1.9 Petabytes - Expanding the Synology NAS
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Adding an RX6022sas expansion unit. So much storage I could fit almost 4000 untrimmed Phantom TMX shots on here. Synology for creators: sy.to/1bewl
Previous Synology video - • Unboxing a Petabyte
Main Channel - / theslowmoguys
Pro tip: when your shedding Siamese cat sits on your chest while you are lying on the sofa, change your shirt before filming the video.
Lol
I rally like your videos .
Lol
Ikr... I once pet a cat on my chest and for the rest of the day, my shirt was hairy without me even realizing it. Thanks for the tip though.
Extremely reddit energy
I worked at Weta Digital during The Lord Of The Rings production. We did the VFX for the first movie in 1999 with 3TB of Netapp storage! The entire movie. All data files, background plates, renders, composites, etc. We couldn't fit it all on disk at the same time so we had to shuffle stuff back and forth from tape. We had hundreds of DLT tapes. The Netapp was a full 48U rack. I can't remember how many disks we had in it and their sizes but I'm pretty sure each disk was in the order of tens or hundreds of MEGAbytes (not gigabytes!) at most. The fact you can fit 2PB in 8U boggles my mind.
Kioxia makes 30TB SSDs, with a typical max density of around 60 drives per 4U, a full 48u rack of disks would be around 21PB (and a cool $3.6mil). Insane how far and how fast things have improved over the last couple decades
In 1999 you could get 36gb 1.6” high SCSI (more likely fiberchannel) drives, a full 48U rack stuffed full of those may end up at around 3tb (or 18gb 1” high drives)
@@ethans4783 And this is before you get to the U.3 mad stuff, 50TB drives in a 1U etc...!
Moore's law is fun. When I graduated high school I bought a 1 GB flash drive for $55 after a mail in rebate from Staples. Now you can easily get a 1 TB drive for that, some 2TB on sale even....
@@ethans4783 Yep but that drive is few times more expensive than rack made of 4tb crucial ssds for example
Always a good day when Linus and Gavin both post new storage-related videos.
Wow, a @JeffGeerling sighting in someone else's comments.
When isn't linus updating his storage somehwhere in the socks and sandals empire though?
Waiting for yours
Linus' was definitely a bit more "crunchy"... 🤓
The amount of times I've seen you comment on random tech videos over the years. Makes me feel like I'm stalking you by accident. Lol
this is the kind of sponsored content i’m actually down for
And honestly it's going to make me remember them more than most sponsored content
Does that mean you'll buy the advertised product? Or are you just interested in the sponsored product?
@@MM-vs2et I am currently looking for a NAS so I will give the products of that company a look.
@@MM-vs2et A System admin might suggest it the next time they need to find a storage solution.
Same I kept forgetting it was an ad lol
Howdy! Thats a big NAS!
Huge fan of the channel Gavin!
Love your content, recommended your channel to my friend who works in 3D and other media, he was looking for storage solutions. Cool to see you here. W quality content :)
Ayo, did you know a guy with your name helped Gavin!?!?
till 2038? i give it 2 years tops
Next camera will need more disk storage.
most HDDS die in 3-5 years if used 24h/7day
@@NoInterleaving sources: I made it up
@@idowedo in fact, 3 years is the minimum limit of 24/7 usage.
@@idowedoLook up Backblaze's quarterly drive stats. The avg. failure age is usually at 4-7 years.
That said there can be considerable differences depending on the usage patterns.
Fellow Synology user. Thanks for the details on the Expansion unit. Five years tops till you need more storage.
Just needs another couple of JBODs to hook up
Yeah he's going to get a new Phantom and step up the amount of data each shoot takes up yet again, I'm surprised he was so confident it was going to stay enough for so long
Until then there will be higher storage systems available, that use less physical space...
Just wait until they get the first 8K 1,000,000 fps high speed camera. It'll be like a petabyte per second :D
Kinda hard to complain about free storage, but he could have gone with 24TB drives and gotten another 400TB out of the expansion server. He didn't address it in the video but I wonder if the expansion needs drives of the same size or smaller to function which would necessitate the use of 16TB drives. Seems odd either way since even going with something like 20TB drives would have made more sense.
4:03 Installation manual:
Step 1: Get sofa cushion as make-shift jack.
Step 2: Slide server in rack.
Step 3: Remove cat from server cabinet.
Step 4: Get second sofa cusion.
