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expirediconian | Staff posted Oct 7, 2024 4:01 PM
Synology NAS Enclosures: DS224+ 2-Bay $240, DS923+ 4-Bay
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Check out SpaceRex on YouTube. He has a few beginner-focused videos and regularly mentions that filling up all the bays is a common mistake.
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Enterprise drives are cheap , 12TB are going for 70 bucks
Actually, now that I'm typing this, I'm debating if it could be an HEIC problem, or it struggling to load really large directories.
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I added more RAM and an NVME, transcodes are quick in PLEX.
You could even host larger files as long as your upload speed is good. At most nowadays people only have 50MB/s unless you are a business or live outside the USA.
Most ISPs here do not give you a fast upload speed at most it is 1GB/s or you will be paying hundreds of dollars a month for anything higher.
Getting the 4 disk synology using raid 5 will give you 3disks /1 parity and only 1GB/s unless you get the 10GB synology module which is another 100 bucks you would see around 350-400MB/s , maybe 500MB/s like the specs say over your LAN. No one has 10GB/s upload or even 2GB/s so your speed would be limited outside your network
If you truely want to build a NAS to do VMs/ iscsi/smb and all sorts of backup/sync things look into True nas scale it is free. Build a 24 bay
keep synology just for cloud base stuff for set that up to host sync/backups/cloud data sharing outside you LAN since DSM is the most user friendly and will ensure your security is fool proof when setting up.
If you are still interested /stuck on synology get the 4 bay , spend the extra 100 bucks and get a 10GB lan card by synology.
it is completely stupid to throw in a bunch of enterprise drives to do raid 5 and then only get 150MB/s over your network.
Just does not make sense to spend this kind of money unless you find a better deal on synology 5 bay or 8 bay units that have 10GB lan already installed or you can buy a SFP+ or 10GB lan card cheap that is compatible. There are many enterprise SFP+ cards on ebay for 20-30 bucks that do 10GB/s
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My photos top out at 47.3 megapixels or 70MB. I want to browse them remotely and only load on my laptop the ones I plan to edit.
Is that doable or the network will be too slow?
Currently I am uskng two 16tb USB3.0 drives. One is writen on import for backup. I'm not happy with the speed.
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