Moving from synology to Terastation - few questions, please help !

[san_ix]

Dear all, I am a home user currently with synology DSM NAS (918+), but would like to move to windows server as I am heavy windows user. I wanted to stay in windows eco-system. Looking at TeraStation WS5420DN, 4 bay HDD. I have few questions. 1) can I directly swap the HDD from current synology to Tera station ? File system is BTRFS, not sure if terastation can read these files ? 2) can I replace 2 bays with my synology DSM existing 14GB HDDs ? Tera station is going to accept 14GB or is there any limitation of hard disk size ? 3) Can we upgrade RAM from 4GB to say 16 GB for better performance ?

Thanks in advance.

[davo]

Dear all, I am a home user currently with synology DSM NAS (918+), but would like to move to windows server as I am heavy windows user. I wanted to stay in windows eco-system. Looking at TeraStation WS5420DN, 4 bay HDD. I have few questions. 1) can I directly swap the HDD from current synology to Tera station ? File system is BTRFS, not sure if terastation can read these files ? 2) can I replace 2 bays with my synology DSM existing 14GB HDDs ? Tera station is going to accept 14GB or is there any limitation of hard disk size ? 3) Can we upgrade RAM from 4GB to say 16 GB for better performance ?

Thanks in advance.

1) can I directly swap the HDD from current synology to Tera station -> No

2) 2) can I replace 2 bays with my synology DSM existing 14GB HDDs ? Technically yes but it might have warranty issues as the units come fully populated.

3) 3) Can we upgrade RAM from 4GB to say 16 GB for better performance ? -> No

Honestly, I don't see the benefit of moving from Synology to Buffalo WSS unless you're using it in a multi forest AD enviroment.

[1000001101000]

Mine came with 8GB ram, I have not tried upgrading it yet.

[Eastmarch]

DSM will absolutely not run on that hardware without some serious linux wizardry. It may be possible, but likely violates the EULA nine ways to Sunday.