Western Digital Red 4TB Hard Disk
Just got a Western Digital 4TB hard disk to replace a failed 3TB Seagate hard disk for my Synology NAS. Never got one in such a nice packaging before (usually when I bought the hard disks, they are in just…
Category Synology
Using Synology QuickConnect
Over these many years of using Synology, I have never used their QuickConnect method to enable external access to my Synology servers. I have always used a combination of an account at DynDns (and paying for it as I need…
Trouble in Synology land again. File System Errors.
Another day, another Synology issue 🙂 I mean for my Synology server, that is.. But to be fair, this is a pretty old Synology DS1515+ already and has been well used. Every single day. Receiving tons of movies, TV serials…
RMA Amazon WD drives from Singapore
I buy hard disks from Amazon pretty often due to the free shipping to SG as well as the price difference between SG and USA Amazon. However, RMA is always going to be a challenge but so far, for Seagate…
Overheating Synology DS1511
A while back, I wrote about my attempt to replace a 4TB hard disk in my DS1511+ with a 3TB Western Digital RED hard disk. If you followed that post, you will know that I removed a 4TB hard disk…
Synology Remove a 4TB from a RAID
Thought I would share an experience recently about Synology that I have completed. I have two different Synology. A DS1511+ and a DS1813+. In my DS1511+, here’s the set up: Disk 1 : 1x4TB (don’t ask me how it ended…