[Discuss] Mothballing Synology NAS

[Richard Pieri]

On 2/20/2018 8:09 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> syncoid is exactly what I need.
> Perhaps sanoid, too, but I want to see it running for a while.

Or not what I need. Rather, I couldn't quite get it to do what I want.
It did give me the clues I needed to do it myself which for me is good
enough.

Got the two StarTech docks. Sticking with eSATA for these. The ASRock
board supports eSATA hotplug when the ports are set to eSATA mode in the
firmware. Spinning platters are the I/O limit here (~110-115 MB/s
sustained write) so it came down to the fact that the USB/SATA bridge
(JMicron) passes a string of zeroes as the drives' serial numbers so
only one appears in /dev/disk/by-id at a time.

So yeah. Done. Good little project. In particular I really like the Node
304 case. The design leaves a lot of open space above the motherboard
and the sides are wide open with the cover removed. The only time it
felt cramped to work in was when I was plugging in the eSATA bracket
cables because I didn't want to dismantle the power supply.

-- 
Rich P.