Step 5: Slide in second server rack.
Step 3 gets repeated several times in the process...
Step 6: Ask cat for his opinion.
Step 6: the cat will give its opinion when it sees fit. Perform food-time sacrifice in a timely manner to obtain opinion before next June..
(Sofa cushion not included)
Step 0: (off camera) rub balloon on cat to maximize static charge. testing how resilient the system is to static. It is on carpet, after all. I'm sure the cat won't mind.
Furniture skids would make moving the rack so much easier.
Thanks for all the videos. All of them. Awesome Slow-Mo, Collaborations, Behind the Scenes and these about the Technology that make the magic happen.
Frankly, I appreciate the low-tech high-tech approach you take with these background videos. It's nice to know that I could set up a 30k USD, multi-petabyte storage solution if I had to!
I'm sure it's the only rack on earth that's filled like that and is operating on flokati😅
😅 the internet archive is over a hundred petabytes. I really think we should have multiple copies, but that would literally cost millions per copy. It's really important to have in this post AI society.
@@IM2awsme 100 petabytes.. that's more like 450U.. or 11 8 foot racks of servers, that'd be 11 head units powering 11 JBOD's packed with drives.. if 1 box is $30k.. that's 121 x 30.. 3.6 million $ to take a backup of the internet archive.
before you even get to the "How do i even connect all these things together" and the "How do i even power this thing"..
@@jackhemsworth7515 😅 I know, we have technology that can store it in a wafer the size of a quarter, but it would take days to write it, and days to read it. We just aren't there yet.
seeing the gray in Gavins hair is a reminder of how much time has passed since i first started watching Slow mo guys. im not a kid anymore. This is the last youtube video im watching in 2024. I hope we all have a great 2025. Happy new year.
I love the brick and mortar backend stuff like storage needs for all the footage you amass. I will personally NEVER need that much storage, but it's AMAZING that it exists and that they are expanding. Amazing how far we've come from Film in such a short time. Mind Boggled!
I never thought I needed a NAS, until my digital photography got somewhat more serious. Each picture/file being 55MB, and a day’s ‘hobby’ delivering 1,000 or more piccies, it goes really fast…
Such a massive amount of space, thanks for showing off the upgrade
The quick cuts @6:05 with you plugging things in and pressing switches, was so well done and very satisfying. The filming and editing in these videos are brilliant
And the cat cam afterwards. Cherry on top!
I love this dynamic of a person with a big reach and media competency to shoot a decent educational video being able to reach out to a company to showcase their product if they genuinely like using it and have experience with the product
Counter point. Wealthy individual receives $40k gift.
@@monkey314159 it's entertaining :D
Every few years a video of you upgrading your storage pops up on my feed and I remember it's one of the most satisfying things to watch
Following Gavin's inevitable periodic storage struggles is the real Slow Mo Guys meta.
As an infra engineer that works with Synology it's cool to see content like this shared with such a large audience.
And finally someone documenting the step, where you have to remove the cat. 😁
He can finally download Black Ops 6
Na, just the updates, there is still not enough room for the game ;)
Nothing beats the size of the first warzone released..
Still can't download Ark Survival though
Did some quick lazy maths, I reckon he could install Black Ops 6 about 14,848 times!!
All of these storage videos you've done have been pretty cool to see, I always love behind the scenes things like these
10:21 I'm almost certain that you'll eat these words.
Same words as previous video....
100% seeing as has filled his original petabyte nas from 2 years ago and still runs the 130TB nas that LTT built him.
this expansion is gonna last them maybe 3 years.
@@oxfordsparky Even though the first petabyte system is only two years old, don't forget that it is filled with 15 years worth of footage. Unless he has more backlog that needs to be stored on the second petabyte it should last a decent bit longer than the first petabyte. Or untill he decides to start filming at even higher resolutions and framerates lol.
@@Dusto9doesn't he have the new V2511 phantom camera... so with his current speed... 3 years give or take
There is something very satisfying about just staring at a shitload of free storage.
You should see his power bill.
I remember shaking my head when you described your raid configuration in the old video, glad to hear you fixed it
I don't understand half of half what you're chatting about but its so engaging, much like when i get my brother to explain sputtering for the millionth time!
What type of sputtering? The ions-hit-surface-and-erode-it-away type?
The way you edit these videos is so satisfying, the sequences of cables being plugged in and all your B-Roll is so smooth and cut to your words perfectly. Top stuff
The systems just talking directly to each other for that file transfer is pretty amazing.
