Im starting out and am a first time user. I just got a DS1621 and have DSM installed, but don’t want to make a mistake in setting up the wrong disc configuration.

Personally:
- I currently have run out of Apple’s 2TB cloud storage, and also have tons more personal photos and videos on Amazon and Google Photos. Probably around 3TB altogether.
- I have movies and music backed up on external 4TB drives.

Business:
- Looking to have files, contacts, chat, and lots of varying documents.


My question:
I currently have a 6-bay, but only have 4 - 6TB HDDs. I went ahead and got the NVMEs populated for caching, but don’t have the money now for those other 2 slots. I am leaning towards SHR so I don’t have to worry about purchasing the same brand and model drives, but am realizing that SHR is similar to RAID 5 and SHR2 is equivalent to RAID 6. However, on a 6-bay I am seeing a lot of un-used space with SHR2, and am really debating its usage.

I like the thought of 2 discs of safety being that I don’t have an affordable backup solution. I know you say that a NAS is not a backup, and that we should always back up to cloud and locally, but both seem pretty pricey. I could use the old 2 - 4TB externals to backup some info, but it obviously won’t back everything up.

What RAID or SHR configuration would you recommended? Am I freaking out too much in concerning myself with a possible disc failure and wish I would have gone with SHR2 over SHR? Do you have any other suggestions that I may have not looked at or considered to properly set everything well the first time?

Thanks in advance!

I have a Synology DS2413+ with 10 x 6TB WD SMR drives (4.5 yrs old) and 2 x 2TB WD Desktop drives (8.8 yrs old) running RAID in SHR-2. I have slowly been replacing the 2TB drives as I've required more space. I'm currently at 43TB used of 47TB available space so I'm looking at replacing the 2 x 2TB drives.

Note: I understand SMR and CMR drives and the problems with NAS so please ignore for this question.

I would like your opinion on the following solutions:-

Replace the 2 x 2TB drives with 2 x 6TB WD SMR drives to make 60TB, or about 55TB usable. Then add an external 12TB WD MY Book drive and Archive out unused files. This way I can get 72TB of storage for about $900 AUD.

Replace the 2 x 2TB drives with SHUCKED 2 x 6TB MY BOOK drives (with PIN 3 covered or removed). Then add an external 12TB WD MY Book drive and Archive out unused files. This is the cheapest way I can get 72TB of storage. About $780 AUD.

I have also looked at replacing the 2 x 2TB drives with larger CMR drives but will need 4 12TB drives to get to 72TB because of SHR-2. This becomes expensive. 4 x 12TB SHUCKED MY BOOK drives will cost $1,500 AUD. 4 x 12TB WD RED PRO would be $2,500 AUD.

Using external Archive drives seems the way to go but is this a reliable solution?

Hello there!

I'm completely new to the world of NAS-related things and I am overwhelmed with all the things that are possible and equipment that is out there.

What I basically want is a space, connected to our home-network, where my partner and I can move files (Movies, Music, Photos) that is not needed daily on our PCs. As a added bonus, it would be great if I could use the NAS together with either my smart TV or my PS4 to watch movies/listening to music to.
I plan to have 2 4-6TB HDs in there, one for actual storage, one for mirroring the first one and an external USB HD for backing up files externally.

I was eyeing the DS220+ but now that I know of the existence of the DS220j, I wonder if that would be enough for my use case, even though I read on the website that "Not suitable for Plex Media Server". It would certainly be a cheaper solution.
What exactly does the "not suitable" mean? Is it enough for FullHD? Will it struggle at 4k? Does it not work at all? And do I even need Plex Media Server to connect it to my PS4?

I hope you can give me some good pointers to consider, which one I should get (or even a completely different NAS, which I haven't considered yet).

Thank you for your time!

Hi i watch your videos and i have learnt a lot thanks to you

i have a ds720+ on my network the problem i have is other people share this network and can see my files how do i stop this ?
i also use for plex so i would need plex to see the files

thanks
rob

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Hi - I need a bit of advice...

I have a Synology DS916+ running DSM7
8Gig Ram, 4 x 6Tb disks currently 5o% full

I'm looking for a new (chassis-only) Synology to replace the DS916+

Would like to be able to upgrade Ram
4 or 5 Bay
2+ Gig Lan Ports
NVMe

What do you recommend ?

-Tom

I am looking for a NAS-solution.
I like models with HDMI and remote control for media player
For redundancy I want one NAS in each of my homes, and set up mirroring between the two.
Only mirror folder containing private photos and other important documents.
Manually/automatically share capacity for less important, like movies and music.
service to play music, on network attached audio devices supporting DLNA

Maybe: 2×QNAP TS-251+ (or TS-451+), maybe 4 bay for future expansion.

Most importantly I want to store photos and documents with redundant location. I have seen many videos about different RAID, for performance and/or redundancy. RAID 1 is good against general disk failure, but not as good if failure is caused by fire.

As a videographer, I need the ability to transfer videos from an SD card to a storage device where I can directly edit, stream, store and back up ~ 3-5 videos per week that are 20-30 mins in length at 1080p resolution so that I can publish and stream the resulting videos without sharing my content with public cloud or social media providers. My current network environment is Netgear prosafe gigabit switches (jgs524) , Cat 5

Rack Mountable , Speed , reliability and smooth streaming are very important to me.

~$2k budget

Please advise on the optimal NAS solution for this use case.

Thank you for your recent review of the QNAP TVS-h1288X. I still have some questions that I've posted to the QNAP forum for answers.

I've read through a number of posts on the QNAP forum as well as on the Plex forums to find out recommendations and suggestions on which graphics card to use with the TVS-872XT.

On the Plex forums they point out you need Plex Media Server v1.15.1.791 or newer ( https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/ ). In that article there's also a link to a google doc that shows a hardware compatibility sheet ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MfYoJkiwSqCXg8cm5-Ac4oOLPRtCkgUxU0jdj3tmMPc/ ). Finally as part of that article Plex points users to a QNAP page that show compatibility with the GPGPU and NVidia ( https://www.qnap.com/en-us/compatibility/?device_category=gpgpu&brand=nvidia ). On this QNAP page, QNAP recommends the Nvidia- Quadro RTX 6000.

The TVS-872XT has 2 x M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 x2 slots and, I've researched that there's only one PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot, the other is a x4. Looking at the price of the recommended card I find it sort of unbelievable that there are no other recommended NVidia cards. I saw in the forum that someone had connected a Nvidia Quadro P620 to a QNAP TVS-872XT NAS ( https://gist.github.com/weshofmann/620b924cde5dd498880e9315e48e793b ) so I see that it's possible to not spend nearly $3500 on a video card for a NAS.

What have sort of GPUs have you connected to a TVS-872XT? Have you had success with Plex transcoding the media? How &quot;loud&quot; does the QNAP unit get when the GPU is transcoding (fans blowing)?

I also would like to know if you've had any experience with this sort of setup and then watching content with subtitles enabled (some of us are hard of hearing). I've found that when subtitles are enabled, more processing is done by the CPU to stream and support subtitles and then buffering and jittering occurs.

As a final note, has have you setup a unit like this and used the watch together feature from Plex ( https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/ ), how about with subtitles?

One final note, I recently saw on intel's page that the
i5-8400T chip in the TVS-872xt is discontinued. I'm looking to &quot;future proof&quot; as much as possible having to reinvest in this NAS.

Best,

Michel

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