[TriLUG] Synology DiskStation or other NAS/media server hardware recommendations?

[Derek Linz]

I'd make love to Synology if I had the parts. I have a ds411j with 128gb of
ram and 4x2TB drives in raid5, thing does things with that ram that I never
thought its little arm5 CPU could imagine.

Plus their website tells you how to root them. I've gotten mine on a cisco
vpn, compiled testdisk (watch out, synology uses modified 64bit-capable EXT
partitions that can make data recovery :().

One time it even sheered through a penny. No joke.


On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Alan Sterger <asterger at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> I purchased a new Synology DS713+ DiskStation about 6 months ago.  It sits
> on my desk, its quiet.  Out-of-the-box, disks spin down (hibernate) with no
> usage, but this is configurable.  Any new DiskStation will probably come
> with DSM 5.0 OS.  Not everyone in the Syno user community is happy with
> this version.  I run DSM 4.3 Update 4.  Synology still supports OS updates
> for prior DSM versions.
>
> Don't know anything about "j" versions but have read Syno community posts
> about it being underpowered (RAM).  And if memory serves Synology stated it
> was abandoning older hardware in future OS upgrades.  Again don't know
> whether this applies.
>
> I run the DS713+ for backups of 3 computers and some SOHO work files.  I
> have 1GB of RAM with LAG configured.  I run just Windows File Service with
> no additional packages.  In this configuration, DS713+ consumes ~10% of RAM
> and < 10% CPU when Acronis True Image (backup) run.
>
> I'm happy with the DS713+ but would suggest you spend a couple of days
> reading in the Synology forums before pulling the trigger.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Alan S.
>
>
> On 7/12/2014 12:00 PM, trilug-request at trilug.org wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have experience with the DiskStation products or have
>> something
>> comparable they can recommend?
>>
>
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