Question 1

What ram did you use for upgrade?  I'm looking for 16Gb. Can you provide link or model #?

Accepted Answer

Here is the RAM I purchased for the DS1817+: Crucial 16GB Kit (2 x 8GB) DDR3L-1600 1600 MT/S SODIMM Memory for Mac (CT2K8G3S160BM) Link: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=Crucial+16GB+Kit+%282+x+8GB%29+DDR3L-1600+1600+MT%2FS+SODIMM+Memory+for+Mac+%28CT2K8G3S160BM%29&N=-1&isNodeId=1

Question 2

Can this be setup as JBOD? or are you forced to rebuild the raid every time you upgrade a drive?

Accepted Answer

Supported configs:

SHR (Synology Hybrid RAID)

Minimum HDD required: 2 (with data protection)
Pros: 1 HDD redundancy & optimized volume size. Best used when combining hard disks of varying sizes.

SHR-2 (Synology Hybrid RAID)

Minimum HDD required: 4
Pros: 2 HDD redundancy & optimized volume size. Best used when combining hard disks of varying sizes.

RAID 0

Minimum HDD required: 2
Pros: Data is divided into equal shares and written into the hard disks. Data access is quicker and more efficient.
Cons: If one drive fails, all data is lost and you must restore from additional backup.

RAID 1

Minimum HDD required: 2
Pros: The same data is mirrored to all HDDs. If one drive fails, data integrity will not be affected.
Cons: The available volume is limited to the storage capacity of one HDD.

RAID 5

Minimum HDD required: 3
Pros: It offers 1 HDD redundancy. Data is striped across multiple disks with a parity check bit to the data. If one drive fails, the parity check bit will ensure data integrity.
Cons: The storage capacity of 1 drive is reserved for data integrity check and therefore slightly affects the available volume size.

RAID 6

Minimum HDD required: 4
Pros: It offers 2 HDD redundancy. Data is striped across multiple disks with a parity check bit to the data. The parity check bit ensures data integrity. 
Cons: The storage capacity of 2 drives are reserved for data integrity check and therefore slightly affects the available volume size.

RAID 10

Minimum HDD required: 4, the number must be even
Pros: It offers the benefit of both RAID 0 and RAID 1 – data access efficiency and mirroring protection.
Cons: The available volume is half of the total HDD storage capacity.

Question 3

Will this unit do transcoding in Plex?

Accepted Answer

Single 1080p stream results In very high CPU utilization on the NAS, but it can do it.

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