Hey folks, happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating today!

I have a Synology DS1821+ that I have completely filled. I’m looking for expanding, but I don’t really want to completely replace the Synology yet.

Does anyone know if there is a way to expand the number of drives? I’ve heard murmers that I can use a DAS, but nothing for sure. Wondering if anyone has attempted this before. Thanks!

  • TedZanzibar@feddit.ukEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    That’s… A lot of storage. I’d say your options are, in no particular order:

    • buy a 12 bay NAS.
    • expansion unit. Do it as a separate volume and shuffle cold data onto there.
    • upgrade the drives.

    Failing that you could just have a bit of a purge? If not straight deleting stuff, move things onto an external drive.

    You could also try deduping. There’s a script that’ll add any drive to the internal “supported” list and also enable dedupe on mechanical drives. The savings were minimal on mine but you might have more luck. https://github.com/007revad/Synology_enable_Deduplication