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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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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.
I got this same deal earlier this year and have it set up as my Plex Server. Transcodes 1080p with no issue remotely and Direct Plays everything I have locally, including full untouched 4K rips that are ~80-100 Mbps. So yes, good choice for Plex Server.
Yes, probably 6 years old but the NAS is rarely used or accessed. It's really just for picture backup. I've probably accessed it 5 times this past year because it is such pita to do (It is very slow and the web based interface is poorly done). Does that make a difference with life expectancy? I believe they are 2TB WD red drives. I'm just wondering how urgent it is or if I have time to shop around for new drives.
Sure, the less it's used the longer they may last. The device could be slow, it could also be the harddrives. I'd still recommend new drives. It'd suck to get this setup and then have the drives fail in a month or 6 or 12 and have to do this all over again.
There were some 4 TB red drives on here for like $70 ea. If you don't need much space, start with that. The 4 TBs were around $100 +/- it seems like for a few years and just started started dropping. I think the 6 TBs have been now hovering at around $100 or just above that. Although I irregularly check on those so others may have a better idea.
I have my WD setup as a raid 1. Could I pull one HDD, put it in the Synology, format it and then transfer from the WD to the Synology or do these not work if there is only 1 drive in them?
You can do that. These NAS units will work with one drive. Once the first drive is set up in the Synology and you have copied the data back over, you can opt to expand the storage pool and add another drive. Just check the documentation when you initialize the first drive to make sure you're not choosing options that will be incompatible with the RAID option you want to use when you add the second.
There's a small but nonzero chance you could lose data during the RAID-striping process if the new drive 1 kicks the bucket before completing the write to drive 2. You may want to back up your most important things on a 3rd drive or cloud storage. Google One has 2TB for $10/month.
Sure, the less it's used the longer they may last. The device could be slow, it could also be the harddrives. I'd still recommend new drives. It'd suck to get this setup and then have the drives fail in a month or 6 or 12 and have to do this all over again.
There were some 4 TB red drives on here for like $70 ea. If you don't need much space, start with that. The 4 TBs were around $100 +/- it seems like for a few years and just started started dropping. I think the 6 TBs have been now hovering at around $100 or just above that. Although I irregularly check on those so others may have a better idea.
Yeah, you're right. Not much money for some added security. Thanks for the help!
You can do that. These NAS units will work with one drive. Once the first drive is set up in the Synology and you have copied the data back over, you can opt to expand the storage pool and add another drive. Just check the documentation when you initialize the first drive to make sure you're not choosing options that will be incompatible with the RAID option you want to use when you add the second.
There's a small but nonzero chance you could lose data during the RAID-striping process if the new drive 1 kicks the bucket before completing the write to drive 2. You may want to back up your most important things on a 3rd drive or cloud storage. Google One has 2TB for $10/month.
With Synology hybrid raid, SHR, it's a little bit more complicated than that. Shr allows the mixing of different capacity drives, and still maintaining much of the capacity of the larger drives over the smaller ones. A 2-bay nas is more expensive to increase storage in the long run than a 4-bay running shr. To upgrade the storage in a 2-bay Nas, you have to add two large drives. In a 4-bay Nas, you need only add a single larger-capacity Drive, or replace the smallest capacity drive with a larger one.
if i use a 14tb + 10tb in SHR how much space would i have?
Oof. Yeah. Don't expose it to the Internet. If you want to be able to access it from the Internet, the proper way is to set up a VPN with access to the NAS (or your entire home network if your router has a VPN server). When you're away from home, connect to the VPN with your remote device. Your device will act like you're on your home network, and it'll be able to access the NAS.
If the router doesn't have a built-in VPN server, you can always grab a Raspberry Pi, load PiVPN and set up either a Wireguard or OpenVPN server. Works fantastic.
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Real question. I have a pi 3b+ running plex server on my setup. It works decent and is very cheap to make.
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?
Wow a rp 3b running plex, that's brave of you. I was running raspberry pi 4 running dockers with emby/radarr/sonarr/openvpn for a year and realized that the dockers don't support 32 bit for arm devices and I just decided to upgrade to a synology ds940+ nas. performance is much better compared to a raspberry pi.
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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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There were some 4 TB red drives on here for like $70 ea. If you don't need much space, start with that. The 4 TBs were around $100 +/- it seems like for a few years and just started started dropping. I think the 6 TBs have been now hovering at around $100 or just above that. Although I irregularly check on those so others may have a better idea.
There's a small but nonzero chance you could lose data during the RAID-striping process if the new drive 1 kicks the bucket before completing the write to drive 2. You may want to back up your most important things on a 3rd drive or cloud storage. Google One has 2TB for $10/month.
There were some 4 TB red drives on here for like $70 ea. If you don't need much space, start with that. The 4 TBs were around $100 +/- it seems like for a few years and just started started dropping. I think the 6 TBs have been now hovering at around $100 or just above that. Although I irregularly check on those so others may have a better idea.
There's a small but nonzero chance you could lose data during the RAID-striping process if the new drive 1 kicks the bucket before completing the write to drive 2. You may want to back up your most important things on a 3rd drive or cloud storage. Google One has 2TB for $10/month.
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Synology's SHR storage calculator is here:
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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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