It's like the old days with FXP over FTP to get to see ungodly FTP transfer speeds over puny dial up modem.
It's a single computer copying files from one drive to another. Is that really all that amazing?
"Definitely not before 2038".
2026 rolls around...
"Hi Synology, Gav here. Remember that expansion unit you gave me? Well, I need another!"
"Actually, better make it two so I can make it through the year."
@@AceWolf456 might as well make it three so he can have the full setup.
The best video on expansion units out there! Only saying this so they help you out more dude! Thanks for everything you do.
Honestly love the nerdy videos like this, and while this is 200x the size of my synology nas it’s still super cool to see all those drives working in tandem, and 2gbs is sweet, could easily edit raw files right off the NAS without any local transfer
That's a lot of storage
This is my first time watching so much storage. Never seen a petabyte before.
Almost as much as tupperware
gotta put those Linux iso's somewhere! 😂
And a lot of money
A lot of double the price of a normal nas hard drive
I'm impressed how well Gav narrated the process. Brief but still comprehensible.
By the time this runs out, you should seriously look into LTO-10 (or newer) tapes. They'll be substantially more cost effective per-TB and per-watt. And they'll take up less space, be less noisy (most of the time), and have better longevity. You're kinda the perfect use-case for tapes.
He's already got LTO-9s. Would it be worth the investment to bump it up by one version?
@@DrSloth78 I knew he was using tapes but I wasn't sure which generation. Each generation seems to offer double the capacity though, so while perhaps LTO-10 may not be worth upgrading from, 12 or higher might be.
I find it absolutely so funny watching you do what is essentially my day job Gavin - I used to do alot of datacenter installs of big netapps, hosts, switches and all of that. To see someone whose data needs are so huge that they need 1.9 petabytes (as an individual) is mad!
I have huge corporate businesses who we provide STaaS for as my day job and they dont need that much storage 🤣
4:15 Project director comes in for inspection, as every cat owner knows; standard procedure.
It's cool seeing videos like this just because it really puts into perspective how small a regular everyday storage device for personal use seems compared to one for commercial use
thanks gav
i really enjoy these videos
i wonder if you might consider sharing details about how you organize the file structure and folders of your massive media archives??
i'd be very curious to see that
thanks
Yes please
I had a heart attack when you took all the drives out of the original unit. I’m an old school RAID guy and that is a quick way to corrupt all your data. Glad the array is smart enough to deal with that. Numbering the drives was a good precautionary too.
No wonder you sound proofed that cabinet...when you powered on that storage unit it sounded like a jet engine preparing for take-off!
Makes me wonder how it impacts the heat though ...
You should have heard the kit I was working with in the 90s. We used to wear ear defenders in the server room.
@@asteliaz I wondered about that too. There were a ton of fans on the side of the cabinet; presumably Gavin ran the design past Synology before setting it up that way.
Server units like that always run fans at 100% on startup and should slow down after a bit
@@asteliaz Those "NetShelter" cabinets are not DIY and can be bought like that so i assume they do put enough fans in there.
Thank you for this video, wonderful reference for showing off the HD6500!
7:29 the best part of the video
100%
Neat seeing networking stuff here, never thought I'd get info relevant to my career from the slow motion mythbusters but give me more lol
You think it will be 14 years? Nah, Gav. At the rate you're adding storage, I give it 3 years. 2 years ago, when you got the Petabyte, you "no longer had to worry about storage space."🤣Thanks for sharing, mate. This really is a cool solution and very interesting to see implemented (I liked the couch cushion solution).
loved this video. Beautifully filmed and this storytelling was captivating. Thank you for sharing
Another welcome edition to the GCSU (Gavin’s Computer Storage Universe).
I cannot believe how you understand it's inner workings just incredible knowledge
I was excited to get my Synology DX517 5 bay expansion unit to take my DS720+ from 2 bays to 7 total, with only 3 populated at this time. This is a crazy amount of storage. Quite a blessing to have Synology gift you this much storage. I love my Synology.
Yeah, thanks Synology for supporting the Guys!! Your support of the channel is GREAT!!!
Synology got my wrath for a bit when they killed off support for third-party drives. Synology's whole deal is that you're paying them for something you could throw together yourself, they just make it easier. Well, they eliminated one of the biggest hassles and lowered their support burden using One Simple Trick. A couple weeks ago I had to buy a set of disks for a customer recently I was pleasantly surprised that their branded disks weren't any more expensive than the third-party equivalent.
