{"id":2559,"date":"2022-11-14T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2022-11-14T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T22:14:00","slug":"super-nas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/homelan\/super-nas\/","title":{"rendered":"Super NAS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There was really nothing wrong <\/em>with my old NAS. It was largely underlutilized, other than I had hit the limit on how many cameras it could record in Surveillance Station because Synology is smart enough not to oversubscribe the hardware’s capabilities and limit the DS120j to 5 cameras. That was really the main thing I wanted to upgrade for and even that wasn’t a big rush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, I had planned to upgrade once I paid off my Amazon credit card and since I had done that…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did some comparison shopping and finally decided that I would get the most bang for my buck with the DS220+. I wanted the ability to add a 2nd drive and the Intel Celeron in the DS220+ with only 2 cores running at 2.0 to 2.9 GHz could still outperform the DS218\/DS218play and had an expansion memory slot. That feature alone would turn out to be handy for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it would be once I got the right memory module. I ordered the right stuff, DDR4. The labelling on the packaging was correct. The module in the package was a DDR3 SODIMM, different pinout. I processed the return to Amazon thinking I just ordered the wrong thing, before I looked at the packaging carefully. No matter, it’s sorted out now and the DS220+ is no maxed out at 6GB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not clear ahead of time whether I could swap the physical drive from my DS120j into the DS220+ and have it work correctly. I seem to recall that once I had the hardware in hand, it became obvious that it could be done, but that the performance would suffer because of the differences in the newer and older file systems. I chose what was probably the best way, though it would turn out to be very slow. I set up the new unit fresh, then did a backup of the old unit’s files, using a share on the new unit as the destination. Then I could restore the old unit’s files from that now local source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took a surprisingly and irritatingly long time for that backup to complete. Then the local restoral wasn’t a whole lot faster. The whole process was most of 48 hours. On the other hand, it was also completely trouble free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When everything was restored and settled down, I was able to move my camera license pack from the old NAS to the new NAS and although I didn’t have one immediately available, it did not complain about it when I attempted to add one more camera. Mission accomplished!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have currently set up the old NAS as a backup target for the new NAS and set up a schedule. It just runs. I am not backing up the surveillance footage simply because that is just huge and pretty perishable anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon, however, I would find an even better reason<\/a> why I am glad I went for the more powerful CPU and full boat of RAM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was really nothing wrong with my old NAS. It was largely underlutilized, other than I had hit the limit on how many cameras it could record in Surveillance Station because Synology is smart enough not to oversubscribe the hardware’s capabilities and limit the DS120j to 5 cameras. That was really the main thing I … Continue reading Super NAS<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homelan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}