Synology DS1819+ 10Gb NAS Complete Setup SHR2 Is 4K Video Editing possible over 10Gb connection?!!

hello there I'm guessing if you found this video then you are probably where I was a couple of weeks ago when I was researching the heck out of how to find and set up some kind of high-performance network attached storage or NAS device that you can use in your home or office to safely store and work with very large amounts of data I needed a solution and pretty quickly because I'm just running out of space and my local hard drive on my iMac Pro that I have in front of me here especially since I've started up a brand new YouTube channel and I'm also starting up a new business along with doing videography and the aerial cinematography and a lot of this work is being done in 4k which you can just gobble up your entire hard drive space in the blink of an eye especially if you happen to be working on multiple versions of your projects at the same time so today we're going to take a look at how to set up a new Synology NAS device specifically there 8 bay DS 1819 plus DiskStation I've never set up something like this before so we're gonna figure this out together now I heard that it's feasible to edit video directly unannounced device over a 10 gig network connection but I don't know if it's going to be possible to do this at 4k so that's something that we're gonna have to take a look at here I did try to plan and prepare for eventually working with a more substantial remote network attached storage device when we renovated the lower level of our house here and I ran by myself about a mile of cat 6a cable all throughout the downstairs space and upstairs through the attic where I dropped cables down into pretty much all the upstairs rooms effectively retrofitting my entire house with cat6 network cables as a quick side note and my previous homes and including this one I've had the opportunity to be involved with new construction and one of the most important pieces of advice I can offer you if you happen to be building or working with new construction is to make sure that you run a three inch PVC pipe that goes from the Attic all the way through to the basement through a wall or a closet to just cover all of the floors in the home because if you do this you're gonna be future proofed for any cabling needs that you may have down Road I didn't want to waste anyone's time with an unboxing I already took all the equipment out of the box as you can see here and I really just wanted to get the most important bits and jump right into the installation but before we do let's go over one of the goals of this video that I really want to figure out and that is I do want to see is it possible to edit 4k video directly on the NAS and also to what degree do we see any kind of limitations or performance degradation when editing and working with a 4k project directly on the nez now the answer to this is kind of critical because it'll basically define what kind of workflow is necessary in terms of file management to get the required performance in other words if the editing performance isn't adequate I'm gonna have to figure out a way to work locally and then save and store the finished files and assets separately which of course we know is possible but ideally I want to be able to work straight off than as if I can so what do you need to have to run a 10 gig network so if you're running from your computer to your nez the simplest setup is basically going to be a direct connection from your computer to the NAS Drive and in that case you need an interface on your computer or your laptop that supports a 10 gig e speed via and a network card or some kind of an adapter and run the cable directly from the computer straight into them as now while this setup is rather simple it does have some drawbacks it will not allow anyone else on the network to use them as and also it requires the Nazz to basically be sitting on your desk or in the same room which is not always ideal a more advanced setup is going to be to try to run connections to the Nazz through a switch that's capable of switching packets at 10 Giggy speeds now this is going to allow you to do more complex things with a switch like have multiple people access the nas via the switch so you can have all the computers in your home or office network to be able to back up their files there for example now not all the computers need to support 10 gig e speed to access the switch only the computers that will require it but for those devices that do need 10 gig speed they each need to have some kind of 10 gig card and capability and your switch needs to have enough 10-gig e ports and connections to support all the computers and devices that you want to run 10 gig to so in my case my iMac Pro here is the only device in our home that needs that capability at this time also my switch has only 2 10 gig II ports one going in and one going out and that's fine nobody else needs that performance right now and I can always upgrade the switch later if I need to but I can backup all the other computers in the house to the NAS at one gig speed which is plenty fast for that task for the more advanced setup with a switch and not just a direct connection your computer needs to support 10 gig internally as I described with a card or an adapter and as a side note if you're a Mac user like I am only the Mac Primack Pro and the almighty Mac Pro supports Negi native 10 gig capability via an rj45 port in the back the regular iMac and MacBook Pros do not but I'm pretty sure that with an adapter you can achieve 10 gig speeds or greater through their Thunderbolt 3 connections now it's vital that all and I mean all your network cabling between your computer and your nas are of the highest quality possible-- that's going from the wall outlet the cables you know that go inside the wall even the patch cables that you may have that are going from a patch panel to your switch and out to your nez they all need to connect through the highest quality cables that are rated for 10 gig speeds over the distances that you have to cover if any one cable is subpar and/or not rated or properly shielded you're not going to get the desired performance I've read a number of reviews on Amazon regarding cables that are rated for 10 gig speeds that fail to deliver and ultimately result in a lot of unhappy customers and my case the distance between this computer here and then as in the AV closet in the other room is probably about 50 linear