I´m looking for a Synology NAD with two bays capable to transcode HD video as a Plex server. I saw mixed reviews on the DS220j and DS220+ series. Any advice is appreciated.

I will be looking for a new Synology rack mount NAS in the first quarter of 2021. I have a a DS3615xs offering ~87TB available storage (10 x 12TB drives RAID 6). About 50TB is in use. That machine runs a Plex server offering movies, TV, music and audiobooks. It also runs Cloud Sync to copy data to Google Drive, Hyper Backup to backup to a DS1010+ every six hours via Rsync, Cloud Station, and Synology Chat. The DS3615xs has a number of CIFS shares on it as well as an NFS datastore for vSphere. It's connected via 10G Ethernet.

I want to replace that unit with something higher-performing, newer, and rack mountable, since all my servers and most other devices are now in a rack. The DS3615xs would sit on top of the rack and serve as a backup target or node in a two-node Synology cluster, if possible.

I am looking for 10G connectivity, M.2 NVMe caching and good performance with NFS and iSCSI as shared storage for a vSphere cluster.

Can you assist with a recommendation? Thank you.

Synology Web site does not show DS920+ as capable of 4K transcoding yet it's showing the DS918+ is shown cabable 4K transcoding. Thought the DS920+ is more up to date than the DS918+ so am a little confussed. Is this true ? If it is true what should what I go for instead ?

I recently purchased a QNAP 453D for a great price. I have installer 4x4TB. I also bought a QM2-2S-220A to hold a pair of M.2 SATA SSD Expansion Cards. I have a series of questions ... thanks in advance for your responses.

NAS Purpose:
-File server for home businesses - nothing special.
-Plex for watching a various movies on home tv ( 1 4K TV) most movies are 1080P
-Photo organization (likely QuMagie App - but I have not played with it yet ) (200 K photos)
-Backup for various devices.
-VMs but not for the foreseeable future.
-Surveillance down the road.

How to configure SSD
Should I run them the 2 SSDs as 2 RAID 0?
In using Cache why would I ever configure RAID 1?
How much cache? How much for storage/Apps?
What Apps should I install on the Application Volume if any? for QuMagie? Plex?
I plan on buying 2 x 500GB. Should I consider going to 1 TB? what questions should I be asking myself?

Thanks for your help, I look forward to adding value to site.

I have 2 WD RED PRO 6Tb and a QNAP TS-253D. Are the drives compatible with SED encryption? I'm asking the question because they don't have PSID number. I'm affraid not to be abble to restore them in case I forget the password. I don't care to lost the data.I want to be sure to be abble to factory restore them.
Thank you

Hello

I currently have a DS414 that I want to replace. I hesitate between the DS 920+ and the TS-453D, I want to keep my disks (4X WD Red 4TB WD40EFRX).

The Qnap seems better equipped:

- 2.5 Gbps vs 1 Gbps network

- 1 pci-express port vs 0

- Max ram 32 GB vs 20 GB

For the Os I know DSM well and like it (simple and stable). QTS looks better provided in settings which I like but is it also stable?

The 2.5 Gbps network interests me even if it requires some modifications (compatible switch and router) and makes me prefer QNAP.
I wonder if my hard drives allow me to take advantage of this speed?

What do you think ?

thank you in advance

I am Having a little difficulty choosing a NAS. My use cases are for For backups, Business file services, surveillance, downloading hard copy movies to NAS for plex, and scanning personal pictures and photographs. I live in Canada Ontario if that helps you with your search. The file services portion is the most important however we still want a NAS that can consistently do the other things. our budget like listed above is $800 CAD to $1400 CAD $1500 CAD being ABSOLOUTE max. this price is not including the price of the drives as we will slowly build up the # of drives. I really hope you can help just like your videos helped me choose out our first NAS. BTW we need anywhere from 6-8 drive bays
Thanks,

Konrad

I have a Synology DS-718+ and use Surveillance Station. One problem is that Surveillance Station does not let you use AI the the DS series NAS devices. It only works on the DVA or NVR series devices which are dedicated devices.

Some of the newer security cameras have AI built into them. Instead of triggering and recording movement from every shadow, branch, dog or bird, they are able to recognize people or automobiles.

I was wondering if these new AI features of these cameras can be used to trigger an event on Surveillance Station running on a DS-718+.

It would be nice to get AI functionality on a DS-718+. Will this work?

Hi,
I'm looking to buy my first nas. These are the things I'm taking into consideration:
- Im looking at a 2 bay with 2x4tb with raid for redundancy
- I mostly want to use it for backing up 10-12 years of photographs and from now on whenever take new photos and upload them I want them to be automatically backed up
- I work in lightroom and still want to keep the original files I'm working on on my local ssd as it's a lot faster to work with
- I would like to be able to access, upload/download files when I am traveling
- I don't need a plex, I use netflix, disney+ etc, youtube music etc
From watchin a lot of great videos from here on nas compares I think I narrowed myself to these 2:
Qnap ts230 and the ts253d
I think that the ts253 would honestly be overkill for my needs but there are also some very nice black friday sales coming on newegg and the ts253 is currently 399 cad $ and the ts230 179 cad $.
Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks very much

I'm looking for a new Synology NAS and I believe 8-bay is the sweet spot for me (I like to use RAID6).
My current 'old faithful' (~8yr old) NAS is a DS1812+, which has always been rock solid and is the reason I want to remain loyal to Synology tbh.
I've read some absolute horror stories about unreliability and eventual NAS-death caused by dodgy Atom CPUs used in the DS1815 and DS1817 units, which worries me a bit. I understand the newer CPUs used in the DS1819 don't suffer the same issues... but it makes me worry a bit about the 'new kid on the block' - at least in Synology boxes - AMD Ryzen CPUs.
Any advice or opinions on which to choose - DS1819 or DS1821 - would be much appreciated please!