Choosing Between Synology HAT5300 and WD Red Pro NAS Hard Drives
When it comes to populating your NAS system with hard drives, it has long been established that for a 24/7 system, you need hard drive

Looking to upgrade as the existing setup is busting at the seams. (85% utilization) currently using an 8, and a 4 in a non-raid configuration. thinking of a 4 bay with 4, 8 tb drives raid 5?

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Hello, I am emailing form Canada where my internet speed is 940 Mbps download and 940 Mbps upload on fibre optics. I would like to store all of my 4k movies, bluray movies, hundreds of music Flac files and thousands of family photos that can be accessed by 8 family member that are around the world, majority in Canada and USA. Just wondering if this is possible because sometime there can be all 8 members of the family watching 4k movies at the same time.

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I have read a lot that zfs is the best ro keep your data safe and healthy. Ive already invested on 4 x 4tb ironwolf pro hdd and have budget around £500 to spend on Nas . What nas should I get to support zfs, be upgradeable to add ddr4 rams later if required.
The usage is home and small business,
- lots of small photos and video files,
- media server with wifi and hdmi tv connections,
- mobiles back ups and sync
- IP cctvs act as nvr
- business files directory read and write daily use
- clients restricted access to related documents

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Abby

Hi

Been looking at purchasing my first NAS. I will be using at home, I need multi users...

I currently leaning towards a Synology DS 920+

Uses will be:
Photos/Videos (want to transition from Google Photos)
Computer and laptop back ups
Multi media for films (not overly important) - mainly upload my old DVD collection.

Happy to have a tinker around with VM etc but not much experience of this.

My key question is for photo backups, if I was to use for instance Synology Photos, could I set up each user to have access to their own folder of photos only and not to able see all the photos?

So for instance if I had 4 users using the Nas for storage and they each downloaded Synology Photos onto their mobile devices. Can I set it up so that when they open the Synology Photos app on their phone it only shows their own photos and not all fours users.

If you could also provide some guidance as whether the ds920+ would fit my needs that would be brilliant

Thanks

I have 1515+ for home use I like it very much and I want to upgrade because I'm using ds video for my movie and tv show , i have family members connecting on my server to watch some movie and tv shows i can see the CPU goes up from transcoding so its time for upgrade and 5 bay is small now i need 6+ and 2 SSD for cash so that's why I'm thinking of ds3617xs like you said it rooooow power I'm trying to reach 50+ online user for videos 1080p and 720p with no problems
please advice

thank you for your time and service

john

Hi

1st of all thank you a lot for your reviews and I love to View/read them. Excellent work!

Need some advice for buying a new model. I currently own a DS412+ (And for a while it doesn't fill my needs). I manly use this to plex (since not much power for more in idle memory at leat at 70% due to some tools running and only having 2GB), have around 5 users that use plex a lot, but I also use a lot for data backup and use the Synology Drive for work and college, want the ability to create some VMs for some future projects. Also the need to upgrade storage in the future


I have look for the DS1520+ due to the hardware transcoding ability.

But also looking for the DS1621/DS1821 due to their storage upgrade capabilities in the future.

My biggest concern is regarding the 8GB memory on DS1520+ (if I expand with 2DX517) and the hw transcoding capability vs the AMD processor.

Looking for a little help finding a new NAS (maybe a lot of help)


I currently have a home made system using open zfs in a 4u rack case with 12x 8gb drives.
It works fine but I am not strong with linux and it can be confusing for me. Mainly when I want to change things I have to re-learn everything because I already forgot it.


I have had a couple of Drobo's in the past and like them but the seem to be not popular/bad support/maybe the company is close to going out of business. I don't know just don't seem well supported.


I would like at least a 12 drive unit since that is what I already have. I have all my dvd's and blu-rays backed up on to HD's along with decades of home movies and 3 generations worth of photos oh yes and my cd music collection.


