In this tutorial I’m using just four 4TB drives in the 6-bay DS1618+. It is recommended that you use Synology’s Hybrid RAID (SHR) for redundancy in case of a failed drive, which provides another advantage over a single disk Time Machine backup like the Time Capsule provides. It’s much quieter than some of the direct attached storage solutions that I’ve tried recently, and a quieter setup than the DS1817 that I tested a few months ago. Fans are audible, but hardly an annoyance, and although mechanical hard drives are being used, I could hardly tell unless I put my ear up to the box. Using these drives, when combined with the DS1618+’s Quiet mode setting, results in remarkably quiet operation. Synology provided me with a DS1618+ loaner unit and it came equipped with 4 x 4TB Seagate IronWolf NAS drives.
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