Currently have a DS215J with 10Y+ old 2x WD 3TB RED WD30EFRX's. It gets very slow when browsing or backing up pictures.

Looking for a low (idle) power and a very responsive and long term acceptable platform, so was thinking of going all flash as that will earn itself back at least partially.

Also 2.5GbE would be nice.

So far have been looking into the Odroid H4 with the M.2 4x1 expansion board or an HP Elite Mini 600 or 800G9 with 13100T or 13500T.

For the storage the Lexar NM790 4TB seems to be a good option as the lack of a DRAM cache appears to make it relatively low power.

Replacing 4G Huawei B818-263 for use with 5 mobile and two wired components. External antenna ports a must (due to metal boat).

I just purchased the $500 Minisforum NUC. now I need to get a hdd case. I have 20, 18, 16, and 14TB HDDs currently in Orico hdd docks. I am planning on either Unraid or TrueNas.
I do not know wheter I should run Thunderbolt or SATA. I know I can get a PCI SATA card for the Minisforum, but which is faster and stable...Thunderbolt or SATA?
this will be for a 4k Media sever for 1 to 2 users.

please advise on options.
Thank you,
Ron Ellis

Hey, this has nothing to do with a nas buy, but can you create or do you know a video that explain how to sync my synology 923+ to my friend synology 923+ by using either cloudflar(ed) or tailscale. I dont want him to be in my network (by using tailscale I belive) Please help out here :-)

Hi

I recently bought a DS423+, being completely new to the world of NAS's. Reasons for buying were I have alot of movies, which were on a 5tb external hard drive, which i kept connected to my Nvidia Shield Pro, and would then use Plex to watch those movies on my TV. Didn't like the idea of the drive, (which was refurbished) suddenly dying and having to get all those movies again, so thought I'd get a NAS with bigger hard drives to expand my movie library, and also run my plex media server from there. Also liked the idea of being able to remotely access any personal files I want to.

So I've set the NAS up in my living room as that's where the router is. This is the room my TV is in too and so where I do majority of my streaming. My issue is that the hard drives (2 x 12 TB) are quite noisy and irritate me while watching on my tv. I have ordered a mouse pad and velcro strips, but I wonder if there's any alternatives. I wish I could move the NAS to a different room...

Hi,
I was watching the videos that you done up to today about diy n-as. I need your help. My big issue is the heat, during the summer time temperature inside the house gets to 32 C degrees. One of the kids has air conditioning allergies and this is the cause that I cannot reduce the house temperature. What the nas should do: media server (sonarr, radarr, plex server, convert from x264 to x265 for space economy) I know how to manage a docker container but this means time to search for fixes and afterwards to apply them, which this days I don’t have. Today I use an old Drobo plus a small minipc on windows for everything I mentioned, remotely administrated, when time. This setup today is a lazy one, slow to real slow. Ie: down speed 10 -14 Mb. Can you please recomand a hardware and software setup ?
Thank you,
The beers r on me !
Corneliu

I am looking for a solution for editing 4K videos

Storage capacity of around 150TB

Need model which support 10GB cards

4 video editors will be using simultaneously and streaming up to 14 cameras of 4K videoat a time in a computer

Also we do various data transfers simultaneously other than editing, say we copy 12 memory cards of 500mb read speeds together would need speed 6gb dedicated for it

Need redundancy for drive failures

Please suggest best option accordingly

My mistake Synology NAS is way over my ability, although very comfortable with PC since 1984, at 85 find the new tech is too much to absorb. For my home needs.
Would appreciate your suggestions, also why the $100 difference BeeStation 4tb €250 and Seagate Portable Drive, 4TB,Hard Disk Esterno, Grigio, €90. Is the cost difference justified!!

Very great full for your support.
Raul

Hey all.

I think I am leaning towards the Synology 224+ (but also considering the terramaster f2-423 (because of the multitude of videos from NASCompares YouTube).  I am brand new to the NAS world, so I like that Synology has intuitive software and sounds like it's got everything I would want.  My biggest use cases are: Running a Plex movie server (and dlna/smb server?) and backing up our phones (photos and videos).  We'd also likely use it to offload other files on our computer that we don't want taking up space. One video on the youtube channel showed pretty great performance with the Synology 224+ but I couldn't tell if he was using the 2gb of memory that comes with it, or if the memory was upgraded. I also wasn't sure if the drives were 5400 or 7200. I do love that the terramaster has much better hardware and more expansion possibilities, but wondering if it might be overkill?  Driveless, they both also seem to be around the same price.

So my first question is - was the benchmarking video using 2gb or more?
Second question - just how different (features) are the overall apps between the two systems?

Anyone have strong feelings here?  Thanks!

Hi,
Lately I was wondering if I should get a NAS but I’m not sure if I would make the right choice. I live by myself and would mostly use it for my own data. I have pictures on my PC and phone and some documents. I found this NAS but I’m not sure if it’s a bit too slow for my use. Could you maybe give me some advice?

Synology DS223j