Synology DS916+ & 4 x 4TB Drives

Housey

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I have this set up arriving shortly and wanted to pick people's brains on what is the best way to set the device up, specifically multiple volumes and how to work with them and what are the benefits of multiple volumes, if any?

I have DS410j which I have had for years but now it's full and the 2nd set of drives are starting to fail so I decided finally to upgrade it to get access to DSM 6 too which my current device no longer supports. My current set up only has a single volume and you can't change it to more once done so hence my question.

Primary use is for media storage (music, 1080p MKV files etc) and I want to move to CCTV too and opening it up so I can access it remotely, something I have never done with my current device. Does multiple volumes provide additional security for example, so I can access only certain volumes from remote sources etc.

Thoughts most welcomed, thanks!
 
I'd go RAID10 over RAID6 on a 4 disk setup, you get the same amount of usable space but it performs better.
 
I think I am RAID 5 at the moment, but that was the best option back in 2000 whenever I bought it. Will have a read on RAID 10
 
Think I am going to run RAID 0 as frankly there is nothing on it I would be worried to lose if it failed as anything of importance is backed up so will focus on creating the most high performance NAS. Am I missing anything here with that thought process?
 
Do you really need performance? If the speed of a single drive isn't limiting then I'd just do JBOD if you don't want any redundancy. At least then if/when a disk dies you only lose the contents of that disk.
 
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Do you really need performance? If the speed of a single drive isn't limiting then I'd just do JBOD if you don't want any redundancy. At least then if/when a disk dies you only lose the contents of that disk.
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Good point, my interest is more about protecting disk space with speed too but that's a good point.
 
I would create a disk group using SNR and create a volume on it using BTRFS (which is now supported in DSM 6).

Adding the drives into a disk group allows you to expand the size by adding another drive to the group, you can then increase the volume size to take advantage of the bigger disk group.
 
How much ram did you go for? I'm going to order the same nas with 8gb at the end of the month I think.

In regards to raid I would go SHR. Its one of the best reasons to buy Synology Imo. I imagine those drives will fill up and need changing for larger before the nas itself needs Upgrading. I also think SHR will max a gigabit lan anyway.

Interested what is recommended for setting up the volumes though.
 
Use SHR bud - its far more convenient (far superior in terms of expandability etc) than the other RAID methods and is only slightly behind in terms of performance. I'm using a 415+ - was going to upgrade to the 916+ but the performance gains were minimal at best so not worth the cost for me.

Avoid using BTRFS as its buggy as hell at the moment.

Either setup and use the whole 4 disks for a single SHR volume or do what I do (bearing in mind I'm using CCTV) and use 3 drives for SHR volume and create a seperate volume2 on the fourth hdd. This way if you ever need to give footage to the police and they come knocking you can just pull one hard drive and give it to them (sometimes they don't know how to download the stuff so it works out better for me in case I'm not at home).

I use 3 x 3Tb RED's in SHR volume (gives me 6Tb of storage space with one drive redundancy)
Volume 2 is on a 2Tb WD Purple and clearly labelled CCTV ;)
 
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Raid0 is crazy for a nas. One little blip and you'd lose the lot.


Use SHR which will be raid5. So with 4x4 drives, you'd have 12tb space. I'd look at6tb drives, they are about£5 more per tb

Create a Raid Group in Synology, then create your volume inside this.
 
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I would stay far away from RAID5 with disks of this size. Possibly a moot point for data that is fully backed up somewhere else, though. Especially considering it's between that and RAID0.
 
So it has all arrived and I am currently creating a disk group with all 4 disk using SHR. It's now doing it's stuff to configure it all so will report back when done.
 
Cool

Personally, I bought a UPS for mine, talks to it via USB and gracefully shuts down.

APC BX700UI
 
I've bought an APC Pro 1200 but I am unsure how to get the shutdown process working on the NAS devices I have connected to it? Any pointers welcomed, the USB is connected to my main office PC but frankly that tends to get turned off most nights. Am I better connecting the USB to the NAS and if I do, what happens with the 2nd NAS?
 
One per NAS, unless they exist with mutltiple USB connections on the UPS. (one USB going to each device)
 
Housey said:
I've bought an APC Pro 1200 but I am unsure how to get the shutdown process working on the NAS devices I have connected to it? Any pointers welcomed, the USB is connected to my main office PC but frankly that tends to get turned off most nights. Am I better connecting the USB to the NAS and if I do, what happens with the 2nd NAS?
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Connect the UPS to the Synology box via USB and enable the broadcast status to other Synology boxes, the other Synology box should pick up this broadcast automatically once enabled in the power settings. You can also install WinNUT on the pc which will pick up the UPS status from the Synology box and can shutdown the pc automatically etc.
 
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