Hi,
I'm planning to buy my first NAS for a home usage. The main purpose is keeping safe all personal files, photos, videos, documents and also save / download music and movies.
I was waiting to see if an updated version of Synology DS218 (value series) / DS218play is going to be released, but in the end I'm starting to look at DS220+.
The main reasons are:
1. it's newer (and I don' want to wait a new version of DS218play)
2. it's more powerful and since I'd like to keep it for some years but also I could require some transcoding, it could be nice to have something good and with an upgradeable RAM.
3. I'm not sure, but I don't exclude that I could start to use/play with virtual machines in the future....but this is just an idea.

I was thinking about 2 x IronWolf 6TB (ST6000VN001). Is it a good idea? I wanted to buy the WD60EFRX (which should be CMR according to WD) but they don't appear in the Synology compatibility list.

I wanted to ask you what you think about these choices.

I also need another suggestion: my NAS place is in the same room of the routing, but unfortunately not in a place where I can ever hope to have an ethernet cable.
I studied a lot about powerline adapters and wifi access points (in client mode), but I'm not able to decide. I was thinking about this TP-Link TL-PA7017 (for powerline) or about TP-Link RE450 (for the access point). Which is the best option?

Thank you!
Luca

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I''d like to ask the following,

I've seen the claims for the 20GB RAM (unofficial) upgrade for DS920+. This is indeed awesome news, but my question is the following.

The DS920+ is powered by an Intel® Celeron® J4125 Processor, and in the official Intel page for the processor, they declare that the processor supports 8GB Maximum RAM.

How is it possible for the 20GB (4+16) to be usable?

Thank you!
RapidShade

Priorities in order:

1. Backup
2. Private Cloud (esp photos)
3. Ease of use for others than myself
4. Possibly some techie lab scenarios like test vm hypervisor environments.
5. Tech support from Manufacturer.

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Hi Rob,

First I would like to say that I find your videos and other online material well thought out and extremely useful. Without it I doubt I would have gotten into NAS storage at all. Thanks!

I ended up buying a DS1621xs+ (in no small part because of your review). I am extremely happy with it.

In these times of COVID I am working from home but I want to set up a solid remote (this will be at our lab/office – a few miles away) backup for the DS1621xs+.

After the initial backup on the local network I would move the backup machine to the office and schedule a backup once a day, late at night (over a VPN connection).

I will not be using that NAS for anything except the backup. Can you recommend a Synology NAS for that?

Thanks, all the best and stay healthy,

Hanan

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Beginner NAS drive WD Red or Seagate IronWolf ? CMR / SMR ? I am looking for reliability.

Main usage is to store photos and videos. Not too heavy usage.

Which NAS ?
I am thinking of Buying Qnap TS-251D-2G.

I like HDMI streaming without latency and PCIe for future wireless use. Also, access through cloud sounds nice. Software UI seems dated and bit complicated but I am a developer so comfortable with it.

Please can you tell me if the Crucial memory (CT2K4G4SFS824A 8 GB) is compatible with the TS-251D I can't find it on the Crucial web site