Ds409

Using Hitachi Travelstar 5K1000 in Synology DS409slim

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The other day, my Syno DS409slim started beeping. It turned out that two of the Toshiba MK1059GSM disks had SMART errors. I wanted to get some new but they are not available any more. After looking at my preferred e-shop, I finally went for Hitachi Travelstar 5K1000 (HTS541010A9E680). It is not listed in “What hard drive models are supported by Synology products?” page. But it seems to be working fine ; for a bit more than three weeks now. Here’s a small summary about replacing the disks on Synology DS409slim using DSM 4.2 and SHR volume.

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Quick overview on Synology Directory Server

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Quoting the Package Center description: “Directory Server provides LDAP service with centralized access control (…)”. Let’s have a (quick) look at what Synology’s LDAP service provides.

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Monitor Synology disk temperature from SNMP

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I’m always looking at how to get informations from my I.T. systems ; although it often ends they do nothing… Here’s a trick to monitor the disks temperature of a Synology NAS (DS409slim in my case).

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Improve Synology DS409slim shell using ipkg

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I own a Synology DS409slim on which I have enabled SSH. The primary idea was just to have a look behind the hoods. This is quite simple: browse to the configuration panel, select the terminal services section and active the SSH daemon.

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Monitor a Synology NAS with Munin

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My Synology DiskStation DS409slim is, via the DSM software, SNMP aware. This means I can poll it to get some information using a SNMP capable monitoring system. This is how I configured Munin to grab some metrics from the NAS.

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