As this community is just starting, I thought learning more about each other’s setups would be interesting.

I’ll go first:

  • DS916
  • 4x8TB Hard Drives: 3 WD Reds, 1 Seagate Ironwolf (oldest drive is 53,150 hours or just over 6 years)

I haven’t had to replace anything yet (knock on wood)!

  • Steve Anonymous@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    I have three synology units right now. I run no docker software on any of them.

    I have a ds1821+ that just has tv and movies on it. I’m currently using 13 of 61 TB.

    I have a ds918+ with a dx517 attached. It has two storage pools, one for each device. The 918 is used for backing up photos and music. The 517 has a complete backup performed nightly of the 1821. I’m currently using 14 of 38 TB.

    And last I have a ds220+. It’s a small guy full of personal documents, info and work cheat sheets. I’m using 2 of 9TB.

    I use a r610 dell blade server to download files and use handbrake to encode them onto the hard drive.

    All units are in a purpose built server room in my garage complete with air conditioning and insulation. See pics

    The units

    The server rack and room (it’s messy, what server room isn’t?)

    Pic of the networking side

    And finally the room has become a late night hangout and we have painted/ drawn on the walls in uv reactive paint so the whole thing lights up under black light

    Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

    Edit: huh only one of my pics posted. Oh well

    • TotallyNotABot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I regret I only have only one up vote (or whatever they’re called on lemmy) to give to this post. This is my dream… congrats on an awesome setup.

  • bubu@feddit.deM
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m running

    • a DS923+ (36 GB RAM, 2x 4 GB WD Red Plus (CMR)) in a SHR + IronWolf 4 TB (hot spare) as my main NAS and
    • a DS218+ (12 GB RAM, 1x Seagate Ironwolf 3 GB, 1x WD Red Plus 2 GB (CMR) in a RAID-0) as my backup machine (in a remote location).

    I have a 115j lying around which still works, but I have no use for it any longer (it was my backup machine before I bought the 923+). I might try to sell it, but I’m not sure someone would want it (although as a simple private cloud (i.e. just Synology Drive) it works okay, I guess).

    I run some services (Gitea, Planka, Portainer, airsonic, Penpot, Stirling PDF, Homebox, Benotes, speed tracker) and want to get either Plane or Leantime for project planning (as Jira replacement). I’m also still trying to get Wallabag to run and want to take a closer look at Omnivore and Joplin, as I’m still looking for a good read-it-later solution.

  • Brock@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Might get shit on here. What’s the most cost effective synology I can use for a plex server that can run maybe 2 plex streams at 1080 or one 4k?

    • bratling@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      Man, almost anything now. Transcoding isn’t really needed very often since streaming sticks (Roku, AppleTV, Fire, etc) now reliably have hardware video decoders. So, almost all the NAS has to do is shove the file over the network. Almost the only way you’d need transcoding is if you wanted to stream video out of your home network to remote devices.

      So, if my guess that you won’t need transcoding is correct, then just buy the cheapest NAS that has a couple drive bays.

      (There is such a thing as too slow. I have a 2014-vintage Synology DS214se, which was the low end model even then, and Plex clients take up to a minute to load all movie posters, and it can take a minute for a video stream to start. But if you are buying something made in the past few years this won’t really be an issue.)

      The Synology DS220j would probably be my pick for that. Or maybe the 120j if you don’t care about data redundancy.

    • gadgetzombie@feddit.nl
      1·
      1 year ago

      Any nas will do for storage (if you can get a + model though for BTRFS) and then for Plex get an Intel NUC or Dell Micro with any Intel chip with UHD graphics 730 with I believe is anything after 10th gen

  • citizen_lemmy@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago
    • DS920+
    • 3x 6TB IronWolf HDDs
    • 20GB RAM
    • 10 Docker containers

    Also have an older DS216j which I now use for certain non-critical backups as it lacks BTRFS.

    Can’t figure out why a normal image gets flipped when I upload it. Ah, well.

  • smstnitc@lemmy2.addictmud.org
    0·
    1 year ago

    Synology’s

    • DS2419+ (105TB of usable space, 80tb in use, 12 drives, mix of 8tb to 14tb drives, 32gb ram)
    • DS1821+ (90TB of usable space, 60tb in use, 2 10tb, 4 16tb drives, 32gb ram)
    • DS620slim (4.5TB usable space, 2TB in use, 6 1TB SSD’s, 16gb ram)

    They all have been running 24/7 since I purchased them. In the last 4 years I’ve only had five drives go bad bad, but I’ve done quite a few replacements for upgrades. I had filled the 12 bay with a mix of 2TB and 4TB drives when I first got it in 2019. I have a container of 18 HDD’s of various sizes that I wish I had a use for.

    • bubu@feddit.deM
      1·
      1 year ago

      Hooooly …, you are really determined and serious about disk space, huh? 🤣 That’s impressive! (And expensive, I guess.) I only have about 4 TB usable space (2x 4 TB in a SHR plus hot spare plus backup disks as a RAID-0), which is plenty for what I use it for at the moment.

      • smstnitc@lemmy2.addictmud.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        Ha, yeah, I’ve been burned a few times by not having backups. Aside from backups, the majority is backups of my DVD / Blu-ray collection. When I was single in most of the 2000’s I was at best buy every Tuesday, buying the latest shows and movies to come out on disc 😂

  • bratling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for starting! I’m another refugee from Reddit.

    I have two:

    • DS220+ – 2x8TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro – primary device, running a bunch of containers including Plex (of course) and some actually useful ones like Paperless-ngx.
    • DS214se – 2x4tb Western Digital Red (CMR) – backup target for the other one, i will be sending it to my dad to be my off-site. (I host his off-site at my home; the DS214se was a hand-me-down/gateway drug.)