r/synology

Trying to figure this out and just not getting it.

I was thinking of having an electronic picture frame display pictures. But I don’t want to use the cloud or anything

Since I have my Synology, can I have a tablet or something show pictures from a folder on the nas? This way all the data is internal to my network/house?

Thanks

One of the fans in my DS923+ started rattling (regardless of RPM). Tried cleaning it but it didn't fix anything.

So I'm looking for a replacement. Where can I find OEM fans for this model?

Or should I go with Noctua NF-B9 redux-1600 fans and swap them both? Are there any issues I should be aware of if I install the Noctua fans?

Hey guys,

I have an onsite NAS and another offsite in my home. I’m currently running Hyper Backup to the offsite unit. If a ransomware happens on the onsite NAS, presumably they don’t have access to the offsite NAS, will the ransomware still get through the line of the hyper backup?

Hello Guys

Im currently looking for a NAS for at home to share with my family because we want to get rid of all the iCloud and OneDrive subscriptions.

In the moment every family member has its own OneDrive and we all have a Shared iCloud storage over Apple Family.

What are the best options for a NAS?
I heard from QNAP, UGREEN and SYNOLOGY.
What are the advantages of each?

What is the best option for such a Family usage?
Which would you reccomend and also what would you reccomend as Disks?

For me its important, to sync all the data from iCloud and Onedrive. Without to much effort later on.
Also its very important that there is no Risk of loosing the data.

I want at least 2 TB storage space.

Is there something else I need to pay attention to?

Edit:
I heard about Raid 1 and Raid 5.
What is important there?

We have having an issue with multiple users opening an Excel file at the same time. We used to get a prompt saying user:xxx has the file open. That stopped a short while ago. Since then we are getting lots of 'DownloadConflict' files saved in the main files folder. Is there anyway to prevent this issue? 1817+

Since the price of plex lifetime is crazy costly, I have heard of others software that you can use but had a question of my Synology and are the apps in the store alternative store that I could use?

Hi, I recently moved from Android to iOS and I’m having some teething issues. On Android I exclusively used the Synology Drive app where I could search, open, edit and save my files in third party software.

On iOS however, the Synology Drive app is unable to open files in other apps. For example, I can’t just open a word document by tapping it. This is due to the way iOS handles apps.

So I added Synology Drive to the Apple Files app, now I can open files in various apps, edit and save them etc, however I seem to be completely unable to search through the various folders, almost as if the Apple Files app isn’t indexing Synology Drive.

Has anyone else had this issue or know how to fix it?

Thanks.

I didn’t realize my account was tied to a domain I recently got rid of. I contacted the domain company to see if I can somehow get temporary access or regain the domain and they said I’m shit out of luck.

If I go to the synology site and try to login it says it wants to send a code to the email I no longer have access to.

I went into DSM - Personal - Account and changed the email address there and clicked apply. It says it’s unverified, so I selected send verification email, but I never receive anything from the newly added email address.

Can I change the account email from DSM? If so am I missing something?

So my self hosting journey has been going on for about a year and thought I'd share what my little DS1522+ has been up to; DS1522+ with 32Gb RAM, 32TB storage and 10Gb ethernet card running behind Starlink, Tailscale and Cloudflare. Here's what its doing;

Conatiner Manager;

1. Audiobookshelf
2. Beszel
3. Cloudflared
4. Code-Server
5. Dockhand
6. Duplicati
7. Eufy Security
8. Flaresolverr
9. Gitea
10. Glances
11. Gluetun
12. Go2rtc
13. Grafana
14. Homebox
15. Homepage
16. Immich
17. Launcher
18. Nginx
19. Navidrome
20. Iperf3
21. Nextcloud
22. Node-Exporter
23. NTFY
24. Nut-Exporter
25. Ollama
26. OnlyOffice
27. Open WebUI
28. Overseerr
29. Paperless NGX
30. Portainer
31. Prometheus
32. Prowlarr
33. qBittorrent
34. Radarr
35. Scrutiny
36. SearXNG
37. Uptime Kuma
38. Vaultwarden
39. Wiki.js

Virtual Machine Manager;

• Home Assistant
• Frona AI (inside Ubuntu) - self hosted agentic AI platform with security first mindset- sandboxed, using mix of Claude Sonnet, Haiku, Deepseek and local only Ollama
• Custom made monitoring dashboard running inside Ubuntu

Website

• Self hosted website publicly reachable using Cloudflare, so no ports exposed.

