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- Most people's first instinct when they buy a Synology is to upgrade either the RAM or add NVMe caching. But for most users, the first thing they should buy is a cheap external hard drive to back up the whole thing!
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TOC:
00:00 Introduction
00:49 External Hard Drive
03:18 Run Wired Ethernet
05:49 10GbE Upgrade
09:25 NVMe SSD for Caching
12:27 RAM Upgrade
14:09 Smart UPS
15:35 Conclusion
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What is your go to upgrade? Post on the forums: forums.spacerex.co/t/the-top-6-updates-for-a-synology-nas-video/383?u=will
The uninterruptable power supply wasn't an "upgrade" to me - it was a first-day-must-have item. I'm a home user with experience supporting a network on a terrible power system.
@@danielmcgowan9534 +1 : totally agree ! I have 2 Synology NAS, so 2 UPS, plus a third UPS for the network stuff (Switch, Box, etc...).
A UPS is a must have in my opinion, because I will never take the risk to lose data because of a P.S. problem...
UPS
I ordered a UPS with my NAS.
Which of them should I buy DS418 for $325 or DS423+ for $610
Just got the Synology 1522+. This video was perfect for answering my upgrade questions for Synology in general, and especially for this unit. Nice to know that I dont have to go crazy on RAM! Thanks for the video!
Dude your content is so clear and concise. Incredibly helpful! If I, or anyone I know, ever needs a consultant, you'll be the first call! Thank for this great info!
Congrats on this channel helping you to a sweet full time consulting gig. Appreciate all the great information you have shared over the years.
Thanks man!
Glad you’re full time into this! Good stuff man you’ve helped my work and I a lot
Thanks man! Just went full time and its been a blast! Kinda crazy having all of these hours in the day again!
I wouldn't follow this at all. bad advise unless you have a very, very specific use case. Not that I can think of what that is.
Depending on your use case... things might change, but raw storage, just get drives and put them IN the devices! I also use ssds. Who would have thought that was needed to be said! Then if you are running VMs you need to pick between ram and nvme. Your vm requirements will dictate that. You MUST have 2 x nvme if you are doing video editing and they are AMAZING speed boosts for VM with high read write. LASTLY 10Gb... if you need more HD get the synology extension! Why o why buy a bad external HD NEVER and I mean NEVER use them for anything bare data transfer when you have a NAS!
An external HD is called a poor man's NAS for a reason!
@chrisschneider7609 you completely missed the point that the external drive was for backup, not additional storage for primary data. If you have a second NAS to backup the main one, and/or use cloud backup, then effectively you would have something similiar. But if you just add a storage expansion unit to your main NAS, no, that's not a proper backup even if you use a separate volume.
You say "LASTLY 10Gb" and then talk about storage again. Looks like you either didn't watch the video or didn't pay any attention. It's 10 GbE, not 10 Gb, because it's about upgrading the network connection, starting with the ethernet port on the NAS. That's something that can be very useful in your video editing example.
@aranelchan the point of a nas is to be reliable storage. It is the backup. Raid is the backup. And external HD is just dumb. Far more likely to fail, far more likely to corrupt. And far less capacity!
10gbE is like atm machine... the e is not required when you are already talking about ethernet. It is highly highly unlikely you are consuming gbps as a single user. Even with a few raw video files in your scrubber! It is also extremely unlikely that you have 10gbps on your pc if you're listening to this review. 10gbps is not even close to something normal.
The better option it bonding the 4 ethernet port already on the device. 4Gbps will give you FAR more likelihood of consumption... but then we need to talk about switches... which you would once you start talking about 10gbps... bonding is far cheaper.
@chrisschneider7609 No, RAID is redundancy for fault tolerance. RAID is not backup, even though what it provides overlaps with what a proper backup provides.
Is an external hard drive the best backup solution? Probably not. But driving home the point that there should be a backup is a top "upgrade" tip, and an external hard drive that can be kept separate from the NAS is a low hanging fruit in that regard.
As for a NAS being the backup, that depends on how it is used. If a video editor edits videos locally, and only syncs to the NAS as backup, then indeed the NAS is backup. I would still recommend a backup for the NAS itself, but one that is stored remotely.
However, if the video editor is editing videos via network share, then the NAS is not backup, and it is in such cases that a > 1 Gbps network connection becomes important. Spacerex did say that the 10 GbE upgrade was use-case specific, so I find no fault in his upgrade suggestion.
