can you pls tell me the price of Synology FS3410

Hi, I'm looking for a NAS for my home. I'm undecided between the DS220J and the DS220+.
I would use it (4 people max using it) for File Storage (also remotely), video playback (Mostly inside the house, without transcoding if possible), Photo Sync with Synology Photos, and for a docker station so that I can run some light programs a password manager from inside my home.
The only 3 issues I have with the DS220J are: Can I run docker without eating all of the RAM? Is half a gig of memory enough for my daily tasks? Can I stream my video files to my TV (The file will play from a USB stick on the TV and a simple Network Shared folder from Windows)?
Thanks for reading this, I just need to know which one to buy.

Hi,
I need to stop m NAS changing it's location on the network all the time. I've set qfile up to backup the iphones but the NAS changes it's port and name all the time and I have to keep searching with Qfinder pro and set it back up again. It then goes through thousands of photos which have already been uploaded. Can you point me to somewhere that explains how to avoid this in simple terms.
Thank you.
Martin

running synology router and synology 918+ Nas. connections are intermittent some days windows and mac both work fine other days nothing. whether it's mapped drives, through web portal and sometimes mobile apps on android. I'm fairly certain it's a permission setting i'm missing somewhere. any help would be much appreciated

What is the best solution if my home office is upstairs and my router is downstairs? I am a photographer and videographer. Is it using Powerline adapters? Are they reliable for speed?

Hi,

Our church is wanting to put up some cameras just to capture the entrances and see who's coming and going. We will most likely go with 4 cameras and our facility covers quite a bit of square footage between 2 buildings, so running home runs to an NVR is just straight out of the question. Which leads me to NAS. I am a complete novice to anything NAS related. I don't know what makes a NAS good, what makes it bad, or how to set one up (although I'm sure it's easier that I have it built up to be in my head).

This NAS will live at our network head-end location, so right next to our router and our best switch. We don't currently have a high network demand for other traffic, so 4 cameras won't cause any noticeable congestion. My primary inquiry is this: We'd like to record based on motion detection and having a NAS that can do that is very important. How do I shop for a NAS that has this feature? What should I be looking for in the spec sheets? Is there a NAS out there that can setup boundaries for the motion detection area similar to what a Ring or Nest cam can do? And what cameras should I pair with this NAS? How much storage should I get if we want to keep footage for 30 days @ 10fps, 1920x1080?

Target budget would be close to 1500 USD.

Thanks so much for your time and assistance!

Hi there - first please let me express my utmost gratitude to you for all the wonderful content you’ve shared on your site and on YouTube. It has been very helpful in me making the decision to purchase and implement a NAS/DAS system.

I am aiming to utilize our new TVS-672XT connected to a PC via its Thunderbolt Titan Ridge card as well as a Mac Studio via Thunderbolt, mainly for setting up a shared PostgreSQL database for DaVinci Resolve, but additionally as shared storage system, and I was really hoping you could shed some guidance as I feel a bit overwhelmed in the set up process.

The drive specs are the following: (6) 4TB WD Red SA500 SSDs and (2)TB Samsung 970Pro fir the M.2 cache.

I was wondering if I should set up everything in one thick storage pool or possibly two, where one is just a static volume for active media and the other is for longer term storage with allocation for snapshots? Is there any drawback to having two? Is there a golden rule to how much space to allocate for snapshots should you opt to do that?

I am a bit worries about all the ransomware attacks going on as of late so have opted to keep the NAS offline and just have it connected to both machines via Thunderbolt - is that overkill? Are there steps I could take to allow it to be accessible via the qnap cloud and not risk getting hacked? I do have a VPN service, is there a way to integrate that into the connection some how? I saw sownthig about static IPs but networking general goes a bit over my head and I haven’t quite figued that out yet. Is that still necessary of connecting via Thunderbolt?

Sorry if these questions are very dense, I just wanted to gauge an expert’s opinion prior to finishing my setup if possible. Thank you in advance for your time and I hope I provided enough insight to be helpful. If not, please do let me know and I can try and explain further.

Hope you are well and to hear from you soon.

All the best,
Josh

many thanks for the great videos. I am having problems with my NAS and/or my Plex media server. Are you in the position. to provide Pais assistance or recommend a technician who can help me solving my problem. many thanks - maurizio

My Asustor Nas is working making Time Machine backups hourly/daily etc without any problem.
I attempted to use AiFoto3 on my iphone to connect with the nas for uploading photos, unfortunately things have wrong and now I cannot get Control centre to open up to enable me to use ADM.
I got a message that ip addresses were having a problem but having gone into my virginmedia hub 3 router I was given addresses for; iMac 192.168.0.10/24, Orbi11 wifi; 192.168.0.12/24 and the Asustor AS3304T; 192.168.0.31/24. which is the ip address shown on the control centre download screen which I cannot open.
Can you tell me what to do about this please. Do I have to disconnect the Nas completely and start again or what other course of action should I follow.

Hi

I am researching on behalf of my girlfriend who recently started running a business (1yr in). She is a geologist working in the mining industry.

She uses QGIS (one software example) and has *lots* of *large* datasets (up to 7GB) that are loaded into each workspace - these are often shape files (vector) or raster, and the size is usually because they cover a huge area (e.g. Queensland, Northern Territory, New South Wales, all states in Australia).

My experience with QGIS is limited to creating topo maps for hiking. I use a ReadyNAD314 as a file server (for my business) and can confirm it's bloody slow to load the data on screen.

I lent her my 6 year old Dell XPS15 med-spec and she has been using that for the last year. The 1TB disk is full and she is offloading a lot of data onto Dropbox. I could install a larger disk but I think this is a bandaid approach for an old laptor.

Her main client uses Dropbox as a file server (dumb IMO) and that dataset is growing rapidly - this currently sits on her C drive, and it appears to be cumbersome to selectively sync these to such a small hard disk (I suggested her client needs to set up a VPN but that's another topic.)

It seems that it is common even in the biggest corporations that geologists often save their projects locally to avoid the network bottlenecks. Also a project can contain hundreds of dynamically linked shapefiles and I understand that it's a pain in the butt to relink them.

Geologists will spend a approx week per month out in the field (remote australia with no, or crap internet), and they need to take the working project files with them.

My thinking is that options are:

1) New High Spec Laptop+ NAS (Nas holding the bulk of the project data, and manually copy any large files to the laptop as needed to avoid bottleneck) Will need to come up with a system for when transferring projects fully to the laptop when working remote. Dropbox can run on the NAS.

2) Laptop with huge hard disk - basically run as is. This would be the most convenient, but IMO it's risky with no raid and all eggs in one basket and I'm not sure if it's possible to get min 10TB in a laptop. I understand why this would be her preference. Whist in the office backups can run to the NAS.

3) Desktop with lots of disk capacity, lesser spec laptop and cumbersome workflow to transfer files. NAS for backups. Would work well for when in the office, but need a way to transfer to the Laptop


I saw your review and am pretty sold on the QNap TS464-4G.

I guess I'm wondering if you've had any experience with this kind of thing? The data management?

Thanks

Dave