Synology 2-Bay DiskStation DS723+ (Diskless)

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We have dedicated NAS units at two separate locations for business use and an additional NAS for Plex to meet family member storage and backup tasks in the house. I would be happy with DS423+ if it had integrated graphics, but i doubt it will if it’s not Intel CPU, since 4xx+ usually has cheaper CPU and AMD with graphics would be more expensive.

Is it overkill for automated backup from two phones for photos and maybe security camera back up as well? Versatile and flexible storageMake the most of high-performance networking and file access without taking up unnecessary space. The fact the DS723+ arrives at the tail end of 2023 and does not feature greater than 1GbE ports by default is quite damning. It's the third — after the DS1522+ and DS923+ — from Synology to feature the all-new 10GbE Quick Upgrade Slot to host an E10G22-T1-Mini module.

The power consumption of the Synology DiskStation DS723+ shows that high performance drives up the energy demand. The DS723+ is poised to deliver great results if you use it as a video surveillance server as well, together with the powerful Surveillance Station software, of course. GHz boost), the NAS manufacturer is using an AMD processor for the first time in this series and is turning away from Intel CPUs.

i’ve watched your other vidoes of 4k comparasions but these NAS are not able to play HIGH BITRATE 4k content. It will mainly be used as a PLEX Server but already considering what i will do when i start upgrading the smaller drives in it. Perhaps you know your way around a PC, but the more specialized subject of NAS is rather intimidating. NVMe SSD pools on previous Synology Diskstation releases with support of these 2280 slots ( DS920+, DS1621+xs+, DS1821+ etc just to name a few) is not coming any time soon. I am not going to use Plex ever, It will be mostly used for personal cloud and Synology Photos for local management of my family’s photos’ and videos.

I have been using this setup for a number of years as my total storage volume is not great but the I have a need for maximum reliability of data storage. That was really the only reason why I stayed with Synology because it functioned as a beautiful control for my hifi and streaming. TLDW; Direct Play works fine on any relatively modern CPU architecture, and the slight increase in raw CPU computing power in Ryzen makes no real world difference when playing media in their original format compared to Celeron from a few years back. An important information to note is that Synology SSDs can be used for creating storage pools, but not for booting the NAS. Strictly Synology-approved SSDs: the Synology SNV3410 (presently available in 400GB and 800GB) is the only supported drive.