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Never thought of a separate USB hub. Could be an option.

Well, here's what I've learnt: I feel burned by Coirsair: I bought the Strafe (MK1, I think) with cherry reds for durability - and it's broken after a little over two years with very moderate use. So, won't buy another Corsair keyboard. I hit the keys pretty hard when I type and always have. The reds took some getting used too - perhaps silvers feel more slick? I want full size with LED light (minimum is red). RGB would be cool but not necessary. I would really appreciate USB passthrough as I only have two easily accessible USB ports on my desktop and one is permanently used by the dongle for my wireless headset. From my experience with the Strafe hot swapable switches would defo be appreciated. I saw the Asus Rog Animate but very expensive... Full size, not mini or TKL here. I consider €200

New suggestions on this topic? Preferably one that is readily available in the EU with switches I can change without soldering....

It's a long shot, but: Friend of mine lost the dongle for his wireless Razer Headset, so it's practically unusable now.. Anyway to get a new, third party compatible dongle?

I may be imagining things but: Besides the Ultrastar disk mentioned, I have 2 x HGST Deskstar NAS 10TB 256 MB cache. I realize the 18 is taken for redundancy but when writing to my NAS via Windows Mapped Network drives in MakeMKV, I get only 93 MB/sek speed. Also with Black Magic Disk Test. Isn't this a bit low and what can I do to improve it? NAS is not indexing or anything like that.

Awesome post for future drive purchases and understanding of drive labeling. I've just purchased and put the drive in my DSs918+. I got the "Not tested" message and hit continue. Everything seems fine and the drive is being added to the pool as we speak (estimated time to completion: 10 days + (yawn!)).

Just found this: Looks to be the exact drive I plan on purchasing. Should be good then, right?

@Jarsky I have seen example of Synology users not having an 18TB disk recognized by DSM. The biggest capacity (officially) supported by Synology is 16TB. Should I gamble or play safe with the 16 TB vers.?

SHR-1 here. By monitoring the drives, I take it what is meant is setting up the monthly disc stattus reports in DSM (No faults detected on the drives in DSM)? And the SMART checks?

I notice a slight difference in write speeds (WD Gold 26+ vs US: 260. Other than that itt looks like a good drive and sound levels are probably the same(?). Would it be an issue to put this drive in my NAS which currently has 2 x 10 tb HGST Deskstar NAS 7,200 RPM and 256 MB Cache?

Seller is legit and 5 year warranty. Looks like I'm good.

Hi all, I was browsing for an additional HDD for my DS918+ and came across this drive with 18TBs. It's much cheaper than the equivalent WD Gold, however, on a comparison site, I noticed it's listed as not optimized for RAID? So, should I really get the WD Gold vers. or is the comparison site site incorrect? Thanks,

I have a Synology DS918+ (4 bays) and whilst it is simple to use, the fact that they are not very powerful is a problem when one aims to transcode (I use Plex) video - especially 4K. Building his own would allow for a much more powerful machine with a decent GPU to handle the (occasional?) transcoding. If you need a powerful Synology for Plex 4K transcode and with a decent amount of bays, you'll have to fork out a serious amount of cash. I love my Synology, however, with an SHR-1 setup, 2 x 10TB disc 85 percent full, more and more lossless 4K material to come (I use MakeMKV and MKVToolnix for remuxing) and my future camera likely to be with a 45-50+ MP sensor, I, too, am considering building a server with 8-12 bays, a GPU etc. for Plex.

Does anyone have suggestions for HW for a Plex Media Server which must be able to transcode 4K fluently at high bitrate? Friend has recommended Supermicro parts but those are scarce and expensive in Denmark. Reliability is everything and I want a minimum of 8or 10 bays (way over kill atm but would use at least 2 discs redundancy and my collection of lossless 4K movies continue to grow. Plex tone mapping from HDR to SDR is needed as well, so need a decent GPU as well.

Thank you for the heads up. WD Golds are CMR.