5 hours ago
Hi People
So I have a Synology DS214play. It's pretty old at this point but it's been a good unit.
I work from home (as does my wife) and we both need to store quite a bit of stuff. We do use Plex but I reckon I can get the encoding/decoding done at the client end on most of the dongles (Android TV) so I'm not too worried about the lack of hardware acceleration from an onboard graphics accelerator.
After mulling over the very latest restrictions placed on the latest generation NASs from Synology I'm very tempted to go for the slightly older five-bay 1522+ and mix and match a variety of hard drives I have floating around waiting to be brought back into use.
At home I'm on a fibre to the home broadband link of 300Mbps and I'm currently relying on Devolo wall plugs to feed the internet link around my home (or via wi-fi) so I do not think I'm going to need 10GBps Ethernet anytime soon (though I see I can upgrade if it were ever needed).
Two questions
1. Can I use any old NVME storage brand and can I make them storage pools - officially or not?
2. Ditto for the RAM. Do I have to use official Synology RAM and what is the unofficial/sensible expansion limit on this?
Thanks for any tips/insights/advice...
R
So I have a Synology DS214play. It's pretty old at this point but it's been a good unit.
I work from home (as does my wife) and we both need to store quite a bit of stuff. We do use Plex but I reckon I can get the encoding/decoding done at the client end on most of the dongles (Android TV) so I'm not too worried about the lack of hardware acceleration from an onboard graphics accelerator.
After mulling over the very latest restrictions placed on the latest generation NASs from Synology I'm very tempted to go for the slightly older five-bay 1522+ and mix and match a variety of hard drives I have floating around waiting to be brought back into use.
At home I'm on a fibre to the home broadband link of 300Mbps and I'm currently relying on Devolo wall plugs to feed the internet link around my home (or via wi-fi) so I do not think I'm going to need 10GBps Ethernet anytime soon (though I see I can upgrade if it were ever needed).
Two questions
1. Can I use any old NVME storage brand and can I make them storage pools - officially or not?
2. Ditto for the RAM. Do I have to use official Synology RAM and what is the unofficial/sensible expansion limit on this?
Thanks for any tips/insights/advice...
R