DiskStation DS918+

wont be enough, the sales are not only plummeting because of the HDD debacle but also because their new systems simply suck, they are still using old CPUs without an iGPU so no hardware transcoding which is a huge downgrade to the previous models. the best Synology model a home user can buy is a use

Synology Works great! Maybe try to get an older used model for cheap. I have ds918+ and its a workhorse.

A little bit different setup but I have unas pro, and I had synology rs1221+ (sold) i still have Synology DS918+. I have Intel NUC 13th gen for the apps. Personally for me synology has way more of different features but 99% of them i am not using. I think the best advantage of synology is iscsi supp

I used Synology Photos on my DS918+ NAS for multiple years, and switched to Immich about 1 year go. It's a much better platform, the web and the mobile apps. Synology Photos, by comparison, it's more basic and less flexible, and like all the other apps from Synology its development is stale. I like

This ^^^ I moved Plex Media Server from a DS918+ to an i5-10500 Ubuntu PC a couple years ago. Best move ever. No problem transcoding, burning subtitles, etc. It is a bare metal installation, no 20+ containers. Just Plex Media Server and Tautulli via Snap. Plenty of headroom should I want to add anyt

Yeah agree depending could be quite different run times.. But would be nice if they put up a curve on load, I mean I doubt the nas is going to draw 120W if its not really doing anything, etc. So from my napkin math should be able to get at least 20 minutes out of it I would think.. Not exactly sure

Yes - I use a synology NAS for both my plex and homebrige, working well so far. I guess the unifi plugin for homebridge requires a certain amount of hardware to run smoothly (ie maybe don’t try a raspberry pi). So far the synology ds918+ is up to the task though I only have one protect camera so far

I went from Synology ds918+ to TrueNAS virtualized on Proxmox with HBA passed through to TrueNAS vm and had no issues with stability. Lots of learning on snapshots, replication, mounts. But no stability issues. Can you post details on “random” crashes- logs, dmesg clips, etc? Hard to diagnose withou

I had it on DXP2800 and DXP4800 for short time> no complains. Now I have a DXP 4800plus and it´s running with no problems since 2-3 Weeks. I´m not panning to use it as my primary NAS ( MainNas DS720 ) but i´m using it as Jellyfin/PlexServer, Torrent, HomeAssistent, BackupNas. Main Nas (sensitive Dat

Seconding the recommendation to get a Synology NAS. I've had a DS918+ for almost a decade now with 24TB of storage across four disks (32TB real space, the rest for redundancy via RAID) and it's a total cinch to set up and use. You can go a lot further with it too if you're inclined, I have a bunch o