Hi,

First of all I'd like to thank you for your videos and site. I found them on a random google search and they've been incredibly helpful, especially as someone who is quite hardware illiterate.

I'm interested in getting a NAS but have had a bit of hesitation due to its relatively high cost plus my complete stupidity in the area. My use for the NAS is a wireless media server in my apartment, where I can access my movies and shows in any room on any device, as well as work related videos (and possibly PDFs?). My files are largely 1080p x265 or 264 and have almost no 4K files since I couldn't even take advantage of 4K until recently. One of my big problems is that my library is quite massive. I'd say it's around 10 TB right now, and that doesn't include any work or lecture related files as well as my data hoarding ways having to be tempered due to space limitations.

I'm a bit unsure on what to get. Does it make more sense to get a 2-Bay due to the initial cost being lower and the ability to get more space? Or a 4-Bay since, y'know, 4 bays and all but the initial cost making the realistic drive choices much smaller? Am I also right in assuming that since my files are largely 1080p and it's just myself or at most one other person in an extreme rare case accessing the files, I don't need to worry too much about whether or not the CPU is good enough when thinking about solutions?

Thank you!

I want to install Roon on ssd connected to a nas sinologies Ds 220+, how can I do it?

Thanx for your advices.

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I seem to be having some issues down the UPS rabbit hole. Having looked over my options for a NAS (I'm thinking Synology DS920+ and x4 4TB drives at this point - thanks for all your videos on helping me ponder that one!) I seem to be having difficulty pinning down a good price/performance UPS with the right connectivity. My system parts of concern for the UPS would be the PC (Ryzen 1600/EVGA GTX1070 level), the NAS, one of my two monitors and my router. I've opted for your recommendation of APC and with an eye on budget was looking to the APC BX-1400U-MS - principally opting for this over my first choice of BX-1400UI which only seems to have IEC kettle connectors, where the former seems to have a combo of IEC and universal (I assume these are regular 3-pin looking at the pics?) which I would need for the router since it has an adaptor and no physical ability to be connected with an IEC, where annoyingly the rest of the hardware does. Would you say this model is a good choice? If so, do you have any leads on where to buy the damn thing? If not, what might you recommend given that I don't want to pay an arm and a leg (even being aware that this generally seems to be the way with UPS's)?

On Synology's compatibility checker (https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility), it lists two entries for IronWolf Pro 10 TB. The &quot;second one&quot;, for model ST10000NE0008 - 2PL103, has this sentence on it: &quot;The hibernation feature is not recommended for this drive.&quot;

I don't wish to give up the hibernation feature.

Looking at sellers online, I only see the model number ST10000NE0008, without additional qualifiers...so I won't know exactly what I'm getting, until it arrives.

So my question is, am I going to have a problem with hibernation mode, if I pair up a DS720+ with two IronWolf Pro 10TB drives?

Thank you!

Hi,

I stumbled upon your website and it has been extremely helpful!

I'm looking at buying a NAS primarily as a media server, but also for data backup (files & photos).

With some help from your website, I've narrowed my choice down to the Synology DS920+ and the QNAP TVS-472XT.

Which would you recommend?

Many thanks

Michael

Hi Robert,

big fan and love your youtube series on all things NAS!

I am currently rocking a Synology DS218 with one(!) 4TB Ironwolf. Main usage of the unit is the storage of my movies collection (by far most impact space wise), home videos and photographs. To watch the movies I actually use my Nvidia Shield as Plex server, so the performance of my Synology was never an issue (however before I got the Shield I had sometimes troubles with the playback of some formats on my DS218).

After one year of use my 4TB are almost full and I am thinking about upgrading.
I had several ideas but can't quite decide what would be the best one as I lack experience due to this being my first NAS.

Option A: buy another 4TB Ironwolf and run JBOD. Cheapest but no security (SHR would mean no gains in storage space) and in a year or so I will run out of space again.

Option B: buy two off 8TB and either use JBOD or SHR. If I decide to go for SHR I would have the security but &quot;lose&quot; 8TB and will have a similar situation as in Option A storage space wise (plus, what do I do with the old 4TB which is still perfectly fine?)

Option C: buy a DS920+/DS420j and 3x 4TB. A bit more expensive but I will have security and the cap will be 12TB storage, 4TB security and overall cost 600EUR for 420j and 800EUR for DS920+.

Option D: buy a DS920+/DS420j and 3x 8TB. Most expensive but I will have 20TB of space, 8TB security. I could replace the 4TB drive some time later and get to 24TB space/8TB security.

So in my eyes the only viable ones are Option C and Option D. The dilemma is as follows:

- does it make sence to get a new NAS and slowly transfer to 8TB drives on a new NAS? Or would buying additional 4TB instead of 8TB drives make more sense?
- Is there a strong reason to go for DS920+ instead of DS420j: pay 200 more quid and have more flexibility, performance and features (and have a possible replacement for if Shield starts acting up)?

I hope you can help, thanks!

Kind Regards
Max

Hello how are you doing, I watched lot of your videos on nas and I like your content, I am ready to buy a nas but I am confused in a brand new 220+ vs used 718+ The difference in price is $110 (718 being cheaper around 2 years old) I will be mainly using to backup pictures and videos from my Mac to it and backing up 3 iPhones and MacBook and iMac to it, might be running an email server for me but that’s not decided yet. If you can please let me know i would really appreciate that.

Thanks
Parry

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I have purchased the DS920+ and two Seagate Exos X16 16TB SAS 6Gb/s 3.5&quot; 7200 RPM Enterprise HDD (ST16000NM002G) drives. I cannot get the unit to recognize the drives. Any advice?