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

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’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