Which NAS to buy for streaming and photo storage?

[Enquiries]

Hello.

I have a 12tb WD ex2100 under raid so 6tb is accessible.

I’ve hated it since I bought it. The WD RED drives are loud and crunchy sounding. It is constantly grinding at something. I think it is constantly indexing. The photo management and app is very very poor. The performance is ok. So I’ve kept it for about 5 years. I also gave a 2tb Apple time capsule with a 2tb usb hard disk plugged into it. So I’m running about 10tb of space on multiple drives and I want to replace with 1 single system.

But recently I’ve digitised all my blu rays to mkv files which I stream to Apple TV over smb to the infuse6 app (which handles all the transcoding). So, my drive is full and I need a new one.

I want something that is:
Raid as backup is key. It took me months to rip all my blu rays so I want a backup.
Large capacity. Maybe 10tb of usable space under raid (or above)
A decent photo indexing service and app. I currently have 70,000 photos on my iOS devices and 1500 videos (c500gb) And the WD NAS and app are useless for those (so I don’t bother).
AI photo recognition and face detection would be valuable. Also ability to make custom albums would be good (without having to refolder photos).
It has to be quiet. My ex2100 is very loud; too loud to live in my living room behind the sofa.
Not bothered about 2 or 4 drives (but I’m thinking of getting a 4 bay NAS but immediately populating it with just 2 so I have room to grow In future).

I’m looking at the synology ds920+ but don’t know if that is the best option. I know very little about synology and nothing about QNAP.

Any advice you can give would be great.
Thanks
Alex

[ed]

Yes, Synology DS920+ is a plastic-based model that silences some of the hard drives created noise instead of echoing off the metal walls. But you will still notice the hard drive reading noise if it is very close to you. The solution would be to use 2.5inch SSD or laptop drives. WD 5400RPM drives usually are fairly quiet.Synology comes with AI and great organizing functionality. Also, it allows RAID1 and RAID10 which mirrors one or two drives. This is a fairly safe option.You can use it as an Itunes server, time machine backup and much more.I hope this helps.