DiskStation DS720+

Synology

DiskStation DS720+

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DS220+ for Immich: Is It Enough?

I have a DS720+ which also ships with 2 GB of RAM. I added a 16 GB module, so now it has 18 GB total, which is more than enough for everything I run. According to monitoring, Immich uses around 2 GB at idle and up to 8 GB while indexing a new library. I run all ML tasks on my MacBook because process

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RichExamination2717 in r/immich

February 12, 2026 8:04 AM

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Looking for NAS recommendation – Jellyfin, fast UI, and future projects

QNAP makes pretty solid tech. As does UGREEN. Synology not as much these days but still I have a DS720+ and it’s pretty good with all the dockers I’ve got running on it. Basically what I’m saying is that instead of what brand you should be looking at specs and where your latency might be: is it beca

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wannabe-manatee in r/HomeNAS

March 13, 2026 4:09 PM

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Hardware Advice Needed

IMHO, upgrade the DS720+ to 6T or 8T drives (if you are SH1 now, just pop a drive for a bigger one and rebuild, wait for that to complete, then pop the other and rinse and repeat, then expand storage). I would leave Plex on the DS720+ as its closer to the media and runs native on the DS720 and not i

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_--James--_ in r/Proxmox

June 22, 2025 5:38 PM

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Those of you that bought a mini PC to "upgrade" the horsepower of an aging NAS: are you happy with your mini PC? Now that the dust has settled, what, if anything, would you do differently?

I ran into the same issue, twice. First bought an ARM Synology strictly as a file server. Well even using their photo software I outgrew it in about a year. Went to a DS720+. It did most stuff if I didn’t abuse it. Kept the old one strictly for backups. But wanted better routing AND more Docker appl

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PaulEngineer-89 in r/HomeServer

December 2, 2025 7:47 PM

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