All of this done while the NAS is is France and I am currently in the UK. I'm really impressed with what you can do with Synology!

DS1821+

4GB RAM

8x16TB HDD (no open bays)

I've recently discovered it's possible to bypass the volume size limit with enough RAM.

If I upgrade my RAM to 32GB, how can I bypass the volume size limit without an open bay for volume expansion?

Would it work by replacing a single drive with the same 16TB capacity?

Hi folks, I am wondering if anybody has any ideas for how I can test the data integrity of a Hyper Backup using rsync to a Hetzner storage box if the option is grayed out. According to Synology support, there is some kind of file system error on my NAS that is disabling the option (ironically the same one that is causing me to run the backup in the first place so I can recreate the volume, as recommended by support).

Their (likely AI-generated) solutions:

-use Hyper Backup Explorer (not applicable)
-trial restoration of a select folder (doesn't actually solve the problem of ensuring I am not losing data across the whole file system)
-check task logs to see if there are any errors that reference specific files (the log says it successfully completed, but I am trying to verify what the log is telling me)

When mounting both as SMB shares, there is nearly a terabyte of data difference being reported, which makes me nervous.

I did use diff to compare a sample folder as a test while they were mounted as SMB shares, but that obviously isn't a workable solution.

Does anybody here have better ideas? I am technically inclined, but far from a power user. Thanks for any and all help!

My Synology DS1511+ won't boot after I've inserted an additional 2GB RAM module into the expansion slot. Prior, the DS1511+ hat only its original 1GB RAM module.

As the NAS is old, there weren't any pending updates. The NAS has been rebooted 2 months ago and was working fine. No bad sectors, more than 50% free space - until I've inserted the additional RAM module.

I've read, after upgrading the RAM the NAS does a RAM-Test which may take from 15-20mins and in that state, the blue led is flashing. I did, as told. Waited 15min, 20min ... 30min ... nothing.

I read again into it and some state, a RAM-Test takes up to 3hrs - so I let it run for 5hrs - coming back blue led is still flashing.

I've read you could hook up a Monitor with VGA and an USB Keyboard to the NAS and I did.

On the I got the following message:

GRUB loading stage1.5

GRUB loading, please wait...

Again, I let it load for around 3hrs - nothing.

I've read one should replace the CMOS battery but our CMOS battery was replaced probably 2 years ago and this is only the 2nd battery! So it should last for sure these 2 years. On the BIOS loading screen the time and date looks fine, thus I think it kept the BIOS while it was turned off to insert the memory module.

I DO NOT HAVE the error message

GRUB Hard Disk Error

as others have. It just stays with a blinking cursor on "GRUB loading, please wait..."

As it is stuck, I cannot access the web GUI, I assume. Now I have no idea what I should do.

Should I hard power it off

• and replace the CMOS battery anyway?
• and/or remove the inserted memory module?
• and/or remove the 5 2 TB disks?
• and/or go into BIOS and change a setting?
  • which one?

I am really lost here - it seems so simple to update the RAM module, a thing of 3 minutes I am wasting 1 day already ...

Any help is really appreciated.

Any way to add an external NAS drive to the Synology Drive Client DESTINATION?
It only syncs and backups on the internal NAS drive, but i'd like to setup an external NAS USB drive.

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Not a problem, I'm just curious.

