DiskStation DS1821+

Do NOT use exfat for extended use on both systems. It is not journaled, and is therefore very easy to corrupt. I lost many terabytes during my Mac to PC switch by using exfat drives. I believe the only appropriate use for exfat is to write data once, read it once, and format the drive for the next u

I'm using my NAS as main storage, 10GbE connection between my Mac Mini M4 and my Synology DS1821+ with plenty of storage (80TB) and it always has a full backup in my vacation home so im gouing with the base model and doesn't use iCloud.

That's a normal business life cycle, they don't keep things out of warranty because buying things in an emergency is expensive and stressful. I'm buying a small system, its not thousands of dollars, so its really not that much money when you consider what cloud storage is and all the other costs and

Pros and cons honestly. Either you keep it simple and within a budget or you toss the wallet at it like I did and end up with that "WANT" vs what you really "NEED". Assumed I was gonna be sitting at 20w idle, have VMs, AI with dGPU, a all in one solution to get rid of all other systems, and to repla

I moved from plex and other tings running on an old windows pc to a synology ds1821+. If I had it to do again I'd do the same. For me the killer app is SHR allowing disparate drives to give redundancy. I love the rich user community - I had my apps all install on a local ssd before I added the cache