feet so it's a relatively short distance and I've run very thick cat 6a cabling which has quite a bit of a thicker shielding and it's really quite stiff to work with so I kind of over built the network here on my part but I just want to make sure I point out to purchase the highest quality cable as possible so if you're not connecting your computer directly to the NAS you will need a switch that's capable of switching packets at 10 gig speeds this will be noted as having one or more sfp+ ports which are guaranteed to switch at 10 gig speeds not just SFP ports those are only guaranteed to switch at one gig you need sfp+ ports so look for that on your switch the switch that I recently installed is from ubiquity it's their 48 port switch and this has two of the available ports that are sfp+ ports and it also has two SFP ports and it also is a managed switch in a managed switch if you don't know basically means it has the ability to support separate sub networks commonly referred to as VLANs or virtual LANs that let you isolate traffic from each other and this is useful if you want to cordon off traffic seen by your smart devices in the home from say your work and office computers and files there as well as set up a guest network and maybe a separate network for your cameras and even a kids network if you want to isolate their traffic from the rest of the traffic on your network for any reason so the last device in the chain that you're going to need of course is a network attached storage drive that is specifically capable of handling 10 gig traffic to and from the device so again the device I'm gonna install here is the Synology des 1819 plus disks ation it holds 8 drives and after doing tons of research I decided to go with Synology because of the very positive reviews that I read on their support reliability and especially the software management system which I haven't actually tried yet but from what I've read from many people that are a lot smarter than myself it seems to be really easy to use interface wise and they have a very straightforward proprietary raid scheme that makes it easy to swap out drives if one or more fail while maintaining cell the performance so one more thing that you may or may not already know is that you do not need your router in your network to support 10 gig speeds to achieve 10 gig performance between two or more devices in the network so long as those devices are in the same sub Network or the same VLAN VLANs and networking may be a little new to you they are certainly new to me as of just a couple of months ago but it's okay if it's a new concept there's a ton of great resources out there on YouTube that can explain what these are in great detail and eventually I'm gonna make a video of my own network set up here where I figured all this stuff out and I'll take you through how I set all this stuff up anyway let's take a look at the goodies that we need to install and the tasks that we need to perform to get all this stuff rolling so this is the Synology disk station hmm right now it is empty and it's pretty heavy well that's good I spent a lot of money on it should feel heavy I'm gonna be putting in five Seagate six terabyte iron wolf high speed 7200 rpm drives and together it started now Synology has a really cool raid calculator on their website that shows you the amount of space that you'll have available for use depending on what size and how many drives you intend to use the raid calculator is very cool and you can see how you can swap out bigger drives later on in real time and just hot swap them out for it drives up a larger size and see how that affects your storage configuration so going over all of the different raid configurations and how they work is beyond the scope of this video there are a ton of videos that explain what each raid level achieves but one of the things I really liked about Synology is they have a proprietary raid configuration called SH R which stands for Synology hybrid raid that makes it easier to manage and handle raid expansion even with a newbie like me and achieve a similar or better level of performance from what I can tell but for now I'm choosing to go with the SH r2 configuration which will allow me to fail up to two drives and still keep all the data intact while the drives are being hot swapped out and replaced now the main reason I'm going with SH r2 vs. SH r1 is that basically if you have a failed drive with SH r1 while you're in the middle of swapping it out if you happen to have a an additional failure then you can lose the whole array with SH r2 it affords just another level of in the event of a failed drive when you're replacing and rebuilding a failed Drive now you pay for the extra security because you don't get to use as much of the total available drive space that you would with sh r1 but for me it just makes a little bit more sense to make that trade-off for the extra data security and peace of mind now there are a few other tasks that we have to perform in order to get this thing working this particular Synology model is what they call 10 gig e ready meaning I can't just plug it into one of these ports on the back here and expect to get 10 gig working right off the bat this unit has an internal expansion slot I think it's over here that lets you plug in a card to raise the efficiency of the device I'm going to put this over here you can either put in one of two things you can either put in 1s SD card but basically contains a small little SSD drive right on the card and this allows the unit to work much faster by caching a bunch of its calculations locally thereby increasing the unit's internal speed or you can instead install what we're going to install here today which is a 10 gig network interface card or NIC for short now what if we could have both the SSD drive and 10 gig network capability well in the making of this video I literally just happen to be searching and I discovered that a product is being made right now for Synology it's a new card that contains both in one card it's a brand new product and it won't be available till close to the end of the year but I will definitely be watching to see what the reviews are like on this when it eventually comes out we just don't know yet how the performance is going to work with 10 gig so we're gonna do some tests here but if there is room to improve then this card may be something that I'll look into down the road so back to the tasks that we have to perform to get this