A few weeks ago, I posted a few threads associated with getting an old 2012 Synology DS212 working. Thanks to the responses here, I finally got it updated with the latest firmware and successfully mapped as a network drive with two 4 TB Seagate Ironwolf HDDs in a RAID 1 configuration. It works fine except data transfer to it is well beyond agonizingly slow. A 130 GB test file took just under three hours to copy to the NAS with transfer speeds rapidly varying from 3 MB/s to a maximum of 25 MB/s. My home network is wired with Cat 5e, uses all Gigabit switches etc., and, in practice, does support the 1 Gbps it is supposed to support (based on my 1G internet service and the speed tests that get consistently close to that). My backup software (Backup Maker) builds the encrypted backup zip file to my desktop 4 TB SSD then, when complete, transfers the zip file to wherever I specify the file is to be saved. Usually that is to a portable encrypted Samsung SSD connected to a USB port on my desktop and even a 1.3 TB zip file transfers to it in just a handful of hours. I want to also use a NAS just for the sake of redundancy for every other backup. Unfortunately, transfer to the DS212 would have taken about 24 hours if it had not bombed with an error after about 20 hours. Obviously, the DS212 is just not going to work for me.
I have no thoughts about wasting needless energy on an impossible effort to increase the transfer rate to the DS212. It is just too old and slow to improve anything. I also do not want to buy a new Synology NAS unless I can expect a very significant decrease in the time it takes to transfer the backup file to it. 24 hours is not usable and obviously not even reliable. I am thinking of a Synology DS923+.
I would like to get some thoughts about how much faster the DS923+ would be, maybe even with just two m.2 SSDs installed in a RAID 1 config instead of HDDs. It appears from the various searches I did that the DS923+ can suck up data about four times faster than the DS212. That would make the transfer time for a 1.3 TB file about 6 hours. If my calculations are correct (Big If), and I can achieve 800 MBs over my 1 Gbps network, my network would support that transfer rate. In any case I am in an arena I have little experience with. So, I would appreciate other's thoughts before I spend a lot of money on a new NAS that will not reduce the transfer time to something a lot more reasonable than the obviously 24 hours it takes now if it does crash.
I have no thoughts about wasting needless energy on an impossible effort to increase the transfer rate to the DS212. It is just too old and slow to improve anything. I also do not want to buy a new Synology NAS unless I can expect a very significant decrease in the time it takes to transfer the backup file to it. 24 hours is not usable and obviously not even reliable. I am thinking of a Synology DS923+.
I would like to get some thoughts about how much faster the DS923+ would be, maybe even with just two m.2 SSDs installed in a RAID 1 config instead of HDDs. It appears from the various searches I did that the DS923+ can suck up data about four times faster than the DS212. That would make the transfer time for a 1.3 TB file about 6 hours. If my calculations are correct (Big If), and I can achieve 800 MBs over my 1 Gbps network, my network would support that transfer rate. In any case I am in an arena I have little experience with. So, I would appreciate other's thoughts before I spend a lot of money on a new NAS that will not reduce the transfer time to something a lot more reasonable than the obviously 24 hours it takes now if it does crash.
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