At our medium-sized company we have come into possession of WD Ultrastar DC HC560 SAS drives (with Dell firmware) and have been looking for a server to properly use them. We found a SA3410 below market price but are worried because these drives are not on the compatibility list, and we in the IT department are inexperienced with NAS storage.

We would use it as a hands-off media server for the PR department, possibily shared with other departments due to sheer size.

Do you guys think it's worth taking the risk? Or is there a better solution?

Hello, I might be in the wrong spot so forgive me. Surface research has led me here. I don't know much about NAS or RAID in general, just the basic ideas. I think Synology does both, but maybe I am wrong. I am here to learn though!

I have a lot of photos and videos on my phone, Google cloud, and computer's SSD. I know none of these alone are entirely reliable and could fail at any time.

Basically, I just want to keep my photos and videos and never lose them. I'd like to be able to connect and view them from any device (such as my mobile) but if it can only be interfaced with from my PC that is okay too.

Can someone help me understand if this meets my needs, as well as what hardware I would need to purchase to get started?

TIA

These are the apps that I currently have installed on my Synology DS219Play. I only use it as my Plex server. What apps do I need for that and which can I uninstall?

TIA

Apps

For some reason my DLS won’t connect to torrent sites. I’ve deleted and reinstalled it. Same only Pirate Bay seems to work. Any suggestions?

I have 2 switches in the house I live in, and both are hardlined to the router. 1 is upstairs, 1 is downstairs. I just moved the NAS downstairs and plugged it into the switch there, and it's not showing on synology assistant. All lights on the front are green with occasional blinking from drive access, both ethernet cable ports on the back have solid green on the bottom and blinking green on top, and the two ports on the switch are both showing green as well which means data is being accessed. I used 2 cables for a paired connected for faster speed on the upstairs switch, but I'm still on the same network, so the IP shouldn't have changed. The web assistant can find the device, but trying to connect shows a network connection erroe/unreachable page. What am I missing?

Not even sure where to begin here with this.

918+ can no longer completely startup, beeps when it does. Status light does not go green. 2 of the 4 drives show green (3 and 4) and 1 and 2 just keep clicking.

Obviously cannot access it as it never gets up and running. I have a hyperbackup but the password is not working for me to enter the drives to see the data. I have the PEM file but have no idea how to use it here.

Before it crashed, it was giving me all kinds of notifications on drives 1 & 2 stating:

An abnormal power failure occurred on a drive in Volume 1, and its write cache data may be lost. To ensure data consistency, please run data scrubbing immediately.

I looked at the drives and they all showed healthy. The recommendation was to scrub and I did...the thing started going haywire with notifications and then started beeping. I could no longer access it with quick connect or see it on my network. I restarted (front button shutdown) and was able to kind of get it up and running (4 drives green lights but status cont to flash green and never stabilize). Used Web Assistant and was able to see it but I could do anything with it. It showed that it had an IP address but that DSM was not installed. Gave up.

Tried this am and got an email notification stating that storage pool 1 has crashed and it showed me my drives and SN#s.

So...I have a hyperbackup that I cannot access. I have the pem file that I do not know what to do with. And have a 918+ that seems to have failed. Thoughts? So appreciated.

I am looking at getting a Synology DiskStation DS225+to add some more storage to my workstation that I also use as a Plex Media Server.

I'll be adding one or two Western Digital Red Pro 16TB 7200rpm drives to the Synology and be using iSCSI to add the storage to my PC.

The Synology will be connected to one of my TP Link Decos 2.5gb network port.

The storage in the Synology will only be used to store Plex content that only I will access/use so there will never be more than one item playing at a time.

Have I chosen the correct gear for this?

I don't need more than 2 bays and the performance only needs to be good enough to stream 4K content (up to 120GB movie files) to my Plex client in the lounge (max. bit rate I have seen is maybe 120mb/s give or take)

Thanks!

Hi. Just wanted to know what's the best device for a small business that consist of less than 10 users. Business is more into file management, so it means a small server is an ideal for the business. Also, is it easier to setup unlike other servers?

The reason why I'm asking, it's because it will be my first time that I will be having a Synology brand server. Thank you.

Synology Photos 2 was mentioned on Synology Solution Day Taiwan 2026.09.23.

Added custom category AI detection. Deepened integration with Synology Office.

Sounds like supporting older model NAS, using the compute on your client devices.

Hopefully it doesn't require a Synology HDD to run this

For photos already indexed by Synology Photos, it often (but not always) misses/doesn’t detect changes I’ve made to the EXIF or XMP tags.

Details:

1. These tag changes are done outside of Synology Photos to ensure they are embedded in the photo for use by other photo management solutions.
2. The file modified date is updated when I make tag changes
3. If I run the re-index option in settings, it still won’t pick them up
4. I’m updating the EXIF DateTimeOriginaland GPS tags as well as the XMP TagList (which I know Photos doesn’t support) and Subject tags (which Photos does support)
5. I’m also running Immich and it picks up these changes
6. I have verified using the EXIFguiTool that the tags have been updated.

Does anyone know of a way (short of manually removing and re-adding the files) to force Photos to properly re-index these photos? Is this a known defect?

So I just started using it to backup a computer. The drive in the computer is 237gb and has used space of 189gb. When I look at the folder on the diskstation, it says the size is 16 gb even though the client says its up to date. Any ideas? In the setup, I remove all the ticks for files not to backup.