DEFRAG SYNOLOGY CLOUD STATION DRIVE UPGRADE

If you would like to have multiple users you can use link aggregation which combines multiple connections into a connection which speeds up multi user performance. 10GbE will give you directly faster speeds for a single user, however it is more expensive to setup.

DEFRAG SYNOLOGY CLOUD STATION DRIVE UPGRADE

1GbE connectivity is what 90% of users will end up using, however if you would like to upgrade you have two options, 10GbE or link aggregation. There are really 3 different types of networking you can do on a Synology NAS: single 1 GbE port, 10GbE, or link aggregation (combining ports).

Thats why you will not be seeing 4 bay or lower NAS units coming with 10GbE networking. The more hard drives you add into a RAID the faster the raid can perform in sequential reads. Few people can fill that! 5+ Baysĥ+ Bay units are really for people who either want to store an absolute ton of data, want to access the data incredibly quickly, or both. With the new 20TB drives coming these units can give you 80TB of raw storage. 4 BaysĤ Bay NAS units are a sweet spot for people who want to get a ton of data. It should be noted that for users who are looking to get 12+ TB of data and run SHR-1 a lot of the time, it can actually be cheaper to upgrade to a 4 bay NAS because you will only ‘lose’ 25% of your data to RAID rather than 50%, bringing the total cost of the NAS down. 2 BaysĢ Bay NAS units are where a lot of people start out as they provide the ability to run RAID 1 / SHR to have a full disk of redundancy built in, protecting you from drive failure, though you should still have good backups as RAID is not a backup. Because of this you need to make sure your backups are good (you should make sure of this anyway). Most people end up in 4 categories, which is the way I have broken down my list: 1 Bayġ Bay units are absolutely phenomenal for backup units: they are quiet, low powered, and most importantly cheap! These units however do not offer any kind of redundant RAID due to having only having one bay, so they are especially susceptible to data loss if a drive fails. Number of bays is incredibly important for your NAS, as it dictates how much data you can store and how fast you can access that data sequentially. These are what 95% of Synology NAS units take and they offer by far the largest amount of storage for your buck. Drive Size 3.5″ vs 2.5″įorm factor of the NAS is probably the most important thing, however for most people it’s a simple answer: 3.5″ hard drives.

Here is a list of the top few things to look out for when purchasing a NAS. There are a ton of different features which separate NAS models from each other.

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