Hi! I'm primarily a photographer, but do occasional video editing, and would like to do that more frequently. I currently have a Synology DS418 with 4x 4TB drives in it (around 10.5TB of storage, of which less than half is full). My Lightroom source files live on the NAS, while my catalog file lives on an attached SSD drive. I'm using a MacBook Pro M2 as my primary machine.

My questions are
1) Is this setup reasonable for photo and video editing off of my NAS, or do I really need the 10GB connection? I feel like my Lightroom performance is usable, but could be faster. For instance, it does take quite a while to import an SD card's worth of ~50mb RAW files directly to the NAS storage.
2) I'm considering getting a second NAS that I can back this one up to at a remote location. I assume that if I get one with a faster connection, I could use that as the primary system here, and use my current DS418 as the remote?
Are there other considerations I'm not thinking about?

I have had a QNap TS453a for years now and mostly have used it as a Plex server and file storage for photos etc.
Photos mean a lot to me and last year my Qnap was hacked and all of my files were encrypted.
I was increadibly fortunate to have most of my photos and home videos on an external harddrive.

Ever since I have thought about possible getting a new NAS, and maybe staying clear from QNAP.

The suject has now come up as I have recently bought a house and would like to buy a couple of security cameras and use surveilence station.

I accept that you may be very busy but any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Fernando from London

Hi Guys, trying to set up PIA on my two home NAS (DS412+/DS1813+).
Is there a way to do it or am I wasting my time??

I have a dead and discontinued DS214Play. What can I replace it with so that my disks still work and data is accessible? I've seen loads of videos about replacing failing drives in Synology, but what happens when the hardware fails, and Synology doesn't support it anymore?
If I get this one, the DS224+ can I put the drives from the DS214Play, and all is good?
I would appreciate your guidance.

Hi guys, have searched but cannot fins an answer as t0 whether it is possible to INCREASE the DS220j from the default 512 MB DDR4........
grateful fro your definitive advice
and regards from Australia!

Hello guys. You are the best resource online for a nas noobie like me i bouth the ds923+ and am waiting for my iron wolfs to arrive for raid 1. Got 2 1tb sn770 as well with the idea to use them as storage pools for the apps(missed to check that this is not possible with non synology drives) i hope this will work but wondered if you have tested it?
https://github.com/007revad/Synology_HDD_db

I need an advice on what NAS to get.
I have about 3TB of photos and videos stored in an external HDD.
I would like to move them to a NAS for redundancy, being the main use to be able to access my photos and videos on my phone such asI can do with Amazon Photos or Google Photos.

Also, I would like for other family member to have access and in the future I would like to have a digital photoframe where I could display the photos at home.

Hi--
I bought the AS5402T (Nimbustor) this summer as my first NAS and am ready to add my first NVME SSD in addition to the 2 SATA HDDs in the bays.
Is my logic correct that since the PCIe lanes are Gen3, I will get the full speed available by purchasing Gen3 SSD, i.e. I would get no benefit by buying Gen4?
Amazon has the Crucial P3 4TB PCIe Gen3 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD available for $159 on Cyber Monday. There's no need for me to buy, say, Samsung 990 or 980, correct?

I have a 3TB HDD full of photos and videos and I have another 3TB drive as backup. You can probably guess the rest. My HDD failed and when I checked the backup HDD, it had also failed. I'm hoping:
1. I can retrieve the data from the failed HDD's
2. I want to ensure it doesn't happen to me again.
I've got all of my business files on Google Drive and would like to have a local copy. If I can have a system where I can ditch Google Drive, or just get by with their free plan, that would be a bonus. There's about 80GB of data on Google Drive and my business has been running for 3 years. Ideally, I want it to be pretty user-friendly. Right now, we have 7 devices with a mix of Mac and PC. Suggestions please?

You wrote in your guide that only the switch needs to be upgraded not the router. Don't you need the router also for local adress translation? And isn't all the home traffic run through the router? And wouldn't consequently keeping the old router create a bottleneck in the home lan?