RetiredGuy1000
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its only noticeably slower during backups when wireless. But when i connect with a wired Ethernet cable, its pretty quick.
New Synology NAS question
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HCHTech
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RetiredGuy1000
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true. lol
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Good video setup and installation: Just make sure you choose Raid 1 when setting up.
1 tip I recommend also, is enabling the recycle bin.
Regards,
1 tip I recommend also, is enabling the recycle bin.
Regards,
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I'm a bit puzzled that you haven't already set up RAID. On all the recent Synology NAS's I've done, that's been part of the initial start-up procedure - you know, all those questions it asks you when you first fire it up (bit like a new Win installation). IIRC, you have to choose a RAID option before continuing, although I guess 'none of the above' could be a choice - can't honestly remember. Either way, if you don't set up RAID (and as others have said, with this system RAID 1 is the way to go) then you're missing a lot of the benefits that a NAS box is supposed to provide. Also, use the provided Synology Assistant to connect to your NAS on a local network - that's what it's there for.
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Exactly. But my second 4TB drive comes in tomorrow and I will re-setup the NAS. AND I figured out where to look for the RAID settings. Seems if you arent paying attention, you can easily set a default setting that chooses Synology's version of RAID. But if you click 'custom' setup, then you can select RAID 1 for that. Looking forward to setting this up in RAID 1 for good tomorrow.
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Good point - I hadn't thought of that!
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Maybe I'm thinking of another NAS solution but I seem to remember that specifying RAID 1 just makes the smaller drive the limit. So 3.5 TB would just be sitting there wasted.
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I vaguely recall something similar, though I can't recall specifics. One thought I had is that if the 500GB is in the 1st position it might work, but if the larger drive is in the primary position it might not. It's pretty foggy back there so I could be way off.
Given it's 1 GbE connection, there should be little issues with the speed of an individual drive being the bottleneck vice the ~113 MB/sec practical limit of 1 GbE...
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^ This +1
My newest client - small real estate firm - brought me an external 80 gig HDD that they used to back up their pdfs, word, QB DBS, contracts, etc. on from their 4 machines. They wanted me to do a data recovery. Luckily the drive was just in caution state, but it was mainly the enclosure because the connection jack was broke.
I told them this is NOT the way a business does backup. I pointed them to a 218+ I had on the shelf and said "this is how you backup onsite for your size business" and I'd set it to back itself up to my B2. They bought it without hesitation and now each computer has its own account and they can access it offsite using their QuickConnect credentials.
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Did you just post with the assumption that I don't know the speeds of a gigabit network? xD
The old budget synology nas products were extremely weak I don't recall the transfer speeds I got when I tested it but I want to say it was between 30-60MB/sec
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Even the cheapest SE models and the 1x model still cheap J models should do fine on a gigabit network ..but of course much of that depends on the disks used also.
But even with slower WD Red 5,400 rpm in Synology RAID we hit a good mid 90's transfer across our gigabit LAN on our RS2212+
But even with slower WD Red 5,400 rpm in Synology RAID we hit a good mid 90's transfer across our gigabit LAN on our RS2212+
Was not directly implying that, and/ or , certainly did not mean to! (As far as you know!)
(Had a guy on a forum today wanted to know what drive he could be with 14-16 TB capacity and with sustained 350 MB/sec sustained read/write transfers...! I'll just bet ya he was going to stuff in a single bay NAS with 1 Gbps connection)
Any of DIY-crowd play with Nethserver at all?
A few minutes after install, install 'file server' role/packages with Web-GUI, create folder, create share....at Win10 user, create network map, BAM! Done!
Seemed infinitely easier than with FreeNAS, etc...
A few minutes after install, install 'file server' role/packages with Web-GUI, create folder, create share....at Win10 user, create network map, BAM! Done!
Seemed infinitely easier than with FreeNAS, etc...
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Up until the point of post installation setup tasks and initramfs. God awful slow, even on my R810 64Gb ram. Dumped it after 20 odd minutes.
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I know I'm a bit late to the party here... but with that Synology and the OP's intention of redundancy... I hope a cloud based solution is also in the mix. For the few bucks a month, it's real piece of mind. Entire arrays can fail, it's not uncommon especially with just 2 disks. If that machine gets stuck by lightning, or is subject to harsh impact... or whatever... those drives can die.
Real backups are offsite and offline. I know cloud based somewhat violates one of those two golden rules, but most reputable cloud providers have some serious redundancy. I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
Real backups are offsite and offline. I know cloud based somewhat violates one of those two golden rules, but most reputable cloud providers have some serious redundancy. I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
