Hi all,

Great guide to NAS.. I've been living with OWC RAIDs and Pegasus RAIDs via Thunderbolt 2 and 3 for years and they're not hacking it for me anymore. Any recommendations would be great appreciated. Wanted to try for SSD RAID, but not sure what the hell i'm doing.

I'm very new to this by the way, but i recently just set up jellyfin at home on my 2TB hdd on my gaming PC. I REALLY want a NAS that is able to handle transcoding well enough so that I can plug it in, run jellyfin on it and not worry about needing my PC to be on for me to watch my stuff around the house. I'd love to view 4k movies off of it, but from advice given to me by friends, they say there is no NAS that is able to handle that kind of load on its own. Also am not too sure how much storage I'd need to not worry too much about it again, my initial thought was anything over 10TB?

I'd really appreciate your advice!! What can I buy that suits my needs?

Hi, thanks for the great article explaining software/hardware transcoding for Plex with the glorious chart of the various Synology NAS models. I recently bought an 1821+ and ripped all of my Blu-rays and UHD Blu-rays. I would like to use the "Watch Together" feature in Plex to watch some content live with a friend in another city. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to want to work since he's using the PS5 as his Plex client. I am trying to talk him into getting an Amazon Fire stick or something similar that is super inexpensive for him. In the meantime, I am considering getting a hardware transcoder for the NAS. I don't know if I should get a graphics card that will fit internally or get an external transcoder to save the open slot for a 10Gbps network card later on. FYI, I have 1 Gbps up and down internet from my ISP. Everything is wired on the LAN with Gigabit ethernet switches, etc. Thanks!

I have a DS920+ and the plex app on that one has stopped working so I am getting a different devisen for my hard drives. While im getting a new one I wanted to get one with 5 or more bays for extra hard drives and wondered which NAS would be perfect for me.

Also wondered what hard drives you would recommend. I have 2 Toshiba 16 terabyte nas hard drives and wonder if you would recommend getting more of the same brand or if another one would work better?

Hi, I would like to buy something which can be use as server some sort. I'm Apple guy so mostly I will use Macbook Pro or Studio as workstation. I use Avid Media Composer and Adobe CC, Nuke etc. My camera can produce 4k raw footage so it should be able to handle those files well. I do not plan to use my "server" for other users exept myself. For me would be perfect solution super fast drive for editing connected to big media storage accesible all the time and some other long archive solution, can be LTO or another big storage. Can you please give me some solution? There is about a lot of products and my brain just can't handle any of new informatoin. I spent monts searching but I don't trust the Internet exept your channel. Thanks for any advice.

Hi All,

I am comtemplating which NAS to upgrade to from my DS920+.
I am currently stuck between the DS1621+ and the DS1821+.
I also saw the recent YouTube video about the DS423+ and it got me thinking if I should wait for a DS162(x)+ and/or a DS182(x)+ (Not sure if there will be a 24 series this year or not)
My concern with the newer models is that Synology may decide to lock the types of HDD that can used with the newer models.

Functionality wise, I will most likely continue to use the NAS as a VPN, Docker and Media server for the family.

I would like to get your opinions and advice of this matter.
Thank you.

Hi,

I was wondering if you could please review the below motherboard from Alibaba:

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Piesia-Motherboard-Intel12th-Generation-Alder-Lake_1601058921737.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.normal_offer.d_title.66fa60dfLoxh7j

Seems like a really good motherboard with 8 sata connectors + 3 M.2 & a PCIe_X16 slot.

If possible, please also advise the right CPU for this as I would use my NAS for mostly media storage.

Been watching NASCompares on YT several years and now finally taken the plunge with a Flashstor 6 upgraded to 16 gb ram. Followed the NasCompres YT tutorial and installed TN Scale 23.10.2. Fine until os boot, did not give an IP address error msg ‘The web interface could not be accessed’ ‘please check network configuration’. Rebooted multiple times trying different combinations of connection. Used supplied 2.5 gbe cables that came with FS06. I don’t have 2.5 GB ethernet on my Win10 laptop or Ubuntu NUC so using Cable Masters 2.5 GBE to USB 3 adapter to connect to either computer. Also tried FS06 to 2.5 gbe on my EE router to try via WIFI. Nothing worked and haven’t found any clues scouring the internet. Do I need to use a computer that has a 2.5 gbe port to get this to work or is there something else that I am missing?

Hello, I've been binging your videos and subscribed. I purchased a QNAP TS 264 but cancelled the order as I feel the Celeron N9095 is old and weak now to purchase new.

I would like to be able to perfectly stream HVEC and I notice this CPU struggles a bit with that on QNAP

Dear Sir/Madam,

The hard drives of my nas are full. I only have 70 gb of storage capacity left. Therefore, I want to buy a new hard drive. This one:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eeo1C4cwCh8XRzauPgInBIST9tPDrexm/view?usp=sharing

My question:
Its not in the synology recommended compatible list. Is that a problem?
I would like to know:


1. if the drive I want to buy is suitable for my Nas. And

2. if it will work well with the hard drives already in my nas. (see picture)

3. Also, I would like to know if this hard drive is recommended and if not, which drive I would be better off buying without spending too much.

4. Also I would like to know, if this drive I want to buy now is as fast as the hard drives already in my nas or if I would buy a cheaper but slow drive now. After all, that is not the intention.

I would be very happy if you could help me ;-)


Regards,


Rik