Synology DS723+ vs DS720+ NAS - Which Should You Buy?

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When it comes down to it, most users buying their very first network-attached storage device will end up choosing a 2-day device. A NAS was once a remarkable niche piece of hardware that most domestic/home users would rarely buy, but as time has gone on, the size of our data grew and the speed of our internet has increased tenfold, the desirability and affordability of owning your own NAS server for home or business have grown accordingly. Whether it is to run backups of all of your devices, host your very own Plex media server or create a bespoke and security-conscious surveillance NVR setup, NAS drives can often provide the answer to many of our data storage questions. The reason that many users desire 2 Bay NAS drives in 2022/2023 simply comes down to the fact that this kind of technology is a great deal more affordable and the hard drives that go inside have become exponentially larger (with most recent hard drives arriving at 20 and 22 terabytes available) for home and business users alike. Into this popular arena, Synology has introduced its brand new powerful 2-bay NAS, the DS723+. Arriving with some genuinely innovative changes to what is considered normal for a compact device such as this, the Synology DS723+ NAS serves as the follow-up to the almost three years older DS720+ released in summer 2020, and arrives with a lot of expectation behind it.
Video Chapters
00:00 - The Start
01:30 - Comparing the Price of the Synology DS723+ and DS720+ NAS
03:06 - Synology DS723+ vs DS720+ NAS - Comparing the Internal Hardware
10:28 - Synology DS723+ vs DS720+ NAS - Ports and Connections Compared
17:56 - Software and Services of Synology DSM on the DS723+ and DS720+ NAS
19:37 - Would We Choose the Synology DS720+ NAS or DS723+ NAS in 2022/2023?
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[@joshuaashley7874]

Eddie nailed it, but I think the biggest problem with the "Ryzen is better for traditional home NAS tasks except multimedia" argument is that traditional NAS tasks *except multimedia* are very lightweight. File storage and sharing, private chat servers, pi-hole DNS filtering, Tailscale, etc - none of these are going to see any noticeable benefits for home users by the 'upgrade' from Ryzen to Celeron or from ECC memory. But multimedia (which is what most home users buy this for, let's be real) is getting a huge downgrade.

[@nemiw4429]

Why do you say Main use is multimedia? What? streaming videos? Which videos? Downloaded movies? I'd say 99% of people buy NAS for (backup) storage.

[@DrWize]

@@nemiw4429 No, not my friends uses is mostly for plex :)

[@Murder302]

@@DrWize Even DS214play (Intel) can work with Plex, without transcoding.

[@bphoffman]

Just a quick shoutout, my first NAS was a 720+ and I was able to get it going because of this channel and all the info you put out. Thank you for that. I’ve since upgraded to a 1621+ and so far so good. Keep up the great work.

[@NoneDareChallengeMe]

The *23 series seems to definitely be the "skip" generation until Synology comes back to their senses.

[@powermi2804]

Eddie participation is really good, I was looking for a home NAS and he made some good points for the 720+

[@luka5games308]

Same here, ds723+ have so much more updates and 10Gb/s but all that I wouldn't use at home, however for business 723+ is soo better than 720+.

[@ObeliskAG]

As a long time Synoloy user (DS211, DS115j ,DS718+ ,DS220+) I am really get tired of waiting for an affordable 2-bay + SSD model with a 10/5/2.5/1 gigabit interface. I have a QNAP Ethernet 5Gbps USB adapter on my DS718+ (thank bb-qq/aqc111 ), but a properly supported solution is long overdue. Not to mention, while announced for DSM 7, SMB multichannel still seems to be unavailable. Starting to wonder if I should be looking more carefully at the competition.

[@Daniel_59]

Thank you! It's the first really comparison for the 2 NAS

[@markwalker652]

Any news on the DS223+ yet? 🤞🏻

[@Lensman3333]

TBH I am a little confused, I need a NAS for file back up Documents, Heavy photo storage and fast download retrieval of images, as well as secure storage? One possibly two users at home, small business 720 or 723? Thank You.

[@omar-egypt8280]

Need Help! My turn finally to buy a NAS and money isn’t an issue. I edit 4k multi cam vids all day long and need to work off a NAS that has caching etc. I will need raid to back up work just in case of storage failures. My vid and clips and data are at the moment at around 15T so want a system that can handle that, back it up, and extract the data whenever I need with fast speed. Again I want the best, something that will last years and not something that will be outdated any time soon. Speed is the key for me though. Thanks

[@topgazza]

Power and more memory is largely irrelevant for home uses. Same with nvme speed or more than 1gb ports. Even worse is promoting WiFi 6 which is years away from being a common standard. Who cares ? Lack of integrated graphics makes the 723 pointless. I think you need to clearly separate the two products. They are completely different, completely different. There is no point in a value for money. No integrated graphics means 0 value for money.

[@DarrenCarman]

I enjoy these conversations. One issue that seems to be looming is if Synology alienate the plex home users, how would you go about migrating to QNAP? Would you even want to? My biggest gripe was always not being able to remove a hard drive from your cluster. This would allow a better way to migrate elsewhere rather than having to buy bigger hard drives for a 2nd system. I have a 5 bay 1515+ and have no idea where to go from there. Cant go to the 920+ as its only 4 bays, not a huge fan of the ryzen, and unsure if buying the add on machine to populate with spare HDDs I have laying around whether it would remain compatible with future releases.

