Hardware ideas for new NAS Server?

[neonplanet40]

Sooooooooooooooooooooo - finally an update.

I ordered the Synology DS2415+ today. I am trying to find compatible memory to upgrade from the 2GB to 6GB.

I'm not paying £50+ for 4GB 'Synology' ram.

This unit gets great reviews.

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I've an official 2Gb module that I pulled from my DS1815+ which I could be tempted to part with...


I'll have a look at it's specs when I get home tonight if that helps.

[neonplanet40]

I bought a Kingston stick. Cost £24 from Amazon for 8GB. Ill try it and see. Someone else said they had got it working lol. I'll report back.

Also, there are 4 lan ports on the back of this diskstation. I just have an 8 port unmanaged GB switch. No link aggregation etc etc. Should I just connect it with 1 cat 6 network lead? Or would connecting with more than 1 offer any benefit?

Thank you,

Mark

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there's an option for "Adaptive Load Balancing" which you can use with unmanaged switches. The performance isn't amazing, but you do get the benefit of redundant links and a bit of a performance boost.

I think I just bought a pair of 8Gb Corsair DDR3 SODIMMS for mine which worked fine - getting in to replace the stock DIMM is a massive pain in the rear, but the empty slot is reasonably easily accessible.

[neonplanet40]

So should I use all four lan ports and connect to switch? I just bought one dimm and booting it now. Fingers crossed lol

Thanks for your help

[Splash]

yep - I think ALB doesn't support splitting across 2 switches, but you can certainly hook all 4 ports up to a dumb switch and it'll work. Just don't expect 4Gb/s throughput

[neonplanet40]

Thats good to know thank you

Well - I got this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-KVR...ilpage_o01_s00

I put it in the easy to reach slot at the side. Disk-station wouldn't boot until I took it out.

Unsure if trying to put it in the hard to reach motherboard slot would help.

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Won't make any difference. Will check specs against what I bought when I get home, but just going I to cinema now so it'll be 3 hours at least I'm afraid.

[neonplanet40]

Thats no problem. The specs of the stick I got look fine. But who knows what the problem is!

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If it helps the kit I put into my DS1815+ was this one and it works a treat.

[neonplanet40]

Well interestingly, I took out the 2GB stick attached straight to the motherboard (fidley!) and it now works. I only have 8GB (better than 2GB which is ridiculous for a station at this pricepoint) rather than 10GB but I am sure I could get another 8GB stick in the future if needed.

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you've installed v6 of DSM, right? If not then it's a 32 bit OS anyways

[neonplanet40]

Yes, I installed DSM v6. I have never used any other version as this is the first Synology product I have owned. Creating an SHR volume takes ages though . . . .

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Using plain R10 and R5 here (R5 in the DX513 as a backup target), but from what I understand SHR is something like R5 so a long build/rebuild time is to be expected.

[sybrows]

I am currently in a situation where I have to roll back to a previous V.5x version of DSM its a vm sitting on an esxi host on a Gen 7 HP Microserver xpenology and cannot mount my Volumes!

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I am currently in a situation where I have to roll back to a previous V.5x version of DSM its a vm sitting on an esxi host on a Gen 7 HP Microserver xpenology and cannot mount my Volumes!

Why do you need to roll back, and have you raised a support ticket?