going as I said we got to put in 5 6 terabyte hard drives they have 5 of these this is what one of them looks like in a box we have to put in a 10 gig network interface card to get the 10 gig speed and I have to install 2 of these in the switch what these are our transceiver modules and they basically are going to allow me to connect an rj45 you know a standard cat6 cable into the switch which would in in its sfp+ port which is designed to work with either copper connection through one of these or a fiber optic connection which is not what I have installed in my house so I'm hoping that these just slip right into the open ports I'm pretty sure that's that's all that happens they just click into place I don't think there's any configuration that's required although I'll need to check that and then my cable will just you know click right into here on the inside that you know the input port and then another one for the output port that goes into the nads so the last thing that we'll have to do after we hook up all the hardware is we need to configure the software side of the Synology and set up its ray configuration with SH r2 so let's take a quick peek in the location where all this equipment is going to be installed before we get started in the back of the rack looks like this believe it or not just a couple of months ago if this was nothing more than that you can see it down there that Airport Extreme router so I've done a lot in here and I plan to do a whole video on kind of this network setup this big network upgrade that I did but that's for another video so I just want to do like a real brief overview of kind of like what's in the rack at this point so I guess just you know coming out of the wall you can see I have my cable modem comes down here the cable for the house the blue wires are all cat 6 networking a whole bunch of drops that go all over the house the white wires are for future speakers that are going to be going to the home theater room which I've wired for Dolby Atmos and auro-3d the two immersive audio 3d formats and there's a bunch of just empty spaces on the rack here it's really not very set up it's just kind of at the beginning stages of getting kind of getting set up at the top left up here I've got cable modem and ng4 firewall / router and this is the disk station so this is just I just placed it here I just want to make sure that it was basically going to fit in here which it does nicely so that's where it's going to ultimately live and below that is the is the switch so this is the unifying network 48 ports which below that you can see here we've got a patch panel so all of the well the networking drops the blue cables all the cat6 over here all that comes in and it feeds into the bottom of the patch panel and out of that we have the little shorties that go into the switch ports now over on the right here this is where we have the SFP+ there's 2 ports 1 2 and the SFP ports 1 2 so these two are are only guaranteed to produce one gig speed these two are guaranteed to produce 10 gig speeds so I'm gonna have to take out these little there's like these little rubber plugs and the little 10 gig rj45 transceivers are gonna go they should just plug right into there I've never done it before but we're gonna find out I think they just plug right into these little these little holes and then basically out of the patch where whichever one they have for the the iMac Pro is going to come out of there and it's gonna go into the bottom one I believe and then out of the top one that's gonna go into one of the ports on the Nez Perce for ports here they're all I think defaulted to one gig so I'm gonna have to figure out and probably watch someone else's youtube video on how to take it apart and install the 10 gig PCIe card but those are the connections that are going to have to be made to kind of put this together and just to reiterate it is super important that all of the network connections are guaranteed to run a 10 gig speed I've read a number of cases where you know wires like this people were disappointed unfortunately to find out that they couldn't support 10-gig speeds the reviews I read read on these particular ones are pretty good so I'm going to try them but if I don't get the kind of performance that I'm looking for I will probably build my own cables out of this blue cat6a material because I have a bunch of it left over and I know that that's heavily shielded it's absolutely rated to support speeds higher than that so if I have to I'll make my own connection that is currently what I did from the back of the iMac pro going into the wall port I've just made my own connection there and I made all and I did all the wiring myself so I know that that's all going to be solid coming up into here this is probably the only weak weak point that could be an issue in delivering the 10 gig speed all right so before we get going with the install the hardware and the software configuration of the Synology we have to run a couple of tests first because we need to establish some kind of working baseline as to what things feel like working locally here on the iMac pros local SSD drives we have something to compare to when working remotely across the network so I prepared a couple of tests that we're gonna run now then once everything's set up we're gonna move all the data over and we're gonna run the tests over there so let's get testing so here we are in DaVinci Resolve Studio 16 this is the paid version of the software I have made sure that the CPU is completely idle there's really nothing going on with the CPU you can see here that it's idle ninety seven point nine four percent we're gonna work on a couple of tests here locally to the local SSD drive so I have a here in DaVinci Resolve I have a recent project that I just completed for a client the clips are 4k so it has a fairly high bitrate requirement to import these clips and work with the disk cache and I figured we can probably establish some kind of reasonable baseline by testing five specific things both locally and then doing these same tests remotely over the 10 gig connection once we remove the database and migrate everything over to the NAS so the five tests that I want to perform are going to be a baseline test of the read and write speed to disk which one will use it tool by Asia video systems the time it takes to load the software DaVinci Resolve and this project to a state of readiness to work because that presumably will read quite a bit