New NAS drive
I splashed out on a lovely new NAS. A Synology DS218 Plus, the most powerful two-drive NAS enclosure made by the guys from Taiwan.
Currently containing two 4TB Seagate GrayWolf NAS hard drives, it comes with 2GB RAM (expandable to 6 or 8. Can't remember which) and has an Intel Celeron processor of some kind. It'll do video transcoding on the fly, run more audio and video streams than we need and run Bliss, Plex, local and cloud backup programs, apps for my business, yadda yadda yadda...
And the old one is still going strong into its ninth year. It was just running out of puff. Syno gives you a nice backup program to (amongst many other options) back up one NAS to another. I'll run the old enclosure until it finally dies. Used for backup, the speed (or lack) of the old drive doesn't matter. If it goes bang in the short term, I'll replace it with something secondhand; if it's a bit longer and I'm feeling flush, I'll replace the 218+ with something more powerful, again. I'll then use the 218+ for backup.
Currently containing two 4TB Seagate GrayWolf NAS hard drives, it comes with 2GB RAM (expandable to 6 or 8. Can't remember which) and has an Intel Celeron processor of some kind. It'll do video transcoding on the fly, run more audio and video streams than we need and run Bliss, Plex, local and cloud backup programs, apps for my business, yadda yadda yadda...
And the old one is still going strong into its ninth year. It was just running out of puff. Syno gives you a nice backup program to (amongst many other options) back up one NAS to another. I'll run the old enclosure until it finally dies. Used for backup, the speed (or lack) of the old drive doesn't matter. If it goes bang in the short term, I'll replace it with something secondhand; if it's a bit longer and I'm feeling flush, I'll replace the 218+ with something more powerful, again. I'll then use the 218+ for backup.
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Despite the Syno appearing to only be using 1.5GB of its 2, I decided to upgrade the RAM. While Syno says you can on add 4 gigs, the Interwebs say you can add 8. I added 8. Less than 40 quid from Amazon.
After 24 hours, the Syno is using some 2.5 GB of RAM with nothing much happening. Everything feels nicely speedy, too.
Seems the supplied RAM was throttling things a bit.
And two of these: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LOOJBQY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
But take your pick according to how much storage you need.
Additional memory: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00LTV2BBK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Alan B will be able to tell you about the QNAP equivalent, I think.
What software would you recommend (Micrblob Doorframe Based) to convert DVD files to MP4 and AAC 98KB
These days, it's a two-stage process to copy your DVDs (works for BluRay, too):
- MakeMKV - https://www.makemkv.com/download/
- Handbrake - https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php
They both come in Windoze flavours.Now I have been told to go to sleep, today Barts trip was pain filled and the wounds hurts like hell.
How are you feeling today?