Moving storage from external USB to NAS?

Channels DVR Server
#1

I am running Channels on a 10 year old Mac Mini i5 w/3 x 10TB external USB drives.

I am upgrading my NAS to a new Synology DS1522+ and considering moving the storage from the external USB drives to the NAS (not running Channels on the NAS). This would currently be on a gigabit network.

Is gigabit going to keep up with this, or will it run really slow?

If the consensus is that it is too slow, what about if I bumped the LAN up to 2.5Gbe, assuming I could get an adapter for the Mini? Or even 10Gbe?

I like the idea of running channels on the Mini, but the mess of external drives is messing with me and a risk of failure at some point.

#2

You will probably get all sorts of recommendations.
If it were me, I would continue with the setup you have and add a shared folder on the Synology NAS as an additional Storage path.
Should be able to do that with a UNC path if the Mac mini supports Samba.
Then move recordings over to the additional Storage path on the Synology periodically for permanent storage.

#3

That's not a bad idea because I have multiple drives and do have to periodically move files from the main to the others. But, I'm primarily interested in whether the speed will be sufficient. You've given me an idea for how I can test this without a lot of work. I can setup a NAS share as my primary Channels folder, and then just make the current primary one of the extras. If its not up to what I want, I can move the few new recordings over and swap back to the USB drive as primary.

#4

The maximum bandwidth for a show being recorded from my HD Home Run Prime is 15-Mb. 1-Gb is a lot more than that so you should be just fine. You have quite a large collection and if you want to protect it, the NAS will provide some redundancy that those USB drives don't. If it were my collection I'd move what's important to me to the NAS.

#5

That makes sense. I most care about my movies, and not so much about tv shows, so will probably put them there and see how it goes.

#6

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