of the cache files off of the disk to kind of get everything up and ready in in memory then we're gonna establish if the project plays back effectively in real time and we're gonna compute the time of annex fairly expensive re cashing of a couple of clips to disk will delete the caches and we'll recache something expensive and then finally we'll take the time that it takes to write out the whole project to disk in 4k like the final delivery spec that I had delivered it out using the same settings that I had used before let's first run a baseline test so we're gonna load this cool little disk utility here by aja video systems and I've already selected you know my local target disc which is just my users drive on this system and if I hit start you can see that it is recording pretty darn fast read and write speeds now we need to convert these read and write figures to gigabits per second to do that we have to divide these numbers in megabits per second by 125 so if you look at the figures that kind of start low and then as the packets are being fed they kind of get higher as things get a little bit more efficient so at the low end we're seeing figures around 16 gigabytes purse or gigabits per second for the right speed and 8 gigabits per second for the read and at the high end we're seeing around 20 3.2 gigabits per second for right and 19 point 2 gigabits per second for the read so this is gonna be interesting because on the high end these figures are weighing faster than any 10 gig connection in terms of actual or expected throughput I'm not really sure what's reasonable you know video editing is going to use much larger packets of data than say file transfers or backups that might use much smaller bits of data so I'm not really sure if you know the video editing speeds to the local Drive would be more representative of these higher figures or the lower figures now the Synology device let me actually pull that up really quick here is rated you can see here for 2045 negatives per second and 600 and only 650 megabits per second for the writing so that's basically sixteen point three six gigabits gigabits per second for the reads and only five point two five gigabits per second for the writes so yeah so that's gonna be kind of interesting ultimately I do think the proof in the pudding is going to be you know what happens with the actual footage testing okay so for the second test we're gonna run something that is probably a little unscientific here I'm really curious to see how long does it take to load DaVinci Resolve locally and load the project locally into memory and get it working from the disk cache versus when we introduce the variable of running it across the network I work with some really heavy software in the past in my years in animation and it can take you know many minutes sometimes to load a program across the network that's very heavy with a lot of data attached to it so I'm just curious to see here with the changes that we're making to our network configuration to see how much longer if any does it take to just load what I would consider a typical working project file in DaVinci Resolve to a state of readiness in memory while pulling it across the network so the first test we have to run us to run it locally I'm gonna do that with a stopwatch just my other phone here I'm gonna click start as soon as they double-click the icon and then it will click the project that we need to get that we're going to be testing and just see how long does it really take to get that going and well here we go with that let's the head start there we go we are off to the races and there we are okay so boom I hit stop so that took 31 seconds I'm going to run it one more time again just to see how much variable there was in this unscientific test here here we go loading boom okay 28 seconds so the first time we ran it this took 31 seconds running in a second time took 28 seconds I guess if we averaged those out it's gonna be roughly approximately 30 seconds to load so let's just remember approximately 30 seconds to load the program from scratch off the the local disk and we'll just have this in one as one of our many tests that we're gonna run when we have everything set up and the data is locally on the the the network attached storage device so that's it for this test let's go on to the next one let's get back to DaVinci Resolve and here I haven't set anything like proxies so the playback of the clips will be at full 4k so let's just I don't know let's just grab a section in the middle of it here and see let me just dim the count of the volume and you know we can see that this is playing back nice and smooth there's no hitches or anything like that this is you know spoiler alert it's playing back it as expected which it darn well should add a local disc at in real time nice smooth scrubbing of the playhead as does they kind of move along here I mean I'm really scrubbing right quickly but that's that's fine for the next test I want to basically recompute a couple of of clips that are very very heavy so let me just kind of zoom in here I kind of selected these two clips this has a fairly expensive transition and there's a lot of noise reduction on these clips because it was a little bit of a dark clip that I had to lift in it kind of exposed a bit of noise here so let me take these two clips I'm going to go into the playback and I'm going to tell DaVinci Resolve to delete the cache for are these selected clips now what I'm also gonna do is I'm gonna go into my iPhone and I'm going to go into my stopwatch and I'm going to reset it to zero and as soon as I click yes I'm going to hit the start button to see just how long this takes so here we go simultaneous start and yes and there we go stop this took just a hair over 56 seconds I did this test separately a couple of times the good thing is is that every time I did it it came within less than one second of the same times and of course we're going to do all these tests again on the on the Naslund we move the entire project over so the last test that we want to do is want to render out this entire clip and see how long it takes so I'm going to just call this speed test and we're gonna add this to the render queue which is gonna render out the entire job and again I'm gonna go into my stopwatch and I'm gonna hit start at the same time I hit start render and there we go we're gonna start rendering this whole thing out and see how long it takes now I will probably speed this