hey what's up today I'm gonna be doing something that's not correlated it's more computer related
just to kind of post on a channel not really you know I'm engineer by trade and a computer
engineer by education and I still tinker around with computer engineering stuff all the time so
what I'm gonna be doing today is upgrading my network attached storage currently I'm running
the deep 212 J it was an entry-level nass box I bought about six years ago there were has been
running good for all the files and stuff I store photos and in my streaming across the network but
it's getting kind of slow because of the hardware so I decided to upgrade it wait to the d2 1-800
ds2 one eight you know plus which with their nomenclature the two means two discs and the 18
means the model year and the plus is there you know the wine it's in this this Nass is pretty
good for the price I think I paid about 250 for it it comes with a seller on J 3 3 5 5 processor
it's a 64-bit dual-core up to 2.5 gigahertz so it natively comes with that 2 gigs of ram it's
a 2 gig stick that they've got from Synology in there it's up they claim this upgradeable up to 8
or not up to 6 you can put a 4 in but there's guys all over the internet that put up to 16 in here I
don't even think the Celeron can handle more than 8 gigabytes anyway but people have put 16 in there
so what I'm gonna do today is I had two sticks of 2 4 gigabyte sticks from one of my Dell laptops
I had upgraded to 16 on that laptop so I had two two fours left over from there it is running this
this box comes with the 1833 speed these are 1600 speed but you know the trade-off between having
two gigs versus eight gigs available versus the speed you know probably won't matter in real real
life performance anyways one of the other features of this box is it's got a new file system is them
at this BTR EFS file system for raids I don't really know what it means I know traditionally
it's always been X for ext4 but des analogy switched it up to this btrfs file system a couple
years ago and they've been rave reviews about it it's got some advantages over the older systems
some disadvantages also but I'm gonna be running this alongside my old one as a backup anyway so
I'm going to run the old file system on there for more critical files and then but you know in order
to one of the RAM slots is easily accessible the other one is then they don't want to tend
it to be accessible so you gotta kind of take the whole box apart so that's what I'm gonna do today
I got everything apart now so you could tell that when I took this piece off that's where the second
non-accessible RAM chip is the first one that was accessible without ever taking this thing apart
because you can reach in there from the slot of the disk opening so just we just pop this baby out
it's a Synology branded ram 1866 2 gigabyte dr3 so it's just your
standard laptop ramp just the one I'm putting in is the Kingston same brand
or I mean same ddr3 but this one's the 1600 speed instead of the 1866 speed
and there you have it the full upgrade of the ds2 18 plus with to a terabyte drives that I shucked
from my external hard drives you guys want to see how I shut those W DS you check out my other
video that I've got on that subject those were the what they call the white label W DS they're
really they could be anything I'll explain it in that other video you guys watch it they can
be Reds or they could be the HGST helium-filled dried so just based on the part number you get
out of them anyway if you guys like the video like comment subscribe and thanks for watching