Hey folks, happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating today!
I have a Synology DS1821+ that I have completely filled. I'm looking for expanding, but I don't really want to completely replace the Synology yet.
Does anyone know if there is a way to expand the number of drives? I've heard murmers that I can use a DAS, but nothing for sure. Wondering if anyone has attempted this before. Thanks!
15 Comments
rhacer@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Upgrading by replacing your drives one at a time will likely get you where you want to go. When I upgraded my 6Tb drives in my 920+ to 12Tb drives it took about a week.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 3 pts · 1y
Yeah, I wanted to and tbh that was my first approach, but I'm already at 16TB drives in there, even if I shell out a ton of money for 24TB drives I'd only add 33% more storage, so I think I have to look at either a bigger box or some sort of expansion.
rhacer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Will that sounds like the perfect "Gee I have to spend this money on something bigger and better" reason!
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y
That's... A lot of storage. I'd say your options are, in no particular order:
Failing that you could just have a bit of a purge? If not straight deleting stuff, move things onto an external drive.
You could also try deduping. There's a script that'll add any drive to the internal "supported" list and also enable dedupe on mechanical drives. The savings were minimal on mine but you might have more luck. https://github.com/007revad/Synology_enable_Deduplication
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
This is the answer. Just buy bigger drives, and replace them one at a time and let them resize.
Anyone saying to buy expansion units is wrong. It works like ZFS or btrfs, and very seamlessly. I've upgraded my drives 4 times with zero issues.
Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com · 5 pts · 1y
You can use an expansion unit DX517 to add more dives or upgrade existing to larger ones if you use some form of Raid/SHR.
The swap-drive-and-rebuild-array route can take it's sweet time.
kalleboo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
When I was following Synology communities closer, the common wisdom was that the expansion units weren't great in either performance, stability or cost, and you were better off buying a new, bigger unit and then selling your old one used to recoup the cost difference.
I'm also in the same position, I have a DS918+ that is full. It's also 6 years old and probably on the tail end of getting software updates so I'm weighing my choices...
jet@hackertalks.com · 3 pts · 1y
What everybody else said plus
https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/migration
Synology will migrate all of your data from one device to another if you just want to get a completely new device.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 2 pts · 1y
Well, it's in my back pocket if it comes to that...
jrbaconcheese@yall.theatl.social · 2 pts · 1y
There are expansions for Synology: https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/accessories?tab=nas&category=expansion_units
Probably most important is the 5-drive DX517 that will definitely work with your 1821+ https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DX517#specs
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 1 pts · 1y
Thanks, I saw some of those, the prices seem... extreme for what is essentially a JBOD enclosure. It's definitely there as a backup, but I'm hoping for something that won't be that much.... but maybe I'm dreaming
Reaper948@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Just in case it matters for you, the max single volume size for your NAS is 108TB
https://kb.synology.com/en-global/DSM/tutorial/Why_does_my_Synology_NAS_have_a_single_volume_size_limitation
cRazi_man@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 1y
I think you'd just have to buy another Synology with more bays.I guess not
catloaf@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 1y
Literally on the product page, first result when I googled the model number:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1821+
Honest question: did you do any investigation on your own, or post here first?
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · -1 pts · 1y
Hey, thanks for the mean answer.
Yes. I had seen that, I saw the price too. I saw on Reddit that people had had luck using QNAP expansions, or just anything that supports JBOD. I thought I'd ask here because people are usually nice and may have creative ideas. Note other people here giving answers that don't have the attitude.