Bonding multiple ports is also use-case specific: unless you're using stuff like multichannel SMB, link aggregation would still limit any one client to the max of a link, so unless there are multiple clients it may be of little value.
As an enthusiast photographer, I’ve been using a Drobo DAS for over six years (actually, it’s still connected) and, thankfully, it has worked flawlessly throughout. I’ve been considering a NAS conversion for almost as long and…finally, I have just acquired a Synology DS1522+ in the last month, in no small part because of Drobo’s business problems and unknown future support. It does feel like there’s a lot to learn (which is a good thing too) but I have to thank you, Will, for all your videos as you’ve contributed heavily to my limited NAS understanding so far. As I have a Mac Studio, two 10GbE ports on my switch and CAT 6 cable running, that 10GbE upgrade will be next. Best of luck in your new business.
I'm a photographer too and I just got a 923+ and I spent all of September going step by step with Will's guides
I have had a Drobo for about 5 years and it is failing. Bottom drive bay no longer works. Don't trust it anymore. Bought a Synology 1621+. Will have 6 - 12TB drives when I am done setting it all up. Got all my critical data and 62GB of photos loaded now. Have had smart UPS for about 3 years now on all my systems.
No kidding - SpaceRex is probably my #1 TH-cam channel. I try to buy with your affiliate links whenever I can just so you take over the world. Thank you for all that you do! The installation of my Synology NAS and corresponding workflow is priceless for my business. Much appreciated!
Thanks for this great video. I took your advice and connected over a wire. Transfer speeds went from an average of 300mbps to 900mbps. Such a significant improvement! 👍🏻
Thank you very much for all the awesome content. Easy to understand stuff - lots of NAS instructional / tutorials are cumbersome, too long and not suited for beginners. I'm a photographer and have a s-lod of old SATAs with images and I need to pull the trigger on a NAS as soon as possible to avert possible disaster and also to get organized. I appreciate you, mate!
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Nice to hear you do this full time now.
You helped us Build a 1821+ back in the Days with a 10gbe hardwire connection for Videoproduction. Greetings from Germany! :)
Thanks man! Glad things are going well!
Great video and guidance, much appreciated
Glad to see I had already covered your #1 upgrade and use Hyperbackup :)
Again, a great, clear analysis. Keep it up, SpaceRex!
important note is, when using larger capacity SSD cache, it does reserve a notable amount of RAM, so for ex. I'm running one 1TB NVME SSD as read cache, but also upgraded RAM from 4 to 8GB because that 1TB of SSD cache itself uses about 400MB of RAM, and it works great as a combination :)
A couple points to add: DSM 7.2 has a SSD Advisor in Storage Manager that you can use to decide wihether an SSD each is useful. It runs for a week to analyze your usage. I recommend using this before running out to buy a SSD cache.
Great points about wifi versus wired. The problem with wifi its is stability and reliability. Wifi is subject to signal (other devices, APs) and physical (walls) interference, particularly in crowded places like apartments or office buildings. This is the biggest argument for a wired connection. A NAS needs to be always available. With ethernet it ALWAYS works and at a predictable speed. If you are using your NAS as a media server, this is particularly important.
Hello from Sydney, Australia. Just wanted to tell you that your videos have saved my bacon. Very professional and useful. A little mesmerizing too!
Great to hear!
Thanks - this was a good sanity check or me since I just purchased a Synology 4-Bay DiskStation DS923+. Went with the 10GBe card which is now down to $110, and your recommended NVME drive. Good advice on the read only. I got the external drive on my wish list. Your video gave me confidence to not upgrade memory since it comes with 4Gb. What I found useful is the size information of the cache partition you recommended which makes total sense now. In the past I would max it out thinking more is better. Lastly I have a smart UPS to plug it into. Thanks for also suggesting the USB into it also. Great video, clear and concise.
Excellent video as always. I'd love to see a tutorial about setting up the auto-shutdown from a UPS. Thanks.
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I have about 60 tb of music I've collected over the years. Astonishingly, I've never had a hard drive ever fail on me, so I'd never really thought about backing everything up until recently.
I saw a video of a video editor backing his work up to a NAS, which I had never even heard of.
After a ton of research, and some saving, I just got a Synology 923+ and 4 x 15 tb Western Digitals. It took me all night to figure out how to start syncing files from all my externals, but Ive got the hang of it now.
