Swapping Hard Drives for SSD in a Synology NAS.

How to go from hard drives to ssd drives in your Synology two bay NAS. From HDD to SSD.

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Synology won't let you mix drive types, HDDs and SSDs in the same storage pool. So in order to switch over from using slow spinning hard drives to faster solid state drives, you need to follow a little bit of a process. Which I have outline in this video!

You'll copy everything to one of your new SSDs using an external drive adapter. Then, remove the old hard drives from the NAS and put in the other new SSD. Then copy the files back to that one SSD. Then install the other SSD and ask the NAS to clone the drive into a RAID1 configuration. The whole process is pretty easy, but if you have a lot of files on your NAS it will take a few hours to copy things back and fourth.

0:00 Intro
1:50 Installation
7:40 The Process in Short

[Krautgamer]

What a crazy timing. I just googled this YESTERDAY. Thank you for posting.

[radoo]

Excelent video, saved some time with this. Now I want another nas with a 10g connection, any recommandations?

[arigornstrider]

Nitrous Oxide ftw! Also, thanks for the vid.

[mM-eycb]

hey man, great explanation, and pronounce on Nas, i like it.
Im wondering if letting my 4 HDD 8TB disks, and pluging via usb 3.2 a SATA ssd would be possible to configure as an external ssd cache, keeping the older setup(?¿) Thanks mate. I need to edit raw 4k stuff flowly ;)

[rosewg]

All other settings are saved, users and such?

[JasonTechSF]

When both internal HDD drives were removed, the DSM was still there. Does that mean the DSM lives in a small soldered storage chip on the motherboard? Then when the first blank SSD was installed, this DSM detected the SSD, mounted it, and created a new storage volume on the SSD?

[shipwreck]

At first you lost me, but once you did the summary recap, it helped clear everything up.

[siddyyys]

I currently only have one HDD in my DS223j.
Can I do the following:
- install SSD in the 2nd slot.
- create volume on the ssd use file manager to copy data from hdd to ssd.
- remove the hdd and the volume.
- add another ssd in the 2nd slot and configure the RAID?
also, will this preserve the private and shared albums in synology photos?

[kenflagg]

Hi! I'm getting my two 4TB SSDs today and plan on swapping them in for the two HDDs currently in my DS220+. I was planning to clone the drives, but this seems slightly easier. Thank you for making this video! I have 2 follow up questions: does this retain all of the apps I have installed on the NAS? Also, it has been a long time since I purchased my NAS - are the little screws for securing the SSDs there in the case or am I out of luck if I can't find the original packaging?

[jeremyscherbert]

The answer why failure is not a huge concern is raid 1... and backups.

Please don't forget your backups. Otherwise in raid1 if a file gets corrupted, you just have 2 copies of that corruption.

[bmwmeister]

The DS223j NAS have only 1 Gbit/s Ethernet Network Port. The Spinning Drive fast enough for the Network Port and a lot cheaper than SSD? I see no sense? Even the fan is running noisy.

[JoeUSMC]

The A in NAS is pronounce the same as the A in Apple. Like "NASA" without the trailing A. NOS is nitrous oxide.

[TylerVisuals]

What if you want to install a few SSD's in the other bay's when you already had a few HDD's already in the otehr bay's? DS1821+ user here

[fullyelectric]

@spacedesignwarehouse wait if i remember correctly years ago i had two 2TB drive and when i upgraded to 4TB drivers all i did was remove the two drive in the unit and put in two new 4TB drivers, close up the unit and started it up, made a new RAID1 volume on the 4TB driver, then plug in one of the old 2TB drive at the external USB and it mounted, then i just copied from the old to the new, just one copy I remember doing.

[zanderfaehrteisenbah]

I used SP A55 SSD in my Servers als TrueNAS and Proxmox OS-Disks and i got 3 out of 8 fails so far. mayber 1, 5 years into the "cheap ssd experience". i swaped all failed ones to used craigslists Samsung 860 PRO. no problem with them so far :D


but i admit the SP drive are cheaper than "affordable" and over 60% still living :D

[memes]

Your pronunciation of NAS as NOS made me leave this video. This isn't fast and furious brother.

[WorldFamousUnfluencer]

Seems like your cuts between sentences are our of sync or lagging. The "current clip" hangs around with your mouth not moving while the audio from the new scene already started to play. Super weird and difficult to watch. Too bad.

[kostassyrtariotis]

Do not attempt this! When you pull out the hhd drives you will not be able to reconnect to the NAS and create a new storage pool. You can only reconfigure the whole thing right from scratch.

[BackBack.P]

Thank you.. will maybe try that on my synology too…

But.. I thought ssds aren’t the best solution for saving files on a Nas…

[MrNside]

Never heard of Silicon Power SSDs? While they aren't Samsung, they've been around for about a decade, and are definitely not on the same level as the unpronounceable one-off so called brands of SSDs you find on Amazon these days. I would put them at or above Adata when it comes to brand reliability.