Synology 2-Bay DiskStation DS723+ (Diskless)

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that is more than FIVE TIMES the maximum of any other system in the series’ history and that is going to allow ALOT of apps to stretch their muscles a bit with that much RAM to share out! Then there is the increasing development of their 1st party cloud platform, Synology C2, which is slowly integrating into all the applications that are available on your bare metal NAS (allowing you to add a cloud layer of backup, synchronization and access to your data storage setup). Only one USB really kills the prospect of me considering this unit because you can’t have UPS and a nightly USB backup connected at the same time. I prefer the Synology S/W over QNAP, but Synology needs to up their H/W game to include at least one 10Gbe port on every model they sell. Synology is increasingly becoming a ‘one-ecosystem’ platform (again, not necessarily a bad thing) that wants to provide a COMPLETE solution for a users network and data storage needs.

Need to find out what the best is cause i think 99% of the people interested in this have that as the primary use. Hows-dos I avoid real-time multi-media transcoding then (ex: don’t curse the darkest but light a candle)? I’m sorry to say this but paying 500 – 600 dollars plus disks plus ram and not to be able to play a 10 seconds hevc video is ridiculous.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The strange this, I have two of the 6TB drives in my desktop and they’ve never made that kind of noise even with continuous writing of recording video. TLDW; Direct Play works fine on any relatively modern CPU architecture, and the slight increase in raw CPU computing power in Ryzen makes no real world difference when playing media in their original format compared to Celeron from a few years back. The full range of 1st party tools (Active backup, VMM, Photos, Drive, Collaboration Suite, Hyper Backup, Surveillance Station and more) still continue to impress and to have full and (mostly) licence-free access to these from such a compact server system is genuinely fantastic. So, today I want to discuss the five things about the Synology DS723+ that make it a must have NAS in 2023 and five things that will possibly convince you that your money and data should go elsewhere.

Synology seems to have the upper hand software-wise which I suspect carries more weight for a home user than the superior hardware of the Qnap?The Synology DS723+ NAS arrives with an upgrade slot on the rear of the chassis (PCIe Gen 3 x2) that allows the installation of a 10GbE (10GBASE-T) network upgrade module that allows the system to upgrade towards a 1,000MB/s network connection! NVMe SSDs as storage pools in a Synology NAS, especially when you roll in that optional support of 10GbE. Over the last 4-5 years we have seen Synology become increasingly focused on it’s own first-party hardware and services. It’s definitely not in the budget for me yet, but I’m dreaming about a NAS in my setup in the future! Related-ish would be interested in any video/discussion/thoughts on the performance benefit of switching (say) a 2-bay or 4-bay (Synology) to SSDs.