try this tutorial, pretty straight forward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWvCN2j7xjo

That's why is worthwhile to get a domain. set up your cname to point to your ddns. setup reverse proxy with the certificates. you are golden. quickconnect can't allow you to access your docker apps only synology ones which is a major downside. quickconnect file transfers are way too slow, another downside.

This post has been edited by mintgadget: Jan 9 2021, 07:05 AM

if you haven't started the journey of building your NAS, you should seriously consider Synology being a strong advocate for them because of its reliability and ease of use OS. If you are technically incline, suggest you get the plus models ie DS220+/DS420+/DS720...... and the list go on, coz it x86 architecture good for dockers and more. Nowadays we all have "good" internet most of the time anyway if you are in the city area. A simple NAS with mounted cloud drive i.e google/dropbox/box will give access to more space than you will ever need especially you are wiling to shell out for a single user google enterprise account for now is still unlimited after the change to google workspace, business accounts has be capped and probably lose the unlimited storage sometime down the road. look up rclone to do file transfers. some chinese group released gclone some time early last year which bypasses the 750gb daily limit. unfortunately, it now late in the day and google has capped it down to something like 2TB daily. many have been moving hundred of TBs for the longest time but like all good things must come to an end

is a fact synology OS is just a very polished *nix GUI. Looks pretty and easy to setup, they follow the Apple philosophy, keep it simple, less is more strategy. well try out their demo at demo.synology.com you will see how fantastic their OS is. I am in no way affiliated to them but have started using Synology since day 1 and have been very fond of their products and services.

sure no probs... here is a suggestion, since your got quite powerful spec parts... sell them i am sure somebody would want them. then buy a synology... lol j/k enjoy your journey is NAS building. cheers

actually as long as your drive has no partitions setup for synology before you can use the drive and storage manager will be able to handle them. if they were from another volume or pool or different synology, it will be picked up, that is how they handle migrations all volume information is stored in the drive when synology preps it for volume building. if they were used before a simple diskpart and clean volume will kill it and is ready for consumption in your nas

if you have only a few bad sectors and does not increase over time I suggest you keep it. RMA DOES NOT guarantees you a good drive, most of the time they are not new drives rather repaired or refurbished ones. Synology already allocated 10% of your drive in case bad sectors occurred so that can be mapped as bad and not to write on it. Bad sectors will tend to happen over time but as long it does increase in an alarming rate your drive should be fine.

If possible your company should consider Google Workspace Business that comes with at the "moment" unlimited storage for shared drive (aka Team drive). With that paired with a NAS you can schedule a rsync cron job to the shared drive and have an ideal backup solution (backup of a backup - local and cloud). Furthermore with Synology Active Backup for Google Workspace you are able to backup your company Google account's locally with a pretty sweet local portal access. Xpenology is actually some sort of grey area in terms of legality for commercial use better not risk it furthermore you get a lot of Synology cloud benefits with Synology Account. DSM 7 is pretty neat, go try it out.

You should monitor awhile before you RMA your drive. Just because you do a RMA doesn't mean you will get a "new" drive, mostly refurbished. Furthermore your warranty is for 3-5 years depending on the model of drive. The NAS can take a hit of bad sectors on hdd that is why Synology reserved 10% off the total drive space for this, to relocate bad sectors. If your bad sectors are not growing you are better off with your current drive. This is only my opinion after RMA'ing many drives before. I have received dud drives before after RMA too.

I guess many possibilities could have happen, even if you have changed the hdd and another drive failed volume crashed would have still happened. If your data is crucial requiring HA better SHR-2 or Raid 6. Drives failing is common nowadays is really depends on luck. But in his case over 10k bad sectors that is really bad.

if I get you right, currently you have 7 drives on shr-2 and one drive died. when you pull that drive out to rma and put another drive in say the last bay it will repair itself. the sata positioning does not matter, the OS is built to detect the drive order again, so I don't think it will expand the storage. that's if I got your scenario correctly.

container manager is awesome in 7.2

Recently migrated all my dockers to Proxmox LXCs. This dude has made it super simple with his scripts. Check it out --> https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/

Pretty sweet..