daparix

Hello! David here from Spain I own a DS416play, and use the Synology for several functions: mainly I have the master copy of all family photos and videos, plus Plex for kids to watch local movies. I have discovered with the backup of iPhone photos using Moments (HEIC format seems the problem here), that there are some CPU intensive processes related with format conversion, face recognition, etc... it takes days when we upload some hundreds of photos to the NAS, day and night of spinning disks. Therefore, I am planning to do my own PC based server (I currently have a spare system based in an E3-1275LV3, compatible with a 1150 socket and 4 cores / 8 threads with just 45W TDP!!). After some readings I invested in a new case, new dual NIC card and new disk controller, and plan to move my 16TB SHR cluster from the DS416play to the PC hardware without loosing the content (of course I will do a backup of the current 3.6TB of data!!!), and hopefully having better air circulation, more RAM and better CPU power. Plus I will be able to add 4 more disks if needed, to the current 4 disks I have. I also considered to do a migration to a FreeNAS setup, but ZFS seems much more rigid in terms of disk topology setup than I currently have with SHR, so would like to stick to the synology software as much as I can. Xpenology seems a perfect match for me!!