hello, I would like to build a 20 TB nas for a plex server and share it with 2 or 3 friends, I am thinking of synology diskstation ds220+ is it a good choice, thank you

I really like your $750 to $1000 build, but I would prefer to use a bigger case (such as the Silver Stone CS382). Although I plan to only use 6 bays at first, I would like to have the additional bays for future expansion. If you were to use the CS382, what changes and/or upgrades would you make to the N3 build you made? In particular, would you consider a stronger CPU (i7 or i9) rather than the i5 you included in your build? The prices for the higher level CPUs, especially for the i7, don't appear to be much different. Because I'm an American stationed overseas, Ali Express is not an option for me. I do have access to Amazon and local computer stores for purchases.

What advice can you provide on the hardware to go with a CS382 case?

If I wanted to stream multiple high quality 8K videos with transcoding would it be wise to install a GPU to prevent over taxing the CPU and generating too much heat?

Hello gents,

I need your input to come to a desicion for my next NAS.
Current situation:
1 drive in myold Netgear 2 Bay NAS starts to fail the SMART check and storage is @75-80%

Needs:
- Disk station with Raid1 (2x 4TB)
- Survaillance for 2-3 cameras in about a year on seperate volume
-> min. 3 drives in total (2x disk station, 1x survaillance (no need for raid1))

Options:
- DS423 / DS423+:
pro: 4 bay NAS with DSM7.2 and great survaillance SW
con: limited power due to Celeron J4125, even less on DS423. ok for my usecase?
- DS723+
pro: enough power and 2 bays for the disk station + 1 NVMe for survaillance
con: no graphic unit in the CPU (can the R1600 handle sporadic movie encoding + IP camera handling sufficiently?)

- QNAP TS-264-8G
pro: powerful CPU incl. graphics unit, 2 bays + NVMe
con: QTS + not so intuitive survaillance SW

-DS223j & DS224+
pro: 4 bays in total, each device can "focus on one task",
4 camera licences in total
con: 2 devices + price

Please advice

Thanks for offering some advice!
I've currently got a Zyxel NAS 540 case with four Seagate 6TB ironwolf drives (2 in a RAID, 2 as backup storage)
That unit was good enough, performance-wise for network storage, archiving and the like. It was never good enough software-wise - it's administrative console was one step up from using pure linux commands.
In any evnt, with Zyxel exiting the NAS market, this unit is no longer supported. It's time to get onto something that's actually designed to do the job I need.
Which, primarily is about the administrative management.
Since this is truly a NAS, I need it to be seamlessly supporting PCs and Mac, with good security controls. I need to use smb and afp as well as HTTPS and windows protocols to access it from within the firewall. Externally, I'm using WEBDAV to mount virtual drives when I'm on the road.
The current unit is using 2 1Gb ethernet cables into the router, offering wireless access within our house;
Thoughts?

Hi there. Ive been inhaling nas videos on youtube but still feel absolutely overwhelmed and have not had good experiences with support at either qnap or synology. So im glad I found you...

I am an artist doing large scale museum iunstallations with copious (4+ TB per project) amounts of video. the primary reason I want a NAS is to be able to expand the working storage of my mac pro tower (thunderbolt 4). I often have to travel for shoots and am also hoping to be able to upload to the NAS remotely.

Secondary I would like to use it as a file library for many other types of data. I would like to be able to send links to clients direct from the NAS and also let my business partners upload and download remotely.

the catalyst for this project was to be able to condense the past few years of hard drives in to one place and be able to have some sort of ssd strage or cache where I can work on pertinent project files without having to move terabytes to and from my mac.

Thanks!

Hi, just watched your '5 mistakes' video which was the most useful advice I've had in quite a while! Thank you.

Our initial use is on an on-site project with up to 4 x video editors accessing HD video data at the same time.
Onward use as internet accessible storage for remote access by freelancers to save us posting drives around the country!

Was thinking of Thunderbolt, but since viewing your video, think 10Gbe best option. TB > 10Gbe adapters + 10Gbe switch and standard 1Gbe / 2.5Gbe router to provide IP? Have looked at QNAP TVS-672XT but now not sure as there may be better / cheaper non-Thunderbolt devices out there with 10Gbe.

Thanks very much for your consideration.

Phil.

build or buy a future proof plex (premium) 8 bay NAS for 4K UHD & 8K UHD video and high-resolution audio (PCM/DSD) with a dedicated graphics card (NVIDIA RTX), raid 6 or 60 (what would you suggest), 16G ram min (with dedicated ram transcoding), i7 or 9 CPU multicore, USB A & C, 2.5, 5, 10, PCIE, UNRAID (12). Thanks

We have have a MS HyperV server with 10 VMs and a total of 6TB in storage that the VMs run on. Need your recommendation for a NAS that we can backup the VMs to and take offsite. Not planning to keep it attached for on-going storage. If we have a disaster recovery situation, would need to restore the VMs in a couple of days. I realize we can do an internet backup and we have a 1Gb connection, but would like an offsite storage solution that we can backup to 1 per month.

Our core software, such as code, is all stored offsite in Github and other places, so we can refresh a server fairly quickly once we have it back online.

Thinking we would want and SSD array for performance? Looking at a Synology DS1522+.

Any recommendations would be appreciated! Happy to donate to your cause.

Chris

Hi,

I have a lot of music that I’d like to play via my HomePods via my local network.

Synology has now stopped supporting iTunes server and I wonder what is I can do to make this work.

Any insight would be much appreciated.

Seeking an external desktop drive enclosure to centralise everything.

Requirements

1. Enclosure only.
2. 40TB HDD.
3. Future-proof up to 80TB HDD.
4. Prefer option to mix HDD & SSD; and use SSD in future should the prices get down to a sensible level.
5. USB 3 gen 1/2 But TB3 capable. TB may be a little pointless given HDD read/write speeds?
6. Hardware RAID 0 to allow for easy moving between devices.
7. Must mount as a local drive due to cloud backup solution limitations.
8. As quiet and cool running as possible as likely to be sat near desk.
9. Prefer it to look good (subjective I know) but should not be a limiting factor.
10. Solid build, reliable, fast


I have looked at QNAP TR-004/004U, G-Tech Shuttle 4, Terramaster, OWC so far. Confused by the options that are / are not out there, and rapidly concluding what I'm looking for does not exist, and that without trying them over time a choice will be difficult.

Thoughts / pointers appreciated,

Thanks,
Sam