Seriously consider Synology, it is a great product and the OS is very mature. DS1512+ has expansion capabilities.

To be honest if you are looking for speed I totally agree DAS with Thunderbolt is the way to go. However you will only see the benefit if you copy out the files for "friends" provided they are on thunderbolt too. Torrents are no faster as you would probably know. On the other hand the NAS OS has so much more potential. You have to try it out to see the benefits beside just speed. The new boxes come with 4 lan ports which support LAG and theoretically can peak at 350MB/s read. But like you I too cant wait to try out TB2.

This post has been edited by mintgadget: Oct 10 2013, 06:26 AM

setting up LAG is a piece of cake if your have a managed switch. Managed to achieved peak about 160MB/s on a single PC with 2 NICs and LAG enabled.

This post has been edited by mintgadget: Oct 11 2013, 10:51 PM

This is a tough one coz cost comes to play. The highest end NAS that can do transcoding will cost you a bomb. Computers are the cheapest solution to be the PMS (Plex Media Server). Running PMS on a NAS unless you have at least a Dual Core 2.4ghz NAS you probably can play 1080p content smoothly, needless to say that is for 1 stream. If you have a few people streaming from your PMS at one time. NAS processors are not powerful enough I believe at this point of time unless is a PC built NAS or the Enterprise level NAS. If you understand how Plex works you will get a better picture. However PLEX is really awesome, the people behind it are just plain "gods"...

This post has been edited by mintgadget: Oct 14 2013, 02:31 PM

I would personally recommend a mac mini if you have the budget otherwise and Intel NUC is ideal too.

It's interesting that Synology has SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid) unlike QNAP which is planning to implement this feature from my understanding. The cool part about SHR is you can use what ever size HDD you have and create a RAID 5 or RAID 6 with the largest disk size being the parity. See http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/W..._Hybrid_RAID%3F to have a better understanding.

You can upgrade your disk when needed although it might be a long process but is possible.


Not sure about QNAP's photo management but on Synology it has instant upload which means is somewhat similar to iCloud photo backup. Once you snapshot something on your phone it will auto upload to the NAS. For DSLR, look into using Eye-Fi card and running the Eye-Fi server on the Synology it will do auto backup once a snap shot is taken. These are all seamless once setup. If your objective is purely photos backup suggest you look at 3 or 4TBs on Raid 1, at least when you upgrade your camera and have bigger raw files it should be sufficient.

This post has been edited by mintgadget: Oct 23 2013, 05:39 PM

try performing data scrubbing first. may be able to delete after that but bear in mind might take some time.

The coolest part of DSM 5.0 - CMS. Perfect management tool.



This post has been edited by mintgadget: Mar 25 2014, 09:53 PM

If you want the files to be identical you can try shared folder sync in the backup & replication. It will create another exact copy in your other diskstation.

its very easy just create the server where you want the files to go to. then create the client and choose what you want to "SYNC" to the server of course network backup service need to be running on the server. Here server is referring to where the "backup" files to be stored. try it its easy.

no it has to sync the entire share folder. not just only one sub folder in a share folder.

Don't waste your time using NAS to do transcoding especially for iOS device. Unless they are at least i3 processors which probably can only handle a couple of high bit rate transcoding which defeats the purpose when you have several devices that requires transcoding. Use synology as a network share and get a decent at least i5 box to handle the transcoding.

Actually depends on your content ie file container (mkv, avi, MP4). I too have Plex app on my Sammy and it works via direct play with soft subs (no encoding required). The main point here is your requirements. Plex is a great media library organizer and also fantastic to share content over the Internet. If your media is purely for your own consumption to your setup as per your post then running Plex on the entry level NAS should be sufficient. DS video on the Synology is a far cry from Plex. But when your needs changes just get a dedicated box and move your library to it.

If you find out your love for Plex like me do support them it's really worthwhile getting Plexpass for tons of early access to features and local syncs to your devices. The Plex community is awesome.

At least now you can use DSM 6. So many new cool features. Virtual DSM, file request <- this is long overdue.

virtual dsm can create another DSM with another network port good if say you want to run a dedicated VPN client for streaming rather than using your existing connection.

you can only see speed improvement on link aggregation if you have many users connected to it. i tried bonding 2 nics and pulling files from it don't see much improvement for 1 connection. make sure you have a managed switch else it is just redundancy.

yes 2009 tech vs 2015 tech big diff wat...

you should surpass the 100MB/sec mark per file copy easily. if everything is on gigabit (to be honest i personally think cat5e and cat 6 not much diff if short cables.

I am contemplating sending my back too. As you know these C2000 series models are time bombs can die anytime. I received a RMA request from Taiwan but it is ridiculous to my unit there since is manufacturer defect.

Currently is working fine but can die anytime. Do you mind sharing how you got yours replaced.

Personally, I think the best way is to disable all ports except https 443 & http 80 then use reverse proxy with let's encrypt certificates for all your "apps". Helps if you have a domain to configure the dns entries.

quickconnect.to is connecting to synology relay first. furthermore you can't use it to do heavy transfers coz they limit it. reverse proxy is direct to you and synology does the port redirection

check out their white paper on this

https://global.download.synology.com/downlo...White_Paper.pdf

This post has been edited by mintgadget: Jan 7 2021, 09:57 AM

security always comes with a price tag but i believe it is a small price to pay for the benefits of having your own.