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For performance, we looked at HDD-only using two 14TB Western Digital (WD141KFGX-68FH9N0) HDDs. However, if you need faster read/write performance, use SATA SSD drives as an alternative. Random read/write performance is significantly improved with SSD, although bandwidth would be capped by the dual 1GbE connectivity. Increasing memory from 2GB to 6GB should also improve overall application performance and multitenancy, and will come in handy if you plan to leverage many of the background Synology apps. In our large-block sequential test, the DS220+ had 223MB/s write, and 231MB/s read in SMB, and 222MB/s write and 231MB/s read in iSCSI, saturating the links to the 2-bay NAS.
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expiredsr71 posted Nov 17, 2021 9:26 AM
Synology DiskStation DS220+ Diskless 2-Bay NAS Enclosure
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Power Protection: I paired my 920+ with a cyberpower SL 750 VA. I use it only for the NAS and it recognizes it without issues. Estimated run time is 70 mins and it has 12GB of ram and fully populated with 4 TB iron wolves. I have it set to start down safely long before the battery runs low.
backups : if you use this as primary storage for family photos and things you don't want to loose. Then I would look into a cloud back up solution Synology C2, Backblaze B2, or others. At the very least I would set up hyperbackup to an external hard drive via USB. Yes the raid helps to protect against drive failures but if the Nas unit dies or is stolen the back ups will allow to to get your data.
Security: if you access these remotely definitely look up videos on options on how to secure them as best as possible for remote access. There was a recent widespread attack on these if people left default settings in place. Wundertech YouTube channel is a great place to start.
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Woot has Synology 218play, I believe an older model (also 2 bay), for $190. I believe 'play' models are their mid tier and '+' models are their high end tier
I got their low end 'j' model single bay and like it. Apps work, a little laggy (could be my low end model) and basic, and there are a bunch of them (one for file manager, music, pictures, setup app, device manager, some cloud one)
Woot has Synology 218play, I believe an older model (also 2 bay), for $190. I believe 'play' models are their mid tier and '+' models are their high end tier
I got their low end 'j' model single bay and like it. Apps work, a little laggy (could be my low end model) and basic, and there are a bunch of them (one for file manager, music, pictures, setup app, device manager, some cloud one)
Also, is there a way to backup to a remote synology? ideally I'd like to backup theirs to mine (once I set it up) and vice versa.
Backblaze personal on VM accessing shares via iSCSI. $7/month unlimited, after the most recent $1/mo price increase.
Also Amazon Glacier if hot storage is unnecessary.
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Power Protection: I paired my 920+ with a cyberpower SL 750 VA. I use it only for the NAS and it recognizes it without issues. Estimated run time is 70 mins and it has 12GB of ram and fully populated with 4 TB iron wolves. I have it set to start down safely long before the battery runs low.
backups : if you use this as primary storage for family photos and things you don't want to loose. Then I would look into a cloud back up solution Synology C2, Backblaze B2, or others. At the very least I would set up hyperbackup to an external hard drive via USB. Yes the raid helps to protect against drive failures but if the Nas unit dies or is stolen the back ups will allow to to get your data.
Security: if you access these remotely definitely look up videos on options on how to secure them as best as possible for remote access. There was a recent widespread attack on these if people left default settings in place. Wundertech YouTube channel is a great place to start.
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Why not use Plex Shares by "renting" the Plex Service for a monthly fee and they have all the movies and TV shows?
Personal videos and pictures I get for Plex...but why store and keep commercial movies on your own NAS besides speed advantage?
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based on your post, I'm guessing it's not active until 11/25.
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