Tb of their data on my side and roughly 3-5 TB of my data on their side.
Or is it too much for hyper backup??

The main job would be to back up the data (photos. official documents, some movies) from the PCs to the NAS and create off-site backups as well on both my parents and my side. From time to time take snapshots of the PCs onto external storage devices if possible, but no VMs or Plex.
Is 4 GB of memory sufficient for this kind of task or 8 GB would be better?

Another question is whether or not should I upgrade their router as well?
I have a few years old Archer C7 - AC1750 that should be OK, however, their main router came from the internet provider company and I'm not sure if there are any ethernet ports left available to connect the NAS to. Any suggestion on this topic perhaps?

Would SSD caching on both NASes make any observable difference in performance? In case it would what amount of SSD caching do you suggest? 2Tb on both devices?

I have calculated with roughly 1500 Euro/NAS (including the drives and SSDs if needed) but I'm not sure whether or not is it sufficient? too much? too little?


I'm sorry if asked too many questions! I have calculated it over and over in my head but since I lack the expertise I am stuck at this point.

Could you give me some advice?


Thank you for every piece of advice you can share!

Looking forward to your answer!

Bence

Hi,

I'm looking to buy an M.2 PS5 SSD expansion. I can get the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB with heatsink for £87. Do you think I should go for it at this price or is it worth waiting for the WD Black SN850X/ Firecuda 530 to drop in price? I have some concerns about the 980 Pro temperature and write speeds.

Thanks

Looking for the best router that doesn't have a spider of WiFi antennas. I have a pro'sumer WiFi Access Point in the ceiling, my router is in a small shelf in the basement. Currently using a D-Link DGL-4100 from 2005 firmware is old and I fear it's going to be a security vulnerability. I might have access to fiber internet in the next 12 months.

Hello!

I've been on the lookout for a NAS for some time now, but I just can't seem to make a choice...
Many sites have so many different recommendations which make it even more difficult, and what's also not helping is that I'm the kind of guy that tends to go overkill/futureproof in many cases.

So, my main use for it would simply be storage. It might be used for other things in the future once I get to know the product better.
I'd also love to be able to connect to it over the internet, be it mobile or somewhere offsite. Cloudstorage if you will.

The NAS I had in mind was the Synology DS920+ paired with (for the time being) 2x 8TB drives (also not sure whether to go for WD or Ironwolfs)
Is this a solid choice? Or WAY too much for what i'm going to be using it for?

Love to hear your advice!

Crucial have a set of 32GB dual SODIMM or a 64GB dual SODIMM if money is not a problem which would you do with and what m2 nvme size wold you go with

Hi, I am a professional photojournalist based in Belgium... I love your channel and I found this site which is amazing....

So after more than 10 years backing up over 1 million photos on 4TB external hard drives... I have 15 of them plus a WD Elements of 12TB as main hard drive to edit the photos in Lightroom plus I am deciding to move into NAS, but I am completely lost on this....

I would need between 24 to 32TB 4bays NAS, ideally to also use it for editing not just for back up and being able to use them on my travels also to access to the pics remotely and if possible to edit them also ( not something often)...

What NAS and HD would you recommend me

Thanks a million

Best

Hello guys, so I'm planning to start a home NAS at the request of my wife who is a major video/photo hoarder. Our requirements: On the fly photo/video upload for emergency cases (for travels), redundancy for long term family photos/videos storage, media streaming to our LG OLED/SAMSUNG 4K TV (1080p to 4K media) and games and software backups.

Here is my question: is DS220+ (460$) enough? I can cough up 200+ more for a DS920+ (688$) if needed but I would like you to help me optimise my costs for my use case. I'll be getting 2x 4TB WD Red Plus for 110$ each.

So here is what I'm planning:

The DS920+ will be directly connected to my router. Users will be my desktop, laptop, our phones, LG and Samsung TV. I will be running on PLEX for the media server but I read about transcoding and etc so could you elaborate cause I don't really understand it. I'm planning to get a Nvidia shield TV pro for the living room tv for computer games streaming as well as dedicated PLEX player

Hi, I have been following your channel since the very first though about buying a NAS came to my mind. Recently I have ordered the Synology DS1522+, 5 x 20 WD Red drives (cause of the massive discount they offer right now), 2 x 4TB NVME for caching (also WD red) as they seems to have more they double of the lifespan comparing to all lover capacities and also found a decent discount for them. I have the new 10gbs nic for the set so the last puzzle I need will be the memory. I know I can go with the recommended (officially supported) synology memory, but 1 - its expensive for what it is and 2nd I wonder if the 32GB limit could be pushed even further. Can you please recommend me the way out of this?