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Recent content by gmac

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    Time to upgrade NAS?

    OP here again. Unfortunately we don't have any IT support in our office and we depend totally on my own limited knowledge of IT and networking. I also have very limited time to be experimenting with the setup So, I replaced the HDDs with new oversized 3TB HDDs. This process was very tedious an...
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    Time to upgrade NAS?

    I'm kinda thinking the same now rather than mess around with the old NAS. I haven't had the time to swap out the HDDs or play around with it yet. I had my eye on a DS713+, the specs look pretty good. However looking again, DS715 specs look a little better to my untrained eye and is about the...
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    Time to upgrade NAS?

    It has gotten progressively slower over the last year or two. The HDDs are about 25% full. I have the latest DSM for that model (4.2). The HDDs installed are probably 5 years old. I do have new spare HDDs in the office for another purpose so I might try swapping them in first to see if it makes...
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    Time to upgrade NAS?

    Hello We have a Synology DS209 serving all of our shared files in or office (200gb). There would generally be 3-4 people accessing the files at any one time. There is a gigabit LAN in place. We are finding the NAS getting progressively slower opening files and folders for viewing. Some of...
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