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

Hi,

Firstly I'd like to say I'm a big fan of your videos and easy tutorials.
Id like some advice on the below if your able to help please?
I have a qnap nas 453mini 4 bay currently with 2x 6Tb in raid1.
Im mainly using it for music storage from my CD collection, all ripped in FLAC.

I listen to it streaming off a Cambridge CXN streamer and will only read files when Twonky is enabled on the qnap. But I recently discovered another type from a company called dbpoweramp. They have one called Asset UPnP (DLNA compatible. I've downloaded a trial but really in Two minds what to use. From your knowledge are you able to tell me whats best for me to use? Hope the above is clear enough ? thank you

Hi
I found your website and was wondering if you possibly have some advice for me... We have the following setup - and are missing a key piece:

Setup:
- WLAN / LAN network in my house
- Drobo NAS, connected to the network (it has an IP and everything)
- An ONKYO digital receiver/amplifier: this connects to the beamer, the speakers, etc.

What we are missing:
A device which can (via WLAN or better LAN) connect to the NAS on the network, access the media there (photos, music, movies, ...) and output them to, e.g. HDMI, which we can then connect to the ONKYO receiver.

So far we always used a laptop for this, connected to the ONKYO receiver via HDMI cable. This is obviously a hassle... Some years ago I once had a &quot;Popcorn Hour&quot; player, but that broke at some point - and I wasn't really able to find a similar device again...

We really only need a device to play media off of the NAS - we don't have Netflix or any other streaming services and aren't looking to get any... And it seems that nowadays all the products I can find focus on free or paid streaming services from the web, not accessing your own NAS on a local network...

Do you know which device would serve us well?

Price is not a huge concern - I'm rather concerned that we'd want to make sure that it is possible to update codecs/encodings/... to make sure the device is able to play the latest audio and video formats (that was always a problem with the Popcorn Hour, it never was able to play x265).

Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

Cheers,
Florian

Great review, thank you for that! (I've also watched the various Youtube reviews for the hardware as well as software side, where you looked at the HDMI output on your monitor) I was curious as to whether the HDMI port is able to output multi channel sounds, i.e 7.1, over various codecs. I read somewhere that the native app had its license expire, so multi channel with DTS, atoms etc were missing. One of the main purpose of the NAS will be to act as a media centre as well with lcoal files as well as Netflix, directly connected to a Denon AVR with a 7.1 set up. thks!! If The Nimbustor 4 can do this, are there any other NAS that can do the same, but better?

Plan to scan my many negatives with a photo scanner and then save them on a NAS.
My problem is that many digital photos are also on both Google Photos and One Drive.
I am unable to bring them together on, for example, Google photos and then transfer them to a NAS. To then also remove the duplicate photos.
My knowledge of a computer is limited so that a NAS, of course, shouldn't be too difficult.
Perhaps you can provide me with good advice, for which I thank you in advance.

With many greetings from Germany.!