up so then we don't spend you know many minutes here on the video to get the result so stand by while we speed this up okay so we got to the end and it took 12.1 12 minutes and 16 seconds according to the completed result of this render node and I came up with twelve point twenty three seconds on my stopwatch so probably just a little bit off there but basically about the same about twelve and a quarter or so minutes to complete the project so that's great so with these tests out of the way we're now going to go ahead and build up this rate and get everything going and we'll see on the other side of that to then run these tests all over again with everything moved over to the NASS so stay tuned for that so here we go we're trying to take apart our Synology so far I just took the the Synology EG 10g 18 - t1 out of the box we have the little card right here it has a little long adapter bracket not sure yet if I have to use that but this is the card it has a pretty darn big heatsink on it and you can see the one network connection they do make this card with two network connections if you need that to have more than one computer accessing it at 10 gig at the same time but I'm not going to need that and so just to get started here I just use this little jeweler's screwdriver and just took out the the six screws here and we're about to pop the case often let's see what's inside okay so far a piece of cake cake cover came off and you can see here is the PCIe slot where our new card is gonna go there's a little tiny I don't know just like I guess a little protective bracket here I see a screw on the top there and I don't know if I have to remove it there or if I have to remove it in the back here but anyway we got to take that that little guy off before we put the card in so I just wanted to show this to you and this is what we're gonna do right now hold on one sec and okay two seconds later I upped the card in that went in just with a little tiny snap I did have to remove both little screws of this guy here there was the the tablet on the top of that and then this was the one that was in the back and I'm going to have to put I believe this little guy back because there is a little bit of this exposed part here just because the card this little daughter card is kind of small so I think that that will close up that little gap there I could probably install this longer plate if I wanted to but you know what I'm gonna just put this little guy back on it's gonna be just fine enough to do that but the card is in that took up all of about three seconds to pop that baby in so the so far this job is really super simple like anybody can do this all right let's put the cover back on okay so the next step here now that we've got the card installed is we're gonna put in the actual drives so semiology comes with this nice little Quick Start manual that basically just tells you how to put the drives in and it doesn't look too hard so I have five of these Seagate iron wolf six terabyte drives to get things started here and this is what one of them looks like as it you take it out of the package some nice protection on it so I'm gonna go ahead and get these installed and each of the first five babies here of this chassis so let's get that going so I got one of them in that wasn't too hard basically they come out of the chassis you just basically pressed this which just releases that this chassis thing slides out here and there's two little plastic things on each side that just pop out and if you're putting in SATA drives like these there's basically no tools involved the plastic things just snap back in holding and securing the drive in place if you're gonna be putting in SSD drives then you use these little screws here and unfortunately I opened up the bag already and now I have to find a container to put them back in but it doesn't look like we need any kind of screws or tools when dealing with um SATA drives so anyway this is one of five and we're gonna put the rest in alright so here we go the raid is now populated with an array of five drives and it's ready to go in the rack and we're ready to fire this thing up but before we do that I'm going to take us over to the Synology website real quick I want to show you guys the rate calculation tool it's a really useful tool and it'll demonstrate what this particular setup is going to look like with the esearch the SHR to raid configuration as well as what it would like if I were to later try to expand the storage so let's take a look at that real quick before you fire this thing up okay so here we are on the Synology website and this is the model here that we're working with today but if you go down to the bottom over here you have this raid calculator and this is a really useful tool basically what you do is you select which kind of drives you intend to start populating your array with so here we're gonna use the six terabyte option so if I click it once it shows one drive in the first Bay if I click it again it shows you two and it kind of shows you now with a different rate to you know you can compare two different rate options so you can compare SHR SHR to raid zero through ten and something called raid f1 I don't know what rate f1 is anyway I want to put SHR and SHR two because I've already some of the looking research in this and I decided I'm pretty much going to go with this as the SHR too so with just two dramas SH r2 says insufficient harddrive space because there's not enough space available to do its job and have the failover for two drives so we got to add more drive so if we add four drives now you can see that with SH are two you know four six terabyte drives and out of the total of 24 terabytes you'll have twelve in green that is available for use and twelve is used for protection with SH r1 you'd have 18 and 6 respectively so we have 5 drives so we're gonna go ahead and add one more and this is what I'm starting basically starting out with here so I'll have 18 terabytes to start with for use 12 terabytes are for failover if I went with it ACH are just the SH r1 I have 24 terabytes available and 6 terabytes would be for failover this still allows you to fail one drive but if you're in the middle of rebuilding a failed drive and something goes wrong you lose the entire array and I didn't want to take that chance if you're gonna from going through this amount of effort and this expense to get good protection I'm gonna you know spend the extra to kind of use one of these