{"id":56,"date":"2014-12-24T23:11:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T15:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2014-12-24T23:11:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T15:11:13","slug":"synology-diskstation-slowdown-on-ds1512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/synology-diskstation-slowdown-on-ds1512\/","title":{"rendered":"Synology DiskStation Slowdown on DS1512+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ds15121.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59\" src=\"http:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ds15121.png\" alt=\"ds1512\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ds15121.png 600w, https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ds15121-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are three Synology DiskStation devices in the office: DS1512+, DS411, and DS412+. In terms of performance, we found them suitable for our daily operations until about a month ago. The DS1512+ became problematic. The staff would often complain that the server has gotten significantly slow. Sometimes, it would fluctuate from normal to painfully slow. There were a few instances when browsing shared folders was impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Monitoring the server, we found that there were no obvious signs that there&#8217;s something wrong. The CPU is not maxing out. There seemed to be no memory shortage as the usage ranged from 29% to 75%. The only strange thing was that it&#8217;s getting a higher than normal disk utilization percentage at over 50%.<\/p>\n<p>Diagnosing the problem proved to be very difficult. A search for disk utilization monitoring tools turned up empty. Built-in tools were nonexistent in this BusyBox embedded OS.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of frustration, we decided to do a memory upgrade since this is the only upgrade that can be done to the device. The DS1512+ supports only up to 3 GB of memory including its built-in 1 GB. The 2 GB PC 1333 SODIMM card was inserted, and we turned on the device.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been one week since we did the upgrade. Everything seems to be faster. In the end, a simple memory upgrade solved the problem. I regret not having to do it sooner just because of saving on cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three Synology DiskStation devices in the office: DS1512+, DS411, and DS412+. In terms of performance, we found them suitable for our daily operations until about a month ago. The DS1512+ became problematic. The staff would often complain that the server has gotten significantly slow. Sometimes, it would fluctuate from normal to painfully slow. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[21,23,22,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itrapt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}