Reddit mentions of Synology Disk Station 8-Bay Network Attached Storage (DS1815+)

Pelican SD Case for on-set.

A high quality SSD is probably a better idea for portable editing. Flash drives are usually pretty cheaply made (read up on SLC, MLC, and TLC flash storage). I personally have a laptop that has two HDD ports, and one has a 1TB Sandisk Extreme Pro on it for a portable work drive.

For NAS, I love my Synology DS1815+ with 8 x 4TB WD RED drives installed.

When I drive home from a job, a lot of times the footage I'm transporting is worth more than my mortgage to my client. It's important to do everything and anything to protect it.

You are looking at something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DS1815-Station-Network-Attached/dp/B00P3RPMEO/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1495907881&sr=1-1&keywords=nas&refinements=p_n_feature_keywords_two_browse-bin%3A6792682011

with 8 of these :
https://www.amazon.com/Red-3TB-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00LO3KR96/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1495907648&sr=8-2&keywords=wd%2Bred&th=1


that's 48Tb , 24 mirrored. And there are expansion modules if you want to expand later.

https://www.amazon.com/Synology-Expansion-Increasing-Capacity-DX513/dp/B009EMFXGG/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1495908341&sr=1-1&keywords=Synology+DX513


it has apps that you can use to mirror to cloud storage as well.

user friendly.

My current setup is a Synology DS1815+. I have a 6-Core i7 4GHz PC on my network serving as a Plex server and also a SubSonic server. Plex for video, SubSonic for audio.

The SubSonic (SS) server accesses two shared directories on the Synology; MP3 (my iTunes library) and FLAC. SS streams those to my iPhone (or my PC, or my Roku using DLNA). I pretty much exclusively use my iPhone to stream music, all from my own library of about 50,000 tracks.

I can play the music throughout my house using my Marantz SR6010 receiver. I have 2 zones. Zone 1 Living room (Martin Logan Motion 40XT front channels, Atlantic Tech IC-6 OBA I think rear channel in-ceiling, ML Dynamo 500 sub). Zone 2 In the backyard, I have a pair of weatherproof Definitive Tech AW6500 mounted on my eaves. Ugly, but they sound AMAZING.

The house is controlled locally and remotely though a Control4 system that controls the AV, security, HVAC, and lighting. Also some minimal Amazon Alexa voice controls. It is a little bit buggy, but it mostly works well.

In my studio office (off the back of the garage) I have a pair of ML LX-16 speakers and an MLT-2 sub left over from my old surround system. It offers a fantastic 2-channel sound for my Marantz HD-AMP1 and Marantz TT-15S1. I also stream FLAC to the amp using my Macbook Pro and Audiovarna using the direct-in USB digital feed. Perfect lossless sound.

In my 2016 Toyota 4Runner (came with a crap audio system), I purchased a Pioneer AVH-2300NEX head unit and a variety of speakers and a 10" sub for the back. I replaced all the speakers and wiring, only keeping the steering controls and the backup camera from the stock configuration. I sound-proofed all 4 doors. It sounds INSANE!!!!!

And they all stream music from my Subsonic server through my iPhone 7 Plus. I can set up the SS client on my iPhone (AVSub) to recieve bit-for-bit lossless streams from my Flac and MP3 collections if I want to, but I usually stream at 256kbps in order to save data in the car. In the house, I stream direct lossless.

Works incredibly well, but it's not perfect. There are little oddities like the car head unit sometimes not wanting to connect to my iPhone, or the Marantz SR6010 sometimes turning on whiteout audio. Minor annoyances.

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It's a budget system compared to many that I see on this sub. Overall, it sounds fantastic considering what I paid and how basic it is. I just love having this kind of music available to me wherever I go. And I do not stream from any sources that require a monthly subscription.

Perhaps there are ways to improve upon it.

I'd probably look at a synology like this 1815+

http://www.amazon.com/Synology-Station-Network-Attached-DS1815/dp/B00P3RPMEO

It has 4 gigabit network ports, which you can bond together. Going 10gb likely won't help as im guessing the computers themselves don't have 10gb cards.

Id probably add 4GB of ram to it and look to set up a SSD cache drive.

if your budget is high enough, you could look to go entirely ssd, but i'm willing to bet you need too much storage space to justify that cost.

I'd likely go with 4 or 6 4TB drives in a RAID 10. (depending on your storage needs) as that will yield the best performance.

You could probably do all of this for a little over $2k. Using 6 x 4TB WD Red pro hard drives, an extra 4GB of ram, and a samsung SSD for caching.

A great friend of mine did, from Ultimate Personal Computers. /u/u_p_c -

I also have a Synology Diskstation under the tower https://www.amazon.com/Synology-Station-Network-Attached-DS1815/dp/B00P3RPMEO/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1468523698&sr=1-6&keywords=synology

Filled with 8 of these. https://www.amazon.com/HGST-Deskstar-3-5-Inch-Internal-0S03664/dp/B00HHAJRU0/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1468523724&sr=1-1&keywords=HGST+4tb

This issue scares me a bit. And it does seem weird that there would be some kind of problem mixing specifically Synology's and Seagates as they seem to have partnered. Synology even mentions the IronWolfs specifically on the Amazon page of DS1815+
https://www.amazon.com/Synology-Station-Network-Attached-DS1815/dp/B00P3RPMEO

Is there a chance, in your opinion, that this is just due to a few faulty harddrives - which I guess is to be expected from all large productions of drives?

Synology 8-Bay DS1815+ $850

HP ProLiant ML10 v2 (Xeon E3-1220 v3) (CentOS 7) - $248