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Hi, I have a lot of duplicate files I would like to delete. If I delete one file in one directory, it disappears from the other too. It's like the copy is only the position of the original on the disk. Perhaps they were generated by copy and paste from a directory to another using File...

I have a synology DS1812+ and the DOM internal disk died. What solutions do I have to fix it?

Yes, another newbie here with the most basic of questions (and knowledge). I have been using a WD Red 8TB HDD in a Volans USB HDD enclosure as an external data drive for a few months and decided to move to a “proper” NAS arrangement. I fitted my old WD Red 4TB HDD into Disk Bay 2 of my new...

Hello everyone! I have a parallel post where I describe my issue with a Synology DS918+, which only boots after being powered off for a while. You can check out the details here: DS918+ Boots Only When Cold. During my troubleshooting process, I had to flash the Winbond BIOS chip with the...

I'm running a DS162+ with 6 each 16TB drives, using SHR for data protection for 1 disk failure., The drives are divided into two volumes. Volume 1 is 24TB, and Volume 2 is 45TB. The system is used primarily to house my home theater content. The issue is that Volume 1 has filled up to the point...

I have had a DS215j populated with 2 X 4Tb WD Reds for some years and recently it seems to have slowed in performance. I suspect this is partly because the disks are filling up and partly because of file fragmentation. I am using the last version of DSM 6.2 having missed the end of life notice...

Hi This is probably the dumbest question ever asked on here but for the life of me I cant figure out whats going on I have purchased a second hand ds216J. It has a 2.7TB and a 3.6TB disk configured as JBOD - so a total of 6.3TB I formated the disks and made them into a single volume. Again...

Hi, I am running 2 x backups via hyper backup to an external 18 TB external USB HDD. the two backups in question have 2 files on the USB Drive that are 7TB and 3TB (application sizes) respectively. However, the drive in question has less than 1TB free as per the reporting via ssh and the NAS...

I have DS1522+ (5 bay) with 4 disks. 2 x 18TB and 2 x 20TB, they are all in a single SHR1 volume right now. I am considering moving to SHR2 by buying a new disk but this note is fairly confusing to understand and Synology hasn't provided any examples: In a RAID array comprising three or more...

Do 2.5" HDDs have any protection against accidental shocks? For example: if your hand hits the HDD case while it is on the table and the HDD is turned on while it is operating I have old HDD models WD10JPVX-08JC3T5 and HGST HTS541010A99E662 If you eject the 2.5" HDD in Windows 10 and then hit...

Hello. I have for years my Synology DS416, with a 4TB hard disk. Yesterday I bought a new disk, 8TB, with the intention of having a total of 12TB (discounting the space left by the system). Since I booted Nas with the 4TB disk I have a Storage Group in Raid type: SHR with the 4TB disk. When I...

Hi. I have a client using a DS218J in their small office. Recently it has been reporting that it's running out of space (it has two 2TB WD Red disks in at present. and is showing as using 1.79TB of tthe available storage I've bought a 4TB drive to increase the storage capacity but am a little...

Hi everyone, I have attached screenshots of my issue below I am using the Synology assist and can see my new disk station which has the hard drive installed and has been plugged into power and LAN however I can't access its web interface via the IP address or the diskstation.local:500...

I am trying to upgrade my DS214 from 2 x 2Tb to 2x 4Tb drives. The first new drive installed and is working fine but the second drive just crashed and became unusable. In case the drive was faulty I returned it for another new one and the same thing happened. While waiting for the new drive I...

Good afternoon! I have a DS 923+, 2 seagate ironwolf 4tb disks in raid 1 with data protection) there are also 2 SSDs, Samsung 970 evo plus for raid 1 cache, read and write for volume 1, when I download, say, an 8 GB movie, the write speed to synology drive is no more than 30 MB/s, I download...

I have Synology DS 411 which has 4 drives of 3 TB capacity each. As I understand, they are using a couple of RAID 5's that were put together with LVM and use a custom linux. The system is capable of recovering from the failure of one hard drive and has used the same few times. Here is a synopsis...

New setup, and receiving error message saying running out of space. Storage Manager showed that only 1 of my 2 disks were visible. Have now installed the 2nd disk. Storage Manager now reports that two Drives are recognized, both Storage Pool 1. However, I'm still getting the error message that...

This is a new DSM error message that just started five days ago with no hardware, package, or settings changes. Environment: DS1520+ running DSM 7.2.1-69057 Update 4. No new hardware, packages, or updates to DSM or packages in several weeks and there are no available updates to DSM or...

I have 2 drives set up as a RAID 1 pool that is supposed to be used to backup my dad's offsite NAS at my house. However, he hasn't been very good about using his NAS and has less than 300gb of data on the drive, but its saying that the 4tb drives are full. I cannot find any files whatsover...

Hello everyone, One of the disks indicates that the number of bad sectors is increasing. This can also be seen in the graph in storage management, but Ironwolf health indicates that everything is fine (normal status). How should you view/assess this deviation?