I am considering a new NAS as my DS120j with a 4TB disk and slow interface is starting to bother me. I plan to leave it running full time. I run my DS120j NAS for a day to do backups and then it turns itself off the next day. The 512 ram is slow with the new Dsm 7.11 OS in my opinion. I was thinking I could use the DS120j as a backup device. I want my NAS to be quiet. I fit in 4 TB disk right now, so my storage needs are not that great. I mainly store pictures and music converted by Jriver. I was thinking maybe I could start storing ISO of my music CDs if I had more space.
I was thinking the DS620 slim looks good. I could use two 4 TB SSDs. With SSDs I will not use RAID as I feel they are safe enough with backups. The DS620 seems like a small quiet NAS. It also supports a VM which is included with this NAS. I will add memory up to max on which ever one I buy. Memory is cheap now.
My other option is more conventional in using a DS220+ with 2 hard drives running mirrored. How noisy is 2 3.5" hard drives? I have 1 drive spinning in the DS120j and it is not too bad, but I don't know about 2.
I was thinking the SSDs will last longer if I am using them lightly whereas the hard drives will wear out just spinning. I assume the SSDs will last a long time not hitting them all the time.
What are your thoughts?
PS
I assume the Synology OS runs from the motherboard not the SSD and stays memory resident. I changed my laptop Windows page file to run out of memory instead of paging to my SSD. I have 64 gig of memory in my laptop. What I really did was tell Windows no page file so it would run out of memory. Windows has to have one tiny page file I think 8K to keep things straight. I have not run out of memory.
I was thinking the DS620 slim looks good. I could use two 4 TB SSDs. With SSDs I will not use RAID as I feel they are safe enough with backups. The DS620 seems like a small quiet NAS. It also supports a VM which is included with this NAS. I will add memory up to max on which ever one I buy. Memory is cheap now.
My other option is more conventional in using a DS220+ with 2 hard drives running mirrored. How noisy is 2 3.5" hard drives? I have 1 drive spinning in the DS120j and it is not too bad, but I don't know about 2.
I was thinking the SSDs will last longer if I am using them lightly whereas the hard drives will wear out just spinning. I assume the SSDs will last a long time not hitting them all the time.
What are your thoughts?
PS
I assume the Synology OS runs from the motherboard not the SSD and stays memory resident. I changed my laptop Windows page file to run out of memory instead of paging to my SSD. I have 64 gig of memory in my laptop. What I really did was tell Windows no page file so it would run out of memory. Windows has to have one tiny page file I think 8K to keep things straight. I have not run out of memory.
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