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,

:) My raid 5 is made up of 5 drives and looking online, this seems to be what they suggest is the max in terms of not running into problems.  They suggest if going beyond 5 drives, to move to raid 6 for additional protection of 2 drives being able to fail and not just 1.

My nas has 3 empty drive bays so I can add more drives but I’m considering not and I’m currently thinking I’ll keep these 3 drives so that IF I run out of space, it may work out cheaper to buy 3 larger drives and move content over to that and then add drive(s) in future, as opposed to buying 5 larger drives and replacing 1 drive at a time and waiting hours/days for the raid rebuild to complete for each drive.  I did this when up upgraded from my smaller drives and it took best part of 24hrs to rebuild each drive so i did it over 2 weeks replacing 1 drive, letting the array rebuild, leave it for a day or two to ensure was all ok and also power the nas of and on to ensure all ok before replacing the next drive.

Don’t have any unifi stuff, have looked at it but bit expensive so decided to just get the ASUS router in the end plus at the time there was lots of reports of issues with the USG and BT You View not working and having to go in and manually alter some code etc which sounded a bit unnecessary and should of worked out the box as it does with very other router.   So decided to avoid that as we had BT You View at the time but now no longer have it.  Plus I have *limited* access to unifi in work (we have 1 switch and AP for meeting rooms on 1 floor) and we had some issues with ipads connecting to it after a update/reboot of the ipad if SSID is hidden, it just wont reconnect even though all info is saved etc.  Only way is to make SSID visible, connect all ipads for about 1 hour then hide the SSID.  If you do it any sooner, the ipads just disconnect. Very odd.

No UPS here.  Fortunately power doesn’t go off hardly at all and on odd occasions, everything has been fine.

Router – no issue just boots back up

switch – no issue just boots backup

Nas – boots up ok and just warns of incorrect shutdown

microserver – n issue just boots back up, OS’s will complain of improper shut down but they all come back up.

I started to look at home automation, installed it in docker and started to set bits up BUT then I got the Asus router, setup all my IoT on a separate wireless network which my nas is not part of so of course it no longer seems them lol so I’ve either got to make the IoT wireless have access to internal network or not bother and leave as is.  At the moment, they operated though apps so its not a major issue, it’s just not all the same brand so would of been nice to have them all in one place to control as needed.

Kev

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