New Synology NAS question

[RetiredGuy1000]

So I have a server question pertaining to my new Synology NAS, 2 bay, setup. I have a 500GB SSD and a 4TB HHD in there now. Data is being saved to the smaller drive, but the drive is almost full. I cant set up another drive to backup because the destination file is said to be too small for what is required. But I have a 4TB drive in there too.

How can I tell my NAS that it can also use the larger drive that is in there? Because, right now, it doesn't look like it knows to use the larger drive.

 

[Diggs]

Does it support JBOD (or RAID 0?)? Not safe but very big. Will combine both drives into one. I forget how the two differ but I'd never trust customer data to either. There is no redundancy.

@ add - ideally buy another 4 TB drive and set up RAID 1.

 

[RetiredGuy1000]

Its a
DS218j
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076G6YKWZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

looks like
Synology Hybrid RAID, Basic, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1

 

[RetiredGuy1000]

I need to get another 4TB drive in there to replace the 500GB SSD. That way, Ill have an identical drive in both bays.

But I need to config the thing correctly so it uses both drives.

I think this is where I begin my education into all things RAID.

 

[RetiredGuy1000]

and I can lose data on these drives. Just while I am setting up.

 

[Diggs]

and I can lose data on these drives. Just while I am setting up.

You could lose everything on the 500 but might be able to RAID 1 the 4 TB with a new 4 TB drive and not lose stuff. Not sure but there is a ton of info out there on setup. Plenty of YouTube videos to watch also. You may be able to put the 500 on to another SATA channel in your desktop and move everything to the NAS when setup in RAID 1. I would need to check to see what file format the Synology is using. If using Linux (EXT) then not. Another reason to have a Linux workstation as one of your tools. Linux machines can read all file formats.

 

[RetiredGuy1000]

I’ll check out YouTube. Thanks!

 

[Markverhyden]

Synology hybrid is supposed to be their automagical striping with replication solution. Kind of like ZFS with FreeNAS. You should have held off getting a 2 bay and gone with FreeNAS. You could use any combination of drives. The boot can be from a USB stick. Personally I consider a 2 bay, unless it's RAID 1, to be a waste of money.

 

[Mike McCall]

Personally I consider a 2 bay, unless it's RAID 1, to be a waste of money.

Generally I agree. The point is data protection by redundancy. Anything less than RAID 1 fails to provide that. Still, I'm amazed by the number of small business owners who consider a NAS too much money to invest in. We're talking business approaching $1m in yearly revenues. A thumb drive to backup QB to is all they think they need. I just let them fail since they won't listen. Redundancy!

 

[nerd2u]

I've seen businesses worth well over 1 million who think a rack and patch panel is to much money.

Are you looking for data redundancy or just sheer storage capacity?

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[RetiredGuy1000]

I am looking for redundancy. Just ordered that second 4TB drive. I think RAID 1 is the goal. There is just the question if how to do it Synology has their Storage Manager which is probably where I configure things.

 

[Markverhyden]

The point is data protection by redundancy.

More than once I've had customers with 2 bay devices striped and couldn't understand why their stuff is gone with a drive failure.

 

[RetiredGuy1000]

Cant wait for that second drive to come in. I've really enjoyed playing around with the Synology product. Backing up all my devices. Setting up the cloud and online drives. I just must have missed where to choose RAID 1. I'll find it though.

 

[Mike McCall]

More than once I've had customers with 2 bay devices striped and couldn't understand why their stuff is gone with a drive failure.

Business owners with a consumer mentality. Working with a family farm with good revenues. Willing to pay $1k for a new computer and invest in a new ISP (very remote location), squeamish about the cost of a NAS and an Untangle UTM. Worse is their reluctance to pay for any system/network management. "Can't we just call you when we need something?" That's exactly how businesses get into trouble.

Restaurant owner in today with a failed drive & dead system (power outage). Has everything on a single point of failure (which it did), and is out buying a consumer-level replacement. Not interested in sending the drive out for recovery, so not my problem.

It's not that they don't know better that bothers me, it's that they won't listen I find frustrating.

 

[RetiredGuy1000]

Can anyone please tell me why this(attached) keeps showing up in my browser when I go to my NAS address on my network? I have looked all over far and wide for a setting to turn off/on but can't find anything, Its annoying because a) I am probably not secure and b) every time I want to visit my NAS I have to jump through some security hoops because of this.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

Can anyone please tell me why this(attached) keeps showing up in my browser when I go to my NAS address on my network? I have looked all over far and wide for a setting to turn off/on but can't find anything, Its annoying because a) I am probably not secure and b) every time I want to visit my NAS I have to jump through some security hoops because of this.

you are using https and dont have an SSL cert, i cant remember if synology needs a different port to connect if you arent using SSL or not. try without https

 

[Bryce W]

Can anyone please tell me why this(attached) keeps showing up in my browser when I go to my NAS address on my network? I have looked all over far and wide for a setting to turn off/on but can't find anything, Its annoying because a) I am probably not secure and b) every time I want to visit my NAS I have to jump through some security hoops because of this.

You are connecting on the secure port and the certificate is not signed. You could either get the SSL cert signed, or connect via the non HTTPS port. (Might be port 2000 as 2001 seems to be your secured port).

 

[RetiredGuy1000]

why would Synology have an unsigned certificate? Urgg...

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

Hows the speed on that NAS, synology use to have some really slow nas products that didn't have the processing power to handle max transfer speeds. I don't know what model I had tried in the past but I don't think it was that one.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

why would Synology have an unsigned certificate? Urgg...

You are missing the cert, its your network. Don't worry though since you are connecting to it locally an SSL is not needed unless you got someone in your network trying to sniff out your passwords hehe.