Glad to hear I probably won't need to upgrade my ram. I think the 923+ is sufficient for my needs. Instead, I think I'll start saving to buy a whole other backup until cloud storage doesn't cost as much as a car.
The first thing I did when I got my 920 was to add an external backup drive! Glad that was on the top of your list as well. As always, great content!!
Why just get c2 storage and backup to cloud alot safer
@@michaelpearson9 oh I have that as well :) 3:2:1 rule is in effect.
Thanks for this. What about upgrading from HDD to SSD?
Or is it sufficient to to have SSD cache.
Video editing workflow, not direct to NAS.
I just bought an 18TB external to do my back ups. Such piece of mind to have this on hand. I'm also adding a 10GbE to my NAS right now too. I just upgraded from a DS418Play to a DS923+ with three 16TB Seagate Ironwolf drives. Mainly for the 10GbE access since I do a lot of video storage and editing.
Are you running a RAID setup? If yes, which kind? Thanks
@@theportman Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) with data protection for 1-drive fault tolerance.
@@JimKilgo thanks a lot!
I would get the UPS first. For business we got a second Synology for backup off site instead of a big USB drive. I have installed 2 1TB SSD caches in raid 1. It is overkill. I have never seen more than 256K of cache being used so 2x256K is the maximum one should get. The weak spot of the Synology is that it doesn't have redundant power supplies and CPUs. That is why a second storage is required because if the local Synology fails, the big 16 TB USB drive can keep you going in the short term. We, the company, have a NetApp. I personally use an old Drobo 5N, at home, which is slow and crude compared to the Synology but it has been extremely reliable. My personal Synology is off site and the company and I access it through a company VPN. It is less hassle than a OneDrive.
Answered all my noob questions. Thanks.
I love your videos! They are helping me understand and research a NAS before buying. I do video editing for my son's hockey team. My son wants to start also editing video's also. Would putting the files on a NAS be the correct course of action? We would not be accessing the files at the same time. Thanks
alright how's it goin, neal?
Alright, how's it going @xblackrainbow
Best TH-cam intro
Lmao I was just thinking that
I have a weird issue with the smb share on my ds1821+. I have my video edit folder organised by newest created up top. When I am saving video edits to the folder it will just randomly drop out a year of edits and show the newest file as a year ago or whatever it is. Seems to drop out to the same point each time. If I open up an afp connection it always shows the correct order and it seems to force the smb connection into line also. Any ideas how to fix this issue? I think it started doing it since DSM 7 upgrade..
Setting the SSD to be a second volume and running docker containers directly off of it was a far better use case than a cache. The amount of command line inputs to get it working was minimal
Great tips and I agree with you! Thanks.
@spacerexwill what is your opinion on getting an expansion unit for my DS1621xs+? The expansion unit port is eSATA unlike the RS models where they’ve a proprietary high speed connector. I use VMs and Surv Station with 4 x 4K cams atm with maybe 2 more being added so it might have a mix of HDD and SSD.
Hey,
So I'm running a DS220+ with 2 4TB drives mirroring for redundancy and I realized I'm running out of storage.
Would you recommend swapping the drives for bigger drives? Or switch the raid so I have 8TB, and buy the external hard drive to back up?
Appreciate all you do man, love your channel since I got my NAS.
Very helpful! I've got a 1522+ on order, my first Synology NAS. I'm upgrading from an old tower running UnRAID Server. Two questions: 1) Do any m.2 NVME SSDs work other than Synology's own? They're the only ones listed on the HCL. 2) What's the best way to transfer files from my old UnRAID server to the NAS? Map a drive to the server in DSM? I want to keep my laptop out of the transfer process, as it's on wifi.
Nice to see Rex. Agree to with the priorities here. Wired 100%
So even if I am using a 1522+ as a remote offsite backup, for my 1821+ (at home), its best to have a single disk usb attached for more redundancy? Appreciate all of your networking videos and Synology videos. Keep up the great work. Congrats on quitting your job and becoming a consultant!!
I am still learning about my ds1019+. I've had it for several years now. Security and features is not very intuitive. Even for someone who enjoys this stuff as a hobby. As a truck driver I'm always looking for more ways to use it while on the road.
Thanks for sharing all those tips. Your channel is really great. Looking at your videos there is one answer I can’t find. In buying a NAS what is the benefit of having 10 or 8 drives or 6 over a 4 bays NAS?
