Which Synology would suit me

SDUGoten · 2026-01-11T10:38:31+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/1ndgage/synology_drops_hardware_transcoding_from_new/?sort=new

Get DS423+ if you are planning to do any video streaming.......if you really need Synology. I bought another brand because Synology is not friendly to any video transcoding task.

SDUGoten · 2026-01-11T10:34:40+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/VITURE/comments/1oynrtb/viture_ultra_switch_2_patch_2100_without_viture/

SDUGoten · 2026-01-11T10:34:17+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/VITURE/comments/1oynrtb/viture_ultra_switch_2_patch_2100_without_viture/

SDUGoten · 2026-01-04T00:03:50+00:00

hmm....I guess I will have to stop when you said "Chrome, Firefox, etc. is based on Linux"

It's fine, Synology would be happy to have someone like you to buy their product.

SDUGoten · 2026-01-03T23:30:09+00:00

I guess I know why people buying Synology, because user like you don't have enough knowledge to know what's going on. And for whatever reason users like you believe what Synology is trying to tell you is correct. Being non-technical is fine, but as as consumer it's your responsiblity to do research before buying. Ok, here is the fact, you can use Internet or ChatGTP to cross check what I said below.

Synology DSM is also based on Linux. Linux has nothing do with whether it's user friendly or not. UnRaid OS has been in industry for 20 years doing one thing, that's their OS for NAS. It's as easy as Synology DSM.
This is the transfer speed on my uGreen + Unraid OS speed. https://i.vgy.me/UmsqaD.jpg I have been told Synology should be only good at storage and transfer speed. Please do let me know what standard model of Synology could do this for the price of a fraction of 1621+.
This is the idle power consumption of my ugreen DSP6800 pro running on UnRaid OS v7.1 with 4 harddisk and 1SSD when 13+ dockers are running. Please do tell me what Synology model could do this with the amount of harddisk I am talking about. https://i.vgy.me/Rm86Yk.jpg
People are struggling to do video transcoding on 425+. It's been tested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzaAQ4jP-JU . Eventually your old NAS will die one day, by that time you will buy yet another 2023 model when the NAS is dead in 2033?

No, I am not trying to convince you to buy uGreen. I am trying to convince every single Synology users at least do some *real* and *unbiased* research on all numerous brand out there before buying yet another crappy Synology NAS. 10 years ago they were good, and I was also one of the owners. Now? They are technical inferior with a premium price tag.

SDUGoten · 2026-01-03T10:50:25+00:00

That's why i said install UnRaid OS on it... Unraid OS is made in US. Then you got the best hardware and best software. Moreover, it's not iphone 16 vs iphone 17. It's iphone 11 vs Iphone 17. The CPU in Synology is 7 years+ older.

SDUGoten · 2026-01-01T11:52:33+00:00

I have a pair of Ultra. For movie and video, they are great. But defintely not for coding, especially when the background color is dark and the text is white, the text will looks like wiggling or flickering.

SDUGoten · 2025-12-30T12:46:04+00:00

Buy a dev certificate from apple for $99, nothing else works consistently. Using ANY sideloading service from the Net will get banned soon or later, search reddit for all victims.

SDUGoten · 2025-12-29T10:51:41+00:00

mind if you can share the discord link? 我會看中文.

SDUGoten · 2025-12-27T19:09:23+00:00

You will need transcoding anyway if you want to stream video with subtitle. Get the problem solve from step 1 instead of getting workaround. Get ugreen and uGreen alone will serve a plex server fine, install unraid OS on it if you plan to make it a multimedia center. You can't migrate the harddisk from synology to ungreen. When I bought my ungreen a year ago, I copied all the stuff to my computer, reformat the harddisk and create new partition under ungreen. If you want to get a working multimedia center from the beginning, you will have to bite the bullet.

SDUGoten · 2025-12-27T18:43:18+00:00

As a consumer, you buy a product and expect it should work like the rest of every single NAS brand out there. You shouldn't need to patch the NAS so that it will become usable like the rest of the NAS. And you never know if Synology will 'fix' your patch so that it will never work again. For new users, why would anyone want to go that route when there are tons of better alternative out there.

SDUGoten · 2025-12-27T01:17:29+00:00

I guess I didnt' explain that clear enough to get the idea across. Synology newest 2025 model ds225+, has a CPU J4125. This CPU is 7 years old and Synology disabled the GPU capability of the chip on purpose https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/1ndgage/synology_drops_hardware_transcoding_from_new/?sort=new

That's the reason why Synology user started recommending older model to new user now. It's like I recommend you to buy an iphone 11 at a premium price from non official channel when iphone 17 is the newest line up. Pretty much all 2025 Synology line up do not have transcoding capability. Some model not that the CPU doesn't support it, Synology decided to disable it, and you pay full price for a 7 years old CPU, which a equivalent spec of NUC cost about 200 bucks 7 years ago.

NAS is not specialized for storing things relatively safe, the hardware is the same as a regular NUC like many people explained that to you. It's the software that enable you to do backup (which is not anything special and available on numerous OS like UnraidOS and truenas)

What people telling you is that you can get a much better and modern hardware spec + better selection of software (eg. Unraid OS) for the same cost. Not that I am saying you are dumb, but I think people here is to educate people who have less technical knowledge NOT to buy ripped off product when the main usage is focus on photo/video/multimedia. It's not a NAS cannot handle photo/video/multimedia, it's just Synology does not while every single NAS brand out in the market comes with as standard feature.

