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On the Apple web site it says "Additional", so it would be on top.
We're on the same page. For your FLAC files you might want to try a free ROON trial. Roon will work "OK" on a Synology NAS. Also get a free TIDAL trial which integrates with Roon as well. Just like a NAS, Roon can seem intimidating at first but it is not that bad. Roon completely changed how I listen to music. Also try Synology's other photo package called Moments. It might be better at facial recognition.
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Thanks, I'm not sure when it was included, but I've now cancelled my Match and received a refund as well.
No, it is not. iTunes Match is a separately purchased subscription product - $24.99/yr - which ties in to Apple Music.
Well this is all interesting. With my Office 365 subscription - the family plan - not only do I get to download all Office products, I also get 2TB of OneDrive storage for $9.99/month. I can share this plan with up to 5 family members, all of who get to download all Office apps AND who also each get 2TB OneDrive storage. All this for $9.99/month.
If you signup with Apple Music and you also subscribe to iTunes Match, you longer have to pay the $24.99 for Match because it's *Included* in Apple Music. That is the point that has been stated and proved over and over and over again.
Any idea of when Apple included it as part of Apple Music. Customer service couldn't give me an exact date but thought it was later last year.
Well, cool. I have Apple Music, TV+ and 2 TB cloud. I did have News and enjoyed it, but canceled a couple of months ago to cut down on subscriptions. Happy to bundle and receive Fitness + as well.
And I’m glad I read the thread... I just canceled iTunes Match before it renews in November. I didn’t realize I was covered with Apple Music.
And I’m glad I read the thread... I just canceled iTunes Match before it renews in November. I didn’t realize I was covered with Apple Music.
Thanks for the thorough explanation.
I’m actually sold on this idea, as a separate solution with a different use case though.
I like the fact that it can be a centralized storage for many computers and generations of them. Indeed, jumping between computers to find files, or the “I’ll upload it later” can become quite time consuming and cumbersome in the end. If I already know that a piece of data is to be stored or used more “globally”, then it can go directly to the NAS soon after.
With the 10Gbit versions it shouldn’t be a problem even being a “Web Storage Interface”.
These things are full blown lite computers though, multi core CPUs, 1/2/4GBs of ram, etc.
May I ask which you one would you recommend for a one person home use? I see two main brands, Synology and Terra Master and I guess 2 bays to have a minimal RAID1 mirroring plus drives along the lines of Seagate Barracuda? Or the now SSDs ones are trustable too?
I'm pretty sure I read in the fine print that you'll be able to upgrade the storage tier for additional cost. It didn't say so, but I'd expect they would just charge the difference between the two tiers, which is $7/mo. At that point, you would need to decide if the additional features for the $29.99 bundle would be worth another $3/mo. or not for you before deciding to go family + extra storage vs. premium.
I've never had iTunes Match, only Apple Music, and all of my personal music files are stored in the cloud and available to all my devices (and members of my family).
The Apple website clearly says that you can purchase *Additional* storage on top of what your tier provides. It says no where that you can pay the difference.
Well, I'm not an expert so you'll want to research this a little more. On Synology's website, they list their NAS devices in categories from personal/home use, to IT enthusiast, and small to mid-size business. Inside these categories are what is called the Plus Series, the Value Series, and the J Series (Under the home category only). It depends on how much you want to spend and what you see your future needs to be. Some of these NAS units can add an expansion unit so you can add more drives later if you need extra space. You might want to consider a DS720+ which has a quad core processor and the ability to add a SSD cache later if you want. That is $400USD without drives. You can add a five bay expansion unit if you run out of space. You can move from RAID 1 to RAID5 or RAID6 as you add drives. A couple of six or eight TB drives and you are set! Another brand to consider is QNAP. They have some very high powered NAS units if your thing is video editing. They can cost a lot more too. Synology does a good job of ballancing power and price and the two NAS units I've had from them have been flawless.
I started six years ago with a DS 1513+ which was a good start for me. But moved up to a DS1618+ last year and now use the older NAS for remote backup so I have redundancy. I use 10TB drives. Skill level of all this is low-intermediate. If you can read an instruction manual, are willing to play around to see how things work, and have a little patience, then you will be fine. Synology's software makes it fairly easy to use but I'll admit is not always the most logically organized.
I wonder what the extra costs of additional cloud storage would be... ? I assume it won’t be the standard cost? 🧐
I've looked into that. Me and my family currently use about 9TB of space. With Dropbox, I would need to purchase and advanced account for four people at $960 per year. That means I recoup the cost of my NAS in two years. Every way I look at it, cloud storage is not as appealing as owning a NAS.
You might be right. Just figured they would create an additional savings incentive for storage upgrades as long as you had one of the Apple One bundles.
The day you have a fire and your NAS burns up you are really going to miss a cloud backup..
I also advocate a NAS for massive storage but family photos and such stuff should be backed up to at least two locations. I belive most cloud services also says that they don’t guarantee your data safety but they sure have better storage solutions than your non backed up, home NAS with maybe one disk failing soon and the parity drive lost while rebuilding..
You are right. You missed my post where I explained my first NAS was purchased six years ago and last year became my off-site backup NAS when I bought a newer NAS. Synology's backup software make this easy to set up. I set it to backup at 3:00AM every day and it takes about 45 minutes to do that after the initail backup. I did this not just for the issue of fire, but if either of my NAS units gets hacked for randsomware, I more likely will be able to use the backup to avoid hacking issues.
You can do that now, sort of. If you have one user that is a heavy iCloud user, turn off iCloud Storage sharing for their AppleID and sign them up for their own 200GB plan. That is what I do with the my wife. I have a 200GB plan shared with the Family, but I have my signed up for her own 200GB plan. It is cheaper ($6/mo. vs. $10/mo.) than paying for the next tier to be shared with the family.