Really the benifit comes down to two things:
1) more drives more space
2) more drives (esp hdd) means more sequential speed!
@@SpaceRexWill Great. You rock! So fast. I had this in mind but nice to have the confirmation. Many thanks 🙏
Thank you for this. I'm a home user and just looking for the fastest photo experience possible on the 1522+ (upgrading from an old DSplay - which can buffer as it only has 1 gig of ram). Would the addition of the M2 Nve read cache help with that or is the 8 gig of ram enough. Most of the use is photo/video across 5-10 family users (basically their cell phone backup and other content). Thanks!
Hey, I’m thinking of getting a NAS to back up our iPhones and computers. Question, can my son remotely backup his MacBook Pro while at College to a NAS at our home? Also, can he backup his iPhone as well? Thanks and love the videos!
Your first suggestion is perfect. I bought a USB 3.0 tool less enclosure and put an extra 16tb NAS hard drive in it.
Great investment!
Thank you for the video
Thx for the video
My 1st upgrade always is a UPS that also powers the modem, router and switch
Good videos @spacerex , keep’em coming! Any good video on explaining how to upgrade storage in future..? Eg, I get a ds923+ for example, stock 4x 8GB for example.. when I am close to reach the 8GB storage limit how does it work to get bigger drives (as they would be cheaper in future one hopes), I could then upgrade to say.. 16TB’s. Thanks in advance!
I would instead buy 2x 16 TB drives today. Then as you need space put in more drives! Much easier and more cost effective as you don’t throw out the old drives!
@@SpaceRexWill brilliant. I meant to ask that as part of the question so good to hear that’s a perfectly viable option. Have a good day, thanks for the reply.
Excellent video as usual, but it is still unclear how to use the NVMes, particularly with the VMM, and/or by creating a volume on the NVMe.
My DS1821 is still on 7.1 (7.2 is not yet official); and I believe that you should dedicate a video to the NVMes !
Thank you
I'm looking into 100TB sinology but for next generation sequencing data, I assume for backup I would need a second 100TB sinology drive? Can you have the backup within the same unit, for example if I had a 12 bay model?
Hi Neal, could you share details about compatible 3rd party RAM and m.2 NVME disk for read / write caching. Synology parts are way too expensive. I'm have a DS923+ Synology nas.
Great and very important important video for newbies like me!!! Thanks a lot
You recommend a lot for virtual machines.
What about huge Lightroom libraries wir over 100k pictures with 100mb RAW files?
What upgrade of the last three make most sense and what does not/ or does not have that big impact to the performance
Will not do much!
LR reads sequentially, so SSD cache does not help much
Thanks!
Clearly I’m missing something here. Why the need for the external backup hard drive when I will have a Raid 5 set up on the DS423+.
Thanks
What upgrade would you recommend for a 2015 Synology DS1815+ apart from the drives?
I’m still learning so I have many questions. I’m not sure if I have understood the 10Gbe upgrade to the DS 923+ comspletely. My Mac Studio is fitted with a 10Gbe connection if I upgrade my DS 923+ with the 10Gbe upgrade, can I connect with my Mac studio with a cable to have 10 Gbe between my Mac Studio my DS 923+?
Do dedicated gaming servers require upgraded ram if they are ran in a dockers? I would like to have multiple dedicated servers up for my friends to join at any time. I was thinking to upgrade the ram.
Hi, Are there 3rd party nvme and ram that you recommend rather than synology brand?
Could the UPS inform Synology to stop using disk caching, ie. tell it to be more prepared, while in battery mode?
I took the advice of a NAS consultant and used 2x32gb sticks in my Synology 1821+. Have you heard of any issues with a setup like (besides Synology not approving it)?
How will the NVMe SSD upgrade affect Synology Photos? Will it help with that in any way?
Thank you for emphasizing the importance of "wired" against wifi. Not only wifi is not as fast as advertised by it is much more vulnerable to interference.
Wiring it directly to the router would always be my first choice just because it removes another potential point of failure. But in terms of performance it might be superior if (A) multiple devices access the router at once or (B) the devices accessing the NAS are also wired.
WIFI is faster than most people's internet speeds. So an average user streaming videos or moving small files will not notice any difference whatsoever. The problem with suggesting upgrades is that you first need to know the goal of the upgrade and second whether the suggested upgrade meets the goal. In some cases, a user might be better served by upgrading their wireless network as opposed to upgrading their server.
