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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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Since this is a 2 bay, you'll need to assess if you want the drives mirror images or if you want them added so two 4 TB harddrives could be either 4 TB total (mirrored) or 8TB (added).
Lastly, unless you have two, it's not a backup or it's a backup of your data from your computer. If you want backups, you'll need to an additional service of cloud storage or USB harddrives, or a second one of these elsewhere. Or all three of those backup options.
Goodluck!
Since this is a 2 bay, you'll need to assess if you want the drives mirror images or if you want them added so two 4 TB harddrives could be either 4 TB total (mirrored) or 8TB (added).
Lastly, unless you have two, it's not a backup or it's a backup of your data from your computer. If you want backups, you'll need to an additional service of cloud storage or USB harddrives, or a second one of these elsewhere. Or all three of those backup options.
Goodluck!
Just search for either of those here on slickdeals for current BF deals.
You'll have to decide on size though.
Since this is a 2 bay, you'll need to assess if you want the drives mirror images or if you want them added so two 4 TB harddrives could be either 4 TB total (mirrored) or 8TB (added).
Lastly, unless you have two, it's not a backup or it's a backup of your data from your computer. If you want backups, you'll need to an additional service of cloud storage or USB harddrives, or a second one of these elsewhere. Or all three of those backup options.
Goodluck!
Then I can also have either cloud back or external HD as a 3rd backup safe. Am I correct? Thanks
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