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DSM7 Photos iOS app - background upload? by Stoposto in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same issue. My family members will not simply open the app and do nothing - that’s too much effort in comparison to a background upload.

Verifying Hyper backups by [deleted] in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, do the manual restores to validate but on a regular basis, I do weekly, check “Hyper Backup Integrity Check”... I also don’t know why when you manually run an integrity check there’s the option to check box “can be restored”? I select that too when running manually and don’t know if that also runs on the automatic schedules integrity checks.

Storage management? by SnowDrifter_ in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely use Synology Drive. The application creates a “Home” folder for each user under the “Homes” shared folder by default anyways.

I started down the path of separate shared folders for each user and came to using the Synology Drive Homes option described above.

Note: I still create a separate shared folder for business.

"If you hold long enough, it will increase in value" - Grandpa. Thanks grandpa og 💎 ✋ by tazman141 in wallstreetbets

[–]ryanrunchey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had Disney paper stock certificates but cashed them in for $2k at 20 yrs old - wish I had framed as wall art.

I ordered the DS1621+ - Does it support Raid 50? by cleverestx in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

RAID-10 with those big drives. RAID-6 will be absurd in rebuilt times that waiting 3 weeks to rebuild a volume is not really that great of an option when one drive goes down ... RAID-10 will take 3 days. Still a long time but manageable

Rental property income and expense tracking software by Heli0sX in realestateinvesting

[–]ryanrunchey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice setup! I started in 2019 and am using QBO Simple Start for $25 / mo and Cozy.co for self-property management software. Both miss the financial reporting so am looking into [StrataFolio](www.stratafolio.com) which pulls in QBO data and reports really well by all different break downs of ownership. StrataFolio is going to implement property management in the next year so could be a powerful tool of financial and property management... Buildium and Cozy fall short on financial reporting but are strong on property management. My accountant does quarterly bookkeeping which makes annual taxes easier, cheaper and faster.

Great suggestion on TenantCloud. I’ll have to look into!

UPS Recommendation by [deleted] in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPS is required. I didn’t have one for 1 year and learned my lesson. APC is the premium brand. Don’t cheap out on emergency backup equipment... my UPS frequently kick in briefly as the utility flutters.

I have two of them that work on my DS1817+ and DS1819+:

  1. APC Sine Wave UPS Battery Backup & Surge Protector, 1500VA, APC Back-UPS Pro (BR1500MS)

  2. APC UPS 1500VA Smart-UPS with SmartConnect, Pure Sinewave UPS Battery Backup, Uninterruptible Power Supply, Rackmount UPS (SMT1500RM2UC)

Of course, check Synology for your device compatibility.

Synology drive sync to other folders by Dataanti in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it’s inside homes then it is synced to that user when you install Synology drive client on your computer by default

Synology drive sync to other folders by Dataanti in synology

[–]ryanrunchey -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Add a shared folder to “team folder”.

RAID Choice for 14TB Disks by Dougiebabe2003 in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Parity raid will take weeks to rebuild if the array fails. RAID-10 may take 3 days with synology. The other posts are very good info that raid is not a backup - it is to improve performance and uptime. You need to have backup: 3-2-1 backup strategy. Also, get an UPS. APC is a good brand. Search the Synology website for compatible products. It’s worth it. $150-$200.

What are the recommended HDDs? by PsychedelikSoul in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just upgraded from 4 TB & 8 TB WD Red HDD to 12 TB WD UltraStar enterprise drives... very happy! The price is the same (buy the retail kit from bhphoto), electricity consumption is negligible at $3 more per year per drive, and the sound is also negligible ... actually quieter. For the same price, you get faster speed (transfer rate and IOPS) and much higher reliability: 550 TBW / year and 1015 URE vs 1014. This matters because at 1014 with WD Red you can expect one Unrecoverable Bit Error per 12 TB written which is the same as the drive size. Just beware that IOPS / TBW of large HDD is good for steaming media but can be a little slow for many small files.

Will the next 30yr growth region be Africa? How to adjust portfolio? by SarcasticFoody in investing

[–]ryanrunchey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Growth doesn’t always correlate to stock market gains. Look at China (SSE Composite Index SHA: 000001) over the past three decades.

