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#2977796 5-Oct-2022 16:20

I have a DS220j. Being new to the world of Nas, I didnt realise that its not very powerful so ended up getting a Raspberry Pi 4 to go with it, which actually ended up costing less than a DS220+ which is what I should have got.

1 * 12tb Drive seems to be more than enough at the moment. Photography is a big hobby for me, so the Nas is perfect for backing up all photos from Laptop and phones, as well as a full backup of the laptop. I also recently ripped all my CDs to MP3s so they all live on the NAS also.

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#2977798 5-Oct-2022 16:23

Bee:

I have a DS220j. Being new to the world of Nas, I didnt realise that its not very powerful so ended up getting a Raspberry Pi 4 to go with it, which actually ended up costing less than a DS220+ which is what I should have got.

1 * 12tb Drive seems to be more than enough at the moment. Photography is a big hobby for me, so the Nas is perfect for backing up all photos from Laptop and phones, as well as a full backup of the laptop. I also recently ripped all my CDs to MP3s so they all live on the NAS also.

You're probably going to want to whack a second drive in there for RAID redundancy, in case one fails.

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#2977828 5-Oct-2022 17:25

Jase2985:

doesn't answer your question but i moved 8TB from my PC to my NAS via ethernet the other day and it took a little under 22 hours. I also had 2 PC's connected to it transferring data and both were sitting at 100MB/s (Mega Bytes) for 200MB/s total for a 5-6h.

That’s rather good. Tho I’d need 10TB of disk spare….

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#2977840 5-Oct-2022 18:42

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have a read of this it should answer your questions

https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/How_to_migrate_between_Synology_NAS_DSM_6_0_and_later#x_anchor_id7

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#2978156 6-Oct-2022 10:57

I've been running a DS-211J for about 6 years now, largely for movies only, has generally been ok, but do get "source too slow" messages on some high bitrate movies, although that has been getting more frequent lately, even on some 1080p movies.

Also have a Qnap TS-210 that I use for TV series and music streaming outside.

Due to the 211J struggling with anything over about 20mbps, I have just ordered a DS218Play, that is optimized for 4K so should do the trick, I stream to Kodi on my TV, so not expecting any dramas. Hoping I can just migrate a disk from the 211J to the 218, then chuck a larger disk in to mirror, then a second one. Instructions seem simple enough, but I'll see if that is the reality.

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#2978222 6-Oct-2022 11:40

Jase2985:

@nic.wise

have a read of this it should answer your questions

https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/How_to_migrate_between_Synology_NAS_DSM_6_0_and_later#x_anchor_id7

Nice and easy then - drives out, drives in, boot, update

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#2999116 21-Nov-2022 10:38

Hi team,

Looking at getting a DS220+ this week. Unless you can recommend me a better option....

Don't have a NAS at present - 80% will be document/photo backup and the rest will be Plex.

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#2999121 21-Nov-2022 11:03

Very ignorant question...NAS + Plex...any transcoding, if it matters ?

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#2999153 21-Nov-2022 12:58

James Bond:

Hi team,

Looking at getting a DS220+ this week. Unless you can recommend me a better option....

Don't have a NAS at present - 80% will be document/photo backup and the rest will be Plex.

Just incase you didnt see the black friday thread special there.

Oh crap, it was your post already. I should rea...

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#2999161 21-Nov-2022 13:25

@rb99 - some NAS' will transcode. Usually the slightly more expensive intel ones. Personally I have an older (DS418j) ARM one, and a NUC for Plex (and a load of other containers). The NAS has the files tho, they are served to plex over NFS. I used to use an old Mac Mini (2008) running linux, which couldn't transcode. Just asked everyone to set their settings to "original quality" and we had no issue 99% of the time. The odd person got kicked for not doing it, tho they quickly changed the setting back and were on their way.

And for my upgrades, I found my problem to be that I made the storage pool on a VERY old ARM NAS, so it stops out 16GB. Which was fine when I had 4x4 in it. Now I have 4x8 so I have a bunch of unusable space unless I backup 8+TB of stuff, reformat, and copy it all back. Other than that, going from 4x4 (SHR) to 4x8TB (SHR) was a swap-drives-and-wait job.

Which I plan to do, as I need/want to keep a spare 8TB drive in the safe incase one dies, so I just need an external case for it.

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#2999179 21-Nov-2022 14:11

Thanks for the info. I was just enquiring, as someone mentioned getting their first one and using for Plex. Personally I don't have a NAS, its all on the main Ryzen PC and I use Emby anyway...

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#2999183 21-Nov-2022 14:23

Re transcoding, I've seen a couple of comments on reviews of the newly released DS923+ (hasn't made it here yet), that it will no longer support hardware transcoding because Synology have swapped from an Intel to an AMD processor.

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#2999335 21-Nov-2022 17:11

the ryzen processors the are starting to use dont have the embedded graphics on them so only do software trans coding, not a huge issue unless its a massive bitrate file your trying to trans code.

its weird AMD doesnt have them on their chips

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#2999486 21-Nov-2022 20:50

Some of the AMD processors do, but for some reason I can only guess at, Synology chose to use the variants that don't have it. Very unfortunate, because it turns the upgrade from a no-brainer to something much more nuanced.

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#2999494 21-Nov-2022 21:17

mkissin:

Some of the AMD processors do, but for some reason I can only guess at, Synology chose to use the variants that don't have it. Very unfortunate, because it turns the upgrade from a no-brainer to something much more nuanced.

desktop processors yes, but these are embedded ones.

i suspect its all about cost and what they think the nas will be used for.

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