Hi,
I am looking to set up a new NAS for my son household that it easy to keep. The nas will be used to backup pictures and videos from the two iPhone in use and backup files from a PC and Laptop.

I am thinking of setting up a Synology two bay entry level NAS. what will be the best way to backup the data in this NAS considering that availability and speed of access are not an issue? I have two solution in mind:

1) set up two high capacity hard disk in RAID 1 and leave at that.

2) Set up one or two drives in RAID 0 or JABOD and then attach a suitable USB drive with nightly backups with Hyper Backup.

Any advice on what other NAS hardware alternative there are and what of the two options above will be best?

Thank very very much.

Basically I have a DS920+ I'm using as a dedicated Plex server.

I'm currently running 4x 16 TB Iron Wolf Pro's in Raid 10 Configuration which effectively gives me about 29 TB's of usable storage.

The problem is I'm down to my last 3 TB and need to start planning next steps.

Here's where I need your advice, which of the following do I do and how?

Option 1) Upgrade all the HDD's to 20 TB Seagate Exos or Ironwolf PRO (I'm not sure which one is better). If I went with this option I would love some advice on how to go about doing this.

Option 2) Purchase the DX517 and just use the expansion and add to my config. Honestly have no idea how this works.

Option 3) Something else entirely I haven't thought of.

I'd love to know how to proceed - please and thank you in advance!

i am wondering if its smart to wait for the upcomming Asustor lockerstor 4 gen 3 or just go with the gen 2....
Seeing the intervieuw you did with lockerstor some time ago and the second time you went across the world for an interfiew... i noticed that the Gen 3 wil not have integrated graphics (he stated he was pushing for an intergration with external gpu (i have a spare gtx1080 laying around dont know if thats usefull)

At this point i want primarly 4k atmos movies on my server to use with my atmos setup so the NAS has to have the option for transcoding.

Im planning on using 2 bays ironwolf pro 16tb raid 1 with 1tb M.2 ssd cash read write
And some spare 4tb m.2ssd s i have in my pc curently.
i have the house completely on Cat6 and just bought the asustor 2.5 switch so connectifity should not be a problem.

(My current setup is an 6tb movie library on my shield but that's full)

Is thare eny news for the release date?
Is thare eny hope for the Gen 3 or does Gen 2 fit better?

If I was wanting to host a plex server for 20+ people to stream from, what specs would you recommend to accommodate that and to possibly expand from? Do you recommend only streaming 1080p if the goal is to maximize the amount of people streaming from my server? I realize that will be expensive, but just want to see what you think it would take. Can you recommend a couple pre built NAS you would recommend for this goal? Would you suggest buying a cheaper NAS and upgrading certain parts, or spending more money on a NAS that already has the necessary parts. What is your preferred operating system for beginners and non beginners? ?

just looking for a nas for plex and movies maybe music ,

Asustor Lockerstor 4 Gen vs f4-424
or
other

Hi I love your down to earth videos you explain things in am easy to understand way.
I built a small nas from various Fujitsu Esprimo parts and installed Openmediavault 7 as the OS. I use two 2TB WD blue ssd in raid 1, I built this as a 'Lets see if I can', my question is iOS their a app/program that would back up google drive to my Openmediavault nas? Or would I have to copy files/folders across by hand so to speak?
Many thanks
Richard Harding

I have several TB of data spread across several external USB disks and I would like to centralise all in the same place to:
- make it available;
-reduce unavoidable duplicates;
- increase data safety.

Hello. I plan to buy a Synology DS923+ I will install in it 2 mechanical 3TB hdd from another custom built NAS. This is my first time using a out of the box solution like synology.
My question is, what caching should I use? Read only or Write also? And what caching media should I use? NVMe or regular sata SSDs?
It will be used:
- mostly for business work. I plan to work directly on the NAS, not just for storage and backup. Mostlye web development work, this would mean accessing the files a lot. I will not run services on it.
- a home assistant installation
- a plex media server for streaming locally, so no enncoding needed.
- maybe some docker containers that will run some websites or software

What do you think? Is the DS923+ a good solution or should I have gone with the QNAP TS-464. From what I understand the software on the synology would be more user friendly and better.

Thank you.

I have a WD EX2 Ultra and a QNAP TS-251+. I have been considering switching from the WD to QNAP but am determining if simplicity of the WD is the direction that makes sense. I just would like to know what your thoughts are because I am not sure if the QNAP is too much for my needs.

I'm looking to build a NAS that is tiny and quiet and stores mostly video files that can be access by an off-site plex server. I've got server I pay for overseas that runs the plex server itself, it's extremely fast but has limited storage. There are two users of the server in different Australian states, and I want to add a local storage with much more space that both users can access. I want to be able to use something like Filezilla to access both the server and the NAS and move files between them.
I saw the CWWK x86 P5 NVMe NAS review and I'm wondering if that might do the job but the read and write speed has me worried.