Reply To: Synology NAS ISCSI Query “topic moved” Hi all, Does anyone have a Synology NAS and setup iSCSI? Totally new to ISCSI, never used it before. My HP microserver HD is getting a bit old now and…

[kev2021]

Hi, no not yet, it seems on closer look, the gen 10 only seems to support 6.7 not version 7.0 so wondering if a new microserver is due?  Also looking to see if any other makes do small microserver type machines which maybe include a raid card etc for hopefully cheaper money :)

Yes, my synology nas is in raid 5 BUT I’m effectively up to what is considered the safe limit and if I was to expand it, i need to move to raid 6 which effectively means buying 2 drives to increase capacity as 1 would be used for the parity etc so that the raid could suffer upto 2 drive failures at the same time. Hence my idea to maybe se ISCSI but upon looking I’m seeing some reports of slowness and poor performance so I think i might just get 2 drives for the server and mirror them and move the data to those for now – probably the cheapest and safest option as the micro server has 4 drive bays and I’m only using 2 (1 esxi OS, 1 vm’s)

Also no clear info yet on the gen 10 and solution seems to be to use a USB stick with bootable esxi on it inside the server and then use the drives in sata mode as regular drives but i tend to leave server on and not sure I’m keen on leaving a USB stick plugged into the server internally 24/7 with it being on etc.

Also I’ve recently found out there are to be some changes at my work and effectively we are being asked to do our existing role plus a role that is considered a entry level position so will see what happens here as not sure if they can enforce this or if they are simply trying there luck so at the moment I’ve decided to hold fire, see how this goes and i think win2012 is EOL in 2025 so prices may come down or newer boxes appear.  In currently climate, finding a new job not overly easy as lots of people working from home etc.

My existing PC I’ve also is covered doesn’t meet the criteria for windows 11 so I’m going to have to update that also (yep – everything is come round at once lol) but I lasted updated this PC prob 2012 or maybe earlier, its a i5 CPU but prob a 2nd gen or similar and apparently I saw today they up to 12th gen lol.

Also going to downsize my PC, have a zalman full tower case, which was great when i got it as it has a handy door on the front I push and it opens and i can slide in/out the drives… However, the issue is the card they put in the case for this is only sata 3.. so when i use sata 6 drives, i get very very poor performance/hanging and tons of errors in the event log, soon as i bypass it and go direct with the sata cable, all is well so so going to get a micro atx case now so can make it bit smaller as I seldom use CD/DVDs and I no longer need multiple drives in my machine, I’m just going to have 2 going forward.  m.2 drive for OS and either a SSD or HD for data as I got one 4b HD now so will just re-instate it.

Kev

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