New NAS
- Thread starter skippy_ps
- Start date
Yeah, I have another one at home now so I'm going to copy the music from that one to the 216J and use the other one for backup.
I use both DS Audio on the iPad and the pc interface to run mine. It's actually a little easier to use the iPad/Android app than the computer interface.
These things are great for music/file servers as well as backup.
I took the new one home and dl'd the os and AV software and will copy tunes later. I had to walk over and stick my ear up to it to see if it was running as it's very quiet.
Murray
Jeffery
High Powered Mutant
I use a 213+ to serve up music, pictures, movies (it doesn't have the horsepower to transcode on the fly, so I do that before putting them on there), they are great little units. I stream music with Sonos, JRiver, BubbleUPnP, stream movies with Roku, Kodi, or just the PC. Handy as a pocket on a shirt.
A NAS is one of those things many people wouldn't think they need until the give one a spin, now I can't imagine being without one.
A NAS is one of those things many people wouldn't think they need until the give one a spin, now I can't imagine being without one.
Yep, same here. I listen to a lot more music now as it's just so much faster and convenient. It's the bees knees.
A lot of it has to do with the capability of the wired network and file size. I get, on average, about 55-70 mb/s moving files back and forth between the nas and computers in the office. Seagate Pro with two Seagate 3tb nas drives.
They will slow way down when transferring small files like .xls and .doc files. The Seagate nas has jumbo frames enabled which makes a big difference on large files.
Murray
Jeffery
High Powered Mutant
I have 20K hours on mine presently, and it's an earlier model than Skippy has. Very reliable, and the GUI is great - lots of thought went into it. I've never tried any USB transfers, ethernet only, but it zips right along there. 80~90MB/s transfers over the whole network. HGST 7K4000 4TB Ultrastar drives.
Not sure if it'll show up, a screen shot on 4K monitor can make things kinda tiny. Resized the graph, it was way to tiny.
Last edited:
Just to see what the current speed is, I just copied 1,280 files totaling 10.0 gb and got 70 mb/s to the Seagate Pro NAS. Mixture of files from <1k to about 40mb.
I'll check on what the Synology NAS does tonight.
Murray
BlindBoyGrnt
Nullius in verba
Is the fan fairly quiet?
I have it sitting about 5' from me and can't hear it at all. I believe that the fan speed can be adjusted on this one but I haven't looked for that yet.
Murray
Just transferred about 80 gb of music files (mostly .wav and .flac) and the average speed was 40 mb/s. From DS214 to DS216J.
Murray
BlindBoyGrnt
Nullius in verba
I'm going to check this out. I want another NAS to use just for playing music, and I want it in the credenza with the rest of the living room stereo gear.
Thanks Murray.
Fan speed and led brightness adjustable in Control Panel/Hardware and Power. Not all of the Synology nas's have that feature so check it out at the Synology web site.
Murray
I left the fan speed at "medium" which seems to work fine - drives were reporting 29 - 31 C. I did turn the leds nearly all the way down as they can be annoying.
I have Seagate nas drives in the DS214 and they make no noticeable racket. I also have a Seagate nas with WD Red drives and they constantly make this clunk-clunk sound and that gets tiresome really fast. But, with the WD Red drives in the 216J, they don't do that, they're just as quiet as the Seagate drives. So, it must be something in the Seagate nas os that is constantly polling the drives. No noticeable vibration from either the Seagate or WD nas drives.
Murray