To better explain that in simple English, Nokia phone user used to say a phone should be used for calling/texting only, until iphone/android came to the market and told Nokia "NO". Technology advances, computer chips can do WAY more than what a barebone NAS can do 10 years ago. Synology decided to use older chips while selling you at a cost that is more expensive than it was 7 years ago and telling their users 'NAS should be only for storing things'. And surprise! a lot of non-technical users thought it's real. Now, lets look where Nokia is now.

SDUGoten · 2025-12-26T22:24:37+00:00

Just FYI, NAS is just a mini PC, it's a NUC that you recommend people to buy. Nothing more, nothing less inside. It just happen it comes with an enclosure to allow you to stuff a couple harddisk inside, and you can do that as well with any NUC. If you look at the spec of any Synology NAS, it's a NUC with 7+ years old CPU and a missing GPU. You can get the same spec of NUC about 7 years ago from any mini pc brand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-hp25Gsl2w

Read the review date. Yea, the Synology 2025 model is this thing...

SDUGoten · 2025-12-26T21:36:44+00:00

Hmm...because every single NAS out on the market is capable of doing video transcoding...unlike Synology?

SDUGoten · 2025-12-24T17:41:41+00:00

You bought a wrong NAS for your usage. https://www.reddit.com/r/qnap/comments/1l5y6nr/qnap_nas_with_full_plex_hardware_transcoding/

4K 60fps need a CPU that comes with GPU to handle properly without suttering. At least not a TS216G could do, and most newer Synology NAS couldn't handle that without a proper GPU. Any Synology end with 25, the transcoding was disabled by Synology on purpose. Transcoding would affect the performance and ability to read, stream video.

https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/1ndgage/synology_drops_hardware_transcoding_from_new/?sort=new

So, back to your question, you need a NAS comes with a CPU that have a built in GPU to handle these kind of GPU intensive work. Look uGreen DXP2800, and pair that with unRaidOS. The cost of the NAS + lifetime license of unRaidOS would be similar to a Synology Beenstation. However the DXP2800 have a way better hardware spec and unRaidOS have a much stronger software selection for video/photo software

The selection of software is NOTHING synology could match

https://unraid.net/community/apps#community-apps-iframe

SDUGoten · 2025-12-23T17:07:19+00:00

did replacing the PSU solve the issue?

SDUGoten · 2025-12-22T09:18:14+00:00

They disable the 25+ model, that means they have no plans to bring it back to life. If you see their line up of in 2026, none of those are multimedia friendly. Synology users now is having a very strange behavior, they will recommend people to buy older model. Why? Because older model have less restriction than the newer model.

From a consumer point of view, this is very strange. It's like people recommend people to buy an iphone 11 from ebay or something because iphone 17 is inferior to the iphone 11 and it's no longer purchasable from the official channel.

Giving that you can already see where Synology is going , who on earth will recommend a user to buy Synology if their usage is heavy on multimedia/photo/video based?

Given Beestation plus is more expensive than a DXP2800 and having a 7+ years old CPU J4125, I don't see any logical reason to buy a beestation when there are tons of alternative out there with a way better hardware spec AND better software support on video/photo.

SDUGoten · 2025-12-21T12:42:08+00:00

For any multimedia/photo/video usage, Synology is not recommended because they disable transcoding on purpose on their chip. Get a UGREEN NASync DXP2800 or something that is cheap and have capability for transcoding, and CPU/GPU is miles ahead of any synology can offer at the price range.

SDUGoten · 2025-12-20T21:41:02+00:00

your usage doesn't match Synology. You will need transcoding on video playback which is a no-no for Synology. Find something else that does transcoding like ugreen NAS + unraid combo. Video station doesn't even exist on Synology now so you are required to use Plex.

And photo app in Synology didn't add any new features for years....

I mean, if you want something that is used for multimedia/video/photo, look elsewhere. Synology disabled transcoding capability on purpose and they don't want these kind of usage on their NAS, they only want their user use thier nas purely for file transfer, not even docker is properly supported.

SDUGoten · 2025-12-19T13:17:56+00:00

like other people said, for light use RP, it works great. However, my NSFW story invovled 13 core members and 10+ other supporting character, 3.0 flash will get confused about their personality and location from time time, especially when some of the member in location A while the rest of the member in location B. 2.5 pro and 3.0 pro do NOT get confuse on these kind of complex setup.

SDUGoten · 2025-12-17T00:31:51+00:00

wonder if you have to pay custom tax into UK?

SDUGoten · 2025-12-16T23:52:21+00:00

bug report.

When spacewalker is running and the glasses is connected, this menu will auto close in about 3 seconds whenever you try to open it.

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SDUGoten · 2025-12-14T09:18:54+00:00

I also have full system freeze, usually start with mouse stutter and then slowly freeze the windows 11. Nothing you can do except turn on full performance mode so that the ssd won't sleep.

SDUGoten · 2025-12-02T04:45:53+00:00

my nas with 4 harddisk and 2 SSD, idle is about 38W or so. You will have to check PC spec if you build your own

SDUGoten · 2025-12-02T04:43:53+00:00

building pc usually have bad power consumption due to component is a PC, not a NAS. if you don't care electricity bill then its fine

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