I was going to purchase two cameras for my nas to make use of surveillance station. camera out the back of my house, another at the front. looked at the price of the synology cameras vs reolink - what am I missing? they seem to be about £400 versus reolink which are about £150.

i don’t think I can justify that price difference - is there any particular reolink cameras that anyone would recommend?

thanks in advance.

Hi all. Related to Synology because it's my NAS obviously and also currently my home server.

So I want to install some cameras to monitor my home. I don't want the data to go to a cloud service. I have a VPN to my router which allows me to access my home internet. My Synology NAS could be related to this, but also not necessarily needed if another option is better.

I don't know really all that much about these systems. My idea is something like: record up to 72(?) hours of history, and have remote access (with slight delay is fine).

Can I run it through the Synology NAS, maybe just some docker? Or does it require it's own complete system? How should I do it?

I askwd Claude and it said Surveillance station and my NAS has 2 free licenses, but I don't really trust it on subjects I am not familiar with. I have a 224+. No cameras yet.

Thanks!

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Pic inside :)

SOLVED: After trying far to many things, I simply deleted the existing Radarr container, forced a download of the same Radarr image I was using prior, reinstalled with the existing config and now works just fine on my Synology NAS. I remain unsure of why this worked other than perhaps the old container became compromised or corrupted?

Thanks to all for ideas.

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I have a DS 1821+ Synology NAS running Radarr Version 6.1.1.10360, Package Version 6.1.1.10360-ls303 by linuxserver.io. .NET Yes (8.0.12)

• Docker: Yes
• Database Sqlite 3.50.4
• Database Migration 242
• AppData Directory /config
• Startup Directory /app/radarr/bin

Radarr properly searches for requested titles, queues SABnzbd, and sees the progress of downloads.

More times than not, Radarr then unexplainably stops being able to retrieve the downloaded file to integrate into library due to a locked database. Time does not solve the lock.

Under EVENTS, messages such as:

>Couldn't evaluate decision on this.movie.2026.1080p.WEBRip.x265.10bit.AAC5.1, with spec: IndexerTagSpecification: database is locked

and

>Unable to retrieve queue and history items from SABnzbd: database is locked

My volume mappings are

/volume1/apps/configs/radarr3 to /config (rw)

and

/volume1/data to /data (rw)

Pretty straight forward.

The PUID and PGID are 1026 and 101, respectively, and they have full control and ownership of the data on the NAS.

It successfully has initially found SOME of the downloaded files, but once the database lock issue appears, it does not regain the capability to receive downloaded files (which are clearly in the completed folder).

I have tried restarting the containers, reinstalling the containers, deleting all downloads in progress, as well as deleting .shm and .wal files. Nothing seems to be a permanent solution.

What is very odd is that this just started happening.

Any recommendations or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Help or advice needed. I have a Synology DS220+ that I have just upgraded to DSM 7.3.20-86009. I have 2 drives in a single volume set up as Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR). Both drives are healthy. There isn't any data scrubbing taking place. There's no indexing taking place. The RAID is not rebuilding. Ram usage is low at about 20%. CPU usage is almost 0%.

In my desire to tidy up my file system I want to move several folders, each of which are between 1TB and 2TB, to another folder with all the folders in the same hierarchy. I've been trying to do this in File Station by simply opening two windows and dragging said folders from one window (the source window) to the other (the destination window).

My problem is this - it's very slow. The move actually seems to be a copy from source to destination and then delete the source.

The files are all quite large - several hundreds of MBytes to between 1GByte and 2GByte - they are not hundreds and thousands of small files.

When I say slow I mean maybe 100MBytes/second to 200MBytes/second. In my naivety I was expecting an almost instant transfer - move one folder in a hierarchy to a new place in the same hierarchy, i.e., both source and destination are under the same root folder structure. On all OS I've used in the past this would be instant - the file tree simply gets relinked.

My questions are ... What am I doing wrong? Are my expectations unreasonable? Is there something hidden in the Control Panel somewhere that controls drag-and-drop behaviour? Is there something about DSM that precludes simple movement of files like I have described?

Thanks in advance for any help/answers/advice.