Bonky
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Post by Bonky on Oct 13, 2023 21:53:15 GMT
Synology DS215J
I have the above NAS with 2 HDs mainly storing my music, photos and documents.
I have a M2 MacMini, an Intel Mac Pro laptop and an older iMac running a previous OS.
I have not used the NAS for some time, but when I tried to access it using DS Assistant/Synology it would not connect with any of the 3 computers.
I have altered ethernet cables, connected (ethernet) directly to the Mac(s), re-booted the NAS, all to no avail; thus I suspect a hardware failure.
I have several questions:
As I have followed all that Synology have suggested on their website, am I justified in thinking it’s a hardware failure?
Any suggestions for a (better and cheaper) replacement?
I now wonder if I need a NAS at all! . All my music, photos and docs are stored on Time Machine + SSD ‘discs’ and iCloud anyway
If that’s the case (and I believe it could be so), what can I do with the two WD HDs in the NAS unit?
Thanks,
Yours,
Richard
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Post by MartinT on Oct 13, 2023 22:07:29 GMT
I think local NAS will start to diminish in importance and are more vulnerable to data loss than cloud storage. I can stream music files from Google Cloud or OneDrive on my Rendu and other streamers have this capability, too.
You can buy a USB disc caddy for a WD drive and use it for PC backups.
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Post by bencat on Oct 14, 2023 10:43:37 GMT
You can buy a caddy for the HD that turns it into a USB drive so you should then be able to access anything that is on the drives and add to them for your PC or Mac .
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Post by Slinger on Oct 14, 2023 11:52:58 GMT
You can buy a caddy for the HD that turns it into a USB drive so you should then be able to access anything that is on the drives and add to them for your PC or Mac . I use one of these www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01H7D5W4G for a couple of 4TB drives hanging off of my PC. They're Mac compatible too, according to the blurb.  |
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Bonky
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Post by Bonky on Oct 14, 2023 13:28:22 GMT
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Post by petea on Oct 14, 2023 16:02:58 GMT
Were the HDDs configured as a RAID in the NAS?
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Bonky
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Post by Bonky on Oct 14, 2023 21:00:57 GMT
Yes, they were.
I think one disc has failed (apart from the enclosure electronics), so I'm hopeful I can rescue one disc and clone it.
Whether it's now really needed is another question as I think all songs, docs and photos are backed up several times with iCloud + Time Machine + a SSD!
R
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Post by petea on Oct 14, 2023 21:32:59 GMT
So RAID 1 not RAID 0 then.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 14, 2023 21:38:48 GMT
With RAID 1 (mirror), you can read the data off either drive.
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Bonky
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Post by Bonky on Oct 14, 2023 21:55:55 GMT
I'll let you know...?
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Post by Bonky on Oct 21, 2023 7:55:29 GMT
Double disc caddy arrived so plugged both old NAS WD 3TB drives into it. Neither Mac or Win11 could read them (Synology have their own OS and formatting system), so I wiped both drives and reformatted them. Both seem to work, but only the drive in slot 'A' is recognised. Loading music onto this disc is easy and to clone that disc manually (there's no auto function), one has to insert the other drive into slot 'B' and press button on the back of the caddy. This seems to work OK, but this drive won't be read unless it's in slot 'A'.
All-in-all, a much less expensive way of having a pseudo NAS RAID system, but if I started over again, I doubt that I would beed it given the relative cheapness and ease of use of SSD drives.
Now to get Volumio to read it...
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Post by Tim on Oct 23, 2023 9:46:49 GMT
I ran a NAS for many years but recently decommissioned it, just can't see the point anymore with the size and price of NVMe drives. I use 4TB NVMe drives in a small Sabrent USB-C enclosure for backups now.
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Post by stellabagpuss on Oct 24, 2023 9:50:28 GMT
l run a Synology NAS for various files, but mainly for PLEX using WD RED drives
Although l ditched mechanical drives for my listening setup, l run a 8tb SSD attached to my NUC that runs jriver.
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