Hi, love the videos, thank you for what you do! I need help in a bit more direction of what to purchase. Currently, I have a DS1513+ (purchased when it first came out) I put 5 x 3TB WD Green Drives (5400rpm). I was complete newbie to the NAS world. My Drobo had died so I just purchased the first thing that was recommended to me by friends. It’s setup in SHR-2 configuration. After 7 years, it is 95% filled, the RAM was upgraded at time of purchase. Everything is sluggish. I am beginning to receive emails of bad sectors. I figured it was time to upgrade. I was initially leaning towards the RS1221+ (I have a rack in the closet) but the video you posted gave me lots to think about spending the money elsewhere. I started looking at the DS1821+, I was debating of starting fresh with either 6TB or 8TB drives (in an SHR-2) configuration. Now after watching lots of videos, I am not sure what to buy (or maybe the DS1621+)?

Current uses for our NAS: it is the master archive of our home/home office/family/friends for the last decade. I have a backup to the cloud for the important things and a passport drive for the utmost emergency items (in case of death, etc). Lots of multimedia creation happens in the house, audio recordings, editing, photography sessions, we haven’t really focused on video at all. Mainly lots of audio and photos. Plex as well from time to time, not huge. The DS1513+ will be repurposed for either backup or anything else that I can mess around with.

Lastly, I have Unifi Router, Access Points, and PoE switch in the house. Main computer is the M1 Mac Mini. 2 Macbook Pros, and a handful of iPads, iPhones. All of which ultimately connect to the NAS and backup to it as well.

Recommendation for which Synology NAS?
How much would I benefit from a RAM or NVME upgrade?
Would you go with 6TB drives or 8TB drives? (I have a bad habit of buying all drives in one shot versus adding as I need)

Thank you for your help!

Hi!

First of all I would like thank you very much for all your very useful videos. I've just finished setting up my QNAP TVS 1282T3 with 2 iMacs via thunderbolt. Now I want to buy a NAS for offsite backup. My NAS is filled with 8x8TB drives. What NAS would you recommend? I was looking at the TS-832PX, would that be smart? Also I'd like to buy a battery for my current NAS. What would you recommend?

Best regards,

Jan

My DS415+ has just suffered Intel C200 problem wished I'd have known about that before it happened.
Gave me opportunity to try DSM 7. But now realise dsm7 changes the actual NAS so I can't factory reset NAS.
Rob, please advise procedure to revert NAS back to DSM 6.2

Good afternoon
Sorry for translation
I have an HP z220 workstation with intel Xenon E3 1270 v2 that goes super as a plex server. The cleaning consumption when the hdds turn off is 35-40w without doing anything.
My problem is to decrease power consumption .
Many video files I have in 720p format and some 1080p and I want to watch 4 devices , tv , tablet , phone and pc.
I thought about certain NAS Austor AS-6602T,qnap TS-453D and syynology DS720+.
The second solution I thought of is a PC https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000837780239.html?spm=a2g0s.8937460.0.0.422f2e0eJy0azM mimme attached to the usb port an ICY BOX IB-RD3620SU3 rack.
MAM also forgotten at a dell poweredge t40, but I don't know what it would consume.
That would be Lenovo ThinkCenter M75q Tiny.
Please, if you can advise me what to do and you may come up with other options.
Thanks.

Hi, I don't know if you can help me. I'm in the US, thinking about constructing a family cloud. I have some experience with NAS (WD My Cloud paired with Sonos to listen to my music library), but am now thinking of something more ambitious. I'd like to put music, photos, and home videos on a NAS which can be read to and written to by family members around the country (roughly 4 or 5). I have probably 2 TB of content now, and it will of course grow. Currently I organize my music in iTunes and my photos in Picasa (notwithstanding the fact that it is no longer supported!). Of course, happy switch away from either iTunes or Picasa (PLEX? My son likes it).

Is this something that can be done at reasonable cost and with reasonable technical skill?

Thanks for any advice you can provide,
Peter Rathjens

Choosing Between Synology HAT5300 and Seagate Ironwolf Pro NAS Hard Drives
Choosing the right hard drive media for your NAS system used to be so simple! The choice when populating your NAS could be n

I want to move from my current DS1520+ to a DS1621+ to get 10Gb interface via expansion card.

Is my 1520 actually a better Plex performer as it is Intel based and not an AMD (aka will I actually be down grading)?

There does not seem to be a current Desktop NAS from Synology that has both Hardware acceleration and 10Gb capability... is there?

Also do you prefer SHR 4+1 with a (COLD or HOT) SPARE over a 4+2 without a spare?

Hi there,
I 'am in the IT business for 40 years, but not very experienced in the network and NAS area. What I 'am looking for is an inexpensive NAS , no fancy feature, but reliable and capable to provide my core requirements.
1. Backup my 6 PC's data
2. Store hi-res audio files (flac) for replay with PC media player software JRiver via high-end sound card
3. Archive video files (HD only) from my DVR for replay when the internal disk gets full
4. RAID 1
5. Speed is always nice to have, but my network is only 1G with Cat5 cabling

I would be very happy if can recommend some NAS. QNAP sounds great overall, from SYNOLOGY I heard some bad things, but not sure whats true.

Kind regards,
Thorsten

What can be done? What should be done? What should be ignored?

Yesterday I got this message from my Synology NAS:

Dear user,

The following is your monthly report regarding the health of disks on niels1819. You can also check the health of individual disks at Storage Manager > HDD/SSD > Health Info.

Only drives with problems are displayed.

Drive 3
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Normal
Bad sector count: 2
Drive reconnection count: 0
Drive re-identification count: 0

Drive 6
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Normal
Bad sector count: 0
Drive reconnection count: 20
Drive re-identification count: 0


Sincerely,
Synology DiskStation

I am new is that. I have too many movies. max 1200 euros home I have 7 terrain movies, music and photos Greece