Hello! I just bought a DS1019 and need help choosing the best set up options for it. I am coming from a drobo which was easy to set up, but after several problems with the support for Drobo I've decided to make the switch to Synology. I know Synology can do way more than my drobo which was a DAS instead of a NAS, but I find that also very confusing to set up. Let me explain how I want to use it and hopefully someone can help.
I am using an imac to access the synology.
I basically need it to run as a large external drive with redundancy. I only want one volume and want to be able to expand that volume capacity as I fill it up by replacing the smallest drive. (I'm a photographer with a lot of files, but I will also keep all my files on it rather than on my imac).
While I know I could configure it to be reached from anywhere, I would prefer it to only be able to be accessed from our house.
I need to be able to read and write the files from my imac, not sure what file system I need, but it needs to play nice with macs and I'm also not sure where I determine this.
Currently I have 4 8tb drives and 1 4 tb drive in it.
I believe I want RAID 5, but I did explore SHR, still not sure on the main difference between both of these, but I need to be able to replace drives if one fails and expand the volume as I fill it up. I would prefer to alway replace the smallest drive as needed so I think that's raid 5?
A friend said they hooked theirs up directly to their mac with a lan cable instead of going through a router, I have no idea if this would be an ideal setup for me, but currently I have mine attached to my imac with a lan cable and a lan cable to the router from the synology because the synology assistant didn't find it until I hooked it to my router. I can see it just fine now, but don't know enough about it all if I should connect it a different way.
I tried doing the create for the storage pool and volume but didn't know what to pick for my imac to read and write for either.
Do I have to make a shared folder on it once the volume and storage pool are set up for me to access the data from the mac?
Once I get it set up is there an easy way to transfer 9tb of data from my drobo to the synology beyond copy and paste?
Why does the Synology assistant find two servers? I just selected one, but do I have to do anything with the other one? It's all the same info as the first other than I did nothing with it. I'll attach that file.
Sorry for all the questions, but thank you so much if you can help a newbie with all this that wants to get back to photographing things rather than networking lol.
I am using an imac to access the synology.
I basically need it to run as a large external drive with redundancy. I only want one volume and want to be able to expand that volume capacity as I fill it up by replacing the smallest drive. (I'm a photographer with a lot of files, but I will also keep all my files on it rather than on my imac).
While I know I could configure it to be reached from anywhere, I would prefer it to only be able to be accessed from our house.
I need to be able to read and write the files from my imac, not sure what file system I need, but it needs to play nice with macs and I'm also not sure where I determine this.
Currently I have 4 8tb drives and 1 4 tb drive in it.
I believe I want RAID 5, but I did explore SHR, still not sure on the main difference between both of these, but I need to be able to replace drives if one fails and expand the volume as I fill it up. I would prefer to alway replace the smallest drive as needed so I think that's raid 5?
A friend said they hooked theirs up directly to their mac with a lan cable instead of going through a router, I have no idea if this would be an ideal setup for me, but currently I have mine attached to my imac with a lan cable and a lan cable to the router from the synology because the synology assistant didn't find it until I hooked it to my router. I can see it just fine now, but don't know enough about it all if I should connect it a different way.
I tried doing the create for the storage pool and volume but didn't know what to pick for my imac to read and write for either.
Do I have to make a shared folder on it once the volume and storage pool are set up for me to access the data from the mac?
Once I get it set up is there an easy way to transfer 9tb of data from my drobo to the synology beyond copy and paste?
Why does the Synology assistant find two servers? I just selected one, but do I have to do anything with the other one? It's all the same info as the first other than I did nothing with it. I'll attach that file.
Sorry for all the questions, but thank you so much if you can help a newbie with all this that wants to get back to photographing things rather than networking lol.