Synology DX517 5 Bay Desktop Network Attached Storage Expansion Enclosure, Black

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My Synology DS918+ NAS was set up in February of 2018 with four 8 TB Western Digital Red drives. My video collection took up 17 TB (55%) of the available 30.7 TB of storage. I assumed the 13.7 TB of free space would last a long time (years) since I only buy a few titles per year. At the time of initial installation, my video collection was 71% DVDs, 29% Blu-rays, and 0% 4K Blu-rays. Managed from DiskStation Manager on the host NAS, the additional bays in the DX517 are immediately ready to be used once connected. On-the-fly volume expansion ensures that storage and services on the host are not interrupted during volume expansion. I currently have all of my media on volume1. I’ve heard/read that trying to span volume1 across the DS918+ and DX517 is a recipe for disaster, so if I get a DX517 expansion unit would I be able to put new media on volume2 and have Plex/Sonarr/Radarr play nice with the new storage pool? Performance figures are obtained through SMB sequential throughput tests using Windows Server 2016 Datacenter on a

Create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and slides together with your whole team in real time. Easily migrate existing documents from other platforms and take ownership of your files in a secure private cloud. Learn moreIn two years time, the NAS's 45% storage vacancy had dwindled to 19%. I thought it would be wise to proactively increase storage space. My first thought was to replace the DS918+ with a Synology eight-bay DS1819+ equipped with 10 TB Western Digital Red drives. PCIe add-in cards, expansion units, and storage drives are sold separately. Refer to the compatibility list for compatible devices. Performance figures are obtained from testing conducted with the device fully populated with drives under a continuous recording setup. Actual system capabilities may vary based on configuration, drive performance, enabled features, and the presence of additional workloads. Figure 5. I am still fascinated by the fact that my entire video collection can fit in a little box, and that all content is streamable to any computing device in my home.

English, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Español, Dansk, Norsk, Svenska, Nederlands, Русский, Polski, Magyar, Português do Brasil, Português Europeu, Türkçe, Český, ภาษาไทย, 日本語, 한국어, 繁體中文, 简体中文 During testing, the maximum number of SSDs supported by this model is installed in a RAID 5 configuration.Given the high cost of the DX517 (and I presume its rumored, impending replacement will be about the same), I'm wondering what people are using it for. I see some posters noting that they have two, or even three of these expansion units. You can save a few hundred dollars over another NAS unit, and I suppose you don't need to deal with more configuration, but why put money into a DX517 instead of larger drive sizes?

I upgraded from a Drobo to a ds1621+ a few months ago and it has been great! I made what seems to be a common mistake (given other posts here) and assumed that the DX517 expansion unit would seamlessly give me another five drive bays for when I was ready to expand. I have accumulated a number of hard drives in the process of upgrading and like the idea of putting them to use, but in reading about the DX517 it seems it'd be fine to create a second storage pool, but it's extremely risky and poor practice all around to spread your volume between the drives in the main NAS unit and drives in the expansion unit. This sub has talked me out of that idea - I don't want to risk it. Supports up to 75 IP cameras on a single Synology server with Synology Surveillance Station. Up to 10,000 cameras can be managed per deployment by adding together recording servers with Surveillance Station CMS. Surveillance Station includes 2 free licenses. Connecting more cameras and devices requires additional licenses. Learn more.This may be one of those cases of "if you have to ask, it's not for you," but I raise the question mostly because I still really like the idea of the expansion unit and still think it might be something I could make use of - I'm just trying to recalibrate my expectations and figure out if it's still something that could be useful for me. Synology reserves the right to replace memory modules with the same or higher frequency based on supplier's product life cycle status. Rest assured that the compatibility and stability have been strictly verified with the same benchmark to ensure identical performance. SMB1 (CIFS), SMB2, SMB3, NFSv3, NFSv4, NFSv4.1, NFS Kerberized sessions, iSCSI, HTTP, HTTPs, FTP, SNMP, LDAP, CalDAV I have a DS918+ with 4x8TB WD White drives in a SHR1 array that is running out of space. I’m not looking for opinions about the efficacy of SHR1 vs SHR2 vs the various RAID arrays. My question is specific to Plex as I use my NAS primarily as a Plex media storage device. I am currently using only two of the DX517's five bays, for a total storage of 46 TB across six 8 TB drives, and a total occupancy of 25 TB (54%). Each 8 TB drive has 7.676 TB storage available. The NAS's operating system reserves 0.324 TB of space on each drive. Filling the remaining three bays with 8 TB drives would provide 69 TB total storage with a currant occupancy rate of 36%.