Sharing my experience of streaming HD files (max file is 35GB 1080p bluray remux) from my NAS. Using Dlink DNS-343 (2Tb*4) and my latest addition is Seagate BlackArmor 440 (3Tb*4), both on RAID-5.

Both streaming HD files with no lags at all, using SMB. All other services is turned off. Using DNS 343 for the last 3 years+ with no issues. Despite what other people ranted about the BlackArmor, I find no issues on stability so far, except for the power adapter dead within 1st week of usage (decided to get a reputable 3rd party power adapter instead of claiming warranty, beggars cannot be choosers for a cheapo 4 bay NAS on sale RM599). Yes, the write speed is slower than average NAS but read speed is good enough for HD streaming and that is all that matters for a NAS with redundancy feature for me. Just make sure firmware is updated to latest beforehand. I stream on Gb LAN and 5Ghz Wifi. Playback devices are Windows based PC with Windows Media Center, and low powered machine using XBMC.

This post has been edited by edministrator: Jan 2 2014, 09:38 AM

viewnet stock clearance in lowyat. bought it last month

i did a test for the RAID feature before I confidently dumped my data into it. copying 100GB data to it, and during halfway operation I unplugged one of the HDD. copying persists but warning on the LCD and console (also to my email) that RAID degraded. After finished copying with only 3 HDD, I replugged the 4th HDD, it rebuilds flawlessly. After rebuild I shut down and repowered, the system still works as intended.

This post has been edited by edministrator: Jan 2 2014, 10:31 AM

not really bye bye, can rebuild it on a PC with recovery software

achieved writespeed 15MB/s averagely took me around 5 days to transfer all 7Tb of data

This post has been edited by edministrator: Jan 2 2014, 01:24 PM

Using any 3 out of the 4 hdd will do in order to recover the stripped data. any type of setup also will have risk, up to us to weigh the risk factor.

yes, the speed is pretty similar to 320L but 320L in my experience can have a much higher read throughput compared to the seagate black armor. (20-25MB/s for blackarmor vs 30-35MB/s 320L)

This post has been edited by edministrator: Jan 2 2014, 01:52 PM

R-Studio is one of the recovery software that works for me.

This post has been edited by edministrator: Jan 2 2014, 02:02 PM

yes, i know the 'want' for speed in writing, lol. but seriously, it's enough for storage and I do not expect miracles from RM599 stuff. The read speed is good enough for me to stream HD without hiccups/lags, that's all that matters to me i tested rebuild for 2TB of data, takes around 16 hours.

but where to buy?

ozak better swap out other WD Red units soon. In my experience, they are usually prone to failure at the end or after the warranty period. I bought several synology NAS (deployed in SMEs) with these WD REDs installed and all failed similarly. Never again, will only purchase Iron Wolfs in the future.

There is a trick to prolong the green drives, you just need to disable the head parking timer using the wdidle3.exe file. The green firmware is so aggressively parking the head of the drives that it decreases the lifespan significantly faster. I have 4 units of 3TB green with disabled the head parking setting and they still runs in my NAS until today since 2012.

1. no browser due to security issues.
2. there is a gdrive sync app, it's called cloud sync

phone line? are you on streamyx?

if unifi, it should be fiber to ONU (huawei) -> TPLINK router -> Synology.

Also, the DDNS may not work due to Private IP:

TM Begins Migration For Select Unifi Customers From Public To Private IP

7.1 version fixes memory leak of 7.0 when using Docker applications

no matter ssd or hdd, you will be bottlenecked by your NAS LAN speed.

You are generalizing too much on cloud hosting part. It depends on the cloud hardware and infrastructure itself if you want to make speed comparisons. Speed of concurrent transfers? Speed of the host processing? Shared host? Dedicated host? etc. The cloud hosts also charges based on level of services.

NAS utilising fast hardware will get you similar or better performance compared to cloud hostings, such as by having 10Gbps connection, fast processor, running nvme storage, etc.

This post has been edited by edministrator: Mar 7 2023, 10:04 PM