Picked up 4x 3TB WD Red Pro Drives and a NAS..but...!!

[bsodmike]

Oh... also the iSCSI volume, behaves like a normal drive too. Anything deleted ends up in the trash, unlike a shared volume. Somewhat safer when treating it as a 'scratch' disk of sorts that's also backed up.

[DanceswithUnix]

Yeah, and overriding should only be done if the filesystem is cluster-ready (think there's Oracle/VMWare and another M$ option). I found that via AFP/Samba, performance wasn't great for developing via the share. It was super sluggish.

Right now, I've got a 500GB LUN target that'll be permanently mounted for dev-stuff (still on the 14-day period for globanSAN) and its performing very nicely.

If you are using a MAC, then I would have thought NFS was the way to go.

[shaithis]

Oh... also the iSCSI volume, behaves like a normal drive too. Anything deleted ends up in the trash, unlike a shared volume. Somewhat safer when treating it as a 'scratch' disk of sorts that's also backed up.

There's a recycle bin option in the shared folder options that works with Windows and Mac (not sure about Linux)

Although as you've noticed, iSCSI can certainly be faster.....even more so if you use MPIO and transfer large files.

[Singh400]

Thanks, just exchanged it

*link*

I'm looking at Synology to replace my WHS box that I built. Turns out my WHS box is massive overkill, and I just need a simple networked data dump/storage. Thoughts on the Synology box?

[bsodmike]

I'm looking at Synology to replace my WHS box that I built. Turns out my WHS box is massive overkill, and I just need a simple networked data dump/storage. Thoughts on the Synology box?

I'd highly recommend it. The UI is fantastic, and setup has been a breeze. It's certainly quite powerful, and I haven't even started diving into the various bits and bobs that can be installed on it.

[bsodmike]

Anyone here running stuff like gitlab etc on their Synology? What are other HTPC like stuff that's run?

Any HTPC recommendations? i.e. a client of sorts will be run on my Mac that's connected to my TV/Hifi, say Plex as an example, and that will connect to the Synology share for media?

[bsodmike]

Quick update - I managed to get Plex server installed onto my Synology. It needed bit of a hack though (The installation tarball that is) as my model's arch needed to be specified in the INFO file. Had to also ensure the file's perms were chown'd as plexlex before `tar uf`-ing the file back into the tar archive.

So far, it's been quite good but I'm hoping to test it out a bit more this weekend.

[Singh400]

I'd highly recommend it. The UI is fantastic, and setup has been a breeze. It's certainly quite powerful, and I haven't even started diving into the various bits and bobs that can be installed on it.

I'll have to keep it in mind should my WHS box starting fall over on me.

[bsodmike]

Hi guys,

Wanted to post a quick follow up, as I've just returned from Singapore a year later since I originally picked up the DS1515+ thanks to all of the fantastic advice given here.



This time I grabbed the 1815+ 8-bay, and threw in 4x 4TB Red Pro drives, since I haven't used the entire volume on my primary 1515; this is now serving as an actual backup to the data on my RAID volume.

[Bonebreaker777]

Looks good. For a second I was afraid that somebody is trying to revive an old post for 'free shipping'...

[bsodmike]

Free shipping? What's the story there?

So I figured something out that seems to be plaguing point for many Synology uses (at least from a Google). I wanted 'Shared folder syncing' via rsync and to my dismay it would only transfer at 12-15MB/s (and FYI I haven't enabled Jumbo frames).

Spent about a day trying a few different permutations of the SSH options and today I disabled this one,

Enable transfer compression: Compress data during transfer. It will save network bandwidth but increase CPU loading.

With that and 'SSH transfer encryption' turned off, it was syncing at 120MB/s. With transfer compression off and SSH transfer enc. on though, 70-100 MB/s with SSH enc. but CPU gets hot, around 70% compared to 20% without SSH enc.

I'm now leaving SSH encryption enabled even though it would mean a higher-electricity bill as I'd rather have my data synced encrypted as I have a few Wifi stations around the house - and I really don't actively monitor anyone attempting to hack into my WPA2 setup. Sure, it's really a minor point, but I'll sleep easier.

Really happy this is sorted so I can start to backup about 5-6TB (block level sync). Annoyingly though, Synology support was absolutely useless.

Hello Michael,

I do not think there is another way to do it, but let me check settings of both unit and see if I can find any issues. Please perform directions below for both units:

Please download a kernel log using the instructions below and send it back as an attachment.

For DSM 5.0 and above:
1. Login to the DiskStation Manager as the default 'admin' account.
2. Go to Main Menu - Support Center - Support Services and click Generate Logs.
3. Please download and save the debug.dat file.


Regards,
Dan

Sorry Dan, not wasting my time!

[nexusmaniac]

I've got a DS213j and recently picked up a DS215j (each with 2x3TB Reds in RAID1) I love them! I've had the DS215j for over a year now, filled it up haha - And the performance gets better and better with every firmware update I get
I would highly recommend a Synology NAS