DS225+

Consumers lashing back. They did two things anti consumer. 1.) Forced the use of their approved hard drives (now reversed) 2.) removed the drivers for the integrated graphics in the DS225+ and DS425+ so there is no hardware transcode which it sounds like you’ll need. I’m in the same boat as you; res

Two things. First, they restricted HDD to "Synology approved" drives (mainly their own brand, more expensive) for the DS225+ which was their newest 2-bay NAS. Due to backlash, they came back on this decision. Then there was the transcoding issue, they disabled it on their newest NAS because you need

I'm also a beginner when it comes to NAS and after my 10TB external died I kind of lost interest in large storage but then I was like why don't I just invest in storage that will last and I can backup. Thats when i started looking into NAS devices. Theres a bunch of brands Synology, Asustor, QNAP, U

I guess it depends on your problem space. I don't want/need another photo browser. I use iCloud / Apple Photos for that. I just want a reliable backup of my (family's) photos in an automated fashion, and for that, PhotoSync is more than enough. I don't see any situation in the future where I would b

Just a heads I'd stay away from Synology, they are currently deep into their enshittification Era. 1st they are forcing people to buy they're branded drives and 2nd Nas Campares just posted this video:Synology Kills Graphics Drivers and HEVC & H.264 HW Transcoding on the J4125 NAS (DS225+ & DS425+)