Disk hangs with 100% CPU

[bbunge]

I like this solution because you end up with NTFS formatted drives that can be read directly by a Windows PC. Does anyone know if Synology supports NTFS as a backup drive? I have read conflicting things on the Internet.

Synology supports external NTFS formatted drives. If you want to use your USB drives get a Raspberry Pi 4 and make that into a NAS. The Pi 4 has two USB2 and 2 USB3 slots. However, the cost of Pi has not come down. For about $120 you can get a DS120j single drive NAS, use one of your 8 TB drives in it and the other to back up the DS120J via USB3.

 

[Tech9]

If up to Gigabit transfers are enough I would suggest HP Elitedesk mini, DELL Micro or Lenovo Tiny from eBay. They come cheaper then RPi kit and with Intel i3/i5-class CPUs - much faster than any RPi and with wider OS support. Some have SSD drives ready to go. Power efficient too, about 10W in idle.

 

[bennor]

Does anyone know if Synology supports NTFS as a backup drive? I have read conflicting things on the Internet.

Right from Synology (DSM 7.1):
https://kb.synology.com/en-global/D...er/system_externaldevice_devicelist?version=7

Synology NAS recognizes the following formats: Btrfs, ext3, ext4, FAT32, exFAT, HFS Plus, and NTFS. Any unrecognized external drive will have to be formatted first before being used on the system.

I run a 8TB WD Easystore (has WD Red drive inside) formatted for NTFS hanging off a Synology NAS as a backup target. Use the Synology Hyper Backup feature to backup the Synology to that external USB hard drive every night.

 

[A Purohit]

Synology supports external NTFS formatted drives. If you want to use your USB drives get a Raspberry Pi 4 and make that into a NAS. The Pi 4 has two USB2 and 2 USB3 slots. However, the cost of Pi has not come down. For about $120 you can get a DS120j single drive NAS, use one of your 8 TB drives in it and the other to back up the DS120J via USB3.

I know that QNAP does NTFS externally as well (eg, via USB). The internal can be forced to NTFS via some tricks, from what I read, but it's not recommended. The RAID support on these boxes prefers Linux formats, as that's what they are running internally... I see no reason to use NTFS on the internal drives, especially if you're on RAID anyway (ie, you don't have to access the drive via PC - just put another in, let the RAID sync, and carry on. No PC connection required.)