Synology DS215J Questions

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Hi all,

I'm just setting up my new Synology DS215J. I've installed a couple of Seagate 750GB HDDs that I had in the drawer for now. The setup has worked beautifully and I'm just copying my files over to it now.

I noticed that the DiskStation formatted the drives and installed it's own operating system. However, I'm not sure what file system it uses (pretty sure it's not NTFS)? Whatever it is, does it mean that the drives can now only be read if in a Synology DiskStation?

Also, the two drives I've used are getting on a bit now (2007-2008). So would want to replace them with some new drives in the not too distant future. Do I just copy the files off, swap out the old drives and start setup again as new?

Finally, I assume it is mirroring everything on to both drives? If one drive were to fail would I still be able to access the other?

Sorry, I'm new to this and would appreciate some help.

Thanks.
 
Assuming you've set them up with SHR (Synology Hybrid RAID), then yes, you can survive one drive failure.

Best way to upgrade is to buy 2x WD Red (either 1,2,3,4,5 or 6TB drives). Then shut down your Synology. Remove one of your existing drives, insert one of your new drives. Tell it to repair the RAID with the new disk.

Once this is done, shut it down and repeat the process for the other disk.


It formats them as EXT4, not NTFS.

As with any data, keep a backup of the data on the NAS.
 
pretty sure it's one of the ext versions, likely ext4. Ext2Fsd supposedly can read it in windows although I've never used it and not sure how it would work with raid etc.

Having said that if it's in their shd raid then not sure if it can be read.
 
Thanks for the replies guys - that's really helpful :) I must say that I'm super impressed with it so far, it seems to be able to do so much more than just store and backup data!

My next step is to set it up so that the rest of the family can use it.
 
It's a cracking unit, currently have mine running as a mail server, media server and if your into it , it'll run SABNZB and sickbeard bloody well too.
 
Guys,

Just looked in the Synology Storage Manager and my unit is using SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid). Is this the correct system to use for full redundancy if a drive fails?

Thanks
 
Yes.

You should still keep a backup though.

Depending on the type of media, you may want to create multiple user accounts and limit the access to read-only for most users.
 
OverDrive said:
Guys,

Just looked in the Synology Storage Manager and my unit is using SHR (Synology Hybrid Raid). Is this the correct system to use for full redundancy if a drive fails?

Thanks
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Yes it will tolerate 1 drive failure in a similar way to RAID5 (but also makes better use of the available space with mismatched drives.

(SHR2 tolerates 2 Drive failures - similar to RAID6)
 
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