I've got a DS1513+ I bought in early 2015, and have been riding the cusp of max capacity for nearly a year. (RAID 5 configuration with 5 x 4 TB WD Red drives, so ~ 16 TB). I've scrubbed through my data on several occasions removing media where I can, but I'm at the point where I can't continue backing up my family's media and keep the movies and home videos that have consumed much of my NAS's storage.

I should also mention I have a Netgear R9000 (with 10 Gbe) that I've been wanting to take advantage of since 2018.

Considering the DS1621xs or the QNAP TVS-x72xt (6 or 8 bay) for my next major upgrade and will donate my 1315+ to my in-laws with family archive redundancies for them to watch at their own home.

The whole family are heavy PLEX users.

What's your recommendation? And what options (adding more memory or SSDs to the new systems) should I really consider before moving forward with this much needed upgrade? I do have several 4K UHD movies we enjoy watching and the current Synology system can barely (if ever) keep up.

Thank you kindly in advance.

I have a Synology DS1515+ configured to SHR Raid. Unfortunately my DS1515+ will no longer power on even though I purchased a new PSU I guess it's because of Atom Chip problem. Therefore the only migration to another Synology has to be through Hard Disk migration. I would like to know to know whether the newer DS1520+ would allow me to migrate y Hard Disks which are four Western Digital WD40EFRX 4TB

Thanking you in anticipation
Eric Almeida

Robbie,

At best, I am a novice in the world of NAS and even less experienced with cameras. Somehow I always end up on your Youtube channel. Your videos are great so thank you for the information. I'm curious if you had any luck with the Reolink solar panel outside in London. Even more curious if you were able to get it to power any other devices with the USB interface. Ultimately I would like to create an outdoor wifi camera system utilizing my QNAP TS-453A, without having to pull cable or install additional power outlets. Thank you for your time and expertise.

All the best,

Kevin

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Looking for a NAS mostly for fast backups of home 2 computers (1 TB each ) on network and then daily backups of any changes. Remote access would only be used rarely, could live without it. Have cat 7 and gigabit Asus RT-AC88U router (8 ports) and TP-Link gigabit switches. Media server would be used rarely as we have fire cube and pandora. Thinking of 2 bay, 6TB each? snapshots sound reasonable to have in case computer gets corrupted somehow or gets a virus. What would you suggest?
Main thing is looking for fast backups and ease of use. No gaming. Thought it would be worthwhile to spend a little bit more for the diskless NAS as I can buy WD red 6TB drives for $125 on Amazon. This would allow me to be future-proof if I want to use media server, remote access, etc later. Looking to buy something on Cyber Monday.
Thanks

Hello, I'm wondering if it is possible to buy a cheaper QNAP unit with a Celeron processor, but that also has an expansion slot and then add a GPU to that slot. Will the PlexPass accelerated hardware feature take advantage of the GPU, thereby accomplishing superior transcoding without having to buy an i3+ processor?

I enjoy your informative youtube videos. I am contemplating on purchasing a Synology NAS on Cyber Monday. I am actively considering between Synology DS120j and Synology 220j. I only have 50 GB in files on my 4 home computers (2 desktops and 2 laptops). I would like to set up a Plex server. I would only steam to one television (1080p) and/or 1 desktop at a time. Would Synology DS120j be suficient to work as a Plex server?! I will likely converty my collection of 75 dvds into a digital format. Would Synology DS120j be suficient?

Hello I want to downgrade MY Synology 3618XS that I purchase 2 years ago for 2 reasons:
-NOISE: when you add a 10GB card (what I did), you cannon set the fans in medium/low speed mode, it's full speed by default and is therefore too noisy.
-POWER: at 145 watts average, (+/-) I saw my electricity bills rise to a large extend.

I'm interested in the ds1621 but I want to be sure that the fan's won't run in full speed mode when I add my 10GB (INtel 540T2) 10Gbe Network card.

Do you have any info on this ?

Thanks

Antoine Rose
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Hi

we are a small office with maximum 10 persons employee.
we want to centralized our document so that any of our employee can access the files.
we worked with Autodesk Applications and open AutoCAD-Revit etc. file directly from nas storage.
we don't need any encoding and decoding multimedia files with nas.
we just need good transfer rate that speed up saving engineering software files.

we appreciate that help us to choose right nas for our small business.

thank you

I am asking for advise on the choice of NAS to buy
1. Home set up = iMac desktop for photo editing
2. Internal HDD backed up via Time machine to a LACie 2Big doc connected via thunderbolt 3 connection
3. Photos are stored in ad Drobo 5 bay with Thunderbolt 2 connection - i edit directly from this drive. This drive is backed up the the cloud as are all my DAS to backblaze
4 I WANT TO ADD AD NAS IN THE HOUSE TO SYNC. WITH THE DROBO TO PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL COPY OF MY PHOTOS - I WOULD CONFIGURE A 4-5. BAY DRIVE WITH DOUBLE REDUNDANCY - WHICH NAS DO YOU RECOMMEND?