I have a bunch of old computers with system a drive and data drive(s) I am thinking going forward I will just build computers with 1 system drive and use the nas for all data not just media storage. (de-duping might help here)


I guess I would prefer a rack mounted system but I don't have a problem with putting a shelf in my rack and a desktop model on it.


I have a 10g switch and want 10g either onboard or with a NIC.
If NIC I think 2 pcie slots would be desirable, because I'm thinking of adding m.2


I am currently looking at Synology and Qnap but I am open to others if suggested. I am currently in data overload and getting confused.


Not sure which is better btrfs or zfs (Quts hero) ???
If a 12gb drive with 6gb of data goes down how low will it take to rebuild under each system ? Estimate.


Qnap need a system space so I either loose 2 of the 12 hard drives or need a unit with additional 2.5” ssd slots or the m.2 add in card. (but I see on the Qnap web site that it has 5gb dual boot os protection flash memory) **What is this for**. Where as Synology keeps it system spread over all drives.


I am not sure if I would benefit from ssd or m.2 cache ???


I like SHR-2 (because of Drobo) but it seems to be being phased out or not available on ½ of their machines.


I like raid-6 because I've read some horror stories about rebuilding a raid-5 after loosing one drive the system failing because of the heavy usage the rebuilding puts on the remaining 4 drives.


I was thinking about starting with 4x 12Tb drives and increasing with additional 12Tb drives as time goes on.


<<< Check my thinking here >>>

From what I understand or think I understand Synology and btrfs would allow me to increase my raid 1 drive at a time by expanding the storage pool capacity.
I think this cannot be done with QTS Hero / zfs ?????????? Am I right that with zfs I can only increase capacity is by starting over with 5 drives then starting over with 6 drives and so on or add a second vdev the smallest being a 2 disk raid1.
This makes me confused and I can't figure out which is better.


Do I need cache ??? How much under each system ???


Plex: I haven't used plex I just go to my movies folder find the one I want and then cast to device (tv).
Watching your videos you seem to prefer Qnap for plex.


Photos: Watching your videos I like Synology for the information available on each photo and the facial recognition seem like it might be better. Does Synology have a world map where photos were taken ????? like Qmaggie.


I don't like the Synology units that can only use propriety Synology drives only (even if they are the best I don't like to be forced to use them) But all the new models use them and my guess is that this will continue in the future. Do I want an older model that will be discontinued sooner ??????????


some models I have looked at.

10g

rackstation rs3618xs 2 pcie Xeon 4 core 8 to 64 $2600 / 8gb

rackstation rs3617rpxs 2 pcie Xeon 4 core 8 to 64 $3350 / 8gb

rackstation rs3621rpxs 2 pcie synology drives only Xeon 6 core 8 to 64 $3400 / 8gb

rackstation rs3617xs+ built in and 2 pcie Xeon 6 core 8 to 64 $4600 / 8gb

rackstation rs3621xs+ built in and 2 pcie synology drives only Xeon 6 core 8 to 64 $4600 / 8gb

rackstation rs2418+ 1 pcie shr Atom 4 core 8 to 64 $1700 / 4gb

diskstation ds3617xs 1 pcie Xeon 4 core 16 to 48 $2500 / 16gb

diskstation ds2419+ 1 pcie shr Atom 4 core 4 to 32 $1500 / 4gb

1886xu built in and 3 pcie Xeon 4 core 32 to 128 $3000 / 32gb

1688x build in and 2 pcie and 2 m.2 Xeon 6 core 32 to 128 $2900 / 32gb

1283xu build in and 3 pcie Xeon 6 core 32 to 128 $4500 / 32gb

1277xu build in and 3 pcie Ryzen 8 core 32 to 128 $4000 / 32gb





I like the synology rs2418+

pros:
rackmount,
shr,
inexpensive.

Cons:
already 3 year old model
may be under powered with Atom and 4g but does synology need more power?



I like the qnap 1886xu

pros:
price not too bad for a rack mount
3 open pcie
xeon and 32g
6 ssd for system and cache

cons:
almost double the price of synology





Any guidance you provide will be greatly appreciated.


Steve...

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