choosing the right synology

Bill13

Bill13

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Its been a year since I looked at NAS.

Synology seems like a good name brand although I did look at qnap and drobo.

I have 5 computer in the house. One is major pc. The others are Macs.

I do plan to buy a Dac and stream music to Dac then right to my two channel system

I will not download more than 500 albums

Right now I have only 2 TB of data on my computers

I do plan on scanning about 2000 pages of economic records

I would like to share pictures and music on all the computers.

I do not plan on sharing many other apps.


What synology should I get?

Bill
 
Bill13 said:
Ok I read about it. Its cheaper. Does not do rad 5 (guess because its only 2 disks). Has mixed reviews on amazon but what is your experience?
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Because your needs, are very simple. I disagree with Mike, in that...I can't see you needing 5 x 3 = 15T, lol.

I'm not sure I see you filling, (1) 3T drive...based on the above. But it's your money; the heart wants what the heart wants.
 
Chris is wrong. Backing up 5 Mac's using time machine to your NAS, music, photos, etc. requires space. You can never have enough space and terabytes are cheap. You also want redundancy amongst the drives (RAID) for extra backup.


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Well...I don't know MACs; but he said he had 2T of data total. So Time Machine backs-up at more than the original volume?

Guess I'd listen to Mike on this one.
 
Bill,

I have the 1513+ and love it. Not a hiccup and runs great. No worries and plenty of room.
 
I have a 12-drive server...currently the volume is at 16T; running unRAID. Runs great, no worries...plenty of room; and no where near the cost :)
 
Agree with Mike regarding your requirements. I have the Synology 1513+ with 4T Seagate Constellations. The 7200RPM high performance spinners give me approx 16TB. I have all 4 Ethernet ports Link Agreggrated (LAG) to a smart switch. Also added extra memory, so it has twice as much as stock. It performs much more than a NAS & ties many smart home functions together.

Apart from backups, AV streaming & data/media storage, I use it for photo serving, FTP CCTV snapshot trigger archiving, DHCP, DNS for home network, Log server for other devices, NTP sync, remote access.

You can never have too much storage space! If you don't not use it today, you will need it tomorrow! Believe me.

This is a robust & fast device with many easy to configure options. I highly recommend the 1513+ for smart homes.

(It's even good enough for a supporting role in a data centre & is a great SMB solution too).
 
I was thinking about smart home but I do not understand connection of synology and smart home.

And will I need 2 synologys if I want a home back up?
 
Bill13 said:
I was thinking about smart home but I do not understand connection of synology and smart home.

And will I need 2 synologys if I want a home back up?
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Bill...One Synology will generally do for an entire home. You can add up to another 2 chassis to the 1513+ to extend to an existing RAID partition or add addition RAIDs. Another way to expand is to buy more of them. The DSM operating system allows synchronisation across multiple Synology devices. You would only buy more of them if the CPU levels were getting consistently high with all the multi tasking. Again the 1513+ has enough grunt for the average smart home.

When I mean smart home, I mean a series of concentric IP devices that can communicate with each other in a local area network. Homes are getting smarter because people are accumulating IP devices, computers, tablets, smartphones, smart TVs, CCTV cameras, DVRs, Blu-ray, AV processors, alarm systems, LED lighting. These are all IP devices that work either via wired and/ or wireless Ethernet. Tie them altogether with a universal remote control & you have a smart home.

The Synology can act as a storage hub for all of these device to communicate to/with as well as provide various network services to facilitate the supply of those storage resources.

eg. You may wish to review a CCTV event on your SmartTV or run a slide show while listening to your favourite music. Receive an SMS or other system notification when the FEDEX guy enters your property while you are doing those things etc.

A smart home does not have to be branded. A brand of smart home generally refers to a centralised control system of sorts that acts as a hub to task devices or groups of devices. As IP devices get smarter, they can be called to task independently.

Think of the Synology as a repository for all of your devices to store/retrieve, create/process and utilise all of your digital resources.
 
Thanks for the smart home explanation.

My understanding is that if the motherboard blows or two drive go out you are toast. So I thought you had to backup a NAS. If you are paranoid about the cloud you would have to get a physical backup. This is where my knowledge starts to get weak. What type of physical back up?
 
Bill... yes you are correct. RAID recovery could be an issue if the hardware it belongs to is toast. The Synology 1513+ has multiple USB3, USB2 & eSata ports for additional external drives which show up as separate volumes. I hang a couple of external drives off the eSata ports for blazing backup performance. USB3 just as good for backup. Even USB2 especially if have older external hard drives hanging about. Perfect to redeploy for this purpose. You do not need fast throughput for secondary backups. The Synology has built in backup software that can be scheduled to always run behind the scenes.

It also supports UPS via USB. Our UPS keeps hard drives safe & spinning, the CCTV system & internet up if there is a power brownout or blackout.
 
How do you back up 7-10 terabytes of server info with external hard drives. Wouldn't it be necessary to have something as big or bigger than the sinology? Or the cloud which I would like to avoid
 
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