I'm looking for advice on the best system and an appropriate amount of storage. Primarily, I want to store/back up photos and home videos that are on my home (Windows) computer and be able to access them from other devices (Macs/iPads). There are some additional documents I would like to be able to access from multiple computers. Overall, the current files are about 500 Gb. That will probably double over the next ten years.

Regarding RAID levels, I am more concerned about data loss than uptime (sorry - my terminology is probably all wrong, I hope I'm getting the point across). So I was thinking along the lines of a 4 bay with large capacity drives and a RAID 10 configuration, accepting the added cost and 'wasted' space as a tradeoff for peace of mind that all of the photos are safe.

Budget is not really a huge concern. I'd keep it under $1000 if possible.

Thanks

Need help. My Drobo 5D is done. I used it as a DAS with roughly 14 TB of data, photos and video. And more data added all the time. At the moment I don't have the setup required to look into a NAS array. Any DAS recommendations? Willing to spend up to up to $1000 for the array and obviously additional cost for drives to populate it. I liked the 5 bay array setup for raid parity and redundancy. Please let me know.
Thank you,
Joe

Hi,

I hv QNAP TS-453E. I bought WD 2TB RED Plus (Initially 2 WD20EFPX pieces). Because i had (WD20EFRX) from my previous "WD NAP Cloud". But unfortunately during it's synchronization, one of it started to show some bad blocks on it, and the syncing is taking like ages now.

I already bought 2 new WD20EFPX to replace them. Now the question is, Is it ok if I shutdown my QNAP and replace those 2 WD20EFRX drives with my new WD20EFPX?

Your support will be highly appreciated and I will be very thankful to you

Regards,

Hello!

I’m looking for help on deciding on a Synology solution. I’d like to have a NAS solution for computer backup, media sharing and editing. The hope is to be able to back up at least 6 computers that will be located in different cities around the USA. Considering a RAID 5 or 6 setup and the ability to add another NAS in the year or so to mirror this one. Would also need at least 10 users to connect at a time.

I have a small business office that has an aging Windows AD file server that is running fine but nearing its storage capacity. I would like to add a NAS appliance to take the file storage off of the Windows server.

I currently have a Synology DS918+ with 4xWDRedPro 16TB drives installed in RAID 5. I do run MariaDB and Plex (no transcoding) natively on the system and having Jellyfin in a Docker. Currently I have around 8.8TB free on the system, I do have a DX517 available with 5xWDRed+ 4TB drives to increase storage as I am always adding more media releases to the system. I am noticing the system is getting slower.

My quandary is what to upgrade to, while I like how DSM works and how simple it makes things but as everyone knows the HW spec is poor, from the current models I am considering either the DS1821+/DS1823xs+ or DS2422+/DS3622xs+ but I am loathed to buy one at the moment. Would I be better moving away to another brand? I don't have anything with more than 1G NIC wise currently but am considering getting a 2.5G switch.

Dear Sir, I am on to buy my first NAS and plan to choose between QNAP TS-464, Asustor AS6704T and As5404T (video transcoding is important). Planned usage: storage of family media, movies, synchronization of work-stuff + movie streaming or playback via hdmi port to TV. The NAS will be placed in the living room so noise is a factor! I like the robust construction of the Lockerstor and the display panel, but I am a bit afraid of the larger noise. However, I wonder if less efficient heat dissipation could be an issue in the plastic chassis of Nimbustor. This debate pushes me towards QNAP, however, the soldered 8GB RAM distracts me: my plan is to upgrade the RAM to 16 GB. Final questions: should I be happy with the 8GB RAM and choose QNAP or go for the Nimbustor? Or shall I hope that noise will not disturb watching movies and buy the Lockerstor? Thanks a lot for your advice!

Hi I have a Synology DS715 which I use for storage at home. We get fairly regular power outages which normally only last a minute or so. I am looking for a budget UPS with USB connection to the NAS. Would you be able to suggest any? Thanks for the help Alban

Might be stupid question, but watch the video on the disassembly of the synology ds920+ and knowticed the pcie x1 port for the m2 slots. I know I would have to cut the case, but could this port be used for 2.5gbe or maybe 10gbe Nic. Don’t use the usb if it would need to be disconnected. The drivers for the card would be part of the synology software would it not.
Thanks in advance.
Barry Litzow

My son & I are into photography and would like to have a NAS setup to store & backup our photos.
I recently bought a drone so will be having videos too.
I plan having a CCTV system installed at home so need to allow for that on the NAS too.
We've been using external desktop hard drives (2 x 8TB ones each) but had to manually backup to both, sadly, my son's main drive just fell onto the floor and doesn't work now and as he hadn't backed it up onto the second one for a while he lost a lot of photos, airshows etc.
I have almost 2TB of photos at the moment, my son about 1TB so we were thinking about possibly a 3 or 4 bay NAS and either having 2 x 12TB to 20TB drives and sharing the first one and copying it to the second one, then a smaller NAS drive for the CCTV (not sure what size needed, possibly only 1 or 2 TB?) which doesn't need to be backed up.
Been looking at Youtube videos and Synology ones seem the best?
Are we on the right track and can you recommend which model to buy please.