So, I've got a couple of Synology NAS boxes at home.

Post #438,708 by Another Scott 3/16/21 9:29:53 PM 3/16/21 9:29:53 PM Reply	So, I've got a couple of Synology NAS boxes at home. A 2-bay DS214 and a 4-bay DS918+. When I set up the 918+ a year or so ago, I got a couple of 500 GB NVMe sticks to use as cache memory. I just noticed tonight that they were not being used because I never went through the process in the Storage Manager to initialize them. :-/ It's always been faster than the 214 (much more RAM, Celeron vs Marvell, etc.). I'll bet it will get a bump when the cache is working too! Cheers, Scott.
Post #438,709 by a6l6e6x 3/16/21 10:28:41 PM 3/16/21 10:28:41 PM Reply	Is there something you cam measure before and after? Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #438,710 by Another Scott 3/16/21 10:33:52 PM 3/16/21 10:33:52 PM Reply	Maybe... But I've already turned it on and it's part of the volume now. It would probably break something if I turned it off. :-) I don't normally care about transfer speeds with the thing (we do most of our stuff over WiFi, so that's the main bottleneck), but anything that takes load off the CPU on these little boxes is a good thing! Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #438,711 by drook 3/17/21 12:56:21 AM 3/17/21 12:56:21 AM Reply	Damn, what kind of work are you doing that needs that? -- Drew
Post #438,712 by pwhysall 3/17/21 1:58:51 AM 3/17/21 1:58:51 AM Reply	Re: Damn, what kind of work are you doing that needs that? Collecting gentlemen's art films :p I have only two types of data stored locally - my music (although i use Spotify a lot nowadays) and my photography (raws, Lightroom catalogues, PSD files). Both are also on my OneDrive, so they're synced to the cloud anyway. I've never been one for accumulating video; anything I want to keep gets bought on Blu-Ray/DVD.
Post #438,714 by drook 3/17/21 9:58:40 AM 3/17/21 9:58:40 AM Reply	Read that again, he's not talking about storage He's talking about 1 TB of cache. -- Drew
Post #438,715 by Another Scott 3/17/21 11:53:27 AM 3/17/21 11:53:27 AM Reply	RAID 1 - 500 GB Hey, it's there, it's paid for, I might as well have it turned on. ;-) It's mainly TimeMachine backups for our Macs, though there are lots of photos from our various cameras as well. The DS214 is full and ungodly slow in its present state, so I have decided to finally decommission it and add a couple more 12 GB drives to the 918 so I won't have to worry about it for a while. 5+ years out of 2x4 GB on the DS214 with no issues, so I'm pretty happy. Cheers, Scott.
Post #438,719 by drook 3/17/21 6:16:45 PM 3/17/21 6:16:45 PM Reply	Oh, so you're a digital hoarder Is it time for an intervention? -- Drew
Post #438,721 by a6l6e6x 3/17/21 11:06:08 PM 3/17/21 11:06:08 PM Reply	:) Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #438,722 by Another Scott 3/18/21 11:00:53 AM 3/18/21 11:00:53 AM Reply	I'm Ok. So far. I'm not Steve Mann. I'm not a LifeLogger. ;-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #438,723 by pwhysall 3/18/21 11:50:47 AM 3/18/21 11:50:48 AM Reply	I recommend curating your photos, if you're not already You don't need 15 very slightly different attempts at that shot of you standing in front of that thing on holiday. Pick the best one, delete the rest. You'll thank me later. Also, it means that you'll actually look at them after taking them, which I'm pretty convinced doesn't happen for the vast majority of digital photos. Or do what some of my friends on FB do, which is share an album of 150 pictures which is actually only really 20 or so. Many photo libraries now are just terabytes of digital sludge.
Post #438,725 by Another Scott 3/18/21 12:50:17 PM 3/18/21 12:50:17 PM Reply	One of my retirement tasks. It'll be a while. :-) Thanks.
Post #438,726 by drook 3/18/21 2:40:56 PM 3/18/21 2:40:56 PM Reply	Please contribute to my Kickstarter, "Digital Sludge" Cheap cloud storage for for stuff you'll probably never look at again. -- Drew

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