I am still trying to figure out the best way to connect to my NAS with thunderbolt 3. I see ATTO has tb3 to 10gb lan but so expensive.
How do you set up auto shutdown of a Synology NAS from a UPS? Is there an app to install? I have a DS218+ and a APC UPS 1350VA BR1350MS.
Can I upgrade all my drives in the main unit without loosing the dsm OS install? I have a rx418 or something like that with 4 disks that will remain during this.
Im new and I am going to set up the synology 923+. Ive been watching videos and have not seen any info about the NVMe. I don't know what it is or where it goes. could you direct me to the basics for that?
Im going to take my Synology down to try my intel duel port 10gb nics since finding the Synology branded one thst uses RJ45 ports are near impossible. Sadly i need more then 24tb for my Media side.
great videos
As a NAS noob, I have been watching a lot of videos trying to figure out if a NAS is what I need. I do a lot of photo editing in Lightroom and have a lot of music stored on drives that I never listen to because I currently need to plug an external drive into my laptop and then plug the laptop into my hifi and it is just a hassle and ties me to being in one place in the house. I love the idea of being of being able to access and play music and edit photos stored on the NAS without having to plug anything into my laptop - is this realistic with a NAS? Listening to you talk about needing to plug in an ethernet cable to overcome wifi issues makes me doubt that the system would really be any different to having an HDD or am I missing something? I am worried that I may end up spending a small fortune just to have the same problem that I was trying to overcome in the first place. Any advice would be appreciated. And thanks for creating all these informative videos.
The way I set it up is a have docking station in my main monitor so when I do have a high priority workloads it's all wired with that 2.5 gig ethernet. When I need to roam around or have less business critical apps (TH-cam & shit or plex & cook lol) then I can go unplug laptop and go wireless even if it would be slower it's convenient so you get the best of both
I recently bought a Synology DS223 with just one 4TB Ironwolf HDD. I did not bought a 4-bay, first because it’s a bit out of my budget, but also because I don’t have that much data (I currently “only” have 400GB of photos.
The thing is I’m not saving my data with redundancy. So, I probably should buy a second HDD. My question is: as one of the disks storage will basically be lost, is it possible to add for example an 8TB (with the exact same characteristics except the capacity), or should I buy a second 4TB model to be the exact same as the first one? Note that that it is for home use only, and the only thing I might share would be photos with family. Thanks for your help.
It seems I can't buy CP1500AVRLCD3 in my area. However they sell CP1500PFCLCD. What is the major difference between these two models?
Thsnk for the perfect tutorial. I am using the DS912+ NAS and wanted to connnect a new Seagate 16TB external drive (the one you used in your tutorial ). My problem is that my NAS doesn‘t recognize the external drive ? What might be the reason?
Kind regards,
Juergen
Very strange! Does it show up under control panel / hardware?
@@SpaceRexWill no! It says that the a device has been removed from the usb-Port incorrectly. However it never showed up under external devices.
First of all, congratulations on your channel, it's fantastic and although I'm a computer guy (Z servers), it has allowed me to quickly learn how to use all the features of my synology NAS server, thanks a lot @SpaceRexWill
A silly question, for a similar price and terabytes, would you choose a 2.5 or 3.5 external HDD?
Any external backups that can handle 70+ TBs? ;)
If I have an 8 bay drive but only use 4 of them - Can I use the other bays for back up drives or would that be stupid?
I have a DS1522+ and actually went with the 10 gigabit upgrade and a RAM upgrade (Kingston RAM I could get quite cheaply so I went for it, no way I'm buying Synology RAM which is ridiculously expensive). Of course, I also have a UPS although power outages in the Netherlands are extremely rare.
There's one thing I'm still thinking about, NVMe SSD caching. I don't think it would benefit me. I'm using my NAS for media storage and playback (no transcoding needed over here), the NAS is running SABnzbd, Radarr and Sonarr as docker images. As I'm the only user NVMe caching would be useless, am I right?
The Synology SSD Advisor recommends a small cache SSD but as I said, I doubt if I'd really see any true benefits.
Hoi Brian. Ik heb net een 1522 besteld met twee Exos 18 Tb disks.
