My New NAS
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I hadn't really outgrown my older Sysnology NAS DS215j yet.... It supported an expandable Raid1 array, and provided a large area for backing up things on mulitple computer systems... Last month I came across a new DS718+ for a low enough price that I could add 2 new 4TB Reds and a NAS Ram Upgrade for nearly no price whatsoever... So I jumped....
I'm running it now, and 718+ runs rings around the 215j.. I'm running Surveillance System on both, but it flies on the 718+. Beauty of this is software on NAS takes stream from camera that only does ftp Pictures, and Motion Detects/Captures full 1080i/30 video! (only 1 camera now---I'm hoping to upgrade to a second later this winter... 2 free camera licenses in Surveillance Station on 215j or 718+ )
I've already got 3 other camera's ftp'ing stills to these NAS (no Limit on that that I know of!)
Reason why I'm posting all of this in Mac Forum is that on our iPhones I've loaded DS File and DS Cam.... To allow us to see and view our ftp'd and captured video from cameras, access files, archive photos, and view full 1080i30 video.... From both Local IP and Remote Locations (Using QuickConnect)... from the iPhone's....
We've been using this on both our iPhone's and love the flexibility it gives as it adds file saving and moving functions within the iPhone commands..... I've even successfully downloaded Windows files to the NAS from our iPhone and they run on windows fine!
It has made our iPhone's so much more powerful....
performance
what your overall performance specs like? if this is a NAS, where's your bottleneck? I know for large video files you're going to have some weird I/O issues at times.
After a stint of home-made
After a stint of home-made NAS's, which worked and served their purpose as file storage with little bandwidth... I had 4 ftp SD cameras pointing files at various Home-Made NAS's.... It was slow, but it worked!!
I bought a Sysnology DS-215j on the cheap.... New in box... Stuffed it with 2x 2TB Reds.... Set for Synology version of Raid 10....
That gave me insight of what bandwidth could do.... And it was at the time where I was upgrading Computers from HD to SSD and Raid 0 HD to SSD..... So as the NAS improved, the Computers did even more!!
I found that 215j would take the 4x ftp SD pictures in stride... I then bought an 3K POE camera, with 1080 Stream output... 215j accepted it. though slowed down in access... The Program running on the NAS took the stream and captured HD Video, even though camera didn't support it...
I Wanted to upgrade to a 2nd camera, but could see the writing on the wall... I needed more bandwidth....
I then found The Synology DS718+ on sale at a price that 2x 4TB reds would be essentially free, (Again set for Synology version of Raid10), and added the 4GB Ram Expansion to provide as much Horsepower to system as possible... out of the box!!
718+ is a Night and Day Difference to the 215j...
Turned off Cameras on 215j, and am using it as an Archive NAS...
Backup for Backup.... It now spends 99% of it's time in sleep mode....
I'm now searching for another POE camera.... cheaply... Most of the Wildlife here is in hibernation.... So I can take my time getting another.....
I've played around using 718+ in video editing... It works for many operations, But since SSD Raid0 runs rings around even the 718+ bandwidth, I don't see why I'd bother trying use it as a source for editing....
A 2689LMT in both our cars that we love... and a Nuvi 660 with Lifetime Maps that we have had literally forever.... And a 2011 Ford Escape with Nav System that is totally ignored!