Hi,

Great videos and reviews by the way! So with Google pulling unlimited photos I'm looking at options and running my own NAS to do the job myself.

At the moment my main reason is to backup our photos and videos, that's about it really. All our media we stream off services and don't hold it ourselves. The only other possible addition would be security cameras. We've looked previously but we're always put off by them being held elsewhere and susceptable to those issues.

At the moment I was looking at:

• Synology DS220+ with x2 4tb iron wolf drives
• A UPS like an APC BX1400UI (I don't know what size I'd need?! Is this too big? I don't want to be spending £300 on a UPS as well)
• a 4tb stand alone ruggedised drive to do another backup to store in another location.

What are your thoughts? Am I completely off the mark?

Thanks

Tom

Hello. Thank you for all your research on Synology (and NAS products in general). I noticed that in the Unofficial Memory Upgrade Guide, for the DS?20+ models, the Crucial 8GB links point to the 16GB parts. Do you have links or model numbers to tested 8GB Crucial modules? Thanks.

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Hi

First of all I must say that you have made many fantastic reviews!

I have a question and I expect you as an expert to be able to answer it

For many years we own a 2 bay Qnap Ts212 Nas and i like to replace this Nas for a new one since this one is quite old and I have 1 disk with a sector error.
I have good experience with Qnap i like to stay with this brand.

Use: Home, 4 users, each with their own rights for the different folders.

My idea is to be ready for the future and buy a 253D-4G but...
Looking on the Qnap website they indicate for the 521+ and 251D that this is a high end prodcuct.
For the newer 253D they indicate it as a mid-range product?

To me this is quite confusing, i don't need all the options and my preference would be to buy a Nas with the best hardware that can run for years without any problem. do you know why the 253D is marked as a midrange product?

For the HD I'm thinking to buy 2x Iron Wolf 6Tb, running in raid 1
(currently I have 2x 2 Tb Baracuda in raid 1. Next to that a USB backup drive where 1x a week the selected forders are copied to.

Can you say something about the TS251D vs TS253D with your experience and what the pluses and minuses could be.

Thanks in advance .

Kind regards,
Rene Meulenkamp

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I'm looking at starting a business and one of the services I'm looking at offering is a cloud base backup solution. Which I intend to do with 3 synology nas. Two at my home configured in fail over mode and another off-site mirroring the primary nas.

So with that setup I'm struggling on weather I should go raid 5 (maximum redundancy) or go raid 0 (maximum space).

I'm thinking since I already have three nas with the same exact information do I still need to raid it? Or am I being paranoid.

I will be starting off with four drives in each raid and grow them as I increase clients

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Hi Rob,
I've been watching your video updates for some time now (they are great by the way, always informative and full of common sense) and wonder if you could advise me on what NAS I should upgrade to next please?

I currently have a four bay QNAP TS-431 with 2 x 8TB Seagate IronWolf drives, configured as RAID1. I purchased the system second hand a couple of years ago for about £150 and I quite like the QNAP QTS O/S so would prefer to stay with QNAP. Having said that I'm happy to look elsewhere if necessary.

I use the NAS as a file server for my photographs and for nothing else. I don't want to run Plex or iTunes or P2P sharing. I just want something that I can use on my home network to store and edit my images. I also use the NAS to access my images remotely via my iPad and iPhone using the QFile app which works wonderfully and is great when I'm out discussing a photoshoot with clients (I'm trying to build a photographic business).

The issue I have is that it's quite slow. Not as bad as the old Buffalo LS520 that I have gathering dust in a corner, but never the less, it is quite slow. It has a slow CPU and a small amount of memory which is not upgradeable so I'm looking for something as a next step up and would appreciate your advice please.

I have quite a limited budget I'm afraid so I can't stretch to a QNAP 451D2 that you reviewed recently much as I would love to, but then of course there would be many features that I'd never use so it may be a bit of a waste even if I could find a second hand cassis for less than £300.

I hope the above makes sense, but if not please do feel free to email me to answer more questions.

Stay safe.

Thanks and best regards,
Howard.

I have a ds920+ for my home office use, but my wife is getting into photography mainly are children in sports and with raw photo's it is taking up a lot of space on the imac. so I would like to set up something simple for her. her basic work flow is to transfer the photo's to the imac and use lightroom to do some simple editing like adjust tone and crop the photos. I was thinking the best way to mange the photo's is to have her download them directly to the NAS and then just edit directly on the nas and then we have some file protection and lots of storage. we could also backup this nas up to a usb drive correct. I have watched many of your video's but my wife's editing is really simple and she used a 2014 imac so I think it has thunderbolt connection just maybe thunderbolt 1. so i was looking at the ds1621+ and adding a 10 gbe pci card then an adapter to thunderbolt so the imac would be direct connected to nas and I could also connect it to network correct? or option two would be just get the qnap tvs 672xt or tvs 472xt and that already has a thunderbolt connection.
thank you for your time

Although your site has been very helpful, thank you, I need a little more help.
I'm looking for a NAS purely for Time Machine back-ups for 5 MacBooks or iMacs.
We have cat 6a in walls, and most Macs are connected via ethernet (but some will be over wi-fi). Will soon be upgrading to a Unifi WiFi 6 APs and possibly and a Unifi router, but currently an ASUS router with unmanaged switch.
I don't want to over-spend on a NAS for this basic need i.e. Time Machine for 5 Macs.
Which QNAP (or other) would you recommend?
Thanks