No, as the limits we are hitting are in the app side. When we sync from other platforms it works fine. (e.g. TrueNAS) It’s just the Synology cloud sync app sucks. I don’t want to use the other Synology option which is hyper backup as that adds further complications. (I would be backing up a backup instead of keeping the same file structure in the bucket) For the Proxmox backups I do two sets. 1 I keep locally for speed and a second set I “move” to the Backblaze bucket. The only limitation here is the backup needs to be complete before being moved…
you win the internet xD
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Can confirm. Cloud sync is a resource hog, extremely slow, but what’s more important — stops syncing for no reason out of the blue. And it’s not that it runs out of memory or is resourced constrained in any other way. It exhibited the same behavior on DS1618+ with 32GB of ram as well. It’s just garbage software. Like pretty much any other piece of software they have ever shipped. It also floods the network with DNS requests — cloud sync on a single NAS was responsible for 70% of requests from the entire network (I filed bug about it, nothing changed of course).
IXSystems took a sane approach and just use rclone under the hood. no complaints.
Their other sync service — CloudStation Disk and later Drive — to sync between clients and the NAS is just same garbage. Among other things (being slow and not completing sync most of the time) it also used to dump debug level logs into my home folder. Hundreds of megabytes daily. I filed a bug, asking them to change default level and to tell me where to configure it. Turned out it was done on purpose, “to help troubleshoot customer issues” and it cannot be changed, because it’s hardcoded. Hardcoded!
To be fair, it seems there are two large divisions at Synology — gimmicky user facing software marketing fluff, and low level kernel and filesystem fellas. The former are useless. They seem like one overworked intern. The latter — jumped on the issues I were reporting and actually attempted to triage and fix them (that aforementioned NVME timeout). They did not, but at least they’ve tried.
I guess lesson learned here is not to believe anything marketing tells you, especially if you get it for free, and if you buy a nas — expect to use it as a nas, run applications elsewhere. The hardware on those higher end Synology is quite well designed, and if they only dropped that btrfs-over-mdadm business and switched to OpenZFS — that would have yielded a rather decent and uniquely efficient product, (customers could totrlate/ignore the crappy useless value add gimmicky apps)
Edit. And don’t get me started on HyperBackup. Please don’t use it.
It’s unstable trash as well. Imagine you start a backup and then you want to cancel that backup run. There is cancel button. You press it. And then it does something shady for the next 15 minutes. Why? Network interruptions and power failures won’t wait 15 min for it to gracefully stop. Which means it runs in a consistently inconsistent state, and this is absolute opposite of how you design — wait for it — backup software.
Btw Instead of cloud sync you can go iXSsystems route and just run rclone directly in DSM. It’s self contained executable and will work file.
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Thank you! we will give that a go!
Last I checked rj45 plugs dont plug into hard drives, Or maybe I missed that special model of hard drives?
I suspect there is this guy:
But I do not see a power cord though.
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It’s a new version, with PoE 
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Looks like its missing the poe hat though its just hanging from the ceiling
@John_bravo87, What exactly is the model of your LINKBASIC rack, if I may ask? Also wondering who is the manufacturer of your server cases?
Hello! This is my node, and old PC that now runs 2 nodes with 2 HD I bought second hand. I already had a storjnode a few years ago but I close it (suddenly, no graceful exit) after I get tired of the clicks of the disks and the waiting time to get the first payment. Maybe this time I can wait…
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Nice clean compact setup! Though seeing that exercise equipment is stressing me out: as I’m sitting at my gaming system eating BBQ chip right now. The shame… 
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Video transcript 
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Oh hi, Ottetal!
It’s You! From the future!
Nice looking rack you’ve got there. You have got to cherish it, and remember it. Becuase unbeknownst to you, in just a few wee months, You’ll purchase a home. While you will pay a professional check the house as much as possible for issues, he will not notice a single weak grout near the roof, which over the intense rains storms over the autumn, will let in a lot of water, granting your new beloved home the status of “water damaged”.
You will be anticipating building a new rack, and therefore see no issues selling the old one before you move, however with the water damage you’ll have too tight a budget to build any additional racks right now. And now you’re in a pickle.
Cheers to you though - you found a load of spare drives, and have taken an entire additional disk shelf into use. The lights blink so much you find it rather difficult to take a picture with all of them on. The whirring low hum of the additional fans remind you that not all is bad: You’re now hosting around 60TB
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I prefer the I-used-what-I-had-until-it-paid-for-itself-but-then-I-kept-making-money-so-I-bought-more-HDDs setups. Hardware that pays for more hardware is sexy! 
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That’s the perfect illustration that storj in most regions pays way too much to most operators.
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Hah!
Love the contrast of the old Bakelite rotary-dial phone right next to all the high-tech storage 
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Hiya friend, thanks! I found it in the same Datacenter, I find most of my other gear. I think it’s such a fun device. I have never had a visitor, who did not play with it - it’s such a fun device.
I want to get another one at some time and have them link up over the floors. That should be a fun non-storJ project
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maybe, but if,
then “paid”, not pays.
I would like hosting a 200TB to replace a need for a day job.
(not get rich quick, just a day job, $2/TB/stored would do)
Well, you would need to subtract hardware, power, and maintenance costs, and you’ll find out you are working for below minimum wage. And besides, even without expenses, $400/month revenue only makes sense in some markets. Where I live – 10k/month is considered below poverty level.
You’d be better off investing into stock market and living off of dividends!
I feel it still pays way too much!
As long as people can make money off of storj – it pays too much, by definition. Running node shall help reduce expenses, not make profit.
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