These are the parts that i have currently laying around at home.

CPU: i9-9900k
Memory: VENGEANCE® RGB PRO 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 DRAM 3600MHz C18
Motherboard: ROG Maximus XI Gene / MSI MPG Z390I GAMING EDGE AC
GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio 8GB
PSU: Corsair SF600 Platinum / Corsair AX760

Currently using a Synology DS1621+ with 6x10TB. It is mainly used to backup photos/videos and for Plex-ing.
These are the apps that i am currently use since the first time i started NAS-ing with my first Synology DS916+ in 2017.
1. radarr
2. nzbhydra2
3. jackett
4. sonarr
5. tautulli
6. deluge
7. watchtower
8. bazarr
9. filezilla
10. speedtest
11. nzbget

With the DIY NAS, i am hoping to move away from Synology totally or at least have Synology to be for backups only and move the Plex to the DIY NAS and maybe have some VMs for lab.

I currently use an external 5TB USB 3.0 HDD to store both my PC backups and local media files (TV shows, movies), which is inherently risky.

As part of my backup strategy, I'm setting up an online backup (BackBlaze) but I want to also set up my first NAS to store these files locally instead of on the portable drive.

Primary uses: storing local PC backups of key folders/documents, storing and streaming media files (TV shows, movies) to devices on my home network only. Max users on the LAN accessing movies at the same time is 2-3, but most of the time it's just me (1 user).

I do not have a desire to access or stream any files from home while I travel on any device, so Kodi has worked great for me instead of Plex (I tried both).

I don't do any software dev, container, VM or media creation work.

Thank you in advance!

Hello,

I checked your articles but still not able to decide.
Last year I lost my phone and lost the pictures of my kids hence decided to go for a NAS.

I want, in the future to be able to plug at least 4 cameras. I've read the following from Synology's website:
- 4 cameras

- 30 days storage
- 24 hours recording



=> 7 TB to plan

To you agree with than?

Other than monitoring, I'd like to save our phones and computers.
Some business stuff but not too heavy (500GB max).

As I'm not a developer, I like Synology OS as I feel it would be easier to manage.
Also, I like the security that RAID 6 offers.

Would you please have any suggestions to me?
Am I realistic with the TB? With the budget (without disk)?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards

Vincent

Hi,

I appreciate your videos and wanted to write because I am a bit lost between all the choice here. I am looking for a NAS to sync with my 100TB dropbox which holds the majority of the film footage of my company. A film production company.

The wish is to edit 4k, 6, and 8k footage directly off the NAS. Ideally through Thunderbolt 3 and 10GBe or higher.

I have done this in the past with a QNAP TVS-872XT-i5-16G which worked reasonably well.

Now I am looking at a QNAP TVS-H874T-I7-32G and I am wondering if I will really see a noticeable performance boost as it will be mostly read and write tasks. I know that apps and such will run much fast on the system but for the actual day to day use will it perform that much better?

I am also considering a Synology alternative, I like the OS much better, any recommendations there?

Thank you,

Scott

Hello ! I'm looking to change my DS224+ for a 4 Bay, i only use my NAS for Plex (Friends & Family).

I hesitate between this 3 :

DS423+
QNAP TS-464
Asustor Lockerstor 4 Gen 2

Wich one would be better? Do i neet raid or RAID0 or jbod is correct for Plex use ? (I don't need backups)

And why the 918+ of Syno is so high in the review without transcoding ?

Thanks for your help.

Best regards,
Maxime.

Hello there,
firstly, thanks for the great website and the many reviews!

We are a small team of 2-10 VFX-Artist and working at the moment with a cloud storage service.

Due to a compliance reason, we are looking for a NAS solution to share the date via syncthing.

The speed of the data exchange is an important topic, and we are leaning toward the TBS-h574TX. But it would be great to hear to recommendation.

Thanks a lot,
Bo

Hi, I've been looking for the last 6 months at all.dorts of NAS devices for backing up my photos and videos from my devices (3 X mobile phones, 1 X laptop 1x pc). I previously had a 2Tb WDmycloud which is now obsolete and has no supported software for backing up.
I'm looking for a device that will be reliable and run for quite a few years to just back up my devices, not used on constantly, just there for when I need it. I'm looking at single bays devices and having an external HD to back up to or my look at 2 bay if I can understand raid set up.
Products I have looked at are the Synology ds124 and the newer WDmycloud devices but the reviews don't seem very good for them?

Upgraded from a 920+ to a 1821+. When I upload to the nas it is really slow. Also when uploading my internet stops working. Never had this problem on the 920+. Any ideas would appreciated.

Thanks

My 1520+ is almost at capacity and I've never upgraded the unit itself. Should I upgrade the ram? It's only 1 slot available, correct? Also, using primarily using plex is it worth upgrading the nvme ssd ports? As far as memory, I'm considering the dx517 expansion. Could I use lower capacity drives (5 x 10tb)? Would this create problems with the existing ds1520 with 5 x 16tb drives? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

I want to upgrade from a DS220+ (6Gig Ram), (2 Seagate Exos X18 TB drives), set up as SHR, BRTFS. System original format created two 16.4 TB drives, one volume of total 16.4 TB space. This is only used for Video Station (DVD, BlueRay) mpg movie files (5060) server in home use.

I now need more disk space. I want to purchase a DS923+, add 32Gb RAM, two 1TB Flash Drives and 2 new additional Seagate Exos X18 TB drives. Remove the existing 2 Eoxs X 18TB (Video Station movies) and add them to the new DS923+, with a total of 4 Seagate Exos X18 TB) drives. That should create a new total volume of (32.7 TB) SHR 2, according to Synology website calculator.

Can I just install the 2 existing (DS220+) Seagate drives and then add two additional, new (Dell Exos X18 18TB SATA), basically same type of drives?

I DON'T want to loose any of the VS Station file data associated with the movies. Looks like Synology states I would loose the movie file data, (META) and have to recreate it.