07-13-2023, 03:00 AM
Largely based upon your content, and my desire to consolidate photos/videos/documents from numerous hard drives, I dove into my first NAS today (Amazon Prime Day). I ended up with the Synology DS923+ and two 8TB WD Red Plus HDD (16TB total). I have ~1.5TB of existing files and my network is Gigabit. Another use case is that I'd like to serve pictures of our kids from the NAS to wifi digital picture frames at grandparent's houses, which are out of state. Any tips on how to do that in DSM? I'd also like pics from our iPhone's to be backed up to the NAS automatically (instead of paying for Apple's iCloud). Is that possible or recommended with DSM? Lastly, we have a couple of dozen blu-rays and DVDs that we'd like to add to the NAS so the my son, who's a high school teacher, can access for his classroom. Is it possible to do that? Finally, I didn't buy the M.2 SSDs for this unit. Can I add them at anytime and will they help my use cases? Thanks for all that you do!