DS214se locking up

[flowrider]

Wondering if anyone can shed some light on this. Will this underpowered NAS lockup, as in the blue power led flash continuously, if the CPU is stressed for a long period of time? In retrospect I should have just ordered the DS213j like I had originally planned but I don't plan on stressing the system out except for this initial setup time.

I was running at almost 98% for close to 6 hours as I was reimporting my raw photos into Lightroom after moving all the photos to the NAS.

 

[stevech]

My DS212 isn't a speed demon CPU. But I've not seen it max out for anywhere that long.

To import lots of pictures, do you know that there's a Synology provided PC program that can do the one-time bulk import and thumbnail generation? This speeds up the import 100fold.

 

[flowrider]

My DS212 isn't a speed demon CPU. But I've not seen it max out for anywhere that long.

To import lots of pictures, do you know that there's a Synology provided PC program that can do the one-time bulk import and thumbnail generation? This speeds up the import 100fold.

Not aware of that program Steve can you elaborate? I should add that the photos are all on the NAS already but what I was doing was re-importing them into Lightroom by way of importing the old library in order to fix the links and not lose my metadata. I didn't think this would stress the NAS out but it did. I thought the transferring of the photos from the HD to the NAS would be the worst since it was nearly 1.6tb of photos.

 

[stevech]

Not aware of that program Steve can you elaborate? I should add that the photos are all on the NAS already but what I was doing was re-importing them into Lightroom by way of importing the old library in order to fix the links and not lose my metadata. I didn't think this would stress the NAS out but it did. I thought the transferring of the photos from the HD to the NAS would be the worst since it was nearly 1.6tb of photos.

I don't know Lightroom, but Synology's Photo Station will look in certain places on the NAS for photos. When found, it will generate a thumbnail. Done for 100's or 1000's, that's CPU-eating.

This isn't a problem if you put photos where Photo Station doesn't find them.
see
https://www.synology.com/en-us/releaseNote/Photo Station Uploader

 

[flowrider]

I see thanks Steve. I don't even have Photo Station loaded on the NAS. I guess I'll just have to live with it until I get everything configured correctly. Thanks.

 

[enr00ted]

Photostation or enabling DLNA feature, I don't quite remember, took me 2-3 days with 100% CPU to index and optimize (thumbnails and lots of stuff that It started doing automatically). Look if you get a rolling dotted circle in the right corner when you log in, like this:

I have a DS213J model. Afther this initial indexing and conversion, everything will be speedy, and new stuff indexed instantly. At least this seems now.

 

[stevech]

I think that part of that indexing is thumbnail generation - jpg's.
Batch / bulk upload is why Synology came up with that PC program to do the thumbnails.

 

[flowrider]

That makes sense. I don't know if the NAS box can convert raw files though. What I ended up doing is uninstalling apps until the CPU dropped. It turned out it was Cloud Station that was hogging the resources. I reinstalled and changed a setting and it was running more around 80% which was nice.

 

[ballibeg]

Looks like it's converting files. Generally it's photostation. Disable it in photostation settings.