[@DavidM2002]

If you are running SHR, why not just replace one of your smaller drives with a larger one ? I have a DS920+ and a QNAP TS-453A and will likely replace the QNAP with a Synology just because of the SHR and its ease of increasing its capacity. If you want to migrate to QNAP, I believe that Rsync is the tool of choice but more technical minds may correct that. I just used Freefile Sync (FFS) on a Windows PC as it was so straight forward, fast, and free. I just set up the matching users and shares on the QNAP and set FFS to work.

[@DarrenCarman]

@@DavidM2002 all 5 drives are large, so main issue is cost. I have quite a few drives lying around so the add on box might be more cost effective Main issue with SHR is that if you lower the amount of storage you cannot move from 5 to 4 drives, so any upgrade I am limited to 5 bays or more, so the excellent 920+ is not something I could migrate to without stumping up a lot for even higher capacity drives

[@mikej9564]

So is the 723+ a 2-core or quad(4) core. See timestamp 6:28. Love your channel and have learned a lot, thanks.

[@nascompares]

Bugger! Same mistake I made in the last 23+ video..thought I updated the specs tables. Apologies for the error. Have a nice weekend man

I would like to see the comparison between DS1621+ and DS923+ and maybe DS920+ in PLEX media. I curently have DS718+ and want to upgrade to something with more bays. I am using my nas for all (PLEX, VMs, Synology Photos, VPN server, ip cam, docker - home assistant, etc), I also have WIFI 6 all around (router, all phones, laptops) so 1gbe starting to be limiting... so I wounder if it is better to buy now DS920+ or theoretically DS1621+ (no GPU, but more horse power)

[@romanchild01]

Thx for the comparison, Apple Studio with a MikroTik Cloud Router Switch 305-1G-4S+IN here i come!

[@luka5games308]

You just earned one subscriber more! After watching full video I decided to buy ds720+, it's for home use, storage and multimedia in general. Also I was looking for adding in WD Red Plus drives. Pro would be too expensive and basic Red is too slow. Red Plus it's looking like sweetsop for me. What do you guys think?

[@fuzzycognition]

Love the work guys. I’d like to hear your thoughts on - home video. We are an iOS family. We record video at 4K 60 FPS. A three minute video can easily be north of 350MB. I have a 918+ and it struggles to to play the home videos. Some just will not play. I’m keen to upgrade, I enjoy DSM, but I feel like the new Synology offerings will not work for me. Can you do a video discussing home video played through Synology Photos? Would love to hear your thoughts/findings as I may be doing something wrong😅

[@ferttt6610]

Yes, i vote for this as well. Can not find useful info about what videos can be played via synology photos (codecs/containers). I have QNAP TS233 and e.g. .mts files(h264) can not be played via qumagie as have AC3 audio format (qnap said it is license related ussue).

[@SocialWorkProfessor]

Great video, as always. Would love to see a review of hubs that offer link aggregation.

[@tombouie]

Thks & sorry I thinks Eddie & the sea-gull are right for a home/family NAS.

[@westleyjohnstone4719]

Just got the 720+ for £370, happy with it

[@westleyjohnstone4719]

@@stratoshd9043 for my needs, totally fine. Huge upgrade over my old j' model

[@kingsleyfhk]

Have both Nas. DS920 for Plex and remote Back up/rsynce the DS923 for files transfer storage, surveillance/VM & etc.

[@ferttt6610]

Is there any official date for end of support for ds720+? Or can we estimate this?

[@blackeyes18ro]

DS414 still receive updates

[@be-kind00]

what about the speed of searches? If I have 3 users searching thousands of folders/files which NAS will hold up better to running the INDEX services using file content (not just file name searches) with the least delay?

[@arncht6507]

For me would be interesting the 2.5+ gbe, the cpu is a step back, especially with the higher tdp with lower multicore performance. They should use a newer, more efficient cpu.

[@barrie3516]

Would the 723+ be a better one for watching videos at home using DS video? Or would it give the same results as using Plex? Thanks

[@NicolasSilvaVasault]

it doesn't even have a gpu anymore, it has more ram for sure

[@simontong2347]

Does DS723+ support 64GB ram？

[@mrfluffyhedgehog]

i would argue the 723+ falls flat once price comes into the equation. it offers no benefits other than maybe ecc memory. let's face it though, this is a device for home and only very small businesses. ecc memory is not a top priority for simple fileserver, some backup and sync jobs, which is what a station like this one will do in an office. the added cpu performance is completely useless with the network limitation and once you factor in a 10gb addon the price is the point where feasibility falls flat. what the 723+ has added can not be used in any meaningful way, so the 720+ in practice delivers the same experience for a lower price. it just wins however you look at it. had they only put 2.5gbit on there the story would be different, but as is, the 723+ is just not a competitve offer in my book.

[@patfish3291]

To keep it short... both are not worth to buy :-/ ...i have no idea why Synology don't use GPU with the AMD.

[@turbo_bikini]

Sry man, can't hit that dislike you ask for, on any of your vids. Keep slaying the NAS and Sever topics!

[@keithmiller9665]

2 bay NAS just don’t seem a good value proposition compared to 4 bay NAS.

[@arncht6507]

I do not need 4 bays.

[@pbrigham]

With out knowing the price this is more like discussing the sex of the angels.

[@nascompares]

Yikes... that is quite the simile! That said, I think there is enough information here to warrant a comparison. Alot of people are wondering about buying 'now' or waiting for the next new thing.

[@bens5186]

1st

[@morrismoe]

720+ is still the better one. 4 cores 4 threads and i run my with 18GB ram... Better as 723+ with only 2 cores... Sadly no improvement. So all just buy a 720+

[@TheBigJohny]

right guy is right

[@TheBigJohny]

723 is just way better