Same. And it is a completely stupid move, even when they have no real competition.
At least, all the nagging messages and so on disappeared forever after some changes I did to the NAS via SSH. No clue if it got worse or better since then.
The tech is over my head but I thoroughly enjoyed listening to someone pronouncing "HD6500" without adding the /h/ to the "H". So satisfying!
Gavin, we're all here today because we've notice you have a problem with storage, buddy. It's okay though, admitting you have a problem is the first step in getting better.
I'm just here because I watch whatever Gav puts out, whether it's relevant or not. He could make watching paint dry entertaining.
A couple of small things, not complaints, but advice. On the power, you should consider plugging 1 power cord from the NAS, and 1 power cord for the expander into each UPS. This allows for 1 to fail, without losing access. You can combine drives from the expander to the main NAS, but there is a drive limit to such things, and you also become dependent on both devices working at all times, which you seem to have already sussed. I'm guessing 2027 before you knock on Synology's door again. The rate of data we store every years seems exponential at times. Loved the content, can't wait to see the third installment!
If he did that and one UPS failed, he would instantly go over capacity on the other UPS.
@@wbfaulk Time for a bigger capacity UPS then lol
I would put each redundant PSU into a different UPS. So each UPS will handle half the load of each appliance. Also it's best if the UPS is able to handle the full load on its own so it can be redundant if one UPS fails. UPS failure are way more common than PSU failure.
I can't wait to make a playlist that is just all these types of videos in order. The numbers ballooning every time is fascinating but it's obviously something that is really important to you and for good reason!
wow, i am a Synology nas owner, didnt knew it can get that that big amazing
I'm always impressed how data storage keeps shrinking in size and holding more at the same time.
There is no reason for me to ever use this, but I absolutely love geeking out about it.
I always look forward to the storage/setup upgrade videos every few years now lmao. Can’t wait to see it in like 2030-40 😂
If Gavin adds more storage the server rack will start sinking into the floor 😂😂
If he's on the ground floor then it's a cast concrete slab on the ground type of floor. At least in the southern UK.
I'd worry more about the electrical bill and the power feed to the house though. Time to upgrade to 3-phase 400V?
@@ehsnils The two units combined pull about 1400W. That's less than an electric kettle!
It's 6.5A at 220V. He can plug it into his normal ring main :-)
@@tompw3141yes, but that load will be 24/7...
Anyone else notice the blurry US wall socket at 5:43 in the background?
@@Andy-fd5fg I think he moved to the US, and that Dan flies in for shoots from the UK when required. Isn't the quarry they sometimes film from in Texas, US? I hope I'm remembering that correctly.
I don't know why but it made my heart feel all tingly and warm that Gavin still has the customized SMG tower that Linus made for him with the ink in water stills.
That storage technology you own is crazy, and crazy expensive. I was looking at the pricetag shown at 10:20 and thought "wow, $26k is quite expensive for storage".
And then I realized that's the price without any of the 120 16TB drives, which cost about $620 each, for a total of $74.4k in HDD cost.
So your storage server costs about $100,000... That's more than everything I own combined, I'd suspect, and that includes a car. Mind blowing. 😅
This background stuff is so cool to see. Thanks for taking the time to share!
This is the how up is space guy
Does rocks float on lava?
Oh whow, I have a synology DS1522+, and was so proud and still am. And my storage is huge and now I see this on one of my favourite channels 😂
that thing will be full before 2030
I literally just watched your previous video and was wondering what the setup would look like now. Crazy coincidence, but thanks for all the knowledge you give us!
Came for the info, stayed for the cats 🫶🏻
Love these videos, I worked at IBM for my university internship on a similar product i forgot how fun it is -messing around- working with these storage devices, and my god they are load and heavy when fully decked out!!
9:15 here on this graph you can see McDonalds chips
How long are you gonna keep this up, Britain? We've already got you saying "elevator" and "garbage." How long are you gonna keep pretending you don't wanna call them fries?
@@ladelame1 “Garbage” is such a rubbish word.
@Sonatengraf Speak english please, I can't understand you.
@@ladelame1Uh noone in Britain calls it garbage lmao
@@RandomFlask175 Don't blame me, I asked the AI, that's what they said. Go yell at Sam Altman.
