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Hello, As I patiently wait for the 2020+ series Synology NAS drives to arrive, I am trying to learn all that I can so that I am prepared when it comes time to configure. The main goal of my NAS will be to store many pictures. While this is not my only goal, it's what is driving the purchase...

Hi, If I have a DS1019+ (5 bays with 5 disks loaded). 4 are in a RAID 5 configuration and 1 as a separate volume. When using Video Station and storing all the media files on the single volume (don’t care if they are lost). If the DS gets restarted will Video Station go through reindexing? Is...

If you’ve been looking for an easy way for friends and family to request media to your Emby, Jellyfin or Plex server, Requestrr is the new sauce. It utilizes the free chat platform known as Discord. Requestrr was created to work with the Sonarr and Radarr media manager applications. It uses...

Question for the community. Has anyone found a social media post scheduler that you can self-host on your Synology? I am looking for something similar to HootSuite and Buffer. The main platform I am looking to schedule posts for is on my twitter account. Thanks in advance.

A Guide to Understanding NAS as a Plex Media Server With Plex being one of the biggest platforms out there for users who want to enjoy the media they own, but in the slickest possible way, it is easy to assume that everyone knows about Plex Media Server. The terminology, the setup and all the...

We have a home media server with about 30TB of video - currently on a RAID 6 array (6x16TB). We run daily versioned HyperBackups via 10GbE, alternating between two other servers that are also RAID 6 arrays (8x 10TB). All drives are Seagate Exos. Additions and changes, day-to-day, are easily...

I decided to start a new thread so as to not add too much to my "is my strategy sound" thread. As a recap, I was just gifted a DS-718+ as a new family NAS that replaces an ancient Zyxel NAS. Among the tasks I want the new NAS to do is manage media. We all have Iphones and I have a large...

I use a home-brew PHP application to manage media files, including the movement of .mkv and .m4v video files within DSM's indexed 'video' folder. The PHP apps run on the same server as the media files, under Web Station / Apache. Unfortunately, files moved using PHP 'rename' do not trigger...

The Indexing Service controls which folders on the NAS are considered as fully accessible for various packages. Most of these packages have their own access controls to ensure that users don't have access to inappropriate media, e.g. Video Station supports age classification for each user (if...

Dear forum members and visitors! Today we have implemented the Media section where you can upload images or embed videos from various services. https://www.synoforum.com/media/ In the Media gallery you can find useful videos, images of home networks from our members and other related stuff...

In the Media gallery you can find useful videos, images of home networks from our members and other related stuff. You can comment and rate media items, add a note or tag a user. You can even create a personal album with privacy settings, for instance, to show your album only to registered...

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From previous discussions, I have cleaned up my NAS volumes and now have all of my shared folders and archive folders located on Volume 2, while I have all my backups pointed to Volume 1. I have Active Backup set to do a bare metal backup of my PC to a folder in Volume 1. After the first...

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