Hallo. I cant effort Synology SSDs but would like to have in the DS1522+ 4x4TB Raid5 SSDs. I did see WD Red SA500 on your website. That is less expensive and I could get 5x2TB Raid5. Do you have any experince with these and Raid5. What for Problems could I get because the SSD is not on the compaibilitylist from Synology. Do I have to expect dataloss or that synology blocks the using of them or anything like that? In the past you have made also youtube tutorials about not supportet RAM, do have also any about not supportet SSDs? What can you recommend to me? Some are using the Samsung 870 Evo that would be less expansive then the WD but is not like the WD for 24/7 use. Can you give me some advice? Looking forward hearing from you, with kind regards Nicholas Norman

Using my PC for jellyfin atm. Trying to set up a NAS for streaming at home and away from home. Currently have mesh wifi routers around the wired house. (Modem to mesh base to switch to mesh 1&2 via CAT6) . Will like to have the NAS next to my pc (connected to Internet via cable to mesh 1) will this be an issue? My main usage will be streaming 4k movies and some streaming 720p on phone out of home. Will like something that can handle wife streaming 4k at home and me streaming 720-1080p out of home at the same time.

I have a Synology DS1621xs NAS with 6 x 12TB drives as a RAID 5 volume and have just reached 80% capacity so am looking to expand the storage without removing all drives at once and having to reinstall everything.

If I were to buy 6 x 18TB Ironwolf drives then would replacing one drive at a time and letting the system rebuild each time be the ‘easiest’ way to do this? I realise I’d be vulnerable to a drive failure and losing all my data during the rebuild. Is there a better way? I’m hesitant to remove all the drives and swap them for higher capacity drives all in one go as last time I did this it mucked up Plex.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

I'm considering the DS224+ and adding Crucial 4GB RAM CT4G4SFS8266.
For UPS, I'm considering CyberPower CP850AVRLCD.
Is this a good combination? Any alternatives or suggestions?

Hi, I have just ordered my parts to do the £250 build Jonsbo N2. Great guide btw. Next im looking at drives and going to use unraid.

Currently, I have a 16tb and 12tb drive with data on them, and want to get that data onto the NAS when it's complete.

How many additional drives do I need to get to make this work? Assuming I cannot put the drives in as they are and keep the data on them.

Will I need to buy 2 16TB drives, 1 data 1 safety, get the data from one of the drives copied across via USB to the data drive, then add that drive, and then the same again for the second drive?

Thank you

Tim Briggs

Seeking to purchase my first NAS.
It will be used for:
Photos (100K uncompressed HUGE files), with AI object/face recognition;
Video (100s, mostly 1080); and
Audio (100K files: flac, wav and mp3) - remote access with 'Alexa' would be nice

My work includes photography, video and audio production; media storage. and remote access.

Desired specs:
Integrated Graphics
Ease of use
Fast connectivity
Future proof

I plan to migrate my (many) portable SSD drives onto the NAS you recommend.

Open to spending more now, (and do it right)

I'm looking to buy ds1522+ during Amazon prime day. But wanted to know if can mix ssd and hdd in the box. I want to use ssd for photo editing and hdd for storage. Can ds1522+ handle this or should I be looking at something else?

Hi,
i have tried to look on your youtube channel and on the website but i cant see you saying about this:
WD Red Pro HDD vs WD Black HDD in a NAS
whats best? are they the same? does it matter?
i have seen your videos explaining the colours of WD but not how they differ in the NAS.

Thanks

Hi NAS Compares,

Long-time lurker on the site here who is hoping to make a purchase soon and wanted to pop the question.

Looking around I have found that synology seems to be reasonably well received - although every single unit has pros and cons.

In a nutshell, what I need for my purposes ideally, is a device that will:

Be a two-bay NAS device

Host 2 x 10TB drives - the drives I keep seeing reviewed positively are WD Red devices but i am open to suggestion on this

Connect to a LAN and run on Windows 10 or 11 PCs

Run plex (well) over a LAN to an LG television

Run plex (well) over WiFi to two additional devices

Provide storage for digital documents

Not need a bespoke software solution just to copy files over the network to and from the PC - that is, the device/drive should show up in Windows Explorer and allow cut, copy and paste functionality

The very rough budget is around £750.

I'm certain that I may have missed points here, but many thanks in advance for any advice.

Good day,

I hope you can help me.

I am looking into setting up some services at home.
1. Data Backup and Sharing
- Mainly Media
- Phones and PCs
- Home and Away
2. Plex or JellyFin
- To be able to stream backup media on all devices
- I guess I can write a transcoder to make sure that there will be no transcode on demand.
3. Would like to use docker and spin up VM
- this could be setup on a mini PC I guess.
- learning
- Discord bots
- Home automation

I have been watching lots of your videos and reading your blogs and seem to come to these three NAS setups.

QNAP TS-464-8G
- Worried about security

Synology 4-Bay DiskStation DS923+
- 1GBe will need a adapter for 2.5GBe
- No GPU for transcoding

ASUSTOR Lockerstor 4 Gen 2 AS6704T
- Software

Apart from choosing the NAS itself trying to see what HDD/SSD/nvmes i need to buy and in what configuration confuses me.

Thanks for your time.

Kind Regards
Malcolm