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Hello I have a problem. Tried to get help from Synology, but they replied that it is out of their range. I have changed old 2TB HDD to brand new 4TB. Made exact copy and put inside DS (211+). Everything works fine, but there is only 2TB available to use on 4TB disk. Old HDD was MBR disk and so...

Some of my oldest NAS HDDs currently in use (Seagate ST3000VN000's, from before they got the IronWolf brand name) have been in continuous use for over 5 years. Thus far they've served very well, but given HDD failure rates tend to exhibit a u-shape, with failure rates starting to rise around 5...

Hey guys. Just wondering if I can reset dsm without wiping hard drives. Also can I get dsm to use the data on the disks after install. Thanks

SSD is now almost the same price as HDD e.g. 1 TB, I am thinking about to replace one HDD( No.1) with SSD, does it make sense? any complication? Benefits I would expect is noise reduction/ speed, but has concerns if incompatibility on speed chock or jam? please share your thoughts? ------...

I had 2 discs in my 4-bay DS418play. Today I've added another 2, but it says Not initialized: Do I need to do anything after adding them?

A popular question, just wondering what you guys think. Currently, I have it set to 20 min (default). Is it ok? Does this on/off cycles hurt drives?

I ordered the last 2 WD red discs (finally) for my DS418play to fill up my NAS. So, I just add them one-by-one and that's it? What about RAID? It's ok to leave SHR? Thank you for your help.