Krijg het morgen binnen. Zou ik je eventueel kunnen benaderen mocht ik voor het eerste opzetten een vraag hebben ? Zodat ik eventueel niet totaal fout begin met later alle gevolgen van dien.
Eigenlijk weet ik niet eens welke raid ik moet kiezen.😂
En om eerlijk te zijn klinkt wat je van Usenet vertelde wel erg cool. Wist niet dat dit mogelijk is.
Wanting to upgrade a network card for my DS1517+. I need a card that will do 2.5Gb. Is the (E10G22-T1-Mini) compatible with my DS1517+? Thanks.
QUESTION: I am running four Docker containers on a DS720+ as part of our dairy farm operations. They are an accounting system, plus three Zabbix containers (mysql, zabbix-server, and zabbix-web). I noticed that Zabbix does a huge amount of continuous writing to the disks but hardly any reading. So, I was wondering if I would benefit from a R/W cache?
Note that I have a smart UPS for for each NAS as well as for all my Cisco switches. I also have an industrial 30,000 Watt generator that cuts in within 3 seconds of a power outage, so the UPS is just there to smoothly make the transition. The bottom line is that my network never goes down due to any power issues.
That docker container is constantly writing to a database. In this case it absolutely would be improved by having a read / write cache
@@SpaceRexWill Thanks for your reply and advice. As such, I will go ahead and implement a r/w cache. As always, your videos are very helpful and enjoyable to watch.
Thx man, answered so many of my questions....have a 1522+ too...55TB usable storage but only using 2TB. A few questions though....Is there a Fiber SFP+ option to upgrade, i know 10g Ether can get really hot. Running to a Dream machine but then fiber to my desktop. Would love to run direct fiber to it.
Also no mention of the bonding....
A lot of people, my self included, are using Mellanox cards as they don't throw any errors in DSM (yet?), and are quite cheap off ebay, etc. With my Unifi equipment I'm using a Mellanox ConnectX-3 and it's had zero problems, and delivers 10Gb speeds.
@@fthorsen I have the 1522+ (Same as video and the format is not your typical pci card slot config.
@@ElectroOverlord it's half height pci. Most/many seller will let you chose the bracket or provide both.
I love that t-rex mate 😂👍🏼
Thanks! A coworker gave it to me my last day at my old job
I have a Synology NAS CS-407....could I upgrade with SSD or is it better to buy something more uptodate
I want to build a 100TB SSD or NVMe NAS and I want to clone/ sync/ and merge them across multiple different time zones to protect again fire hazards, please reach out
Any chances we can see how you setup and implement MariaDB in your homelab??
Planning on doing one! I added a write up last night going over how to setup backups for a database here: www.spacerex.co/how-to-automatically-backup-a-mysql-or-mariadb-server-with-mysqldump/
@@SpaceRexWill Awesome! Thanks for the info.
Nice content
Can I upgrade my Synology DS 923+ med M2 Samsung 980 pro ssd’s with and without heat sinks to use for caching?
Totally agree first buy a backup!
1:00 Could I use an external SSD instead of an Hard Drive? What would be the differences?
- EXTERNAL DRIVE - CHECK (that I have before buy the Nas, I used on my old server .always have two external that I change every week)
-RUN WIRED ETHERNET -CHECK
-I HAVE THE DS1522 TOO WITH 8G SÓ MEMORY UPGRADE - CHECK
-SMART UPS - CHECK
I don't plan to upgrade the other stuff for now at least.
Synology DX517 expansion or not worth it??
I was struggling for years - my photos app was slow, my docker instance was slow, and had no idea why. 2GB in my machine, and the resources app showed I still had 40% free memory. But when I upgraded by installing an 8gb RAM module.... wow! things were snappy and very fast! RAM upgrade is a must, and a NUMBER ONE first thing to do. Don't wait, just install the most RAM you can.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Even though he put RAM pretty low, it seems pretty dependent on where you're starting. If you only have 2 GB or less of memory, it will make a significant difference.
The cache does make a difference when you move large files and like you said you do not need a large nvme, you just need something that will have the thruput to keep up with the flow of the data that does not depend on the cpu or ram of the unit. Even then, the difference is not night and day but these days ssds are dirt cheap so, why not. RAM will be usefull if you run docker containers or VMs or Surveillance cameras, if you don't do that, 4 gigs is more than enough.
