I’m looking at both of these machines as I’d like a 5-Bay or higher NAS. My primary use cases would be:

1: Centralized Backup of 2-3 Home Macs
2: Plex Server hosting mostly 1080p and lower ripped DVDs (I may have some 4K content)
3: Shared file server for our house for important files including frequent offsite online access.

My biggest reasons for looking at this setup is speed and redundancy. I plan on having two drive fault tolerance with either SHR2 or RAID 6, on either device.

I have a UniFi Network installed in my house with switches capable of link aggregation, so on either unit I’d take advantage of that feature.

My biggest concern is that it seems the AMD on the 1621+ Seems to be built less for plex and more for business. On the other hand I’m worried about the lack of upgradability of the 1520+, with soldered memory and no possible addition of 10GB should I want it later.

I plan to populate these fully with 4TB ironwolf drives and to use 500GB drives in both cashe slots.

Wondering what the best ultimate unit would be. I’m not worried about the $100 price difference, but don’t want to go much more expensive than this. I also plan on keeping this for as long as humanly possible.

Hi Rob,

I am planning to purchase a Synology DS220+, and am looking at security cameras for it. I was wondering if the Reolink RLC-822A would be compatible? Synology only has up to the 522 listed on their compatibility sheet. The 822 appears to support ONVIF so I was hoping it would work.

Thank you,

Matt

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Hi! Thanks for an excellent site! I would like some advice on what NAS upgrade I should look at. Currently I am on a Synology 214+ where I recently got 2 x N300, 8 TB NAS disks. But I realize that to be able to run Nextcloud or any other software that process images and videos I really need more CPU. I have a lot of personal video in 4K stored and I want to be able to share that to friends and family. I like the DSM but would be fine using the QNAP software too. Thankful for any advice on what model with most bang for the buck. I guess upgrading the RAM on any model would be recommended?
I was looking at QNAP TS-253D-4G or Synology DS720+
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I have just found your Blog/Webpage and it is great

I have an old'ish DS216Play which I have to upgrade/expanse the disk capacity.
And while I were looking for new disks, I toke a look at what new Synology NAS there was.

In Short, I'm thinking about upgrading to DS720+ but it is from last year, and I don't want to buy a new NAS, just to find out that an upgraded version is released a month later.

I have seen your video on the difference between DS220+ and DS720+

I know that you don't know the future, but I would like to hear your opinion.

Extra info> I like Synology, the 2 bay series fit my needs, the price between 220+ and 720+ is ok for me, but only just.

Looking forward for your answer
Best Regards,
Poul

I've a rack cabinet at home, and a little Pi 4 running Plex on a single USB 3.0 HDD. I'd like to add in a NAS, but considering a rack mounted NAS for Plex as everything else is racked in there and it makes sense form factor wise.

Admittedly I believe these are underpowered for transcoding, however the only viewing I really do is on my TVs and Apple TV over Ethernet at home. Would a rack NAS be up for the challenge? And if not, could I use the NAS for storage only and let the Pi do the heavy lifting in terms of transcoding instead do you think?

I think I've watched every video you've made for the last 2 years or so but I can't find enough data to counter my inexperience and hope you could advise. Many thanks for your time, and great channel!

Currently own a Synology DS1512+ and I use it for Plex, and Web development. I'm looking into upgrading it so that its capable of Thunderbolt/10GB Ethernet speeds for video editing. I would then use my DS1512+ as a backup system. Not sure of the total size of the NAS as I would like to expand it as I need it like I did the 1512+. Maybe 40TB? I'm a Mac environment with a Mac Pro 2013 and MacBook Pro. Would probably need the thunderbolt/10GB ethernet adapter. Love Synology and interested to know what model you would recommend? Thanks.

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Hi, I love your videos. Very informative. I think I might have purchased an inadequate NAS for my purposes though. I liked the specs of the QNAP TS-251 D at first but now wish I had bought one with a 4 core processor to allow a virtual machine. That being said, I am going to chug along with using it as just a media server with a few network folders. A new NAS with better VM capabilities will come down the road to pair with it. In your video on getting a Plex server to work better, I have already done most of what you suggested before watching the video. Just waiting on my PCIE card to deliver to install my M.2 SSD's. You had also mentioned a seperate GPU card to boost performance. I looked around but did not see anything on the web for a TS-251D. Is there anything out there for the TS-251D?

I am already using Synology DS918+, currently has 12 TB on SHR, will be upgrading that to 24TB. I want to start migrating my photos on Google Photos and iCloud to the NAS. I understand that DSM7 is still under beta testing. My question is as follow : should I hold off loading any photo to photo station or Moments until DSM 7 is fully released?

I am also running Plex server on the NAS also do not wish to let any bug creeps into my Plex recording.

thanks in advance

Andrew