How do external drives behave in relation to internal NAS storage/management?
https://lemmy.world/post/679532
How do external drives behave in relation to internal NAS storage/management? - Lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/679531
[https://lemmy.world/post/679531] > cross-posted from:
https://lemmy.world/post/679471 [https://lemmy.world/post/679471] > > > Not sure
the best place to ask this. > > > > I have a DS420J 4 bay NAS, primarily used
for my Plex server and data backups (among a few other things). I currently have
8x6x6 TB Iron Wolf NAS drives in a single volume with SRH and an extra 1 TB SSD
JBOD. I have my Plex app and metadata stored on the SSD due to the increased
performance I have seen vs. having it installed on the large pool (7200 RPM
cap). I am sitting at about 85% used storage of my available 10.8 TB on the
primary volume. As such, I am pre-planning my next storage upgrade and am
curious about my options while staying with the current hardware. The future
plan will be a NAS upgrade, but this little beast has been chugging along so
perfectly I want to push it as far as I can. > > > > If I was to remove the 1 TB
drive and replace it with another 8 TB Iron Wolf, I would jump to 20 TB
available storage. > >
https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator?hdds=6 TB|6 TB|8 TB|8 TB
[https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator?hdds=6%20TB%7C6%20TB%7C8%20TB%7C8%20TB]
> > This increase would last me for quite some time ahead of a full NAS upgrade
with more bays. In order to do this, I would obviously need to remove the 1 TB
SSD to be replaced by the new drive. I have na external enclosure for this drive
that can connect over USB to the NAS. > > > > My question: I am finding somewhat
conflicting information on how external drives are intended to be used/what
their capabilities are when connected to the USB 3.2 port. It seems the intended
functionality for backups (which makes sense). Am I able to utilize a USB
connected drive and have it function in a similar manner to it being internal?
Are you able to install apps from the Package Center to an external drive?
Create volumes? I assume there will be some performance degradation due to the
translation from SATA to USB, then back to SATA, but I anticipate the SSD will
still perform better than adding the app back to the main pool. I just don’t
know if I am potentially missing something with my evaluation. Those that have
more experience with USB connected drive with their NAS, I would love to hear
your experience. Thanks!
How do external drives behave in relation to to internal NAS storage/management?
https://lemmy.world/post/679471
How do external drives behave in relation to to internal NAS storage/management? - Lemmy.world
Not sure the best place to ask this. I have a DS420J 4 bay NAS, primarily used
for my Plex server and data backups (among a few other things). I currently have
8x6x6 TB Iron Wolf NAS drives in a single volume with SRH and an extra 1 TB SSD
JBOD. I have my Plex app and metadata stored on the SSD due to the increased
performance I have seen vs. having it installed on the large pool (7200 RPM
cap). I am sitting at about 85% used storage of my available 10.8 TB on the
primary volume. As such, I am pre-planning my next storage upgrade and am
curious about my options while staying with the current hardware. The future
plan will be a NAS upgrade, but this little beast has been chugging along so
perfectly I want to push it as far as I can. If I was to remove the 1 TB drive
and replace it with another 8 TB Iron Wolf, I would jump to 20 TB available
storage. https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator?hdds=6 TB|6 TB|8
TB|8 TB
[https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator?hdds=6%20TB%7C6%20TB%7C8%20TB%7C8%20TB]
This increase would last me for quite some time ahead of a full NAS upgrade with
more bays. In order to do this, I would obviously need to remove the 1 TB SSD to
be replaced by the new drive. I have na external enclosure for this drive that
can connect over USB to the NAS. My question: I am finding somewhat conflicting
information on how external drives are intended to be used/what their
capabilities are when connected to the USB 3.2 port. It seems the intended
functionality for backups (which makes sense). Am I able to utilize a USB
connected drive and have it function in a similar manner to it being internal?
Are you able to install apps from the Package Center to an external drive?
Create volumes? I assume there will be some performance degradation due to the
translation from SATA to USB, then back to SATA, but I anticipate the SSD will
still perform better than adding the app back to the main pool. I just don’t
know if I am potentially missing something with my evaluation. Those that have
more experience with USB connected drive with their NAS, I would love to hear
your experience. Thanks!
Funny Story About Reddit's Failing Systems Hitting the Corporate World - Almost
https://lemmy.world/post/87954
Funny Story About Reddit's Failing Systems Hitting the Corporate World - Almost - Lemmy.world
I am a PSE for a large corporation that most people would not be familiar with
(those users that frequent this sub probably would). However, we supply business
critical software to many of the big companies you definitely do know. This puts
me in a position where I work directly with some of the most well paid ‘tech
execs’ you can find and has lead to many hilarious situations. Those are stories
for another day however. Today is about Reddit - for they have angered me
greatly. I get a ticket this morning around 10 AM. As usual, I get a bunch of
helpful information including an irrelevant screenshot and a one liner about how
the RSS feed that they have pulling into one of their widgets wasn’t working. On
closer inspection, these mf’s were hitting the r/sysadmin(!) RSS feed and
pulling in new posts. Now, this is strictly business software we are dealing
with. So while I can absolutely see why certain groups would value that feed, it
was definitely the first I had ever seen such a thing in any of our
environments. Naturally (I feel), I am immediately floored with the potential
possibilities and started thinking about how I might have to explain to this guy
all that has transpired the last ~week in a business-professional email… I took
a minute just to soak that in and let out a small chuckle. Fuck u/spez, I
mutter. Well since I was given zero actual information about their issue, other
than ‘no workie’, I slid over to my main PC to go check r/sysadmin as I have
done many times in the past - like muscle memory. I snap out of that, of course.
I am done with Reddit. I had an idea. Just for fun I hit up Lemmy, just to see
what was there. And lo and behold we have a fucking post about the massive
reddit outage that went down today. I am all smiles at what has already happened
here and hit downdector just to confirm. Yup, almost 50k reports at peak. LMFAO.
I mean, really? My god Reddit. What are you doing? So, given the info I was
provided, I let him know that there was an outage and that was likely all the
issue was - Try again once it has resided. A few small chuckles and I thought
the story was done. Now here’s where I really lost it. I get word back a bit
later and it’s once again a one liner - ‘No. Our sad, sad admins have been
without r/sysadmin for almost two weeks now :(’ I was laughing for a good 5
minutes at just the absurdity of it all (this issue obviously doesn’t have
anything to do with the recent changes, lol), all against the background of what
we are seeing with Reddit. It also helped me realize how far reaching these
failures are actually going to be once the end of the month rolls around.
Colossal fuck up. Happy to be here on Lemmy with you boys!
