Synology DiskStation DS923+ long-term review: The best 4-bay Plex NAS server gets even better

[AC News]

Synology's DiskStation DS923+ is the best 4-bay NAS in the market today. I used it for six months as my Plex server, and if you're interested in a new NAS, here's why you should upgrade.

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[BaritoneGuy]

I have Red Pro drives in my 723+ and they work fine without any warnings. I also have a 3rd party RAM upgrade without issues.

 

[crossy]

Hmm. No mention of the Asustor Lockerstor Gen 2 4 Bay? OK ADM isn't quite as good as DSM, and the Synology has SHR hybrid RAID.
On the other hand, the Asustor has 4 M2 bays and 2.5Gb networking as standard. Mine has a Celeron, so Plex hardware transcoding works, and it was a little cheaper than the equivalent Synology.

 

[Snozzle]

Yeh, I've been looking at Asustor as a replacement for my very loud ZFS NAS on a used rack unit. Synology's tiny approved drive list and promotion of their own drives is a little crazy. I understand that some SSDs doing implicit deduplication is a concern, but refusing device support on the basis of a wide range of standard commodity HDDs is overkill. Half the point of home NAS is being able to use cheap used commodity drives and have enough redundency and reed Solomon correction that you can cheaply replace a drive failure while also overcoming any stray bad bits during a rebuild. I looked at Synology and the price was insane once I did a full build within their criteria for staying supported. If I wanted an unsupported solution, I'd just build my own if I still had the time to tinker with it.