Can you request Maxis to assign you with public IP? With TM, request reason for CCTV usually can get it.

If not then delete your DDNS and just use QuickConnect

QuickConnect is easy but it's not direct connection to NAS. Transfer speed is slower.
If you want to get https certificate signed also have to use DDNS.

What are the differences between QuickConnect and DDNS?

Last time Synology don't have their own DDNS service yet?
Now is very easy, just set a hostname and select service provider or use Synology one. It will periodically auto check and establish the connection.

Ya, if go full package will be expensive
You can get the essential first only then only slowly get more. NAS must get first. HDD if your PC already got and you going to move the data to NAS, you can reuse first, if got 1 HDD only then just get another first, at least must have RAID-1 for redundancy.

UPS can get later, unless your place always have power failure. RAM upgrade not really necessary unless you going to run VM or a lot of apps.

Both have same CPU, but DS220J only 512MB RAM while TS230 have 2GB RAM. More RAM advantage will be more cache. But both doesn't support BTRFS which is suck.

Another thing is which OS more suitable for you. Can find at youtube to see the interface.

That is not cheap. Powerful NAS

I think better use the 2 old SSD as separate volume for backup, at least you got additional backup in case something goes wrong.

WaNaWe900
That's strange, your Storage Pool is above Volume while mine the opposite


In my Storage Pool, Device is name of my NAS, Number corresponding to HDD drive.


While in Volume, it will show which Storage Pool used for the Volume



For my case, first I create Storage Pool. My 1 Pool is with 3 HDD drives. After that I create Volume, here I can have multiple volumes if I wish for, let's say I want 1 volume with BTRFS while another volume is EXT4 (these are filesystem type, such as FAT32 or NTFS in Windows). I see you have created 3 Volumes for your Storage Pool.


Wait for Verification first before started create folders and files.

To create Folder, go to Control Panel > Shared Folder. Press Create button on top



When creating Folder, you can set it to use which Volume. Each Folder created will be seen separately when in Windows or DSM's File Station



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Storage Pool only the OS sees it.

When create backup, you can choose the Volume or selected Folders/sub-folder in the Volume.

Your NAS got 10Gb port. Can go few hundreds MB/s with the right equipment.

40 something celcius is nothing to be worried about.

The wrong subtitle is also in the same folder?
Maybe some issue that makes the Media Server recognized the wrong file. Previously I encounter subtitle not showing because the filename is too long.

It's same as Google or Microsoft or others asking to opt in for analytics. Up to you whether want or not.

You got use mobile device to access NAS?

Better change your QuickConnect ID to something else and also restart router as safety precautions so that the hacker can't find your NAS anymore.

Oh just noticed it's via SSH.
If you not using SSH or Rsync then just disable it.
I disable SSH, FTP, AFP, NFS, and others that I don't use.

In the Firewall rule, don't enable ports for apps that you not using over the internet.

Isn't it the same as using quickconnect.to or there's other benefits?

Ya, heavy transfer is limitation to QuickConnect. Reverse proxy needs own domain with host, additional cost. Plus need to know how to configure it too.

Since I rarely do heavy transfer I just rely on QuickConnect. When need to do heavy transfer I'll enable DDNS temporarily.

Hey, thanks for the white paper. Now I understand more how QuickConnect works.
If there's DDNS and DSM port is open, QuickConnect will redirect to DDNS domain.
If there's no DDNS but DSM port is open, QuickConnect will redirect to my public ip.
The problem is even when there's no DDNS, my public ip is still exposed due to QuickConnect will redirect to it.
1 solution I found is port forward unused port such as 5003. When I need direct connection I change DSM port to 5003 and change back to default port when finish use.

If use QuickConnect relay server max speed about 15 Mb/s, good enough for tens of MB files transfer.


That is fast. Got good price for it?

If for files that you will always edit and changes on computer, better to use Synology's Drive. You don't need to do manual download and upload. On the DSM side you can set to do backup on Drive folder.

If Google Drive can install on your office desktop?

What do you mean map the drive? Using VPN to make the computer as if in your house local network?

Freenas/Truenas advantage is more customizable in hardware and the OS, but everything is do-it-yourself. I'm not using it but would imagine since it's more technical community, most of the guide will be by typing lines on command prompt. Additional features is by third party apps/docker

NAS such as Synology have more features baked in to the OS. Everything already integrated, only need to configure it. Everything is by GUI. But third party apps are lesser. Main drawback is almost non customization for hardware and limited bays.

Hardware price not so much difference for medium build, 4 bays NAS is about 2k while build your own will still need 1k plus, unless you got spare components or get second hand components which will help to reduce the price.

Data scrubbing is it read and do checksum on all data on HDD to make sure no error or bitrot. Though if use BTRFS it will do checking everytime whenever it access the data to read/write, and self heal if there's error. So it doesn't need to wait until do data scrubbing then only checks it. I set mine to do every 6 months.

Up to each preference really. Some even set every month.