Which Synology NAS for work

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wesley

wesley

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Hi Guys

We have 2 Buffalo Terastations at work. Both RAID 5 with 4 x 3TB hard drives.

1 rack mount in the server cabinet, another one diskstation in one of the offices. So both are in different locations in the building

Rackmount one is copying daily to the diskstation with a sync software on the PC.

Diskstation is copied to cloud-based storage (IceDrive) once a day.

Both Terastations are old and started to run out of space.

We decided to replace them both with newer and bigger ones.

Which Synology NAS would you recommend? Need a minimum of 4 disks each. I'd like them to be copied (one way) with Synology built-in software and to the cloud. If I buy a very large single disk Synology, would the Synology NAS backup to my home Synology via the internet?

Would like at least 1GB network speed, maybe 2.5GB or even 10GB for future proof.

Budget - none but sensible.

They are for the department which doing the filming, video, rendering, and exports with software Adobe Creative Cloud, since we moved from HD to 4K it has used up a lot of space so need to think about the future, 8k, etc

Thanks and appreciate any suggestions..
 
Is it space or speed ( or both ) you need?

If it’s just space, why not just up the hdd sizes fitted in the machines ?

Easiest / cheapest option to me ?
 
I have thought about fitting a bigger hard drives but I checked the manual and the biggest hard drives the firmware supports is 3TB hard drives...
 
If you are just using them for basic file storage and don't need 10Gig network i would probably look at the cheapest units? You are paying for the software and its the same on all the models.
 
If you're set with Synology then i would be looking at the (upper models of) Plus or XS series, they do rackmount 'RS' variants if you need it, and something with a lot of bays for future proofing. Both offer 10Gb support and support Synology's SFP 25Gb add-ons; 5-year warranty on the XS, 3-year on Plus models; XS supports 200TB volumes whilst Plus supports 108TB (you'll need to upgrade RAM to achieve that); XS doesn't support SHR iirc.

If that diskstation is purely a backup destination then get something on the lower end of the Plus series or Value series and just fill it with storage to cater for your backups and use incrementals (within Hyper Backup etc).

I believe IceDrive supports WebDav so you should be set with cloud backups but i would double/triple check that.

Only issue with the XS series is that they'll complain with 'non-supported'/'non-compatible' drives and show the system as being 'critical' as Synology essentially wants you to buy their overinflated drives; but it can be easily remedied with Synology HDD db - if data is critical then probably not recommended but, we've deployed something similar here and haven't had issues although have yet needed to use the warranty (your mileage may vary, on your own etc etc).
 
What sort of budget do you have

This kind of spec can be picked up for about £4k

Synology RS2423RP+ / Synology HAT5300-8T Hard Drive (5x 8TB Enterprise Drives)
 
Thanks for the replies, really appreciate it!

The studio department is using the NAS as their primary source to work on. Open, edit, and save projects there. I received a few comments from there that sometimes the NAS struggles when the team is working on a large project together. I think it's down to the network speed and low I/O as Adobe Creative Cloud uses millions of tiny files! They are connected at 1GB ethernet.

I need to think about the future proof when upgrading to 2.5GB or even 10GB. I could easily add a 10GB PCIe card to the PCs.

So I need the space and speed too.

Thanks again

Edit - there is no specific budget. I'm the Operation Manager and I overview 6 different departments so I deal with finance too. Let say £5k for 2 x NAS.

Thanks again
 
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