drives here an additional drive to have that extra peace of mind so let's say you can now also add larger Drive so if we wanted then add a 10 terabyte drive in addition to this it's basically saying now okay well I increased my usable space on both of them but now each of them has a little bit of unused space so it's kind of not really an optimal configuration indicated by this little section here in grey if I added another 10 terabyte drive now the full there's full utility in the SH r1 configuration but I still have 8 terabytes that are kind of unused and are not used for protection in the sh r 2 basically the reason for that is that you have to have double your largest drive capacity so I've got to actually increase the drive space one more time we have to increase it to two more times there we go now in either configuration I'm at least using all the space I have 20 terabytes for failover that's double the size of your largest drive and I have 50 terabytes of usable space and I would have 60 terabytes in the SHR one kid fit configuration so that's kind of how this calculator works and it shows you how you can you know ultimately increase your drives I mean if you I guess if you kept increasing these at 10 you could start to take out your 6 terabyte drives and start slowly migrating yourself into a higher level of storage capacity over time all while things running basically 24/7 which is pretty darn cool all right so I just wanted to show you how this this process and this little calculator worked and let's get on with the install so here we are at the front of the rack and thus analogies all hooked up and ready to go no more flashing yellow light that's because we have the DSM software properly installed and a volume has been set up without those two things that's why the light was flashing and you can see you know the five lights of the five disks that were installed to get us started and that's what it looks like from the front so I'll take you to the back of the rack now and we'll take a look at what all of the connections look like back there all right so here we are at the back of the rack with everything installed hooked up and working so I have my iMac is coming off of this blue line down here at the back of the patch panel I kind of just ran it over to a closer port here and came over this way that line just unfortunately doesn't reach you know directly over here so I had to just kind of snake one over made a little cable for that and we have in the bottom SFP one plus port you can see both of these have I just get a little lower here you can see both of them have the white lights that means that they are in fact seeing a 10 gig connection which is very important so in from the iMac Pro here out coming up to ten gig port on the Synology we have that little green light there let's see I had a I have a second line coming out of here I don't actually know if I need this line but I was thinking well if at other computers in the house are trying to get to it they're not going to be coming over the 10 gig line here they may just need to see it this way both ports have their own separate IPs so I can literally configure each laptop computer etc in the house to specifically talk to the Synology through a very specific dedicated IP so you guys let me know in the comments if you think I need two ports like this with two IPs configured separately or if just one would do probably it wouldn't matter if they were accessing it separately but if they're accessing it at the same time I just sort of thought well maybe it makes sense to have two connections if you listen and I'll stop talking the unit's pretty quiet which I like I have to double check the specs to see what kind of electricity draw it makes cuz this thing is gonna be running you know 24/7 but hopefully it's not going to be too too bad on the electricity bills but that's it for the hardware let me see just the the transceiver modules these are just a piece of cake to put in and just pull the rubber plugs just carefully insert them until they click you know just get a little push with your thumb make sure you have a good seated connection it's always good to wear those protective gloves which I did not do but I'm gonna I know I should say that you should because that's what you're supposed to do and yeah that was just easy to install no big deal there yeah so that's it for the hardware here everything went in really easily so let's get back to the computer and talk a little bit about the software side of things okay so now we've installed all the hardware and we've made all the cable connections back of the switch so the next step is going to be setting up the software so here we are on the Synology website this is actually at download dot Synology calm and it kind of takes - this down Center here where we can install the Synology assistant from from their website so for the product type we're gonna just select Nass and here we're going to put in the actual product the s 1819 plus there it is and this brings us down to their just DSN where DiskStation manager software which is the operating system for the Synology NAS so if you just click the download tab here it will give you the version that you need for Mac or Windows automatically now once you launch the Synology assistant it looks like this and it's not gonna have anything it'll just be clear here at first but you're gonna hit search and it will go through and it will look for all the Synology products or interfaces that it can find on the network now in my case we have two interfaces there's two connections coming from the switch I have the one gig connection coming from port 23 over to the switch and then I have the other connection coming from the SFP SFP+ port the outgoing port from the switch over to the NAS so there's two separate connections that I can specifically connect to from any computer in the network that's on the same subnet as we've established one or more connections to then as is you just click it and it'll take you over to either the set up if this is if this is your very first time setting up the nads or it'll ask you for your login credentials to login to their operating system which I'm going to do right now so the web interface here is what you know Synology calls their dsm it's a nice little interface it's very easy to navigate in the upper left corner here there's a sort of a main menu that pulls down into a bunch of different sort of separate little apps that you can