Quick Look: Synology DS920+ NAS! w/SMR FRAUD Information!

Thanks again to Synology and Seagate for sending over this hardware for me to look at. "Hey, does the SMB multichannel hack work on this box?" Yes, yes it does.

Want to read more about the SMR debacle? Serve The Home has a good writeup:

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[valdius]

I really enjoy your NAS videos.
My current PC (6c/12th, 32GB RAM) might be retired soon to become a NAS so the knowledge you provide has lots of value for me.
Thank you

[keyboard_g]

Underrated, running a PiHole on your Synology.

[solidreactor]

As an administrator for both ds916+ and ds918+ in a small office, Synology has made a great product for office backups. Both realtime back up (up to 32 per hour) and a long term versioning backup (where the older the files gets to keep less versions per day/week/months the older they get) and both of them works amazingly together.

Only downside on these ds920+ "mid business" or "high home office" tier is the network speed and the RAM for VM.

Synology if you read these comments PLEASE ADD a 5-10GB nic because file server NEEDS it these days.... and an option for a faster cpu + more ram for us who runs VMs.
Our NAS runs both file server, backup and license servers in form of a VMs, all in one neat little Synology box.

[PropMoneyStacks]

Nice to see you showing a "server" i can afford ;)

[CliffordBradbury]

Any reason why at 15:38 it became a DS918+, was there a time vortex in da house? :)

[nickf]

I'm a WD fanboy for no real reason but was pleasantly impressed with this NAS. Looking forward to the future for "power users". Great quick look!

[slipcurve]

if you want to live on the edge, do raid-0 for your nas.

[paultech]

Dude, info packed vid. You blew through a ton of info! Request: vid on backing up AWS EC2 instance to the Synology. My ears perked up when you mentioned that.

[andljoy]

Is there a way to go directly to deep glacier and not just glacier ?

Also if they are PCIe M.2s you could do something evil with a M.2 to pcie adaptor and a 10 gig network card :D

[WarpedFlayme]

Pretty sure that eSATA port is only supposed to be used for their expansion units (DX517/1215).

[tvieso]

Nice video and review! Thanks for the info about SMR drives. Had no idea. Just purchased this to help streamline my workflow and for storing photos/videos. Really excited to explore its capabilities.

[tombouie]

Well Done, I had to watch the video 3xtime to get all the juicy good geek/tech info.

[chads]

"He who controls the Spice." Is it bad that I immediately got the Dune reference. Too Funny Wendle.

[steven]

I wanted a Synology Nas when I was looking for a new appliance, but they don't offer 10gbit until you get into the much more expensive models so I ended up with a qnap instead.

[LucasHartmann]

One thing I don't get about SMR is, when writing fully sequential data you are going to rewrite the following tracks anyway. Do you still pay shingled write penalty?

[shpadoinkle_wombat]

5 min before watching this video I wrote to WD customer support about my drives being SMR, and I also used word "kerfuffle" to describe the SMR-gate .... great minds think alike :D

[DaveAtUofL]

How big of an M.2 (or two M.2's) should I look for this sort of setup? Or does it depend on the size of the drives that I'll end up using?

[bathrobeheroo]

I get the extra features coming with Snyology NAS, but in reality, most of us are way better off with an old PC with plenty of SATA ports or PCI lanes and maybe even a few Dell Perc H310 or similar SAS/SATA controllers and you get to plug in a dozen or so drives into a single PC for the fraction of the price. In comparison, $550 for hosting only 4 drives can be seen ridiculous. Instead, you could spend the money or bigger/better drives - which is the main point of a NAS.

Another strong opinon of mine is that SMR drives should not be defended for NAS or I dare to say any non-archival workload. No reason to accept SMR as a widespread solution, regardless of the recent WD marketing drama.

[Gryfang]

Wendel, you may have just made my day with the VSAN witness. Got parts coming, but if it works on my 418play or 1517+, then I may do that instead.

[Anon]

I recently assembled a NAS with a DS416Play with 4x Seagate Exos X16 16tb drives, 41.9TB using SHR. I am quite happy with it so far. I bought the DS416Play years ago and just did not buy the drives.