Never thought about it, but working with that much data you have no choice but to become an expert in data storage
It's funny how you just go straight on to saying, "...and I started moving files on to it", not mentioning you had to wait a WEEK once all the arrays had been built.
lol… it’s funny because I’m waiting for a raid to finish rebuilding right now on my Synology NAS after upgrading all the drives in it. Total time to replace 4 drives will be about 12 days. 😅
@lowerleftside Wow ha. Last year, I bought (we can't all have thousands and thousands of $s thrown at us for free) a Dx517 and filled it with 5x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 18tb hdds) and that took about the same time. A ridiculous amount of time but well worth the wait.
I love that you guys make videos also about tech stuff that you use
Underated Y2K38 joke @ 10:30.
It's massively impressive seeing that storage filled up
Always nice when a company just "gives" you $46.2K (USD) in hard drives alone. Good grief!
I wondered about that. He said they sent them over; I wasn't sure if that meant they were free, at cost, or at retail price. I guess if they were free then they obviously believe Gavin has enough viewers that the publicity is worth the cost. And they're probably right.
They paid for a sponsored video with hardware.
That right there makes me think there is a huge markup in the retail price.
@@Ddonaldson9 I believe I just explained that I knew that my dude.
@@acubley Absolutely! Synology are sporting a 2-3x markup on their drives alone. They are _VERY_ proud of their labels and rebrand apparently.
Gav is one person I would love to see more videos on his process and all the gear he has collected over time. Would be super cool to see
I imagine that generates a lot of heat
It's way less scary when you run out of space but synology sponsor the new drives
To be honest, at this point I would be looking at some removable, high density storage. I can't imagine that you really need to have ALL your video immediately online.
unless you want to look at a $5000 LTO tape reader and auto loader, HDDs are still pretty cost effective.
@@Cynyr You are still making big savings on the power to keep all that NAS running!!!
@@Caroline_Tyler He's running on a Mac Pro, which is not related to cost-saving at all
@@Caroline_Tyler 10watts per drive * 60 drives is 600watts. 0.6kw*24*365*$0.14kwh = $736 per year to run. Or about 6.8 years to pay off the tape drive. Granted hdds aren't usually free.
@@Cynyr 🤣👍
And I was complaining for filling up my 6 Exos14TB with Virtual Machines as a SWE. But those who make videos are on another level.
But how many 8hr 8k fireplace videos does it hold?
At least one
Let's be silly and assume a RAW 8K 60fps HDR video stream. 8K is 33,177,600 pixels (33.1MP). We'll multiply that a bit depth of 12 bit per pixel, so each frame is 398,131,200 bits, which dividing by eight (8 bits = 1 byte) is 49,766,400 bytes, or basically 50MB. Then multiply by that 60 frames per second, for 2,985,984,000 bytes/second, or 2.9 GB per second.
Eight hours is 28800 seconds, so 2.9GB/s multiplied out to 8 hours is 85.9TB (specifically, 85,996,339,200,000 bytes). 85TB goes into 1.9PB 22.4 times.
So, 22 8-hour, 8K, 60FPS, HDR, RAW fireplace videos. And then a 3 hour video as well.
You want 12 bits per color channel, not 12 bits per pixel. So roughly 7 of them.@@ryankrage77
First: finally a slowmoguys video i can watch at 2x
Second: we should get a slowmo video of the cats. Maybe them blinking, yawning, or licking themselves.
Third: Thanks
I know it's very common for enterprise gear, but why did they bother branding the drives ?
Those are clearly regular Western Digital hard drives.
Is there some vendor locking going on ?
Yes, synology has removed support for "third party" drives.
Actually the stupidest thing I've ever heard
It seems like users can at max have one or two third party drives in their systems, the rest have to be bought from them so that they can upsell you as much as possible
@@Kire2oo2 Why did they feel the need for such a user hostile move ?
Last I checked, they were selling lots of units at a healthy margin.
(I know why, it's greed, it's always greed.)
@@Luzgar youp, I can't wrap my head around it either, it makes no sense.
I guess greed ruins everything
I'm not familiar with Synology, but NetApp provides drives with custom firmware that better supports the details of how it's used in their system. It's unclear to me if that firmware could be applied to the equivalent retail drive or if there's something (perhaps low-level formatting? Is that even a thing on SSDs?) that would prevent that from working.
This is both a very clever solution and also a reminder of how some technology is still way behind the needs that we have.
