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Just wondering if this nas can stream all my bluray collection. I also have 4K camcorder home movies, would these stream?
Synology DS415Play ideal for streaming bluray MKV/ISO?
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Thanks. Does it offer any type of protection, like raid?
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I have a DS 412+ which looks like the older gen of this unit (same design).
It uses SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid) which allows you to add more disks as you go if you want. i.e. start with 2 disks, then add a 3rd later, then a 4th. However probably easier just to start with all 4 disks (I use 3TB WD Red's all working fine almost 2 years later).
The SHR with all 4 disks will basically be Raid 5, you get the usable space of 3 disks, with 1 disk for redundancy, so you can have one disk fail and not lose data.
Raid is not fail proof though, it won't replace a good backup system if you have really important stuff.
It uses SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid) which allows you to add more disks as you go if you want. i.e. start with 2 disks, then add a 3rd later, then a 4th. However probably easier just to start with all 4 disks (I use 3TB WD Red's all working fine almost 2 years later).
The SHR with all 4 disks will basically be Raid 5, you get the usable space of 3 disks, with 1 disk for redundancy, so you can have one disk fail and not lose data.
Raid is not fail proof though, it won't replace a good backup system if you have really important stuff.
Was a bit of a learning exorcise for me as I've never had a NAS before. Initially I just stuck my 4 drives in and configured them as individual drives. Dangerous but gives you all the space.
Then I had a spare couple of drives so I started the arduous task of putting the blank drives in, Setting them up using SHR and slowly dragging content across to fill them. Took forever, in fact it still isn't done!. I should have read up first before I started playing. I initially had 4 x 2tb drives. I bought an extra WD red 4tb and stuck that in. Took a couple of days to format and expand the volume. Only then to find out it would only use 2 of the 4tb and 2tb would remain completely unused. SHR will use the biggest drive as the backup one for the other 3. So basically my nice new 4tb drive was a 2tb backup drive. Oops.
Got another WD red 4tb arriving tomorrow. That will mean 2 x 2tb and 2 x 4tb. With one of the 4s being using completely as a backup.
So it was a complete faff but mainly due to the fact I know sod all about raids. Had I have known I would have bought the 2 new 4tb straight away.
Then I had a spare couple of drives so I started the arduous task of putting the blank drives in, Setting them up using SHR and slowly dragging content across to fill them. Took forever, in fact it still isn't done!. I should have read up first before I started playing. I initially had 4 x 2tb drives. I bought an extra WD red 4tb and stuck that in. Took a couple of days to format and expand the volume. Only then to find out it would only use 2 of the 4tb and 2tb would remain completely unused. SHR will use the biggest drive as the backup one for the other 3. So basically my nice new 4tb drive was a 2tb backup drive. Oops.
Got another WD red 4tb arriving tomorrow. That will mean 2 x 2tb and 2 x 4tb. With one of the 4s being using completely as a backup.
So it was a complete faff but mainly due to the fact I know sod all about raids. Had I have known I would have bought the 2 new 4tb straight away.
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yeah it's best to keep them the same size too, you want to make sure that any drive you add is at least the same size or bigger than the rest of the disks in the RAID group too.
For example I have all 3TB disks and if I wanted to upgrade to bigger ones (like 6TB when they get cheap enough) then I would need to pull a 3TB disk out and replace with a 6TB one, one by one, let the RAID rebuild onto the new disk, before doing the same with the next one.
For example I have all 3TB disks and if I wanted to upgrade to bigger ones (like 6TB when they get cheap enough) then I would need to pull a 3TB disk out and replace with a 6TB one, one by one, let the RAID rebuild onto the new disk, before doing the same with the next one.
Actually I think its best to use whatever disks you have laying about. That way the unit is less likely to fail and you can get a space increase from just changing one drive. Its also much cheaper than buying a whole new set of disks.