Synology BeeStation vs Diskstation NAS (BSM vs DSM)

The NAScompares Podcast - Let's Talk Data

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[EmilyRabjerg]

Thank you so much, I learnt so much from your videos of comparisons of DSM's and aslo BSM! For now I'll buy a BeeStation and/or maybe a 2TB lifetime pCloud. I am completely new to NAS stuff, I just knew it existed from my dad. My dad has NAS of his own for at least 14 years now, so I can ask him, he has WD MyCloudHome 2-bays from I could see. I just wanted to learn on my own hehe. I've used 3+ days now of research of Synology NAS, Synology BeeStation and pCloud 2TB lifetime plus other alternatives...

Anyway, I'll probably upgrade to DS723+ or DS923+ (with at least 2x8TBs or 4x4TBs or maybe just max it out on mirror raids) at some point, but right now I just need to use a cloud to organize my files - Document (School, Work, Private), Photos, Music and Videos whilst backing them up + accessible anywhere and of course them still saved on multiple physical external harddrives (2x5TBs and 2x2TBs) that I manually update when I have time for it. Now I'll watch your how to upgrade BeeStation storage, I'll do this warranty expires on my BeeStation, could be fun

Edit:
Please feel free everyone, to advice me to buy NAS or suggest others solutions or more like what would you do if you only have almost 5TB of data, and you're a student with a certain budget?

[CarlRyds]

I hope they take some of the changes to the UI in BSM and put it in DSM 8. DSM looks a bit old by today's standards of macOS and Windows 11 UIs. Be nice if they had a version of Video Station for BSM, people creating their own clouds with streaming services getting expensive is a growing market, but I guess you would just get a DSM system for that.

[PREDzzz]

back in the day i tried setting up hyper backup from one synology to another but it was super broken due to both the source and destination shares being encrypted, have they sorted that out? have you tried backing up form one synology to another when both are encrypted? and i am referring to share folder encryption not volume

[dietereisenbarth]

Thank you. A very good introduction to BSM. But I'm still looking for an answer, which Synology Support didn't answer well. Has the BeeStation with BSM also integrated a media server with which I can stream photos and Videos to my Smart TV via DLNA. Thank you for your reply.

[InFlamesOfSorrow]

Bee Station design looks much better than Synology Drive...
And Drive is even missing some features...
i really hope they add that and give at least the option to change the design

[jakealexander]

Second! Love your content!!!! Haha. Thanks this is very interesting! I am still exploring what advantages having a ds423+ is

[sylvainalain]

I’m pretty sure that BSM is : Basic Storage Manager :)