Have Synology DS1513+ and looking for something more future proof

[sub-80]

Hey yall;

Got Synology DS1513+ for 3 years now and have almost reached max capacity (14Tb). And am looking for a more future proof setup.


Thanks;

 

[Viper GTS]

What does future proof mean to you in this context? Are you using it like a server or just storage? Are you trying to have growth for space, performance, new features/codecs?

Any appliance like that locks you into that ecosystem unless you're willing to move your data. You can buy a bigger Synology and move disks/expand volume etc or you can move your data now and go to something that you can upgrade.

For me the per slot costs on a Synology big enough to handle my needs put me solidly into build my own territory. I settled on ZFS and spent a while on Nexenta Community Edition before eventually exporting my volumes and importing into FreeNAS where I've been ever since.

ZFS IMO is the right place to be if you're serious about keeping your data and capable of supporting yourself. Synology would probably be my choice if I wanted something that just worked, so getting a bigger or more powerful Synology is a perfectly acceptable answer to your dilemma.

Viper GTS

 

[sub-80]

ZFS seems like a hassle.

I thinking of incrementing capacity with time, so I think I need a raid configuration.

Synology has their own raid config SHR, which apparently reduces wasted storage.

I currently have ASUS X99 E-WS/3.1 motherboard in my main pc or can get another MB.

 

[Malogeek]

You have a DS1513+ and you're not using SHR? What are you using, JBOD? How many drives do you have in it?

The DS1513+ is very scalable, able to attach more drive bay units to it to scale beyond 5 drive bays.

 

[rchunter]

Yeah If you go beyond 5 drives in your DS1513+ with the synology add-on chassis you should use SHR-2 dual parity just to be safe.

Also you already have a ASUS X99 E-WS/3.1. That board has tons of onboard sata3 ports + raid. Depending how big of case you have you could rig up a pretty large array using the onboard ports with a bunch of 8TB HDD. Get a full sized tower like fractal design XL R2. That case has like 8 3.5" bays in it.