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<blockquote data-quote="nullpc" data-source="post: 2517386" data-attributes="member: 125184"><p>I got a DS923+ from PrimeABGB along with two WD Ultrastar 12TB drives and it is by far one of the nicest purchases I've ever made. Apart from backing up and freeing up space on my cloud storage accounts, I also wanted to obtain and preserve high-quality movies to watch on my OLED TV and it has served me well for that use case. While I pay for subs, they are very inconsistent w.r.t streaming quality and content availability which was driving me nuts. Also the matter of being able to stream when internet is iffy or unavailable.</p><p></p><p>I run mine on SHR so I have half the space available now for use and I've used up ~7.4TB already. I do wish I bought bigger drives but the cost was already too high and I still have 2 slots so I plan to get more drives soon. I run few docker containers like Overseerr, couple scripts and apps on it and it runs just fine and I believe for the average user (and even Pros), Synology UX and apps is very well done. It's not going to be uber smooth in the default config with 4GB RAM since I did notice Overseerr being able to load and serve images a lot faster when I run it from my XPS but I'm fine with the perf difference for now and it doesn't bog down the whole system.</p><p></p><p>I've also had a few unexpected power outages and the NAS booted back up just fine and the content also didn't suffer because of it though better to plug it into a UPS.</p><p></p><p>I'd personally recommend Synology for getting started and how much you'd want is totally dependent on your use cases. I do recommend running in RAID mode if the data is important to you or if you think it'll become important down the line. Most folks think it's okay if they lose the data before it actually happens and they cry over it and pay a lot of amount to recover it.</p><p></p><p><strong>One warning though:</strong> Synology has lately been trying more and more to sway users to buying their own expensive memory and storage. Even though other storage/memory options continue to work fine, they keep nagging their users about it and such moves obviously raise concern whether they'll move to completely block 3P vendors and enforce some proprietary limits going forward. Right now, it's just the equivalent of Microsoft nagging Chrome users to switch to Edge but thought if you're spending a lot of money, you should be aware of this matter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nullpc, post: 2517386, member: 125184"] I got a DS923+ from PrimeABGB along with two WD Ultrastar 12TB drives and it is by far one of the nicest purchases I've ever made. Apart from backing up and freeing up space on my cloud storage accounts, I also wanted to obtain and preserve high-quality movies to watch on my OLED TV and it has served me well for that use case. While I pay for subs, they are very inconsistent w.r.t streaming quality and content availability which was driving me nuts. Also the matter of being able to stream when internet is iffy or unavailable. I run mine on SHR so I have half the space available now for use and I've used up ~7.4TB already. I do wish I bought bigger drives but the cost was already too high and I still have 2 slots so I plan to get more drives soon. I run few docker containers like Overseerr, couple scripts and apps on it and it runs just fine and I believe for the average user (and even Pros), Synology UX and apps is very well done. It's not going to be uber smooth in the default config with 4GB RAM since I did notice Overseerr being able to load and serve images a lot faster when I run it from my XPS but I'm fine with the perf difference for now and it doesn't bog down the whole system. I've also had a few unexpected power outages and the NAS booted back up just fine and the content also didn't suffer because of it though better to plug it into a UPS. I'd personally recommend Synology for getting started and how much you'd want is totally dependent on your use cases. I do recommend running in RAID mode if the data is important to you or if you think it'll become important down the line. Most folks think it's okay if they lose the data before it actually happens and they cry over it and pay a lot of amount to recover it. [B]One warning though:[/B] Synology has lately been trying more and more to sway users to buying their own expensive memory and storage. Even though other storage/memory options continue to work fine, they keep nagging their users about it and such moves obviously raise concern whether they'll move to completely block 3P vendors and enforce some proprietary limits going forward. Right now, it's just the equivalent of Microsoft nagging Chrome users to switch to Edge but thought if you're spending a lot of money, you should be aware of this matter. [/QUOTE]
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