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Hello everyone, I am going to get a NAS for Christmas (my wife is a lovely person) and I am here asking for advice on NAS. My situation is that I use an iMac for my everyday use and I have iPads and iPhones. I would like to use Time Machine backup to the NAS I choose because I like the way you can restore a iMac back to the way it was before lets say a malfunction, hard drive change, upgrade or whatever else that may happen. Right now I have a 4TB passport and a 1TB My book for backup. I backup all of my other apple devices to the iMac. I plan on using the 4TB Passport for backup of the NAS keeping that backup off site. I have approximately 18,000 photos, 11,000 music files and 3TB of movies and tv shows that I don't want to lose. The movies and tv shows are on a 4TB drive that currently is not backed up at all. This is part of the reason I was wanting to get a NAS, for backup and access from my Fire TV over my LAN. I have a 16 port gigabit switch plugged into the LAN port of a Google Wifi mesh system. I was planning on utilizing this switch for the NAS. I also have 1 Amcrest IP camera. I hear that adding camera's to the system is costly.
My thoughts are getting a DS720+ with 2 8TB Ironwolf hard drives. This should give me lots of room for expansion and redundancy. What I need from you is info and advice on what you think I need for my situation. Thanks.
Note: I posted this on the Synology community and I got no responses. A member of the Hubitat community told me to post here.
I would like to add that I need advice on what media server or player is best suited to play my media. All my videos are in MKV format.
My thoughts are getting a DS720+ with 2 8TB Ironwolf hard drives. This should give me lots of room for expansion and redundancy. What I need from you is info and advice on what you think I need for my situation. Thanks.
Note: I posted this on the Synology community and I got no responses. A member of the Hubitat community told me to post here.
I would like to add that I need advice on what media server or player is best suited to play my media. All my videos are in MKV format.