Show and Tell: Synology DS1019+ NAS
Norm and Tested producer Gunther sit down to talk about their use of NAS boxes for media serving, backup, and photo editing. We use Synology servers at the office for file management and collaboration, and the five bay DS1019+ at home works well as a Plex server with its hardware accelerated transcoding. What do you use as your media server and backup solution?
8 thoughts on “Show and Tell: Synology DS1019+ NAS”
Leave a Reply
One Day Builds
Adam’s One Day Builds: MacReady’s Hat from The Thi…
Today's build is the intersection of two of Adam's favorite …
Making
Ask Adam: Favorite Object Built on MythBusters
In the filming of a 2006 MythBusters episode Adam made one o…
Tech
How Holographic Doom Works on a Lightfield Display…
We test out creating holograms from our phone portrait photo…
Let’s Make a PlayDate – This is Only a Test 603 – …
Lots to go over this week as we break down Apple's announcements from WWDC, dissect the Battlefield 2042 debut trailer, get excited over new information on the PlayDate portable game system, and show off some holograms on a Looking Glass Portrait volumetric lightfield display. Plus, the early reports from Avengers Campus and Norm's new li…
One Day Builds
Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: Foamcore Architectur…
Every time Adam needs to wrap his head around the layout of …
Making
Adam Savage’s Favorite Tools: Great Budget Vacuum …
One of the most useful tools for a small scale modelmaker is…
Making
Adam Savage’s New Milling Machine!
You've asked about it, and it's time to show you the new mil…
One Day Builds
Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: Workbench Vise Upgra…
One of the biggest upgrades made to Adam's shop over the pas…
Tech
HTC Vive Pro 2 VR Headset Review!
We test and review the HTC Vive Pro 2, the latest desktop vi…
Hey, where’s Joey Fameli? We don’t see any video from him anymore…
joey’s been working on a long term project that you’ll hear about this summer!
Thanks Norm! Can’t wait…
do you have a good tutorial for building a NAS server exclusively for PLEX like you talked about? I’m running it off of a desktop now but don’t want to destroy it doing that
I have been using Drobos for years and really like them for a NAS, but for a media server, they don’t really cut it. So I have been looking at the DS1019+ for a couple of months to use as a media server and your video has me thinking that really is the way to go.
I don’t need a server but I back up everything on the cloud. I used to have a NAS but it’s kind of not relevant to me anymore.
It could very well be Apple’s fault, but I have yet to see a Time Machine backup actually complete successfully with a Synology NAS. Their forums are full of suggestions to backup to something else first and then copy it over to the NAS which is just plainly ridiculous.
I got this exact model last year to use both as a photo server for my photography and as a Plex Server and it has been working perfectly! So if you have been thinking about it, I am going on a year+ and had no issues.