I got a ds920+ and did a ram upgrade shortly after just so i did not have to worry about it later. The question i have is about wired and wireless networking with a nas and laptop's. If your laptop is connected via wired and has wireless on at that same time. If i copy from the laptop to the NAS will it automatically uses the wired connection vs it thinking it should use wireless. This i am not clear on. So love your advice.
So its up to the laptop.
with MacOS generally the Mac will prefer whatever connection it was connected to when you connected to the share. Meaning if you connect to the share over Wifi, then pug in ethernet, it will not switch the connection to wired unless you turn wifi off, forcing it to switch over
@@SpaceRexWill thanks. For the reply but I should of said it was a PC. Error on my part. Is the answer still the same or different. Thanks
I just bought a Lenovo thinkserver rd640 and slapped in 4tb drives in all 6 sleds and two cache ssd in the first two. Man this is fun lol
So, if your computer is connected to your NAS via Ethernet, does that mean you’ll be restricted to using WiFi to connect to your router?
I think my motherboard only has a single 2.5 gbps port.
regarding NVMe, is DRAMless variant safe enough for home use? or is DRAM cache NVMe required? Thanks
I would not buy DRAMless nvme for NVMe caching. By not naving DRAM you take a huge IOPS hit. They would be safe, but slow, not even worth installing at that point
2:02 "backup every single night" meaning to say the external hard drive will attached to synology usb port without removing it? or should I do backup once or twice a month,remove the external harddrive and store it elsewhere(deposit box,someone's trusted home,office etc)
I would only do the safety deposit box, if you truly are going to remember to do it every single month.
Fire and theft are very rare, so I would say having a good backup (nightly) that is in the same location, is better than a backup at a safety deposit box, thats really old. But it depends on how you operate and what is important to you
Why external hdd is needed? I was under impression that if I buy 2bay NAS ( DS223J) stick 2x 4tb hard drives one will be used for all my data other one is for 100% copy of that data (back up) why do you need external back up ? Or em I missing something?
The important point about UPSs is not to hesitate to change the battery. The life time of a battery ranges from 3 to 5 years.
I wish I had known about the compatibility list on the M.2 NvME SSDs. I bought a pair of drives - good Samsung ones - and DSM refuses to recognize them for anything. Ok, it identifies them, and says they're not compatible (and I'm running DSM 7.2-64570 Update 3 on my 1522+)
I'm surprised the UPS is at the end not "Number 0, get a UPS when you get a NAS, do not pass Go." That's my philosophy after having a RAID/NAS get corrupted from a power outage. My take is that every RAID/NAS must have a smart UPS from the start. Even as a "home" user, I'd rather have a UPS than have to try to recover everything from a backup.
So from all of my consulting, I have only had a couple of times that users NAS have had issues from unexpected power loss. And in all of the cases the volume only went into a 'read only' mode where we could still copy everything off of it.
What was the NAS & file system you were using that got corrupted? BTRFS seems to be pretty solid at at least keeping the data alive enough to be pulled off the unit.
I don’t consider a UPS to be an upgrade but necessary equipment.
I have friends living in NZ and they often have power outages. If they have to rebuild a volume every time, they will get mad. Hence, the UPS is also on top of the list. I hope someday that Synology can build 'portable' nases, with power battery included.
I totally agree with Rex as a photography / videographer backup is the number 1 thing to invest in, if fact I take it one step further and have 2 backups, and I keep one in a safety deposit box and the other one backing up constantly and rotate them out once a week from my bank. I do have a UPS and I have lost power maybe once in 16 years so it is definitely good to have one but not mission critical as a backup drive. If you lose power in your area a lot then a UPS might be number 1 in your book.
The UPS also evens out power fluctuations, which device power supplies will appreciate. Being overseas I further protect the UPS with a transformer/AVR.
Thanks for your very easy to understand videos. Since I got a Synology NAS (actually even before I got it) your channel is my go to before making any decision about the topic.
thx 🤟🏼
i bought the 16tb external hard drive to do the backup but on my DS1520 + it only has one ubs port and i am using that for the ups electric backup... How do i connect both with only the one ubs port on the DS1520+?
You can just us a USB hub
Besides your good tip on using a UPS when enabling read/write caching, note that Synology's requirement for read/write fault tolerance is to use 2 NVMe drives.
Here's their message:
"A read-write cache requires at least two SSDs for fault tolerance. In this mode, data are written to the SSDs first to accelerate the data access speed and improve the random read/write performance."