I did a couple threads on this same topic and found what works. Synology is fine as long as you have your network and harvesters setup properly. Here are a couple threads if you want to read up (a summary is provided below). My network is entirely 1Gbps.
A quick summary of what I did.
- Do not put all the plots in one folder. Split your NAS up into folders and spread the plots out between them. 200 or less plots per folder works well.
- Have a harvester per NAS. Even if all the harvesters are running on the same system (as VM’s). It works well, just don’t try to harvest multiple NAS devices in one harvester.
- Separate your plotting traffic from your farming traffic. Use NAS devices with multiple network ports and run segregated networks. One for plot copying and one for farming.
As long as you do these things, using a NAS is no problem at all. I have almost 6000 plots and 3500 of them on are NAS devices.