Network attached storage

I remember first reading these drive reliability charts and thinking wow!! Might've even commented on here about it. However if you read a little bit about Backblaze, how they initially procured and setup their storage arrays, you might take their drive reliability tables with a lump of salt...

https://www.tweaktown.com/articles/...bility-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html

Anyway, the take away is only use drives specified for a given task/duty and given workload for that task and workload and no other: so definitely use only NAS grade drives in NAS units.

Sounds obvious doesn't it, but I made the schoolboy mistake of using WD Scorpio Black (desktop/notebook) grade drives in the little 4-bay NAS and they caught me out spectacularly. Not so much a smoke and light show, but the fact that three of them died basically simultaneously - there was no hope of recovering the array when 3 drives out of 4 went 'poof'!

Lesson learnt I replaced them with NAS-specific drives: WD Red NASware 3.0's which have (touch wood) been fine since.

It will be interesting to see how these new Seagates hold up. Over the years I've installed/used Seagate, Qantum (remember them), IBM, Maxstor (another long lost name), Hitachi and WD drives. I've honestly found Seagate no more or less reliable than any other brand - despite what you may read in certain parts of the internet.
 
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Steevo

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I remember first reading these drive reliability charts and thinking wow!! Might've even commented on here about it. However if you read a little bit about Backblaze, how they initially procured and setup their storage arrays, you might take their drive reliability tables with a lump of salt...

https://www.tweaktown.com/articles/...bility-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index...puter-files-safely.166264/page-2#post-3681278
 

Jim B

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Only just started reading this section of the forum and noticed this topic.

Have a 2x 3TB NAS, but because my WiFi is so slow I just use it like an external hard drive, only powering it up when I need it. Don’t ever remember knowing or trading about NAS specific drives, so may have standard desktop drives, so will check this...!
 
Only just started reading this section of the forum and noticed this topic.

Have a 2x 3TB NAS, but because my WiFi is so slow I just use it like an external hard drive, only powering it up when I need it. Don’t ever remember knowing or trading about NAS specific drives, so may have standard desktop drives, so will check this...!
If you bought the NAS units with the drives already installed at the factory, then odds on they will be NAS spec drives. If you rolled your own, and bought an empty NAS and bought/put your own drives in there, then yes definitely check what sort of drives you installed.
 

Steevo

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It's here!!

Getting it "built" and running was a very simple job indeed.

Takes a bit of getting your head around with the DSM software and all the things it can do/you should do etc. A whole new world to me so a steep learning curve.

I'm sure in a few weeks/months I'll have it sussed completely, but it's rather like having a new phone and not knowing how to work all the settings or where to find things.
 

Steevo

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Just hit a brick wall....shows up fine on the Windows 7 machine, but the Windows 10 machine will see it as a media server etc. but refuses to see it as a "Computer". I tried to used the Synology assistant to map a folder to drive Z and whilst it has "worked", when I click "Open mapped drive" at the last screen and click Finish it comes up "Location is not available".

Any W10 users able to advise?
 

Steevo

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Try mapping the drive in w10 rather than via the Synology software

Thanks. It won't let me do that either. The DS418 isn't visible to browse on the W10 machine like it is on W7 (shows up as a computer).

If I type the IP address in it will bring up the DSM page etc. but Windows 10 itself doesn't seem to recognise it other than as a media storage device.
 
Just hit a brick wall....shows up fine on the Windows 7 machine, but the Windows 10 machine will see it as a media server etc. but refuses to see it as a "Computer". I tried to used the Synology assistant to map a folder to drive Z and whilst it has "worked", when I click "Open mapped drive" at the last screen and click Finish it comes up "Location is not available".

Any W10 users able to advise?
How's it going @Steevo ?

Check that appropriate file services are enabled. Go to Synology under Control Panel -> File Services that you have SMB checked, and then check the advanced tab check that SSDP is checked for Windows Discovery. If you're not running Apple devices you can switch off AFP and Bonjour.

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Have you set up your shared folders and users?
 

Steevo

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It was starting to go well.....

Think I've muddled users up somehow though by using two users on one machine.

On the Win 7 machine I now get "Windows cannot access \\ds418"

On the Win 10 machine apparently Network Discovery is a known issue according to Synology so I had to map it from within My Computer, rather than Network.

These things are a bit of a black art....or perhaps just take a mindset shift to get your head around.
 

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