DiskStation DS918+

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

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

Your current Synology does not have hard drive lock, nor expansion. And they will probably cave soon enough. If you want to blow another $1000 on some new hardware just say that. That DS918 aint cheap. If you are used to DSM and you have failed on the command line I HIGHLY suggest you just get an ex

I think first up you will need to decide if you want to go DIY or Pickup a turnkey solution. I would start here on this NASCompares channel video. This is pretty recent and should point out some differences between the 2 and which might be a good choice.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-YxbQYn8vs&t=

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

It works for me. I already had my hosted services on a separate server, so all I needed was dumb storage, and it’s great at that. On my 4x8TB RAID1 volume, I often see read/write speeds of 500MB/s, sometimes even higher, and coming from a Synology DS918+, it’s almost luxurious. I do wish they’d impl

The sweet spot second-hand would be something like the DS918+ or DS920+. Both use Intel x86 CPUs, support Docker and VMs, and still have plenty of performance for modern self-hosting. The DS918+ is older but still very capable, especially with a RAM upgrade. The DS920+ is newer and will likely get l

The hardware differences really don't come into play for most NAS use cases. I'm running lots of server apps on my 8 year old DS918+ and it's still doing the job just fine. What matters is the software, and absolutely nobody can beat what Synology offers in that department. Nor will anyone dispute t

Time Machine is basically one of the best use cases for a UNAS because at the end of the day, UNAS’s are really just simple SMB devices with RAID capability — and Time Machine runs over SMB. What it’s gonna come to really is if there are features on a Synology not available on a UNAS (basically anyt

In your other post it seems that you already had the mini PC. If you don't have either units, then just get a small form factor machine that can hold all your storage In this case you are looking at a 4 bay. The question is, do you require a 4 bay? Or can you get away with 2 or 3 such as Dell Optipl