QNAP TS-431P3-2G 4 Bay

20210816 Pulled original 2GB DDR3-1600 SODimm and put in an 8GB stick removed from the Dell XPS 2710 (Put a 4GB stick into the Dell so is 12GB (8GB + 4GB)


20210815 OOB installation

  • Installed 2 x MX500 1TB Drive slot 1 + 2
  • QFinder -> Downloaded and install latets FW 4.5.4.1741
    • Windows shares only
    • 192.168.2.7
    • admin / usual for internal shared devices
  • 2 x MX500 1TB configuration:
    • Added Raid 1 (Mirrored) Storage Pool (922GB available) with 10% SSD over provisioning = ~750GB available
    • Added first volume ‘SysDefault’ 250GB inode 8k
  • 2 x Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 18TB (pp.co.nz ~$1050incl each)
    • 202105 purchase to drive slot 3, 202107 purchase to drive slot 4
    • Storage volume Raid 1 (mirrored) = ~16TB available
      • Took about 21 hours to ‘synchronise’ the raid array..
    • vCompanies 50GB
    • vGenPop remaining 16TB


2021-08-05 Paradigm PCs pp.co.nz $760.35 incl

  • 4 bay
  • Will upgrade from 2GB to 8GB later. (Will dig through the old laptops as well as maybe have at least a 4G stick lying around)
  • looking for a 5 year warrantied solution with ability to run containerised apps a la docker for say Node.js

Proposed Initial setup:

  • SSDs for Drive slots 1+2
    • On hand spare = 1 x MX500 500GB, MX500 1TB
    • Samsung EVO 950 500GB
    • Note MX500’s have 5yr warranty
    • For mirrored then options:
    • If 1 TB buy another MX500 1TB (Now or later) = DECIDED this option 202108 pp.co.nz $195incl
    • If 500GB, free up another MX500 500GB from elsewhere by swapping in the spare Samsung above
  • Spinning rust drives for Drive slots 3+4
    • mirrored 2 x 18th Seagate Iron Wolf Pro (remove these from TS-230)
    • main storage