Synology Plus Series Advantages: Virtualization, BTRFS, Doc Collabs, and More!

But can it play games

i love your videos , but windows installation on nas ...noooo...slow ass fu...
but then again docker is a god .
good video as always

Excellent info, Lon. Thanks! Do you think that the hardware on the DS1019+ is a little under-powered? Specifically the CPU.

Good job as always Lon.

Btrfs is pronounced as "butter fuss"

Is it possible to upgrade to Synology entry level 1 bay nas from wdmycloud hard disk re-use

Is there any way to absolutely confirm if it will do HW transcoding? I'm looking at the DS418play and it's got intel quick sync video but I can't find any confirmation that it will work.

The DS 119j (well in my case the DS 115j) can do the drive/office stuff. Maybe for not a lot of people for a husband and wife (like my household) its good enough.

please do a dedicated video on docker

Great review, Thanks

I have a 1517+ it runs great...only drawback is that I don’t have a j3455 I have the atom c2538...it can’t do too much of the transcoding on 4K stuff but it can handle direct play. I usually just offload the transcoding to my pc and just use the nas for the storage, backup, plex, and hdhomerun. I am thinking of buy a 10g nic card and get 10g lan in my work area. I get it that the device is expensive but I believe it’s worth it for all of the out of the box things it can do! Great review as always!

Hey Lon do you ever get asked to review a product and than do a give away. Where viewers can comment on the video and randomly select someone that wins the price like a NAS.
I’m more interested in what you think of this as I do see other channels doing this, if you are a fan of doing give aways or not.

Lon, is there a good FTP server app for the Synology? I have quite a few options on my Drobo but have only found the FILE SERVICES area.

I am getting into the whole Kubernetes and Docker scene on my FreeNas. It runs of course on a much more powerful machine with a lot more memory. But this is really taking me all the way back to the first virtualization beginning of 2000 era. I like to tinker and snapshots give me that opportunity. Not good? Roll it back!

My DS418Play have same hardware as some plus model but does not feature Virtualization... damn. Huge price increase to have that software feature. Oh well.

terrific info, do you think that the hardware on the DS1019+ Could be used as a Plex server

I would very much like to see how you got Ubuntu working in docker. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I can't seem to connect to anything other than terminal.

As Lon says: Be very careful when buying Synology.
I bought a DS1817+ towards the end of 2017.
Despite the near £1000 price tag for the box, I recently found that it is running a processor that was released in 2013 and cant do things like hardware transcoding.

These NAS units are great however one downside to me is that some units have a weak cpu. Also fan noise is a problem but you can swap out the fan as it does use a 3-pin regular motherboard connector but how about the hard drive. Are they running all the time or does it have power save mode if you have the NSA running all the time but it sits idle for long periods of time. Or is that something to just ignore and buy new hard drives when they start to fail. Any SMART monitoring etc ?

BTRFS is so damn good! I really hope Manjaro Linux gets better support!

Btrfs aka Volume Shadow Copy..

Is there a way to just run Synology or equivalent software on a full desktop PC or does that require too much tinkering and troubleshooting to integrate everything reliably as it appears they have? Not concerned about power consumption or noise.

Does the Linux mint run well or does it run in “Software Rendering Mode”?

Great stuff. I am considering the 1019+. I have seen Seagate drives which appear good for this. Would two or three smaller drives be a better way to go, or use less, but larger drives? Pretty basic question, I am new to these things. Thanks, peace.I really like your vids.

My question below relates to using the 1019 for Plex, and video, movie type uses.

Man, I like you. Hell of a great reviewer. No gimmicks and you're upfront. So you best believe I hit that subscribed button

wait - isn't BTRFS a means of insuring that files are not corrupted due to bitrot or other drive issues while Snapshots is a different matter?

Please do a video on docker running on DSM.

HELP / Recommend Best Way to input Audio..

I looking to input Live Audio into my NAS, Have a App manage the Live Audio for sending to a web site where users can listen to a live feed, and or remote in on my server for live listening..

Been looking for a PCI audio card that could be installed for the TVS-882BR and app’s for controlling... I guess there maybe away using a VM..??? Not sure, Any help and ideas would be great.. Thanks, John

Don't forget about facial and subject recognition through "Moments"

Now I'm even more confuse

Wish Synology would rate them using the Quicksync chart. I want to upgrade from my DS920+ to maybe a six or 8 bay model but can't find which one supports what the 920 does. Seems Synology works backwards, the more disks it holds the less features it has!

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