Thoughts on Synology NAS


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Anyone using a Synology NAS? I have a Western Digital NAS that also supports Plex Server, which I use for music streaming. The WD has been running 24/7/365 since 2019, so I’m thinking it’s time to replace it. I’m looking at the Synology DiskStation DS1522+ 5-Bay.

Thoughts? How’s Synology’s OS?

Thanks.
 

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I'm not in the market for such devices, but after reading this, if I were, I wouldn't even look in this company's direction.

www.techpowerup.com

Synology Forcing Owners of its Plus Series NAS Appliances to Use Own Brand Hard Drives

Last week Synology put out a press release on its European website, informing its customers that the Plus Series—which starts with simple two bay devices—will only support its own brand of hard drives, if you want to be able to take advantage of basic NAS features like creating a storage pool or...
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com

Edit: I forgot how to spell.
 

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I had 2 WDC MyCloud drives connected to my Router until there were security issues with their software so changed to Buffalo. I'm using a LinkStation 8TB NAS as RAID 1 with total 4TB storage [RAID 1 is mirroring one drive to the other]. It came with 4GB Seagate Iron Wolf drives, quite pleased with performance. It's connected via Ethernet to my Router and any computer Wired or Wireless can have the Public folder I created Mapped for storage/access of the data in 134 subfolders.
 

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Its USB port often disconnected when long time in use.
 

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