SSD was a joke I think, its not worth it to spend that much money. You can get any HDD. I think if you search the forums you can find more information. @racameron has posted some details about different types and brands. It is not an area I am very familiar with.
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I would go with compatible drives as found on Synology website.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=products&model=DS220%2B&category=hdds_no_ssd_trim&p=1&change_log_p=1
You don't want SSD's as your primary drives in the NAS.
And don't listen to people that say to buy an external USB portable drive and shuck the bare drive (white label) to use in a Synology. That's just asking for trouble.
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Disclaimer: most people would say an ssd is way overkill and they are not necessarily wrong. But when I hit that 30second skip button between football tackles on a recording it’s playing instantly. I expect immediate gratification. I’ve always had great luck with Samsung evo. Size wise that’s personal. Just count 5-8Gb for each 1 hour show. I keep my dvr clean so 1Tb works great for me
OH. Lol. I didn't even realize that response wasn't from you. One last question (fingers crossed). I have a 2016ish Toshiba C75D-B7200 laptop with an AMD A6. It got stashed in the closet for a reason, but I was able to start it up and use it this weekend. Do you think this will suffice as my CPU?
Should be perfectly fine for basic DVR. Commercial detection might be slow, though not that much. Not sure about transcoding, but that's only a concern for remote viewing.
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Love that comment! Thanks.
Interesting. I watch DVRed games every day. I have to consider this.
Lol ohh man you are going to get me in trouble with these guys. Here is one on their supported list: Enterprise Samsung MZ7KH960HAJR SM883 HXM7404Q 960GB 2.5" SATA SSD. Probably not a good price performance value for a channels dvr
Kidding aside give that laptop a try as a server. It might be perfectly fine. And if the skips are not fast enough for you slap a ssd in there. There was a noticeable difference when I went to an ssd. Channels is great software with great devs you are going to love it
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If the only thing you’re running on it is channels and the Pluto and Stirr dockers, 2GB is probably fine. If you’re going to do other things like surveillance station, or run your ubiquiti controller on it, you’ll need more memory. I had enough stuff running that the disks started to struggle to keep up, and the entire thing slowed down. The Olympics with many recordings really crushed it. Added another 4GB and it’s much snappier now.
For the record I have several year old WD Reds in there and now that it has enough memory my skips are instantaneous again. Just be sure to get the “red pro” line if you go that way now.
Red Plus is fine
No but my NAS might have a bunch
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I respectfully disagree. I've been using my shucked drives for 2 years now and they have worked great.
KNOCKING ON WOOD
Thanks for correcting me. I really need to stop relying on my memory…
Thank you all for your input. I went with: DS220+ and 2 Seagate IronWolf 4TBs for a RAID 1 install. Also there is no option for the SSD as there is no slot for it and I don't even shuck my own oysters, let alone my NAS.
I am now running a Windows "Fresh Start" on my 2016 Toshiba C75D-B7200 with an AMD A6. It was very cranky this morning. If anyone has any advice of what consequences or improves running the Fresh Start feature (which apparently no longer exists) - may have, I'm all ears.
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Solid setup for future success, which is more than I can say for the NE Patriots 
Go Chiefs
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Lol. Nice jab. Although no more Cam. Thankfully. Mack Jones from here on out. BTW I literally had a shirt signed by Mitchell Schwartz a couple days ago. I work with his dad.
