A Guide to How Each Synology NAS Perform in Plex Media Server
If you have been wondering about buying a NAS in 2021 for use as a Plex Media Server, then chances are that you have heard good thing abo

I was planning on purchasing 920+ by Synology.
I probably already have around 4TB of photos, videos, etc..... I have future plans to add media as well as videos of kids sporting events.

I was planning on purchasing 2, 10 TB ironwolf hard drives for now and setting it up as SHR with plans to add another hard drive or 2 in the future.

I would like to add a similar but smaller set up at my small business where I currently have less than a a TB of storage but would like to back up to my home Synology and vice versa.

The items are in my cart but want confirmation that this makes decent sense. thank you,

Looking at a NAS with a 3K budget (just for the NAS, storage will come later) I was thinking about a TVS-h1688X this will be used for PLEX that wil handle 5 - 10 streams of which may have 3 - 5 transcoding. I would also like to use a GPU if possible for hardware tanscoding.

Thank you

I am looking to replace my Drobo FS with either a Synology or QNAP NAS. I would like to be able to expand to 20TB + in the future and prefer 6bays. I currently store 400,000+ RAW camera images plus all the usual Word, Excel documents for personal use. I use Lightroom and Photoshop. At least three computers will share this device, two with Ethernet and one wireless. The current NAS devices offer so much more that I would like to take advantage of such as Cloud storage and backup to our phone images as well as multimedia source for our 4K TV. I have looked extensively at the Synology DS1621+ and QNAP TS-653D-8G. I wonder if I need to worry about the different file systems they use? thank you for any advise you can offer.

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Hi, I'm looking for instruction/video on how to move apple pictures library to Qnap TS230.
I know that Qnap has a pictures application, but would it be possible to keep mac photo library on NAS. Now I keep that library now on external drive.
Can you please provide some information about it.
Thanks
Voytek

Hello,

Found you on youtube. Great content. I have a channel aswell and I have a crap ton of video file for 10 years now. I have about 3-4 external hard drive and they work, but I want to be able to fill a hard drive and replace it and had the mirror back up like the NAS does. What is your suggestion ? I am not looking to break the bank.

so far I have standard external hard drive from 2 tb to 8tb. All Hdd not SSD.

Dear Friend,

I would like to ask you about which NAS is good for me,

I`m a home user and the main requirement for me is to take automatic backup for 5 mobiles IOS and android but no one from these mobiles can see the other one data.
and windows and I want to use multimedia for smart TV.


Thanks a lot in advance

Hi, first off, thank you for having this help section on your website.

Basically I am looking to get my first NAS to backup family photos and brief ~30s to 1m videos. Currently I am storing these on my PC in 2 locations (1 copy on a SSD and another copy on a mechanical HDD).

With that, I think that 2TB should be more than enough to start me off with a NAS, and I was thinking that possibly RAID 1 would do the job? Again this will be my first NAS, so with RAID I'm not sure what would be best.

I do have a network switch setup in my house that has 2.5Gbit speed although my PC only has 1Gbit, but that is easy to upgrade.

The absolute main thing that I'm looking for is silence along with reliability. I am looking for a NAS that could be upgraded down the line, so do you think that a 4 bay would be sufficient? Regarding the silent part, do you think that installing SSDs would be a better choice than mechanical ones.

Oh 1 final part. I know that some NAS have an app for mobile devices, so that I could transfer photos right from my phone to it. If that is the case, a NAS with that feature would also be a must.

Wow, there is so much to learn with NAS, I'm actually finding it really fun to read up on them!

Thank you again for your time,
Christopher.

Hi,
I'd like to buy a NAS, preferably Synology, secondarily QNAP.

I wanted actually a DS220+, but then in the Synology's compatibility list I could find this SSD unit supporting for NAS Model.

The SSD Unit is a WD Red SSD with part number WDS200T1R0A-68A4W0. It costs right now about 245€ on Amazon and two of them for mounting a RAID system is affordable to me.


Is there any other option within the range of functional characterstics of a DS220+ that supports the SSD Unit mentioned above?


HDD is a no-go to me and my wife. I won't risk with HDD Reds because of their noise. The NAS will be placed in the living room and silence is the main and only reason I go for an affordable SSD solution.

Best regards and thanks in advance for your advice,
Ruben