DiskStation DS1522+

Nice setup. The idea behind the QNAP is to protect from failure of the DS1522+, or multiple drive failures. It also allows me to use Backblaze for off-site cloud storage in the unlikely event of a natural disaster or fire that would destroy both of my units in my home. Yes, redundancy upon redundanc

TBH, grab a Minisforum N5 Pro or another equivalent. Then you can run MUCH larger models on the Radeon 890M iGPU than on any consumer GPU. But you'd need a 3rd party OS (unraid or truenas usually) so overall don't expect any personalized support, not from Minis, certainly not from the OS developer.

I got a DS1522+ which is a 5 bay. Tho as of now i only use 3 bays. This was 55k sa Shopee. Then 8300 per 12tb hdd Seagate Ironwolf. Shopee din. I suggest getting at least 3 bay para you can make use of the RAID function. Meaning if one drive crashes or gets corrupted, everything is recoverable. Down

okay, laddie, buckle up cause i have some numbers for you 😅 i have run my DS1522+ with 18TB+ data and nearly 500k pictures the exact same way. i did it before reading the docs and didn’t know about the remote ML. good thing, i messed up my db backups, and had to do all over again so now i get to emp

Chiming in because I own a DXP6800 Pro. And still use a Synology DS1522+ to back it up. Just because it was my NAS until this summer. See r/Synology for my experience with that unit, which I bought in June 2024 to replace a DS418play that had “backplane issues”. And I have around 8TB of family photo

Well, this is a Mac thread so I won't "drag" you into the NAS world, but it all started some 4 yeas ago toward the end of the pandemic: my son had been using a Synology NAS since he and his family (4 young kids) had one at home. Having a NAS allowed him to control where they can go on the internet,