Storage is important for creative professionals, whether you are a single user or a team where pooling data in important a Network Attached Storage, aka NAS might be the device that you want to consider. Synology is a system that I have been using for close to a decade now and it one that I recommend to all of my friends and my clients that I consult with. You can have a large storage pool with redundancy build in, so that if something should happen you data are safe (even with this redundancy you still need to back up your data). Synology has an easy to use but powerful user web interface that I prefer and it tells you in realtime what is happening to your storage pool. The later models also have a PCI-E slot so that a 10 gigabit (Gbe) card can be installed so that you can get speeds in the range of 500 MB/s and up Writes and close to 1000 MB/s Read depending on the setup, number of drives and RAID Type. Any Synology SHR is a RAID system that offer the most flexibility of any RAID systems out there to date.
In this video, because I am upgrading my array, drives are empty and they are ready for a crash test. So this video will include me crashing both SHR 1 & 2 in different scenario. I am crashing this, so you don't have to. And when you run into this situation you'll know how to remedy it.
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System is in the video is the DS1618+
Drives are WD RED PRO 8 TB x 6
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