Hello,
I had an old D-Link DNS-321 unit for about 10 years which worked great but obviously its too slow by today's standard. I was hearing great things about Synology units for years so I upgraded to Synology DS-218 few months ago.
In my old D-Link unit, the OS was installed on the Flash/eMMC memory. I did not realize that modern NAS units use the hard drives to install the system OS. To make long story short, I am having many issues with Synology unit primarily due to OS being installed on the hard drive. Mainly the hard drive hibernation feature does not work. Even when hard drives are not been accessed still the trivial things like clock sync, e-mail alerts, using DDNS or using a USB printer can wake up the hard drives or does not let it go to sleep to begin with. I have been in contact with Synology support and submitted my system logs but I was told that Synology support does not have any solution to my issues.
So now I am looking for alternative NAS units. I am wondering is there any modern 2-bay NAS unit available which uses on-board Flash/eMMC memory to install the OS rather than using RAID hard drives?
Thanks.
Raindrop
I had an old D-Link DNS-321 unit for about 10 years which worked great but obviously its too slow by today's standard. I was hearing great things about Synology units for years so I upgraded to Synology DS-218 few months ago.
In my old D-Link unit, the OS was installed on the Flash/eMMC memory. I did not realize that modern NAS units use the hard drives to install the system OS. To make long story short, I am having many issues with Synology unit primarily due to OS being installed on the hard drive. Mainly the hard drive hibernation feature does not work. Even when hard drives are not been accessed still the trivial things like clock sync, e-mail alerts, using DDNS or using a USB printer can wake up the hard drives or does not let it go to sleep to begin with. I have been in contact with Synology support and submitted my system logs but I was told that Synology support does not have any solution to my issues.
So now I am looking for alternative NAS units. I am wondering is there any modern 2-bay NAS unit available which uses on-board Flash/eMMC memory to install the OS rather than using RAID hard drives?
Thanks.
Raindrop
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