As this community is just starting, I thought learning more about each other’s setups would be interesting.
I’ll go first:
- DS916
- 4x8TB Hard Drives: 3 WD Reds, 1 Seagate Ironwolf (oldest drive is 53,150 hours or just over 6 years)
I haven’t had to replace anything yet (knock on wood)!
- DS920+
- 3x 6TB IronWolf HDDs
- 20GB RAM
- 10 Docker containers
Also have an older DS216j which I now use for certain non-critical backups as it lacks BTRFS.
Can’t figure out why a normal image gets flipped when I upload it. Ah, well.
I have three synology units right now. I run no docker software on any of them.
I have a ds1821+ that just has tv and movies on it. I’m currently using 13 of 61 TB.
I have a ds918+ with a dx517 attached. It has two storage pools, one for each device. The 918 is used for backing up photos and music. The 517 has a complete backup performed nightly of the 1821. I’m currently using 14 of 38 TB.
And last I have a ds220+. It’s a small guy full of personal documents, info and work cheat sheets. I’m using 2 of 9TB.
I use a r610 dell blade server to download files and use handbrake to encode them onto the hard drive.
All units are in a purpose built server room in my garage complete with air conditioning and insulation. See pics
The units
The server rack and room (it’s messy, what server room isn’t?)
Pic of the networking side
And finally the room has become a late night hangout and we have painted/ drawn on the walls in uv reactive paint so the whole thing lights up under black light
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk
Edit: huh only one of my pics posted. Oh well
Hi all:
- DS220+
- 18 GB RAM
- 1x WD Red 12 TB
- 1x Samsung Evo 4TB
- 15 Docker container, the usual suspects
Commenting here just to say hi
- DS220+
- 11 containers running, and happy about their performance. Including but not limited to - Jellyfin, Sonarr, qbittorrent, pihole, wireguard client, home assistant, portainer
Might get shit on here. What’s the most cost effective synology I can use for a plex server that can run maybe 2 plex streams at 1080 or one 4k?
Man, almost anything now. Transcoding isn’t really needed very often since streaming sticks (Roku, AppleTV, Fire, etc) now reliably have hardware video decoders. So, almost all the NAS has to do is shove the file over the network. Almost the only way you’d need transcoding is if you wanted to stream video out of your home network to remote devices.
So, if my guess that you won’t need transcoding is correct, then just buy the cheapest NAS that has a couple drive bays.
(There is such a thing as too slow. I have a 2014-vintage Synology DS214se, which was the low end model even then, and Plex clients take up to a minute to load all movie posters, and it can take a minute for a video stream to start. But if you are buying something made in the past few years this won’t really be an issue.)
The Synology DS220j would probably be my pick for that. Or maybe the 120j if you don’t care about data redundancy.