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snips86x

snips86x

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I've had that one for about a year, it's great. Synology's OS is superb, very easy to use whilst also being very powerful and there's a lot of functionality that can be added by way of packages.
 
Oh wow, sounds like a great option then. Do you have any speed issues? The specs suggest it may be slow.

This is my first NAS, so a total NAS noob here!
 
102mb/s (read speed) is almost saturating gigabit.

It's a great price for a Synology product.


One thing to note.. When you install a disk in a NAS drive, it will wipe all data from it as they don't use NTFS, they use EXT4 file system.

Personalty, I'd highly recommend buying Western Digital Red drives. Do it properly, once :)

Price up 4TB/6TB drives, might make more sense to get one of them for now, and keep manual backups on your existing drives until you've got some spare cash for the second matching drive.





After using home built servers for a few years (and proper servers), I'd highly recommend getting a Synology, the simplicity is refreshing.
 
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It won't saturate gigabit, but it's a great NAS for the price.

How impatient are you? :)
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Why? You flogging one on the MM?

edit :rolleyes: Oh I see :D I am impatient, yes!

bledd. said:
102mb/s (read speed) is almost saturating gigabit.

It's a great price for a Synology product.

One thing to note.. When you install a disk in a NAS drive, it will wipe all data from it as they don't use NTFS, they use EXT4 file system.

Personalty, I'd highly recommend buying Western Digital Red drives. Do it properly, once :)

Price up 4TB/6TB drives, might make more sense to get one of them for now, and keep manual backups on your existing drives until you've got some spare cash for the second matching drive.

After using home built servers for a few years (and proper servers), I'd highly recommend getting a Synology, the simplicity is refreshing.
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I'll never have the need for that sized drive which I why I was looking at the 2TB.

I could do the 3TB Red drives, but it'll take me 5 years to fill it up or get close to that point. The 2TB i have now has 960gb free and that's looking at 400GB photos, 250gb films, 40gb music and various games/isos/downloads.
 
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Fair enough :)

Red are designed for NAS use, size doesn't really matter, as long as it suits your needs.
 
snips86x said:
Oh wow, sounds like a great option then. Do you have any speed issues? The specs suggest it may be slow.

This is my first NAS, so a total NAS noob here!
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Seems okay to me, I use mine over powerline adapters so I'm probably not getting the full potential out of it but for my usage it never feels sluggish even when using the OS interface.

I went with WD Red drives in mine. Ran it with just one for about 8 months then added another later, the Synology Hybrid RAID automatically expanded across to the second disk without any input required from me at all.
 
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bledd. said:
Tbh, I'd spend the extra on Synology.
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yeah, I've been reading reviews and they all look pretty pants in comparison. I think I'd prefer the OS on the Synology.

Is there any reason why I can't use the WD Green in the NAS? They're pretty much the same right?

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It would seem that TLER is the only real difference and it's critical to raid arrays - there's my answer. Didn't want to shell out too much but hey, I'm sure I'll be glad I did :)
 
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Yes if you are going to RAID the drives then the REDS are the preferred choice out of the WD range. We do some bundles on them which gives you a discount for buying 2 or more of the same drive.
 
Bought the Synology and wow,what unit. It's got everything you could want in a NAS - looking foward to getting it up and running properly.
 
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