nicely written dude. great effort.

been using synology for over a decade and really seen how the product has grown

as for the UPS as long as the USB port with software it should run without any problems, the best use for it is gradual shutdown when batt is low, which means if there is no power to it your NAS will survive until about 3 mins left in battery and get your NAS to be in safe mode. during this time power can cut anytime and won't risk damaging your volume.

you could mount your google shared drive/aka team drive previously and supposedly get "unlimited" storage.





This post has been edited by mintgadget: Nov 25 2020, 03:27 PM

don't think you need plex pass to watch on devices, you only need to pay for activation for IOS think Android TV no need (not sure). but Plex Pass is worth it for this box as you can easily transcode up to 9 streams (hardware transcoding) without any issues (it a freaking celeron chip only)

the list of plex pass features -

https://support.plex.tv/articles/201751006-...ature-overview/

This post has been edited by mintgadget: Nov 25 2020, 03:42 PM

i have yet to see a synology NAS break because of heat over all these years. besides i don't even enable hibernation for the drives as they are on all the time. these boxes are pretty powerful, your drives will die first prior to the box breaking