I have had at least a dozen people ask me over the last couple weeks how the Synology Hard Drives that I have are holding up. Nothing Earth shattering here — they work well for what I’m doing. My work load isn’t huge — just some VM creation/deletion. Your mileage may vary!

https://williehowe.com
Synology 8TB Hard Drive Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/3ggjbDq

Time Stamps:
00:00 – Intro
00:20 – Where’s the DS2422+ Video at??
01:00 – 8TB Model
01:15 – My workload on the drives — likely light
01:50 – Storage Manager with an active VM
02:00 – Are they reliable?
02:35 – RAID Level
02:50 – How are they working?
03:00 – Non Synology Drives on certain models or non supported drives
03:40 – They are holding up fine
04:10 – What else do you want to know about the drives?
04:40 – Wrap Up

Affiliate Links (I earn a small percentage of the sale if you use these links):
My AmazonLink: https://www.amazon.com/shop/williehowe
Telnyx Referral Code: https://refer.telnyx.com/cv6cm
HostiFi Affiliate Link: https://hostifi.net/?via=willie
Netool: https://netool.io use code WILLIEHOWE to save at least 10%!
Digital Ocean Referral Link: https://m.do.co/c/39aaf717223f
Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/williehowe

Contact us for network consulting and best practices deployment today! We support all Grandstream, DrayTek, Obihai, Poly, Ubiquiti, MikroTik, Extreme, Palo Alto, and more!

Come back for the next video!
Twitter – @WillieHowe
Instagram – @howex5
TikTok – @whowe82

SUBSCRIBE! THUMBS-UP! Comment and Share!