I recently purchased a Synology DS 423+ along with 2 x Seagate IronWolf 4TB ST4000VN006.
This was all I could afford at the time.
I have them in a Synology Hybrid RAID
I now wish to populate the 2 empty bays in my NAS.
I want to add 1 to the SHR Volume 1 and 1 to a 2nd volume for Surveillance.
The ST4000VN006 are still available or there are ST4000VNZ006 drives for a similar price.
(4TB are between £95 and £110 each)
Which of these - or even some other drive - would you recommend please?
TIA.

Hello, my current NAS is connected to an Nvidia Shield with a LAN cable. From there I go via HDMI cable to a Denon AVR-2400h. From there the picture goes to a Samsung OLED TV. I watch a lot of 4K Movies and also 265 HEVC with Atmos and Dolby True HD. Transcoding to a mobile phone or other device is not necessary. I only watch via TV. I need a NAS with about 90 TB of space (5 or 6 bay). Which NAS (if possible from Synology) would you recommend? Thank you very much for your answer.

I have 7 Seagate Ironwolf pro 14tb drives.
I tried to add an 8th 14tb drive but the nas refused to accept it.
There seems to be a firmware change from SN03 to SNA3.

can you help?

Hello,

I've discovered your youtube channel back in 2021 when i was looking for a NAS to store my media library. I saw you recommended a DS920 and that is the one i bought, loaded it up with seagate exos 16TB drives. after a year or so i bought the expansion unit because i was running out of storage. Placed the same drives in the expansion unit. But now i have the same issue once more.

Now i am not sure what to do, build a standalone that is upgradable, throw the 920 and the expansion unit out and replace it with something else or add another nas as a network drive to the ds920.

The only use i have for the server is to run plex. The media files are max 1080p remux, i do not have a lot of streams at the same time because i have a limited upload speed 5MB/s. This will probably change in the future, but i'm not planning on more than 5 streams at the same time.

I would prefer a quiet nas, not to a noisy server psu.

My budget is flexibel.

Thanks for your time.

Best regards
Niels

Hi NAS compares,

I am planning to buy Synology NAS DS723+ and i am having some doubts in that

1. Can i use M.2 SSD for storage without using any SATA SSD or HDD.(buying Only m.2 SSD for everything like OS installation multimedia storage)
2. Can i use regular SSD instead of using NAS SSD.
3. Can i use other brand SSD.

Would prefer USB 3.2 Gen 2 or Gen 2x2 but Thunderbolt is an option. Hardware RAID 5 with 4-8 bays

I'm a photographer and just want large storage (25tb+) with the fastest connection possible so i can edit direct from a DAS while still having redundancy. Is there any DAS or similar you could recommend. I use a windows pc and any help is greatly appreciated.

Hello everyone,

I am a newbie that is super confused and frustrated. I have already setup up my NAS but the process is not going smoothly and I feel like the more I try to research how to fix things the more complicated and overwhelming all the technical details are getting.

To Start - I setup a Qnap TS-464-8G-US with 2 seagate exos 20TB drives. I am using this set up with Jellyfin just for a home media server for my movies and photos. My process is basically to use MakeMKV to create a MKV file of my movies and put them directly to my NAS with no handbrake compression. I did the basic setup straight off of Robbie's Qnap and Jellyfin set up videos and that part went splendidly. But I now have 3 really big follow up problems/slash questions. I have tried to research these issues but it's like going down a rabbit hole of technical details I can not mentally process. I am not trying to become a tech wizard. I just want to stream my own movies instead of paying Amazon $4.99 every time I want to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off! 

1 - This part I might have frakked up. After I had uploaded 3 MKV files and the system acquired all the meta data files I saw they were all just jumbled together so I tried to organize the movies using different folders for my movie categories. Then the next day they were all moved around and it took a minute to find but it looks like they got put into snapshot folders. I deleted all the folders and files I made and tried to reload the movies but they still keep moving to snapshot folders. 
1Q - Can someone please link me to a video about how to Organize the files in Qnap File Station and how to keep snapshot from moving them around?

2 - I think this is related to the snapshot issue but Jellyfin is also duplicating the movies in the main movie window. I created collection folders and the movies are NOT duplicating in there. But it looks like everyday a new snapshot is created a new duplicate movie icon appears in the main movie folder. Sometimes I can delete the duplicates and sometimes the system will not let me. I can't go through and delete endless duplicates every time I open Jellyfin. Especially once I get hundreds of movies in there. 
2Q - How can I stop Jellyfin from duplicating movie icons? Is it related to snapshot? Do I need to turn Snapshot off?

3 - This part is question and recommendation request. So after I ripped my 3rd movie my external disk drive decided to crap out on me. I grabbed another basic Bluray read and write drive from Amazon but it wont open any of my disks now. When I try to open them in MakeMKV it just keeps failing. I've tried with an old version and the current version of MakeMKV but it just wont do it. I tried to look this up too but the variables are so vast that I couldn't hone in on a good answer. In fact I came across a whole new thing about flashing drives? I've never even heard fo that before.
3Q - Do I need a specific type of drive to open Blurays in MakeMKV? Is there a difference in older drives that works better? What the heck is flashing a drive and do I need to worry about that? 


Thank you to anyone that read this whole thing and is able to answer any of these questions. I appreciate the help.

BK

My main uses are file sharing, and video surveillance. Also, I want to keep my photos on the NAS and hoping that there is some nice software to categorize my photos without my help. I want a fluent use of searching files and manipulating them. Audio and video will only be used sporadic, so not that important.
I want to connect 4 to 8 cameras on the system for outdoor use. Are there systems that are able to close a contact to a home automation system when there is movement in certain areas?

Hi Hope you are doing well.

I am planning to buy a DS224+ NAS. I already have couple of hard disks from my previous device ie., QNAP TS-251

ST2000DM001-1ER164 is the model from Seagate. However I would like to know if this is compatible with the DS224+ before making the purchase decision.

The compatibility page from Synology doesnt list this hardisk. However I do not want to waste this as its in very good condition and its 7200 rpm and not to waste money.

Is it ideal to use this HDD on a new DS224+.

Also another question if I may, Going full SSD on DS224+ is it possible. I reckon SSD could be used just as an additional cache on top of a HDD. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thank you for your guidance and kudos to you and the team.

Kind Regards,
Prasanth