get into with a bunch of them already sort of located here on this on this window one of the first things that you'll want to do is go into the control go into network and take a look at the network interface just to sort of see where your connections are all looking like in my case here you can see that we have an active land one which is the one big port and land five which is the 10 gig port if I click it you can see that this is running at ten ten gigabit and the one gig is at one gigabit so those connections are working they have the IP address as you can see that MAC addresses as well and yeah so that's kind of like your network I'm not going to take you through the whole bit of software here but one of the first things that you're going to need to do and it will help guide you through this is you have to set up a storage pool and the storage volume so that you did do that you're going to need to go over to the storage manager so it gives you like a little overview here it says that the whole system you know is healthy which is great and if you go to storage pool this is where you're going to set up your raid configuration for the very first time and it's basically the first step that you're gonna do now it doesn't look quite like this when you know you get started it kind of will walk you through the steps of what you need to configure it'll ask you to you know make sure you want to use all of your drives and it kind of just walks you through that process now the process of setting up your storage pool for the first time I didn't realize this but it takes a long time it took about nine hours to fully configure and set up this SHR to storage pool and that's probably not surprising as I've been doing more research and understanding how s HR 2 works it kind of sets it up as a raid 6 apparently internally at least at first which has a lot of inherent additional complexity that's associated but the raid 6 configuration to manage all of the different parity bits that go on to it so it's it's a you know redundancy capability and that sort of thing that's long story short just be prepared that when you're setting up your storage pool for the very first time that it will take a considerably long period of time so it's not something that will be ready to use in just a few hours it'll take it can take over quite a while and also what it meant would also reflect based on the size and discs that you're using and again in my case I'm using six terabyte drives the last thing that you kind of need to do in order to actually use the storage is you have to set up a volume and give it a name to actually access it so I believe you can make know multiple volumes but I think there's different setups and consume it-- need to consider doing before you determine how many different volumes you want to make in my case I decided to just go with one volume for now and eventually I'll set up different different users and groups and all of those good things but with those things in place the way that you access the storage is you would go to in your in your Mac and on Mac anyway you would go to your file you know go to server sorry not go to finder you would do finder go to server and you would pick you would use AAF the AFP protocol to pick your IP address of the incoming connections so I can pick either the one gig connection or it can pick the 10 gig connection just like that if I hit connect it basically goes ahead and it mounts a dis analogy just like that okay so before we go any further we have to talk there's been a little bit of a plot twist here I'm going to show you a speed test of both the one gig connection on LAN one and also the 10 gig connection on land 5 over on the Synology with this SH r2 connection and compare the aja speeds of the local read and write that we perform before with the Synology however I have to confess I already ran these tests and I got to say I wasn't super impressed with the 10 gig speeds let me show you what I mean so as a quick refresher when we ran the aja tests before as we're doing here right now on the local hard drive we see speeds in the realm of 23 gigabits per second for writes and 20s are 19 gigabits per second roughly for reads after you divide these figures by 125 to turn megabytes into gigabits so I know full well that these speeds would be incredible to get over a remote network like this but we're never gonna get there if you take ten gigabits per second and you multiply it by 125 you're gonna get about twelve hundred and fifty megabytes per second so that is what we should be looking to see as a maximum throughput and that might even be more theoretical than maximum but in any event let's see what we get in the realm of one gigabit per second there we go now we're talking to the Synology at through the one gigabyte port so we hit start using the same exact parameters as before this is the kind of speed that we're seeing through the one gig port so this takes a while so I'll just kind of talk us through here but we're basically looking at you know read and write speeds of about a hundred megabits per second for the read it's a little bit faster for the right so it's you know kind of approaching you know 0.8 gigabits per second which is you know as accurate and it's certainly better than my Western disk digital drive which when I connect that it's almost too painful to watch here that thing is getting you know only a fraction only 32 megabytes per second or about 0.32 gigabits per second for reads so you know this is you know quite a bit faster than that but this is certainly too slow to ever think about doing any kind of high end video work across the network on this one gigabit port so that's the one gigabit port let's take a look at the 10 gigabit port and now when I hit start here's what we're seeing so this is better we're seeing you know something in the realm of a sustained read and write rate of about 450 ish if you run this multiple times it's kind of hovers around 450 and megabit megabit megabytes per second for read and about for turn 70 megabytes per second for write and if you divide that by 125 you get around anywhere from 3.6 23.8 gigabits for each of these respectively and even at the high end of these transfer speeds it's a little Inn which is a little over 500 megabytes per second it's kind of still below 4 gigabit per second speeds and so these initial results are leading me to a little bit of a plot twist here leading me to take a pause before I go any further