Hello everyone, finally got a synology after 4 years with a WD mycloud single bay nas, went for a DS920+ to try future proof myself for a bit.
First question is... Currently I have the DS920 with 2 new WD red 10tb drives, and once I've migrated data over from the mycloud I will put it's 4tb red into the synology... I was thinking of putting a 500gb ssd into the last bay to use as the location for downloading synology apps, and run docker from, to use for a transmission vpn server etc.
Do you think the SSD will be best for this or do I just get another normal HDD?
I'm not running any raid set ups, there's no sensitive data on the system, just going to be JBOD, but do I just pool all discs together or make seperate pools? I don't really understand the pools and volumes bit being seperate.
I'm also planning on a couple of ironwolf 510 500gb ssds for read cache, to help with media thumbnails, etc... The synology ones are just too expensive, and Samsung ones are 1/2 the TBW rating. Is there any others worth looking at.
Thanks a lot.
I'll be back soon with docker questions as it looks like black voodoo magic to me... Haha.
Forgot to ask, with regard to the sata SSD if you think that's the best route for me on the spare drive slot...
I've seen WD red do a ssd and ironwolf do one, both listed as NAS ssds, are these the best ones as they seem to mention cacheing lots, but obviously I'm not using it for that, just as a normal drive... The m2s will be the cache.
First question is... Currently I have the DS920 with 2 new WD red 10tb drives, and once I've migrated data over from the mycloud I will put it's 4tb red into the synology... I was thinking of putting a 500gb ssd into the last bay to use as the location for downloading synology apps, and run docker from, to use for a transmission vpn server etc.
Do you think the SSD will be best for this or do I just get another normal HDD?
I'm not running any raid set ups, there's no sensitive data on the system, just going to be JBOD, but do I just pool all discs together or make seperate pools? I don't really understand the pools and volumes bit being seperate.
I'm also planning on a couple of ironwolf 510 500gb ssds for read cache, to help with media thumbnails, etc... The synology ones are just too expensive, and Samsung ones are 1/2 the TBW rating. Is there any others worth looking at.
Thanks a lot.
I'll be back soon with docker questions as it looks like black voodoo magic to me... Haha.
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Forgot to ask, with regard to the sata SSD if you think that's the best route for me on the spare drive slot...
I've seen WD red do a ssd and ironwolf do one, both listed as NAS ssds, are these the best ones as they seem to mention cacheing lots, but obviously I'm not using it for that, just as a normal drive... The m2s will be the cache.