Asking for a bit of advice please.
My DS110J Synology NAS needs a replacement harddrive, the existing slow
one is 500 Mbytes of spinning rust...
Is an SSD a possible replacement for the spinning rust?
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
Asking for a bit of advice please.
My DS110J Synology NAS needs a replacement harddrive, the existing slow
one is 500 Mbytes of spinning rust...
Is an SSD a possible replacement for the spinning rust?
No reason why not, assuming the capacity and price is to your liking.
If it takes a 3.5" HDD you'd need an adapter to fit a 2.5" drive - these
are cheap and readily available (just a piece of plastic/metal, nothing fancy). It is possible the NAS already has suitable mounts so you can
attach the 2.5" SSD directly.
Although that unit is now ~10 years old (and is only SATA 2), so it
could be worth looking at a replacement NAS which will be faster
(although still limited by the gigabit ethernet in terms of raw
bandwidth).
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
Asking for a bit of advice please.
My DS110J Synology NAS needs a replacement harddrive, the existing slow
one is 500 Mbytes of spinning rust...
Is an SSD a possible replacement for the spinning rust?
No reason why not, assuming the capacity and price is to your liking.
If it takes a 3.5" HDD you'd need an adapter to fit a 2.5" drive - these are cheap and readily available (just a piece of plastic/metal, nothing fancy). It is possible the NAS already has suitable mounts so you can attach the
2.5" SSD directly.
Although that unit is now ~10 years old (and is only SATA 2), so it could
be worth looking at a replacement NAS which will be faster (although still limited by the gigabit ethernet in terms of raw bandwidth).
Theo
In article <lqb*6Upey@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
Asking for a bit of advice please.
My DS110J Synology NAS needs a replacement harddrive, the existing slow one is 500 Mbytes of spinning rust...
Is an SSD a possible replacement for the spinning rust?
No reason why not, assuming the capacity and price is to your liking.
If it takes a 3.5" HDD you'd need an adapter to fit a 2.5" drive - these are cheap and readily available (just a piece of plastic/metal, nothing fancy). It is possible the NAS already has suitable mounts so you can attach the 2.5" SSD directly.
Indeed, I had to fit adaptors to my Desktop computers when I updated the
3.5" spinning rusts to Samsung 2.5" SSDs.
Although that unit is now ~10 years old (and is only SATA 2), so it could be worth looking at a replacement NAS which will be faster (although
still limited by the gigabit ethernet in terms of raw bandwidth).
I hadn't thought about that aspect, and it is very slow, so you've set me thinking...
Thanks for the advice Theo, appreciated.
I have just done that decided to upgrade from a now rather slow DS110J,
to the much faster DS220J (twin drive unit) or 120j for single drive
Transferring a load of files from my old DS110J to DS220J was verrrrrry
slow, wanted 24 hours for nearly a Gb of data.
While the Synology specs say the devices can be used with SSDs, some other commentators say don't use SSDs, instead the advice seemed to favour "WD
Red" spinning rusts devices, which are apparently made for the Job.
I guess which-ever Drive is used to run the NAS OS (DSM), the fast SSD or
the slower Rust, the bottleneck of the LAN speed drags everything down.
Transferring a load of files from my old DS110J to DS220J was verrrrrry
slow, wanted 24 hours for nearly a Gb of data.
In article <99fe2d0959.chris@mytarbis.plus.com>,
Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:
[Snippy]
I have just done that decided to upgrade from a now rather slow DS110J,
to the much faster DS220J (twin drive unit) or 120j for single drive
Transferring a load of files from my old DS110J to DS220J was verrrrrry
slow, wanted 24 hours for nearly a Gb of data.
Oh yes... :-(
Decided to have a butchers on the Web and I see much contradictory information.
While the Synology specs say the devices can be used with SSDs, some other commentators say don't use SSDs, instead the advice seemed to favour "WD
Red" spinning rusts devices, which are apparently made for the Job.
I guess which-ever Drive is used to run the NAS OS (DSM), the fast SSD or
the slower Rust, the bottleneck of the LAN speed drags everything down.
In article <99fe2d0959.chris@mytarbis.plus.com>,
Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:
Transferring a load of files from my old DS110J to DS220J was verrrrrry
slow, wanted 24 hours for nearly a Gb of data.
That's horribly slow indeed. As a comparison, I did some tests and found
out that writing from my 4té to my 10 years old Lacy NAS takes 7.5 minutes for 1.1 Gigabyte, spread over 2668 files (the timing is average - figures tend to deviate up to 10 percent due to whatever).
Reading is much faster even: 3.6 minutes to HD and a mind blowing 1:06
minute to RAM disc. Anyhow, since my NAS is very old and rusty as well, I tend to think that computer and switch contribute to most of the speed.
Kind regards,
Paul Sprangers
Although that unit is now ~10 years old (and is only SATA 2), so it could
be worth looking at a replacement NAS which will be faster (although still limited by the gigabit ethernet in terms of raw bandwidth).
So yes, you /can/ use SSDs in a NAS, but money would need to be of no
object.
Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
So yes, you /can/ use SSDs in a NAS, but money would need to be of no object.
It really depends on how much you want to store. If the OP is replacing
a 500GB HDD, a cheap 480GB SSD on Scan is £45. The cheaper HDD is a 1TB
3.5" at £32 and a 1TB 2.5" at £38. (There's also a 2.5" 500GB
enterprise drive for £20, but that looks to be on clearance). So at
that point there isn't a lot in it if 500GB is good enough. You may
decide you want to pay a few pounds extra to have a silent drive that
takes almost no power when idle.
When you go into many TB then I agree HDD is still substantially cheaper. Although if you need to RAID to manage the inevitable mechanical failure
then it takes the edge off slightly.
Theo
In article <lqb*6Upey@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
Asking for a bit of advice please.
My DS110J Synology NAS needs a replacement harddrive, the
existing slow one is 500 Mbytes of spinning rust...
Is an SSD a possible replacement for the spinning rust?
I'm surprised you can manage with 500MB of storage?
In article <5909fbc294bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>,
Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:
I'm surprised you can manage with 500MB of storage?
Haha! That was a typo on my part it's actually 500 Gigs (Half a
terrabyte).
Many years back when I set the NAS up 500 Gigs was a Large HD. ;-)
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