Wisetrips Travel Blog

Since my Synology DS1815+  Network Attached Storag e (NAS) was getting quite old (6 years+) and 90% full using old, 6 TB Hitachi hard disks, I thought that it would be prudent to replace it with the latest Synology NAS (with larger, faster, and newer hard disks). After research, I settled on the DS1621+ with a RAID-5 configuration using 5 x 16TB Toshiba hard disks. The Backblaze hard disk report reported Toshiba's…

One day, as I was browsing the Plex collection on my Synology DS1815+ Network Attached Storage, I noticed that my Plex server was not able to find any of my music (although all of the files were there). The files on my Synology server are all organized under: /volume1/Media The problem turned out to be media-folder permissions. I used a media-folder permission workaround at the time. For a current installat…

For the past 3 years, I have used the Synology DS1815+ with 6 WD 6.0TB Red hard disks (in a RAID-5 configuration) for backup and Plex duties. It has served me well so far (though it can be a bit slow during Plex transcoding) until recent events. All of a sudden, I started receiving messages about unexpected system shutdowns. On some days, the unit was entirely off, and when I pu…

With thousands of photos stored on my server, I needed more speed in Adobe  Lightroom , Adobe Photoshop, and Sony Vegas. Previously, I ran software RAID-5 with 6 Hitachi 4TB hard disks, yielding about 20 TB of nominal usable capacity (roughly 18.2 TiB before filesystem overhead). Disk performance was quite decent for reads - 380-500 MB/sec, but my setup's writes were relatively slow at 70 MB/sec using ATTO benchmarks. This m…