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I'm looking for perspective on performance from those more experienced with the VM environment on Synology NAS... We have a mostly idle DS3018xs (Intel Pentium D1508 w/ 8GB) that I considered pressing into service for high volume transcoding with Handbrake. So I created my personal-first VM...

I set up jlesage/docker-mkvtoolnix and have run into a confounding issue that seems permissions related. One of the container volume mappings "/storage" is for where video files reside for editing. Initially I mapped /videos (the shared folder auto-created by Synology's Video Station package)...

I have a new NAS with 2 2TB drives. I plan on using it for 2 main purposes, as a photo storage backup, and as a media server (probably Plex). For my photo storage I'd like to have redundancy in case of drive failure, but it's not necessary for the media server files. Is there a way to create 2...

This is probably aimed at the old hands, rather than the recent NAS owners, but I'm curious to ask, "What was your first NAS?" Mine was an Infrant ReadyNAS NV (the non-Plus model, and pre-Netgear purchase). Nice unit, and good for its day, but certainly no speed demon. I then upgraded to a...

Long-time Synology user, here; but no hands-on experience with expansion units, so far. Here's the setup and question... Assume two volumes (#1 & #2) on a DS3617xs, and another two volumes (#3 & #4) on an attached DX1215 - all four volumes use identical HDDs, RAID level, etc. As I understand...

Hello, I am considering purchase of the DS218+ but funds are limited during this time and I am wanting to confirm a few things. I am intending to purchase the NAS and a single 8TB drive. My questions are these.... 1) I am assuming I can in fact configure and use the NAS with only a single...

Hello, I have a question about my firewall setup. So far, I've not done anything specific to it. When the router was first plugged in, it asked me to set up a bunch of automatic rules, and I let it do that so I could get through the setup process. Presently, it looks like this: Some of this...

Just tried DS Photo and Photostation and it looks good. Problem is it only wants to save to a specific folder called "Photo" on the NAS. I am using Synology drive to sync all my photos from my pc but it wont let me store those photos in the same folder that photo station uses. How can i link...

Hi All, I have been struggling since December to get a docker install of FreePBX or Asterisk to work on our DS918+. Which has led to many uninstallations and reinstalls of the Docker package to keep the system functioning. I'm now at a lost if this application can or has been successfully...

Hi SynoFans, Excuse my ignorance, but I'm a first time poster and new to Synology tech. Not 100% sure where to post this, but thanks for any help in advance. Please move to another thread if not applicable. RT2600AC / SRM 1.2.3-8017 Update 4 I installed ntop-ng (network monitoring) on a linux...

Hi I'm very new to synology and wondered if this set up is possible? We are a team of three people all working from home, we each have a Synology, 1 is running Drive Admin as the host, the other 2 are syncing to that. This is working well. If we also wanted to sync to a USB drive, but to our...

I have a DS2419+ with Western Digital Red drives running as a Synology Raid array. We are a research lab and use the NAS as a platform to store and process data so we have eight Windows 10 workstations connected to the NAS via mounting it as a Network Drive and everything is communicating...