r/synologynas

Hi all! Looking for some "current" guidance as it seems things have changed since I first learned of all this.

Some background first, if you care...

I purchased a DS920+ (because of hardware transcoding) years ago with plans of self-hosting many things eventually. It took a while for me to get started, several years actually, as my initial attemps were full of frustrations and failures. Lost count how many times I failed at getting Pihole to work, even with all the guides and YT videos out there.

But, last year, I hunkered down and decided that enough time had passed, and I REALLY needed to take advantage of the NAS. Started with Pihole, and got that mostly working. Then continued adding useful apps slowly, Paperless, Jellyfin (yup, the main reason for getting the 920, and not the "newer" model), LMS, etc. and enjoying the benefits.

That is, until I got to Immich. I've been using Synology Photos for standard back-ups for a while. But I finally got to a point where I was able to turn off Google Photos! Which, of course led to some frustration because, well, Synology Photos isn't great when it comes to scrolling a feed. Super slow, for some reason. Which led me to Immich.

Loving Immich, but BOY, it's that ML container is a resource HOG! It has already caused my stacks to drop several times now. I've taken to disabling the ML container, and only running the jobs interactively, every so often.

Which leads to this post...

I remember when I was researching what NAS to get, I saw videos and read posts that you should increase the RAM to "max" AND get an SSD installed to create a volume to run Docker containers. I also remember several folks talking about sites and spreadsheets with confirmed RAM that works, and what amounts.

So, yes, in this horribly expensive RAM market, here I am! Looking for advice on:

1. What RAM options/modules/size should I get for my poor DS920+? This is probably the most immediate and important need at the moment. As I've reached a natural cap and cannot continue adding more "apps" until I fix this.
2. I, for the life of me, can't seem to find any guides on using an SSD to create a volume for Docker and what size is recommended. Was this patched out, or something, and all these old videos and blog posts just get deleted or archived??? The ones I've found all talk about caching, which, really doesn't serve much of a purpose in my environment.

And, before anyone advises this... Yes, I am considering getting a 2nd device so that not everything is running on the NAS. Possibly a Rasp-pi, or an old laptop, or something else. Heck, I seem to remember seeing a post somewhere where someone used an old Android phone to host stuff?!?! (Not here, btw. I thought I saved that post but was wrong. Should be easy enough to find, I hope) But for now, that's not really an option.

Anyway, hoping some of you power users here can point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance!

My DS918+ just died. Lots of things in the raid I'd like to keep. I've already ordered a new NAS, however what can I do to recover the array?

So in my DS120j I am using and Toshiba N300 16TB drive and now I am told it wont work in the DS725+ and can only use a Synology drive - is this true

That seems to be a showstopper on going on with upgrading as it would be an extra expense indstead of using my old drive in the new NAS

I kinda like the synology system but i was thinking upgrading not buying a completly new setup

Hello everyone. I have a question about alternative drives for my system. I have a DS225+ with one HAT3310-8TB drive, which I bought for around €200 in 2025. Now I would like to add another drive, but prices have skyrocketed to €1,000 or more. Which 8TB drive from another manufacturer would you recommend at a reasonable price?

Hi,

We are 2 users using a Synology DS218 Play NAS with DSM 6.2.2

I am the admin user and I created user2 for the second person in our household to access his files (which are in a directory (let's call it user2directory), not at the root NAS directory): root/DSMdirectories/user2directory

I don't manage user2 to access successfully this user2directory from his Windows 11 explorer on his PC2.

I created a user2rootDirectory at the root of the NAS storage. And I managed PC2 to grant him access to this user2rootDirectory. But (obviously) this directory is empty since all his data are on root/DSMdirectories/user2directory and not on root/user2directory

1. What should I do?

2. What would be your ideal solution?

3. Should I move all his files from root/DSMdirectories/user2directory to root/user2directory?

4. is there a better and quicker idea?

Thanks a lot!

Hello, if Jellyfin isn't being used on the NAS, does the NAS go into sleep mode? Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks.