G'day Rob. I watched your video on upgrading the DS220+ with the 18GB RAM today, and as I desperately wanted to activate the object recognition in Synology Photo's, I ripped the 8GB DDR4 SODIMM out of my laptop and stuck it into the NAS.

I've done a memory test and it passed, though oddly, the Info Centre now shows a total of 6GB of RAM instead of 10GB (2+8). On your page, "Synology DS220+ 18GB Unofficial Memory Upgrade Installation Guide" there's no mention of what to do if it's recognised, passes, but is restricted to a lower capacity, so I'm hoping you may have an idea, please?

Thank you,
Jason

I am looking for my first NAS with a budget of around 400 €.
I have 2 4TB HDD's that I got as gifts and I am not afraid to build one, although I would like to enjoy the convenience of a closed product.

It would be for documents/photos and personal and programming projects. I would like to be able to expand with M2 if necessary.
Many Thanks

I am looking for a Qnap nas as Storage for photo end personal documents.
The TS-664 have my interest, but I'm not sure if it is possible to get more ram than 8GB, and if it's fixed ram on board?
Have your other suggestions for a good Qnap nas, with good possibilities for expansion and upgrading? And what do you think about TS-632x as alternative?
I need 2-4 M2 ssd for chasing
Cpu min. 2,2GHz
6-8 bays
2,5 (5-10) gigabit ethernet
8-16(32) ram - is ECC a must to day?
Hot swap and one hhd as spare in raid 6 (or 5)

THANKS a lot for your informative, professional and always inspirational video on YouTube!!

Best wishes
Erik from Denmark

Not liking the TOS5 and TOS6 isnt released for F4-424Pro yet in USA for download. So i'm considering a move to UnRaid. I am unable to procures a USB2.0 32GB Ultra Fit, best I can find at BestBuy is USB3.1 64GB. What process would I use to make this work?

Hi,

I've just got round to building a nas server I've been sitting on for a month. Brought me a snazzy gen 5 M2 drive (t705) but after putting it together realised that the heatsink that comes with this fast M2 doesn't have the clearance with the graphics card. (For av1 encoding) Is there a decent small (less than 1 cm heatsink) or such thinks as a 5.0 riser cable for M2 drives please help.

Kurt

Hi - I am looking for some advice. I would like to build a new system to build out a home lab that will serve as long term NAS storage as well as streaming HD content within my network (likely over wifi). I am struggling to find a reasonably priced PSU, and unsure whether I am missing anything key? (will get SSDs later). I would like to use SSDs for the OS (thinking proxmox + truenas) as well as SSD for cache with the SSDs being the main storage area in a raid config.

here is my build so far..
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS 9 Bay NAS Board with 32GB RAM
Crucial P3 Plus 1TB
JONSBO N3 Mini NAS Case
JONSBO HP-400S Pressure Profile CPU Radiator

Kun je de TS 133 foto's afspelen op TV zonder tussenkomst van Internet. Is de media server software inclusief?
IK gebruik nu een WD MyBookLive 2TB deze moet vervangen worden. gebruikt Twonky softare.

Hi, again.

Is there any merit in buying a second hand unit such as a synology DS1515+ (~8 years old) DS916, or Qnap equivalents that are ~5 + years old?

Or are you, as I suspect, better buying new/nearly new to get more longevity and better tech?

Adrian

Good morning, 

Firstly i would like to congratulate you on an interesting, informative website, and some excellent YouTube Videos.  As a result of which, I think I’ve finally got close to a list of requirements for my NAS.

Essential Requirements:

• USB 3.2 for additional drives etc (seems pretty standard?)
  
• Ability to use as a PlEX server 9again pretty standard?)
  
• 6 bays (Initially to use existing drives and update over the next few months 
  
• The ability to accept mixed side drives (as far as Ican work out, only Synology and Terramaster offer this out of the box, maybe possible to use UNaid? any other third party apps. allow this?)
  
• Sensible RAM - I suspect 16GB plus?)
  

• Multigig connectivity preferably 10gbe (probably overkill but hey, as another YouTuber says, “why Not”!
  

• Ability to connect directly using USB4/TB4 for a possible journey into video editing
  

• PLEX server (not necessary all backed up as I’ve got a large collection)
  
• File storage and duplication 
  
• Time machine Storage?
  

Hello there,

Would an F4-424 Pro or F4-424 MAX be the better purchase for a first-time NAS buyer?

I've been watching your content on YouTube for a while, and was initially piqued by the Asustor Nimbustor (the one with 4 SSD slots) as a robust hardware option with lots of expandability before the Terramaster F4-424 series was unveiled/released. I'm looking at a NAS as a primarily OFFLINE backup/storage solution for my sister and I. Multimedia streaming would be nice to implement, but that's not necessary.

I already have an Ironwolf 4 TB HDD previously purchased that can go towards the future NAS. I'd ideally like 2 more HDDs/8 more TB for the mass storage and a pair of bang-for-buck SSDs to house the OS and any cache for the NAS. I sourced my own parts for my tower from 2 years ago, so ~$2,000 would be what I'm comfortable spending (assuming the upcoming Black Friday sale sees the F4-424 Pro discount to $719 CAD again to compare with the $1,199 CAD of the MAX after its coupon).