[PLUG] NAS failed

[TomasK]

+ 1 on reliability and life expectancy of Synology NAS - have bunch of
DS41x and DS91x+ - no J models - they do not support btrfs and some
applications I use.

Case in point:
I recently (December) decommissioned still perfectly (slow-ish) working
DS411 - almost 9 years 24/7 on and still receiving regular OS updates.

If you use ordinary raid (not the synology flexRaid) you can connect
the disks to your PC and mount the raid using standard mdadm on linux,
Synology describes the process on their web. If you do not have
internal SATA bays use USB-->SATA dongles.

You should definitely:
a) check the NAS logs and event logs for past issues, warning updates,
failures, etc.
b) you should check the NAS disk smart data for disk failures, sector
realocations, etc.
c) you should definitely not use RAID0 - please do not argue/explain.
   If you must have the combined all disk capacity without redundancy -
get newer NAS which supports BTRFS and use JBOD config. That way you
will know about disk/data errors and you will likely not loose all
data, should there be any sort of disk/write error.

Hope that helps,
Tomas

On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 19:14 -0800, Ron Braithwaite wrote:
> As someone with several Synologies, including a DS216 (not a j), they
> are
> generally really reliable. But you might want to consider getting a
> new(er)
> one. Ping me offline and I'll do what I can to help.
> 
> -RonB
> 
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 7:06 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 18:47:10 -0800
> > John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:
> > 
> > > I have a Synology NAS enclosure with two 8TB spinny disks in
> > > RAID0. I
> > > use it to backup a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure containing four 8TB
> > > NVMe
> > > drives, also in RAID0. The backup is done with an rsync script.
> > > The TB3
> > > disks are <30% full, so there is still adequate space on the
> > > Synology,
> > > but its disks are almost four years old.
> > 
> > I also know this about the Synology (from its web interface):
> > 
> > S/N                     1630NNN367808
> > Model name      DS216j
> > CPU                     MARVELL Armada 385 88F6820
> > CPU clock rate  1 GHz
> > CPU cores       2
> > Physical mem.   512 MB
> > DSM version     DSM 6.2.3-25426 Update 3
> > 
> > I suspect I need to call Synology.
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