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Synology DS218 (0 TB)
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Synology DS218

0 TB

Question about DS218 - 235535

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Tacheles

4 years ago

I am enthusiastically running it with 3.5" hard drives and am considering equipping it with 2.5" Samsung SSDs. Has anyone already done this and can say something about the difference in access times?

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s378266

4 years ago

Grüezi,
Yes, works fine.
The slide-in frames of the DS218 are designed for screwing on 2½" drives and screws are included.
It is therefore very easy and stable to fit (Samsung) SSDs.
I operate the DS218 with two 860 EVO 1TB in a RAID 1 array (ext4).
I can only use a WD My Cloud EX2 ULTRA as a comparison (equipped with 2x WD GOLD 4TB, also RAID 1).
It is clearly noticeable that the SSDs do not

need any start-up time from the idle state. The data flow itself (in the same network) is perhaps twice as fast. It's particularly noticeable that you don't hear anything from the SSDs compared to the two HDDs...