Hi,

I plan to buy my first NAS to replace my expiring WD My Cloud. It will mostly be used to centralize and back up all our media from our different devices. I think I will go with the QNAP TS-233. You made a great review of this one, and the AI for photos looks attractive to me, and the fact that they are powerful enough to be used as a Plex server is a plus for me.

I have two questions: Is it worth the extra money to wait and get the new TS-216G? Secondly, for the same performance with Synology, it seems I need to go with the DS224+, which is twice the price. Is their software really that much better? As my first NAS, I really look for simplicity. Will QNAP do the job, or should I really put more importance on the software and then go with Synology?

Thanks for your advice.

Marc

Hi!

i have watched a lot of your videos and you have done one about google photos, but there has not been one to completely migrate from GPhotos. I have scoured the internet and found a couple of things but without a full fledged solution, i have even paid for a service and got nowhere!
the main issue lies with Google's terrible way of extracting the metadata and exif data from the picture and when performing a GTakeout, it puts everything in a JSON file. Now i have used https://metadatafixer.com/, tried and failed with https://gilesknap.github.io/gphotos-sync/main/tutorials/installation.html , and a couple others. is there something that you can do and see for a good solution that you would recommend and make a video about?

anyway, let me know what you think...

Yousef

Home server is currently in read-only mode and possibly dying :-( Synology 416Play with 8Gb RAM and is looking like it might need an upgrade.
Usage is currently for personal photo/music/data storage and GDrive Sync. Video Editing/Work archive and also running Docker with sonarr/radarr/jaket etc.
Very happy building/config my own and thinking it might be time to move into the TrueNasScale ZFS world.
Have a pi running Kodi for media playing, so not looking for Plex. but it will live in the living room, so should be quiet. Would love to start moving to a 10Gb option (but would mean an upgraded switch).
Very open to options!

I got my ds923+ from your recommendation and I couldn’t be happier, thank you

I wanna buy a second one to clone the 923

Hyper backup has an option to backup the entire system to another nas.

I’m assuming that includes my vm’s and docker container s

As it’s just a backup, I don’t need all the bells and whistles.
Can the DiskStation DS124 be sufficient for this task?

Hi,

I hope you are doing well.

Since all the prices of services are going up, I would like to build me a NAS to use mainly with Plex (4K ) and probably my photos on the future in order to reduce costs with google and streaming services.

Now that terra master launched the F2-424 in Europe, I wonder if it is the best solution since the hardware seems better than Synology , asustor and QNAP ( taking in account the two bays and same target group for this NAS).

I wonder which would be the best choice for me in April 2024, since we need to take into account the quality of the build, the hardware, the software and prices, since I'm new in NAS world, im kinda lost and I would love your help.

thank you for the amazing site and YouTube channels =)

best regards

Hi,

I am in 2 minds as to what NAS i should buy. Currently I have a 5 bay Synology NAS, that's quite old and no longer in support from it's current DSM version. DS1512 or something like that. I primarily use it for Backup and Plex. I was using Kodi in the past, but it became unusable in it's latest iteration. When switching to Plex, it is a good experience, but it is quite slow rendering the thumb tabs for shows etc. I dare not add my music collection / photos as I feel it's already a bit slow. So time to upgrade.

Primarily want a fast 4k media option, backup and if possible somewhere i can put Retropie?

I have my eye on either QNAP or Synology, either 5 or 6 bay, with potentially nvme drives (if QNAP). Expandable RAM if possible. What would you advise?

I already have the disks, sitting in my old NAS which I will have to migrate across (pain)

THANKS

Over here in Cambodia we don't have a choice of the full range of products from both QNAP and Synology.

The 2 4 bay units available here are the DS422+ and TS-433 both at $550.

I mainly will use the unti for archival storage of raw files.

Which is the better option?

Thanks

I’d like to move my tv to an iot network at home but I would not be able to access Plex since the nas is on my normal network. What is a secure way to access the Plex server that doesn’t require expert knowledge of networking? Thanks for the help.

Hi,
Do you have any recommendations for a Jonsbo N2 NAS Build using promox and GPU with HDMI passthrough to a ubuntu VM inside? I want to use my NAS for simple playing of youtube or local videos, and seems like igpu passthrus for HDMI output is not possible. Was thinking of something like the Aoostar R7 in mini ITX form factor but can't seem to find a suitable motherboard.

Thanks.

Hi,
I have a Synology DS920+ where it's routing all the network via Nord VPN in the network settings on the Synology NAS itself. This works as intended when I login to the NAS as an admin user. I want to have another user (without admin privileges) to download things to the NAS via Download station. When I get that user to add things to the Download station, my iOS download station client (DSLoad Station) is not detecting VPN as active. VPN is detected fine if I use the same iOS client DSLoad Station with my admin profile.
Do Synology NAS devices have VPN setup per user profile? Is this the reason my non admin account Is not able to use VPN? Or does Synology still route all the traffic via VPN and my non admin user client simply does not have privileges to see that it is behind a VPN?
I could not find any article advising if VPN is only enabled for admin users/all users/enabled and needs configuring for each individual user. Thank you, I hope this makes sense.

Kind regards,
Mario