Project for Girlfriend

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My girlfriend of about 15 months (not living with me): Works as a video editor, from home, with some clients on the side. Her internet options are limited, especially the upload speeds. Being that she works with 4K videos, and collaborates a lot with editors outside of her internal network, she is constantly waiting for videos to download and upload.

Me: Project Manager, Network Engineer at an NYC MSP, with a Synology DS720+ at home, running Plex. A client office recently closed down, and I inherited a a DS918+.

The Goal: I want to give my current 720+ to my girlfriend to use as a cloud sync device, for quick local transfers and unattended synchronization to her cloud services (DropBox or OneDrive). I also need more storage for my Plex Server, so I would be repurposing the DS918+ for that.

Questions: Is Synology Drive able to do this, or would I need to implement an SMB share (she uses a mac) to take advantage of the Cloud Sync? Do you have any other ideas or stipulations about this?



Love your videos, thank you so much for your contributions to the community!

Sincerely,
Willard

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She might consider Presto service https://www.synology.com/en-uk/dsm/feature/presto. This allows faster data transfers over the internet.
DS720+ is a 1GbE-based NAS (2GbE with link aggregation). It is not quite fast enough for direct video editing. But uploading and downloading while editing on PC from an internet drive is OK.
TS-253D could be upgraded with 10gbe card and could handle a single 4k editor. But that is an extra expense for you.
Cloud sync will allow copy data from your mentioned providers.
Here is the full info about it. I hope this helps.


Cloud Sync
Features
Safe and secure real-time data synchronization between Synology NAS and multiple public cloud storage services
Flexible and customizable options such as sync directions, schedule arrangements, and bandwidth control
Centralized management for administrators to monitor and control resource usage
Specifications
Supported cloud storage services include:
Synology C2 Object Storage
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
Amazon S3 compatible cloud services
Amazon S3
hicloud S3
Backblaze B2
Baidu Cloud
Box
Dropbox (including Dropbox for Business)
Dropbox Team Space (Dropbox Business)
Google Cloud Storage
Google Drive (including Google Drive for Work)
HiDrive
JD Cloud
Megafon Megadisk
Microsoft Azure (Global and China)
Microsoft OneDrive (including Microsoft 365 and OneDrive for Business)
OpenStack Swift compatible cloud services
RackSpace
RackSpace UK
Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS)
WebDAV
Yandex Disk
Maximum number of concurrent upload/download files: Between 3 and 20 files
Maximum number of records to retain in history: Between 5 and 100,000 entries
Supports flexible synchronization options:
Bi-directional synchronization
One-way synchronization - download remote changes only
One-way synchronization - upload local changes only
Supports syncing general and encrypted shared folders
Supports advanced consistency check by comparing the hash of each file between the public cloud and the Synology NAS to enhance the integrity check of the sync results
Supports multiple synchronization connections
Supports scheduling sync tasks by choosing the specific time bracket when the task will be running or be suspended
Supports configuring polling period to control the next search time for file changes on the public cloud
Supports bandwidth control for maximum upload/download rate for a single file
Ensures security and reduces storage consumption of uploaded files with client-side AES-256 encryption and compression
Maps and syncs single or multiple folders between the public cloud and the Synology NAS in a single connection
Offers the option to choose whether to re-fetch or remove files from your public cloud when they're deleted locally
Offers administrator mode for centralized user and cloud type management
Converts Google Docs to Microsoft Office or jpeg formats in download-only tasks to maintain an offline backup copy
Blacklist of file types (music, video, image, document, Google Docs, Box Docs), maximum file size, file name, and file extension for syncing files and folders for each syncing task
Provides logs of detailed information of the event, date, and time for each file or folder for each task
Offers Windows and Linux decryption tools for data recovery
Limitations
Syncing mounted and external shared folder on the Synology NAS is not supported (EDS14 is excluded)
Speed limits are imposed by cloud service providers
Upload and download file size limitations are imposed by cloud service providers
Files with file name limitation imposed by cloud providers cannot be synced (Refer to this link for more information)
No incremental updates. Whenever a file is modified, it must be re-downloaded and synced even if only partial modification was made