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Setting up my DS720+ for the first time and noticed that one of my hard drives is not Initialized and I can't create Storage Pools or Volumes. the action keeps failing. Drive shows thats its healthy but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the drive to initialize? AG Edit: think I...

this scientific source by Henry Wong will help you better understand why HDD geometry is important to your operation model

Okay I think everyone knows I'm a newbie to the world of NAS....... and I've a horrible feeling I'm either missing something or have been doing something wrong..... I've been creating shared drives (as and when needed) and deleting them as I've been going along my learning curve. The error I...

I want to add an external hard drive to my NAS for use for Hyper Backup. I have a total of 12Tb of data on my disks. If I wish to hyper backup all the data do I need at least a 12tb hard drive?

My DS918+ has started to do some disk access that drives me crazy.. It's silent for a few seconds, then starts to read/write/whatever alot for a second or two and the goes back to silence again. It's a pattern here.. <silence> <silence> <silence> <NOISE> <NOISE> <repeat> .. Perhaps 5 seconds of...

As some of you know I like it Synology Active Backup for Business package (ABB). I have 3 sites, with 20+ WIN10 based computers in total (also Linux, but this not the case). ABB is in everyday operation, tested Restore scenarios. Great tool. What I found yesterday: In my 3rd (remote) site, what...

I have 4 4 TB hard disks and until now they they are configured as RAID 10. I am wondering how people cycle/expand disk? Say if I want to upgrade to 8 TB HD over the time? How do you know the order to change them? Benoît

It seems like everytime I startup my computer, my NAS starts to do alot of disk IO for a long time and I have no idea why. I've mapped a few network shares in Windows Explorer and I'm using Synology Drive aswell but I find no reason why the disks are working that much.. Resource Manager on my...

When your disk passed away and: - it's "just" Hot spare disk in your second backup instance - and the disk is one of your oldest disk in operation (10y old) in (my) oldest NAS (10y old DS1511+) ... for me as second backup instance for 3-2-1 scheme then it doesn't matter if the disk is from WD...

Is it possible to alter/hack a DS412+ ID to RS814+ or a DS415+ ID to RS818+ to accept unsupported DSM installation successfully? Both pairs have the same CPU & the number of HDD bays, except the physical layouts are different. This has been done successfully to a few Synology Disk Stations to...

Hello, Watching Resources Monitor on My Synology DS116 I can see, that there is something writing to disk non stop (few MB/s). Is there a way to find out what files are writen and by what process or app working on my NAS? By the way, reading is nearly zero at the same time. Greetings!

Hi! I'm querying my Synology metrics using SNMP. Some metrics do return disk numbers like disk1, disk2 and more others return sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, sdq and even sdr. Now, I'm trying to find out which disk number corresponds to which device name. Is there any Linux command that will give me those...

Hello, a few days ago I replaced one of the DS216j disks as it had bad sectors. I used WD's RMA procedure. After reinserting the new disk and restarting the NAS, I selected the repair storage pool command. After a few minutes an error occurred and the NAS asked to restart. After rebooting the...

In case anyone thinks to ask this question: how easy is it to move a HB archive? Over the last three days I've been changing storage use of my iMac's external disks (firewall and USB). This also meant changing the USB disks I have attached to the DS218+ and DS215j for local HBup archives. On...

New member here. So i have a 918+ running SHR with 3 x 6TB Drives (one empty slot) . After installing Moments im now running out of space (a topic for another post) from what i can see, to increase storage on SHR i need to install 2 larger drives at the same time. My question is: if i put...