Hi,

I'm looking to replace my Synology DS215J - With a larger 4-bay.

I'm trying to decide which model is best for my usage and with it currently being August is now a good time to buy?

My use case is:

1. Backups (2 MacBook's, 2 Windows 11 PCs, iPhone, iPad second backup aside iCloud).

2. Storage (Videos/Photos) - Mainly to free up space on my iPhone/iPad. Nothing huge there (5GB?). However, Game stream clips/highlights in 1440p60p maybe larger but this currently isn't a huge size currently just 50GB.

3. Maybe store films/movies on and stream to my LG C2 TV. However, this be a maximum of like 3 films a month if that at best.

I've been looking at the DS420+ and DS920+ - not sure if this is my route to go if so which? Or a completely different model you can recommend.

Thanks!

Hi - have an old 2 bay Synology. Has served me well. Time to expand though - need a 4 bay for storage only. Going to run my own OS (TrueNAS, Unraid, something like that). Just need storage and fast networking. Thinking Terramaster F4-424. Is that what you would recommend?

I just watched your video How to Restore, Reinitialize or Factory Reset your QNAP NAS and Drives. I have watched a number of your videos and found them very helpful. Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to help. Can you tell me how safe it is to do the reset process? Can data on the NAS be recovered by a knowledge person? I look forward to your response.

Hi, great in-depth analysis of the drives. I am wondering if you could give me a quick idea why my 2 new WD 18tb Red Pro drives have varying scores from week to week even after a reboot.

I posted to r/pcmasterrace with screenshots running CDM

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1etx3kh/comment/ligbc8a/?context=3


Thank you.

Thanks for reading me.

Hello I plan to purchase my first home nas next months and am a bit confused with the requirements for a media server. Here are some infos I want and how ai want to use it.

-I may go for Jellyfin instead of plex.
- For now 2x 20TB max is necessary (I think) but of course having 4 disk slots would be best if I grow my library.
-I have 3Gbs internet connection
-Want to stream locally and create users for family and close friends (stream over internet).
-Some of family members don't have 4k tvs, or older led tvs. So transcoding might be good.
-Movies/series both 1080p and 4k will be present.
-Outisde streaming, I'd like to store personal images/videos, and documents.

Thanks again for your advices!

Hi, I am a fan of your video. I have a dell latitude 5490 to repourpose as nas. Is that doable? What os use? External drive? Was thinking to buy an external enclosure to put nvme to save space. The main use will be to run plex/jellyfin, and as cloud to replace google drive/photo to syncronise with my phone. Maybe learn so.e automatization for my home. Could you please ad ise on this project? Better to find an alternative used pc o build one with ised/cheap parts? In this case amd o intel processor?

I am planning to set-up two Truenas Scale configurations as a file/photo/AV1 media server in a CS382b case (Jonsbo N5 is viable SATA when it ships in October) and a Corsair SF850L power supply each with Nine Seagate Mach.2 drives SAS or Sata partitioned into two drives. I would set-up two 6+2 RAIDZ2 pools. I would have hot swap drive with two partitions. If a drive fails then a single volume in each pool would need to be replaced by one of the volumes on the hot swap drive. Will this work?
If I go Sata, I would use either:

1) CWWK i3-N305 Purple board with Intel Arc A380 low profile card (It required PCIex8 bu tonlu has x4), or

2) CWWK 8845HS 9-bay NAS card.

3) new CWWK Q670 board with SFF-8643 PCIe x4 and a T series Intel CPU if I can source them.

Do you have a recommendation between them ?

If I go SAS, I would use motherboard #2 or #3 with LSI 9207-8i PCIex8 card and have the Hot swap drive connected by Sata. Is there a better mITX board, or is mATX necessary?

Hey, I'm looking to replace our current NAS setup. It is a QNAP TVS with 16TB of storage. We use the NAS for data storage for CAD files. We have 8 workstations connected to it that simultaneously use it for storage during design. Save and load times have slowed considerably since we have grown from our initial 3 work stations. What would be our best option here? Would using something with thunderbolt ports help with speed? I'd be happy to discuss via phone and pay you for your time if that would be easier. Thanks!

The Ugreen DXP2800.
Does it support using the NVME drives in raid 1

Hi guys,
Looking at purchasing an Synology DS1823xs+ and would like to upgrade from 1gb to 2.5gb 8 or 16 port unmanaged switch. maybe manged depending on price. We currently using computers with no ability to upgrade to the network cards, so USB adapters will be required.

Could I please get your current recommendations for suitable mid range switches and adapters? Amazon links would be nice so I can support you guys.

Many thanks