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.
The symptoms are that I can ping the Synology, but 'ls -la' hangs, and the GUI file managers display a completely blank window after attempting to see what's on the Synology - I mean totally blank, not even a title bar. I have to kill the file manager and restart it in order to even see local drives that are in good shape. The cheap solution is to buy a couple new spinny disks, put them in the Synology, and set them up as RAID0. However, that assumes that the failure is due to the disks. If the problem is in the Synology, then new disks won't help. I believe you can get 3.5" disks up to 14TB these days. (The Synology has only two bays.) That would be plenty big enough. What make/model do people recommend these days? Might there be a limitation on the size of disks you can put into the Synology? Edit: While writing this I pulled the plug on the Synology, then plugged it back in. It took several minutes, but it eventually came back up, and I can now access it. I can even get into its web interface by putting its IP address into a browser tab. It's acting like there's nothing wrong, but I don't trust it. Ideas? Suggestions? _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
