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The synology comes with a 2 camera license. Additional licenses are quite expensive. Really you buy these things for other features: NAS, DLNA, download station, etc. I have a 4 bay and a 2 bay. You can get a specialist one just for IP cams, but you might as well buy the NAS. 2 bays start at 200 quid, 4 bays £300 or so, Disks are extra.
I have 4TB discs in both. My 4 bay is RAID1 so 8TB total, my 2bay is JBOD so 8TB. I also have some external portable 2TB USB3 disks plugged in for external /backup and archive. The cameras write to the 4 bay and then the folder instance sychronised to the JBOD server, the 4 bay also backs up nightly and latest files pushed to cloud. the 2 bay is located in a different building to the 4 bay, all linked with a mix of Cat6 and powerline adapters.
my mrs is a photographer, so the NAS' primary use is backing up her work, streaming movies and audio. The surveillance Centre software is pretty good and you can tweak the motion sensors, storage limits etc. For outside protection you really need flood lights at night if you actually want to catch a scum bag.
The model numbers are [number of drives][year of release] so a DS216 is a 2 bay 2016 model. the J is a reduced cpu and the play has better video transcoding capabilities. These things on a GB network are damn fast with say WD red drives, even though the smaller ones have mobile phone cpus.
I have 4TB discs in both. My 4 bay is RAID1 so 8TB total, my 2bay is JBOD so 8TB. I also have some external portable 2TB USB3 disks plugged in for external /backup and archive. The cameras write to the 4 bay and then the folder instance sychronised to the JBOD server, the 4 bay also backs up nightly and latest files pushed to cloud. the 2 bay is located in a different building to the 4 bay, all linked with a mix of Cat6 and powerline adapters.
my mrs is a photographer, so the NAS' primary use is backing up her work, streaming movies and audio. The surveillance Centre software is pretty good and you can tweak the motion sensors, storage limits etc. For outside protection you really need flood lights at night if you actually want to catch a scum bag.
The model numbers are [number of drives][year of release] so a DS216 is a 2 bay 2016 model. the J is a reduced cpu and the play has better video transcoding capabilities. These things on a GB network are damn fast with say WD red drives, even though the smaller ones have mobile phone cpus.
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