DiskStation DS720+

Recommend you buy a premade NAS on your first one for a couple reasons. First less effort on your part software wise. Second they aren’t much more than DIY. So generally speaking Synology has a great reputation and is popular. I have the DS720+ with two 1 TB SSDs as cache, maxxed out RAM, and two 4

This is before Beestation. I bought a DS180j for JUST photo storage. It worked but I quickly outgrew the “food server only” use and wanted the “+” features so went to a DS720+. At that time ARM based Docker containers weren’t common. If I did it all over again I’d look really hard at a PI and an ext

I got into plex because it came with my synology server. I have the synology to keep all my personal media and the apps it comes with are very well polished, it all ‘just works’. The DS720+ also is very low power consumption.. If I want to tinker and dabble with linux, I always use Debian , I’ll pla

I wont say hard drives are cheap! I am a new home user of a gifted Ds720+ . I figured it out my self crashed one drive to test out the ins and outs. Didn't actually crash it but wiped it not knowing how to raid or export. Now rocking 15TB x2 in raid basic synology media service for home use amd star