Have you lost drives in this enclosure since you have started using it? If so, has replacing them been easy?
I’ve not yet had a drive fail. I do have two spare drives ready to go so maybe I’ll make a short or something of the experience if it happens.
@@TheSlowMoGuys2 With so many drives, I'd say you'll want more spare drives. Say 3 go out in quick succession and the lead time for a new drive is a week... Even worsse if all of the drives are from the same batch, means they are likely to all fail around the same timeframe
@@TheSlowMoGuys2 That's good to hear. Thank you for sharing with the community.
The sizes quickly become astronomical...and well over a kilawatt of power...insane, but so cool!
Imagine being that person a few decades from now, watching this while having a Petabyte USB in their pocket.
A data graph that only shows you how much data it took to make the graph.
What a cheeky little graph.
Both of your UPS are not Online UPS but are Line-Interactive UPS, meaning they are not actively supplying power via batteries at all times but are supplying AC and only have battery step-in during power failure, meaning these UPS will let through minute power interruptions which is not recommended for mission-critical usage.
if line-interactive type of UPS are really unreliable (they have a ~10msec switchover delay), why are they being sold? Can they not keep an IT equipment be running in the moment of the blackout?
@@ricsip It's down to cost. Price of UPS increase frrom Offline UPS to Line-Interactive UPS to Online UPS. So its for the consumer to decide on Cost Vs Data, if your equipment or Data is important enough for the price of Online UPS.
@@ricsip in a normal scenario a Line-Interactive would be fine, but during data writes it may not be, and in case of a NAS vault like this, it certainly is not. For example, if you were transferring a 5 GB video file, if there is even a 10msec interruption during Data write, the whole file might be corrupted and unusable, or even worse, it might lead to a bad sector on the disk. Again, there are ways to salvage that file, but if your data is important enough that you would need to salvage it later then why risk it at the first place, proper get protection.
@@Falcon5ive I'm completely ignorant in this area, but wouldn't the Synology equipment have some kind of built-in protection against that kind of issue? Their whole business is based on keeping your data safe so I feel like they must have some basic power conditioning in their equipment.
@@robadams1645 Synology is a NAS, and in a NAS the Data protection comes from having RAID which saves data in event of drive failure, but does not have any protection in case of power interruption during writes which corrupts the data being written.
I remember watching the last TWO videos where he's had to increase his storage - and it doesn't seem that long ago. Amazing.
Gavin please. NASA needs some storage too
for space?
NASA has sooo much storage that it needs to be transported through planes for a better download and upload speed,
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
@DeltaEntropy this is really probably the fastest way to transfer data. if you were to put for example 10 Petabyte in a car this will be one of the fastest connections hahah
Seeing a cat next to a precariously high stack of drives makes me clench instinctively.
Why not just print it all so you have a hard copy?
And there goes the rest of the Amazon...
Let me tell you about the time someone tried to print The Law..
It makes me so happy to see that Smee is doing well!!
So how would you Backup two Petabyte?
He has another video where he talks about tape drives: ruclips.net/video/lO-SAzFaN18/видео.html
A couple of USB sticks should do ;p
I buy synology because of you. They are really fit. I bet the engineers are watching this with popcorn.
And im here with just 20tb :(
im am here with 16 TB raw hahah
not one bit of this information is relevant to my life or anyone i know. but i do so love seeing behind the scenes stuff from my favorite content makers
3,5" hdd's now available up to 30 TB. not everywhere, but you can easily get 22-24 TB (GB was a typo).
I know its just a typo, but GB ? ;)
That's a bigass NAS! Today I'm shopping for a 2 drive 4TB system!
From experience, the APC UPS youre using tends to tell you its fine when in fact it is not. Test it when you can, we had 3 at my workplace brought 2018 and all instantly powered off when the power went out only at 30% load (in 2023, so 5 years old)! You dont want to find out that its not working when the power goes for real!
Thanks will do some tests. To be honest I feel like all these APC units turn to ass after about 2 years. Probably the least reliable parts of my setups.
I have many Synology products and they are quite frankly amazing.
Their devices are well built, have many, many features and allow free access to files anywhere in the world via PC, Mac, Android and iOS.
(Not paid, not an advert, just genuinely admire them)
My rack OCD is going nuts that the expansion unit is on top of the main unit...
Heavier equipment should be lower in the rack. The expansion unit is lighter.