DiskStation DS918+

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

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

Are you running it from an HDD or NVME? I never found it usable on HDD. Much much better on NVME. I used to host it on HDD on a DS918. Unusable. I did hear people had much better experiences with it on NVME, even on Synology, but in my case it was easier to move it to my plex server. It is very smoo

Well I've grown in maturity over the years, let's call it phases: - phase1: apps installed on NAS from (community) repositories - phase2: apps installed on NAS via docker-compose (Container Manager - phase3: moved my docker stackto a spare Intel NUC8 (OS = ubuntu server) and NFS mount my shares -pha

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

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

i'd go with immich. replace my aging synology ds918+, which I could use at a friend place as a remote backup solution

I’m in a similar situation to yours. I ran my Plex server on my DS918+ for many years but wished to upgrade to a processor that supported hardware transcoding for x265. I migrated my server to a beelink s12 running Ubuntu. It addresses the media files on my Synology by means of NFS—I’ve mounted the

I can speak only of my own experience, I started photography around the age of 10-12 yo with my dads gear and I have been very lucky to start my backups on a DS918+ that my dad graciously gave me away for free when he upgraded to 8 bays. I’ve used the heck out of that hardware without even knowing I

My Plex server is running on a DS918 Synology NAS since launch. Low power, handles the little transcoding it needs to do, has an expansion unit (which I have that ads 5 extra bays), and has a ton of very friendly aps for other home projects. I have a 12+ outside users. Only down side is that it's no