![]() I wouldn’t recommend upgrading the RAM immediately. Likewise, Synology would have designed the DS420+ assuming a total of 6GB of DDR4. A mainboard manufacturer would have selected components (e.g., capacitors, resistors, voltage regulators, etc.) for the intended maximum memory capacity. ![]() It’s extra load on the mainboard, power supply and cooling fans. Then there are also the pair of M.2 slots for optional SSDs.ġ6GB of DDR4 would increase the power draw by just over 21% on the 28.3W baseline reference. The 6TB Red Pro pulls 7.2W during read/writes (+3.9W compared to a WD10EFRX). The WD Red Pro has a 7200RPM spindle speed so it requires more power than the Red and Red Plus models. Synology says that the DS420+ consumes 28.30 watts when the internal drives are being accessed (based on a stock unit populated with four WD10EFRX, aka “1TB Western Digital Red Plus”).Ī WD10EFRX pulls 3.3W during read/write activity, a Celeron J4025 has a 10W TDP at full load, and 2GB of DDR4 requires about 0.75W (rule of thumb is that every 8GB of DDR4 requires 3W of power). Having said that, a few things to consider… Pick a module that other DS420+ owners have confirmed to work without any issues. ![]() Should you do it? Sure, the risk of damage is tiny as long as the memory module is the right type and well made. However, others on this forum, Reddit, YouTube and elsewhere have reported success with higher capacity modules. Intel states that the maximum supported RAM is 8GB (ideally as a pair of 4GB modules for dual-channel performance). Synology’s DS420+ uses Intel’s Celeron J4025 which was released in late 2019. Generally speaking, it’s best to follow a manufacturer’s recommendations but there’s often some leeway in the specifications because the recommendations are chosen based on components readily available at the time and to allow for variances in every component. The base 2GB of RAM in the DS420+ is likely to be too low if you’re planning on running any additional services besides SMB and/or NFS along with Duplicacy if the volume of data to be backed up is going to be hundreds of gigabytes, so consider maxing out the empty memory slot (4GB DIMM for a total of 6GB).Īfter looking this up - I saw that many had success with putting in RAM modules of larger size (e.g. (I have a QNAP, and have found their Qsirch app to be virtually useless.) The advantage of a NAS-based search app is that it can maintain a single copy of its index on the NAS without transferring files over the LAN. I’m using X1 Search 8.6.2, an old version. My recollection is that Windows search doesn’t support network drives. Performance might be an issue for something like editing video files. (Note that the max transfer rate of SATA III hard drives is 6Gbps.) Each PC has a second SSD that I thought I’d use for temp storage when working on large image files, but I rarely bother to use this anymore. I recently upgraded to 10Gbps, and haven’t noticed a dramatic improvement. My most I/O intensive applications are Lightroom and Photoshop, which ran just fine over a 1Gbps connection. ![]() I’ve been running everything off the NAS for over 10 years, so I’m not sure if the performance is “indistinguishable”. how much of a performance hit should i expect (assuming the NAS hosts 16TB WD red pros) ? if i watch movies directly through the network drive, move files around, do searches, etc. But is the behavior of this “mounted” style of usage good enough to be indistinguishable for regular use? e.g. ![]()
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