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In 2013, I bought a Synology DS214 NAS along with two 3TB SATA III Seagate hard drives. I’m very happy with the solution because I’ve never had...
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My understanding has been that drives in expansion units are fully interchangeable between the DX and DS. However, I saw a post recently that said...
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Hello, over the years, I have many drives from MacOS, Linux and Windows. Can I connect them directly to a NAS and copy all the files from...
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Hi guys, I recently purchased a DS223j, wich have a 6TB disk. I also step up snapshots of my homes directory. the NAS is running now for 5...
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I have a NAS and recently upgraded my storage. I use the NAS as a file store, I use it to backup my computers, I use it to backup any cloud data...
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Hi all... my NAS (DS218j) started beeping and Storage Manager reported that the storage pool was 'Degraded (crashed)'. Followed the relevant steps...
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Hello, I had a WD NAS fail on me so I purchased a Synology DS923+ and one HD that was big enough to hold all of the data from the failed NAS. I...
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Im replacing a bad drive (2) and when I went to hit repair on the pool it says I have bad sectors on (3). how dangerous is it to just do the...
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I hope this is the right section to post this in. I'm trying to use Storage Analyzer to delete duplicate photos after uploading to Synology...
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I have DS923+ with 2x22TB and 2x6TB drives. Now I'm thinking how to mount them all in NAS... This is my first NAS so I'm a bit confused. The...
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Can someone explain to me why these four 18TB HDDs show up as these three different file sizes shown below? I know that the real size of the...
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I have been steered to this point in asking how to use Storage Analyzer to check for specifically, duplicate photos in Synology Photos. Is there a...
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Hi All, I am trying to free up some space on my Synology DS920+ running on DSM 7.1.1. I noticed recently that in Storage Analyzer, I have a...
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Greetings, Is there anyone utilizing C2 Object Storage as a backup solution for HyperBack? Can we place our reliance on Synology with regards to...
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Hi there, At the beginning of the month my NAS reported a "Checksum mismatch" on some files. The NAS is a 920+ with 3x4To IronWolf disks, Btrfs...
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I have a DS920+ with 3 8tb drives, SHR, 1 storage pool, 1 volume (see attachment.) What I would like instead is to change to RAID 5 with 2...
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I have a 4-bay DS918+ which was originally configured with 2 drives in SHR (1 drive redundancy). I needed more space, so I added 2 more drives...
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I am running out of space and want to upgrade one of my HD but don’t see the option to “replace drive” per the synology directions. Is there...
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In my event log on my NAS I received this notice. I couldn't find anything on what this impacts. Any idea's on what this represents?
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I am just wondering...those of you who remember my horrific start w/my DS1520+ know that I did this wrong to begin with. Let's be nice to me and...
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