05-04-2023, 05:25 AM
Advice, Ideas, Suggestions?
I currently have three NAS devices, at my two houses, and I’m going to be upgrading them.
At one house, I have two Synology boxes.
My first was/is a 220J. I quickly outgrew it, it has two 10tb Iron Wolf drives in SHR. I was using it for Plex and Audio Station, but I’m moving all of my Plex to my other NAS.
About the only upgrade I could do to this box is replace the drives with larger ones (maybe 16tb). Regardless, I don’t have a lot of use for this NAS anymore.
I purchased a second Synology, a 1821+ and I’m pretty happy with it. So far, I’ve installed 4 16tb Seagate Exos drives. It serves Plex to me and my friend that lives in my building, and it could also serve my Audio Station. I’m running Wyze Bridge on it via Docker, and I plan to run Home Kit and Home Assistant on it in the future.
Upgrade Plans:
Drives: l plan on getting two DX517’s when I run out of storage (Drive Space). Should I start buying larger drives like the 20tb exos’s, filling the remaining 4 slots with larger drives, and then start moving drives over to the DX517’s once I fill up the 1821+? That seems like the logical thing to do. I plan to make each box have its own volume.
Memory: l plan upgrade the memory. Currently, I’m thinking about getting the Crucial, 32gb kit, but should I consider upgrading to 64gb?
Network Card: I’d like to get a 10gb card, with two NVME slots.
NVME: I’d like to fill my two NVME slots as well. This leads to the question, what size, and what configuration? I’m thinking about one set for Read/Write Cache, and one set for the storage pool. Obviously, I’d like the biggest size I can afford for the storage pool, maybe a pair of 4gb? I’m not really sure how big I should make my Cache drives though. I’m a fan of overkill, but I don’t want to waste money either.
Finally, is there a difference where I put them? For example, the storage pool in the box and the cache on the network card, or vice versa?
At this location, I don’t own anything more than a single 5 Port Ethernet hub, so I’ll need to get something capable of 10gb, plus an adapter for my laptop. I’m on the fence about managed/unmanaged, but with SMB Multichannel, I might consider unmanaged.
Next up, is my main house, where I have a Qnap TVS-H874 (the i5 with 32gb).
Drives: I currently have 4 18tb drives installed. As before, wondering if I should switch to larger and move drives into expansion boxes when the time comes.
Two expansion slots, three wants: I’d like to get a TL-D1600S box, and that would take up one slot. Then, I’d like to add a 10gb card with 2 NVME slots. But it would be cool to have a dedicated GPU also.
NVME: Same story as my Synology, the only difference is that on the box, I have the 4.0 instead of the 3.0. That said, once again, what do I put where?
First world problems, I know. I’m just curious to hear what others think. Hopefully I’ll buy everything I mentioned, but who knows, maybe I’ll come to my senses… Or maybe my wife will figured out how much money I spend on this stuff.
Oh, and I just learned about the Qnap Guardian series.
I currently have three NAS devices, at my two houses, and I’m going to be upgrading them.
At one house, I have two Synology boxes.
My first was/is a 220J. I quickly outgrew it, it has two 10tb Iron Wolf drives in SHR. I was using it for Plex and Audio Station, but I’m moving all of my Plex to my other NAS.
About the only upgrade I could do to this box is replace the drives with larger ones (maybe 16tb). Regardless, I don’t have a lot of use for this NAS anymore.
I purchased a second Synology, a 1821+ and I’m pretty happy with it. So far, I’ve installed 4 16tb Seagate Exos drives. It serves Plex to me and my friend that lives in my building, and it could also serve my Audio Station. I’m running Wyze Bridge on it via Docker, and I plan to run Home Kit and Home Assistant on it in the future.
Upgrade Plans:
Drives: l plan on getting two DX517’s when I run out of storage (Drive Space). Should I start buying larger drives like the 20tb exos’s, filling the remaining 4 slots with larger drives, and then start moving drives over to the DX517’s once I fill up the 1821+? That seems like the logical thing to do. I plan to make each box have its own volume.
Memory: l plan upgrade the memory. Currently, I’m thinking about getting the Crucial, 32gb kit, but should I consider upgrading to 64gb?
Network Card: I’d like to get a 10gb card, with two NVME slots.
NVME: I’d like to fill my two NVME slots as well. This leads to the question, what size, and what configuration? I’m thinking about one set for Read/Write Cache, and one set for the storage pool. Obviously, I’d like the biggest size I can afford for the storage pool, maybe a pair of 4gb? I’m not really sure how big I should make my Cache drives though. I’m a fan of overkill, but I don’t want to waste money either.
Finally, is there a difference where I put them? For example, the storage pool in the box and the cache on the network card, or vice versa?
At this location, I don’t own anything more than a single 5 Port Ethernet hub, so I’ll need to get something capable of 10gb, plus an adapter for my laptop. I’m on the fence about managed/unmanaged, but with SMB Multichannel, I might consider unmanaged.
Next up, is my main house, where I have a Qnap TVS-H874 (the i5 with 32gb).
Drives: I currently have 4 18tb drives installed. As before, wondering if I should switch to larger and move drives into expansion boxes when the time comes.
Two expansion slots, three wants: I’d like to get a TL-D1600S box, and that would take up one slot. Then, I’d like to add a 10gb card with 2 NVME slots. But it would be cool to have a dedicated GPU also.
NVME: Same story as my Synology, the only difference is that on the box, I have the 4.0 instead of the 3.0. That said, once again, what do I put where?
First world problems, I know. I’m just curious to hear what others think. Hopefully I’ll buy everything I mentioned, but who knows, maybe I’ll come to my senses… Or maybe my wife will figured out how much money I spend on this stuff.
Oh, and I just learned about the Qnap Guardian series.