with transferring data over to the NAS to do any additional testing if my ultimate goal is to get maximum speed and try to be able to hopefully edit 4k files directly on the NAS and have good data protection since I'm going to be working on paying jobs and can't afford long down times if a disk goes bad then I realized they needed to look at possibly sitting a raid configuration and try at least a different strategy so at the moment I'm not able to afford all SSD drives which clearly would be faster and would be a logical technology step to get better speeds but I do think there's more room to improve the performance with what we have here and at least I want to try so I was up till 3:00 in the morning last night researching all the different raid configurations blogs comparisons opinions on SHR SHR to raid 6 raid 10 oh my god you can go down such a vortex trying to understand how all these various factors go into finding the best balance between performance and data security and of course in any of these scenarios any raid is not a solution for backup you still need additional solutions to achieve a proper full backup of your data but that said SH r2 clearly isn't going to cut it for working efficiently at least maximally as possible I don't think I mean the speeds are probably considered good and they're well over one gig speeds but they aren't anywhere near what they are working off of the local Drive or even the theoretical maximum of 10 gig and I know 24 gig speeds they're not going to be possible with this configuration but I'd like to get closer to what that theoretical maximum is if possible so after an evenings worth of research I made the decision to try something new I'm gonna try to restrike this array and build it up as a raid 10 configuration now I'm not going to go into explaining all the different raid types in this video I'm really not qualified to do that but a basic definition of raid is that it essentially consists of two mirrored raid0 configurations which is how you can achieve the best speed because raid zero is considered to be the fastest raid set up at this time and because you're basically mirroring that raid you're going to get excellent redundancy the cons of doing a raid 10 setup are as follows I'm gonna be losing the flexibility that comes with the SHR 2 configuration which would allow me to add various drives of larger or smaller sizes down the road and as time went along can ultimately migrate your way to a larger raid also you have to stick with all the same drives in the raid with raid 10 and if at some point you want to upgrade the bigger drives you're gonna need to backup all that storage somewhere replace the drives and rebuild the raid and then copy the data back next the cost of a raid 10 setup is very significant it requires you to double the amount of storage that you have because you're gonna basically be working with two fully striped raid zero configurations to achieve redundancy and if any one disk goes bad it's just a matter of swapping out the disk and it will rebuild it from the mirrored side of the raid however I did read that if a second disk were to go bad in the middle of a rebuild there's a 66% chance that the raid will rebuild okay and a 33% chance that you could lose the entire array so that's something definitely to think about the good news is that raid 10 is considered to be one of the fastest raids to rebuild versus a raid 6 which is very much like SHR 2 and can take much longer and is much more harsh on the spindles in the array during a rebuild now let's talk about some of the pros of this setup raid 10 should potentially be much faster particularly with writes if I understand what I read correctly there is a bunch of formulas that go into governing what the cost of reads and writes are depending on things like the number of drives in the array as well as the i/o performance of the individual drives in the system and the latency associated with the configuration but the short story is because raid 10 is based on raid 0 it's one of the simplest raids to compute because it does not carry the overhead with maintaining all the parity bits that other configurations like five and six carry as well as SH are at least four rights the raid 10th could be as much as three times faster in theory over raid six because of the lack of overhead in the parity writing unfortunately we're gonna have to put a little bit of a bookmark in this test because I currently only have five six terabyte Seagate iron wolf drives and you need an even number of drives to set up a RAID 10 configuration so I've ordered a sixth drive and we're gonna have to wait a couple of days to run this new test but I did want to put this video out with what I've achieved so far with the setup and baseline testing and the comparison of speeds from the local SSD drive on my I my pearl as well as some testing with the 10 gig configuration with an S HR to set up on the Synology with the aja disc testing tool and a few days will continue this testing with a total of 6 terabyte drives and I'll rebuild this and set this up as a RAID 10 to see if we can increase the i/o speeds that we're seeing at all with that set up and then try testing the same tests that we did here in DaVinci Resolve that we performed in this video to see if we can work at 4k reasonably efficiently so until then I hope you found the information in this video helpful and I can't wait to get that sixth drive and compared the use results to a raid ten configuration I'm really eager to see and hope would love to share with you guys any differences between the SHR to set up I would love to see any comments below from you guys for I'm sure a lot smarter than I am to see what you think of the SH r2 versus raid ten potential and if you have any other suggestions on how we can wring a little more IO performance out of this set up so we can get to an effective solution to edit 4k video directly on the Synology NAS so thank you all so much for watching I hope you're all having a great day out there wherever you are in the world and we'll catch you in the next one peace and love peace and love [Music]

Channel: Rob Cavaleri

Views: 10,241

Keywords: synology, shr2, shr-2, 10gb, 4k, video editing, storage, raid10, raid, nas, NAS, network attached storage, cat6, cat6a, ubiquiti, unifi, ds1819+, 10gbe, switch-48, network switch, home network

Id: IH3pjUc5g3s

Length: 54min 21sec (3261 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 05 2020