Recently got the Synology DS220J. Prior to this I had researched wireless dongles and ended up buying the TL-WN722N which I now find does not work, probably because Amazon sent me the V3 version and not the V2 as advertised, may return it. Synology were unhelpful saying only that the compatibility list is no longer updated etc. I see no clear answer to which wireless dongles actually work with the latest DSM software 6.2. Can you recommend a dongle that actually works as I do not want to buy another based on old articles and hearsay? Thanks in advance for any help.

I'm trying to decide between the ds120j and the ds118 for home use.
This is what I want to do:
1) Automatic backup of home PC. I would like to automatically backup several PC folders when changes are detected.
2) Automatic Cloud upload of several "sensitive" PC folders to Google (documents) and Amazon (photos) drives.
3) Torrent downloading
4) Movie server. Kodi is going to be the player so I won't need transcoding.

Not considering 2 bay solutions as I will always have three copies of files (home PC, Synology and cloud) and probably an external drive copy too.

So, will ds120j be enough or should I spend 75% more and go for the ds118.

Thanks a lot for your help.

As a solo content creator I'm looking to buy a DAS solution. I have a very old Drobo that is super slow and problematic. Is Drobo better now and reliable? I am looking for speed. Is it a good idea to fill it up with SSDs or is there nothing to be gained for SSDs?. I have 2 uses for this. 1. I will have 4 TB of data that will be long term storage. But I will have about 2-4 TB that I am constantly accessing and working from. Please advise. Thanks!

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Hi. I have watched several of your videos, all of which have been very informative.

I was about to pull the trigger on the purchase of a QNAP 453Be which is meant to replace a Dlink 320L, which apart from being old, slow and lacking plex integration is very noisy. The device sits on my desk and the tiny fan spins along all day and night and i find it very annoying.

So the 453Be was meant to replace that until I checked the web for any comments on it being noisy, and people do seem to be complaining about that.

Just wanted to get an idea about your experience with this NAS and its noise level. I initially plan to put in 3 WD reds (3tb) and scale up when finance permits.

Reviews talk about it running 35db in idle and 46db on load. I am worried that this NAS could potentially be as loud or even louder than the 320L. I can't find data on the 320L to check what the noise level might be, but I am worried about proceeding with this purchase now. I suppose I don't need it to be whisper quiet (I know that's not possible given the fan etc) but I don't want to purchase something which will be worse than what I already have.

Your advice and comments are very much appreciated

Hi, i currently have 2x NAS 3TB Drive. And i want to create a PLex Server that can stream 1 stream 4k60fps or 2 1080p fps. I would like to set up a backup system for my pc also. I was looking at the two bay DS218Play or DS218. What do you guys think?

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Hi!

So I work for a small company and we just bought a custom Synology ds1819 in order to store all the video footage that we record. I'd like to find out if there is software out there that I can use in tandem with our NAS in order to log our footage in a way that we can bulk tag files, as well as have the ability to search let's say, "apple" and have all the footage we've tagged "apple" come up. Also if we'd be able to preview video files without having to download them, that would be ideal.
I called Synology support and they said that they currently don't have anything like that, so I was hoping to find software out there that can do it instead. I just don't know what to even google to find this kind of program.
Sorry if this doesn't make sense or if this is not the place to ask. Please let me know when you can, thank you!

I've just bought a QNAP TS 673 and want to set up a dedicated Plex server with 2 of the drives. - It has 4 WD Red Pro 6Tb and 2 WD Red Pro 8Tb
I was thinking that using SSD(s) for cache acceleration might be a good idea as might a graphics card.
Please can you advise
1. Will ssd's be beneficial for my usage
2. Is it better to use the 2 inbuilt M2 SATA slots or use a QNAP PCLe expansion which takes 2 SSD'slots and also adds 10Gb ethernet
3. What size SSD's should I use and how many
4. Is it worth adding a Video card and if so which do you recommend

Thanks
Martin

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