Which Synology NAS for work

wesley · 4 Dec 2023 at 18:13

Hi Guys

We have 2 Buffalo Terastations at work. Both RAID 5 with 4 x 3TB hard drives.

1 rack mount in the server cabinet, another one diskstation in one of the offices. So both are in different locations in the building

Rackmount one is copying daily to the diskstation with a sync software on the PC.

Diskstation is copied to cloud-based storage (IceDrive) once a day.

Both Terastations are old and started to run out of space.

We decided to replace them both with newer and bigger ones.

Which Synology NAS would you recommend? Need a minimum of 4 disks each. I'd like them to be copied (one way) with Synology built-in software and to the cloud. If I buy a very large single disk Synology, would the Synology NAS backup to my home Synology via the internet?

Would like at least 1GB network speed, maybe 2.5GB or even 10GB for future proof.

Budget - none but sensible.

They are for the department which doing the filming, video, rendering, and exports with software Adobe Creative Cloud, since we moved from HD to 4K it has used up a lot of space so need to think about the future, 8k, etc

Thanks and appreciate any suggestions..

wesley · 6 Dec 2023 at 20:00

I have thought about fitting a bigger hard drives but I checked the manual and the biggest hard drives the firmware supports is 3TB hard drives...

wesley · 7 Dec 2023 at 07:37

Which Synology NAS do you recommend?

wesley · 9 Dec 2023 at 14:28

Thanks for the replies, really appreciate it!

The studio department is using the NAS as their primary source to work on. Open, edit, and save projects there. I received a few comments from there that sometimes the NAS struggles when the team is working on a large project together. I think it's down to the network speed and low I/O as Adobe Creative Cloud uses millions of tiny files! They are connected at 1GB ethernet.

I need to think about the future proof when upgrading to 2.5GB or even 10GB. I could easily add a 10GB PCIe card to the PCs.

So I need the space and speed too.

Thanks again

Edit - there is no specific budget. I'm the Operation Manager and I overview 6 different departments so I deal with finance too. Let say £5k for 2 x NAS.

Thanks again