[PLUG-TALK] Need to replace my Synology

[Tomas Kuchta]

Get any of Synology not j, recent devices. If the spec says it can do btrfs
- it should be good enough HW,  whether or not you plan to use btrfs aor
ext4 on the device.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 22:48 John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:55:43 -0800
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:
>
> >>I realize that RAID1 is probably the default, but it annoys me that it
> >>never asked if that was what I wanted.
> >
> >If you go into Control Panel > Update and Restore > Reset you can wipe
> >out everything and start over. Half an hour later it said it was done,
> >and guess what? It recreated a RAID1 array, right back to where I
> >started.
> >
> >I has to be possible to create a RAID0 array, because that's how my two
> >old drives were set up. But I'll be damned if I can find the secret key
> >to make it happen now.
>
> I finally succeeded in creating a RAID0 array out of my two ne 16TB
> drives. But now guess what happened. At the end it said that there was
> a limitation of my Synology DS216j and that the maximum storage pool
> that could be created is 16TB, therefore out of my two 16TB drives it
> created a RAID0 array of 15.97TB, and a warning that not all my drive
> space was used.
>
> What should I buy to replace the DS216j? At the moment I'm not a fan of
> Synology. When I buy something new, how can I be sure that it doesn't
> have a similar limitation? Or might it be possible to change the
> firmware or something on my DS216j to make it take today's drives?
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