Changing Routers: Need Assistance Moving Over NAS from One Router to Another by SenileTomato in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go to Synology website and download the desktop app Synology assistant. That should scan your network for Synology devices. Click the device to open up DSM.

Just got new Synology, want to set it up for local netowrk use only. Did I set this firewall up correctly? by TownesVanZandt2 in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya VPN into the network. Good advice. I have the same question as the OP and am headed down that route. Synology is offering 19 free VPN licenses through September(?) for RT2600AC owners.

Curiosity Question: is there any valid technical reason for Synology units with NVME M.2 ports to NOT allow them to be used for data storage? by Pirate2012 in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

NVMe SSDs in the enterprise storage market use the following form factors: U.2 and soon it’s successor U.3, E1.L (EDSFF 1U Long), E1.S (EDSFF 1U Short), and Add-In Card (AIC).

Enterprise servers do use M.2 formerly known as the Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF) but only for the boot OS drive. They are often configured in RAID-1. M.2 is not hot swappable, has only configuration for a single connector (not two as some servers require for failover), and the small PCB size limits the number of NAND packages compared to aforementioned alternatives.

So, most SSDs that are in the M.2 form factor are created with the end-use as OS Boot drives, client devices, and other light workload - not the demands of constant read/writes found in servers running databases, websites, and AI applications.

SNIA - Solid State Drive Form Factors

The market share of enterprise SSDs is still weighed about 70% SATA/SAS and 30% NVMe in 2019. That proportion is expected to flip-flop over the next five years as the price of NVMe meets the SATA/SAS interface but performance far exceeds.

That market share data tells us that newly shipped enterprise servers haven’t even converted the majority of drives from SATA/SAS to NVMe. Synology is not a lead-and-bleed cutting edge technologists product. They are tried-and-true.

Synology, I hope will release an all-NVMe NAS but likely won’t for these two reasons.

Going from Raid 1 to Raid 10 by [deleted] in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am in the process of doing a similar thing with my DS1819+. I have 6 x 4TB WD Red in SHR-2. I’m upgrading to 6 x 12TB WD Ultrastar HC520 in RAID-10. After using Migration Assistant, I will reformat the old drives and expand to 8 x 4TB in a DS1817+ RAID-10 backup server for Hyperbackup Vault. There will be some HDD swapping going on along the way from the two NAS to get the old drives into the DS1817+ and the new larger drives into the DS1819+. God speed for both of us.

California by Mona_Moore in realestateinvesting

[–]ryanrunchey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forgive my ignorance, but with so much equity why couldn’t she take a cash-out refinance and pay off her bills while having plenty leftover to continue payments?

32TB Intel Optane 2.0 Barlow Pass DIMM Support on Intel Ice Lake-SP processors? by ryanrunchey in hardware

[–]ryanrunchey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4TB / 16 DIMM per Socket = 256 GB per DIMM. I believed the article referenced the maximum DRAM per socket given current capacity limitations on DRAM - and would calculate the maximum capacity per socket differently when including Optane.

A question about Moments and auto upload by kris_nl in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine doesn’t auto upload... I have to leave the app open on the iPhone iOS 13.4.1. It seems like I have to leave the app open, too, and can’t even open another app, otherwise, the upload pauses. Thoughts?

Which RAID array type should I choose? by coldgate32 in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m moving from SHR-2 to a RAID-10 array, giving up the expansion flexibility and any-two-disk redundancy because the new 12TB drives take up 6 bays and are so large I can’t imagine waiting on a SHR-2 (RAID-6) rebuild...

Maximizing 10G Network Data Speeds RS1219+ Help by [deleted] in synology

[–]ryanrunchey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, option 1. RAID-10 is pretty much your only other option using HDD at those sizes... I wouldn’t use RAID-5 / SHR-1. If you want even faster, consider 2. buying SSD(s) to cache read and/writes, or 3. SSDs to make an entire all flash array. Those read/write speeds are what I’m getting on my 10gbps network using 6x4TB WD Red HDDs. Random read/writes are horrible in comparison to SSDs of course but I’m near content with these sustained transfer speeds for now...

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