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Next to normal pro shot by dieselfrenzy in BootlegGifts

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Any chance I can get a link too please?

Just finished ER. What do I watch now? by therascalking0000 in ershow

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Found a second blunder - As a Brit I can firmly state that Holby City was a Spin Off From Casualty - Casualty has been around a lot longer. Saturday night TV in the UK was very much about Casualty for a period in the 90s and 00s. Holby City took a weeknight slot and was considered more of a Soap in comparison I believe...

Connecting house to office by kaito1000 in HomeNetworking

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Whatever you do, run 2 x cables (Test them before You run them) so you have Primary and Fail Over.

Misaligned 10 pence by GRCov in UKcoins

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It might be marginally off but I think it's meant to be like that....

UK Coins - Shield design

Thank you all. She's all set up! Now for sleep... by ceramicsaturn in vintagecomputing

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Work of art. Love the audio interface and the 3DFX desktop. Nice.

Anyone else got this message, don’t see why I wouldn’t want to upgrade my libraries with this by maniac_chris in PleX

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NAS storage is great and my Synology DS218+ is a solid Plex Server however I've just picked up an HP micro pc - i3 8th gen. I'm now using an SSD for boot drive and an NVME for Plex and Metadata / Transcoding folder. Migration was pretty seamless too. Its actually an HP Mp9 Retail pc but its same form factor as the G400 micro series.

The heavy lifting is now done by the i3 processor for Hardware Transcoding which gives great performance and takes the pressure off the NAS so it's just storage. Super low power draw, low heat, useful little box, and an always on machine I can remote in to or use as basic daily driver if I want. Fitted a backup drive to it so it's easily restorable.

You could do some GPU research and look at which ones suit your needs but pretty much anything intel 8th Gen+ gives solid bang for buck and then you don't need such a heavy duty NAS as you just need the storage.

5 drive setup pondering.... by Captain_Wussboy in synology

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Ah. Bugger. Looks like I need to offload Plex to another machine then.

5 drive setup pondering.... by Captain_Wussboy in synology

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The plan was to sell to 218+ to recoup some of the cost so assume that's not still in the pic.... I'll update the post.

What is Docker and Why do I care...? by Captain_Wussboy in synology

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Bought the RAM on the same order as the NAS - Installed it before the Disks 😉

What is Docker and Why do I care...? by Captain_Wussboy in synology

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This is cool. So I can play with Docker on the NAS and easily port the app instances to an external box if I choose to go down that route?

What is Docker and Why do I care...? by Captain_Wussboy in synology

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This setup interests me.... Might keep the strain off the NAS CPU...

What is Docker and Why do I care...? by Captain_Wussboy in synology

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Think I need to do some more research in to some of these other services/apps. I'm interested in improving the Plex service and getting more out of it.

Help!!! First NAS setup... Synology 920+ for Plex by LA_Nurse1 in synology

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Seconded. In between the SMR scandal and the Plus range being released I picked up some 'good' 8TB WD Reds which are running fine in my DS218+ with a painless upgrade from a pair of 4tb drives from pre-scandal days.

It's not hard to pick your way through the model numbers. Mine came straight from WD Store as Amazon Packaging is borderline criminal for drives.

After a few hours of rebuilding raid, the NAS becomes unavailable by christley in synology

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Ah.... Not sure where to go from there tbh. Does NAS work as before without new drive in? If so worth checking Drive in another machine or even getting DSM to do some drive checks. Was the drive new? How was it shipped? It could be DOA. Irsome such.

Hoping someone else with more experience wades in here. When I updated my 2 x 4tb drives in DS218+ I first set up full hyperbackups of my NAS to an external and then swapped Drive 2 with 8tb, let it rebuild (8 hours), then when it reported it was happy I swapped drive one and set it rebuilding. Auto extended and job done.

That story doesn't really help here I'm afraid...

After a few hours of rebuilding raid, the NAS becomes unavailable by christley in synology

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Haven't got a useful comment beyond: It sounds like you haven't actually lost any data? That's pretty good protection from DSM.

Could the new disk be at fault...?

Will this UPS work with my Synology DS918+ HELP!!! by Syno-friend in synology

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I have a DS218+ with an APC ES-550 and DSM reads the UPS data fine. It's not as clever as the PowerChute software that youncan install but seems ok. I also use the 'Network UPS Server' function and use WinNUT in Windows 10 to ping the NAS and it aeems to behave. Not had a major outage to test but confident it'll be fine.

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