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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
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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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I've been thinking of upgrading to a real nas rather than doing a hack using an rpi. But for the additional cost what features do I actually get and is it worth it?
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I primarily use it for backing up data/photos/videos and also as a Plex server. I can stream multiple 1080p streams from Plex to my Rokus at one time, no issues. It does transcode content when it happens to be necessary, but a lot of my content direct plays.
I am using the Synology Drive Client to backup docs/pictures/video from my PCs. I also have the DS file client on our smart phones to backup pictures/video. The software can be a little kludgy but it gets the job done. On the SmartPhone I do need to remember to open the app and kick off a backup every so often. But doing it manually insures I always backup on Wifi.
The DSM software built into the NAS it great. It makes management easy and you can get really granular on permissions if you would like. For instance, all of my devices have write access to their own folders or shares, but only read access to the others. This way I can restore files to anywhere but no one device can wipeout/override another devices backup. I did this by creating separate accounts for each device. Additionally, with Plex running in the same place as our backups, I gave plex read only access to our cell phone video backups. This essentially automatically lets plex load any family videos up we record on our cell phones. Pretty great if you have little ones. The one knock I'll give to the DSM software is that they don't always have the latest 3rd party software. I had to manually download the latest Plex server to get hardware transcoding, but that was no big deal. I think you do need plex pass for hardware transcoding.
If you are a newbie to a home nas (I used professionally for years) I would highly recommend this one. You can even add on additional RAM without much issue. Just make sure you do your research and buy a compatible RAM chip. I do wish I could have had a 4 bay NAS, but really that would be about double the cost for probably limited benefit on a daily basis
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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You will see the security specs. You would need to buy an extra security cam license if you want to use their software.
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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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You will see the security specs. You would need to buy an extra security cam license if you want to use their software.
250 FPS @ 5M (2591x1944)
200 FPS @ 4K (3840x2160)
It says it would as the 4k are 15 fps and the 1080p @ 30 fps. Anyone know if it will work well from experience? Is it worth stepping up to 720+ for performance or better getting this and adding 6 gb ram?
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