Memory Upgrades on a NAS - Before You Buy

Hi!! Do you know the maximum memory i can put in the DS224+?

I just increased the memory in my Asustor AS6704T 4-bay NAS. I used a stick of Patriot Viper Steel 8GB DDR4-3200 CL18 SODIMM. It isn't on the qualified list, which is really short, but the memory works fine. None of the memory on the qualified list was even available in Canada that I could find, which is really bad, Asustor needs to test and qualify more memory. I have one more slot so I can increase it to 16GB in the future. I also like the Patriot since it has a heat spreader on it. The Celeron N5105 can only access 16GB, but I am using this unit as a file backup only, so I don't need much memory.

Brilliant video, I am learning so much from your expertise and professionalism, Many Thanks

Crucial has worked great in my 1522+ and RS3621xs+

Ref earlier test on TS-x63D memory upgrade. Have you tested if 2x16GB is working on the TS-x64 series?

Thks

Wow, you make AWESOME videos!!! Thank You. I hope mine runs ok, I put a 16g timetech in my Synology DS 920 + non ecc .2666 mhz ddr4 2666 . PC4 21300 . Haven't tried it yet

Nah, wasn't boring at all. Great video. Thank you.

You are also constrained by what the CPU can handle, which has nothing to do with Synology. If its max is 32 you’re limited to 32 etc

Can you recommend what brand of RAM to get for a Qnap TS-464? I want to upgrade it to 16gb. Thanks in advance.

This guy can talk. It’s endless and you learn nothing.

Very interesting...

Just received my DS1821+ a few days ago. I have ordered 2 X 16GB Kingston ECC RAM which Kingston's site says is compatible specifically with my NAS. It is 1/4 the price of the Synology RAM. Much as I love my Synology NAS's (Currently have CS407, DS1512+ and now 1821+) I refuse to pay Synology 4 X the price for the add-ons. It's not like Synology Makes the stuff. They have someone else make it and then just slap their name on it and multiply the price by 4! Will keep the 8GB module that came with it and if I run into any issues that require support I will simply remove my RAM and the NVME M.2 drives that I will be adding and put the 8GB Synology module back in before requesting a support ticket.

I upgraded my Qnap TS-251d to 32gb Team 2400. Working excellent

I just replaced the RAM in my Synology DS216+II and can confirm that 8Gb RAM from Timetec (76TT16NUSL2R8-8G) works great. Also, there is NO NEED to remove the fan or fan cable. My warranty seal is still intact. You can wedge the motherboard up slightly to access the RAM module. Run Synology Assistant to confirm memory compatibility.

Hmm, in a different video I got the impression I could have good performance with 4tb cache (read-only) on a NAS equipped with 4gb of RAM. Now you sorta said that if I want 10gb speeds, I'll really want 8gb of RAM, which does make sense. (I have a thunderbolt to 10gbe adapter and the 10gbe card in my synology NAS.) So now I'm wondering if I really need that RAM for 10gbe speeds when video editing, since a large portion of my files will be on the 4tb cache drives anyway. Hmm... maybe my 10gbe connection can't access the cache as fast without more RAM?

Was just gonna wing it and see how/if it works (just bought the cache), but thought I'd drop this question here as well.

Thank you again ! I’ve just been looking at the specifications of a DS920+ , it’s memory is DDR 4 without ECC , can an upgrade be made with DDR 4 with ECC ?

Thank you , very helpful ! My education continues … little by little !

Hi. I just purchased a 920+ along with 2 - m.2 drives and a 4GB memory chip. I watched your video regarding setup part 1 and you were saying to do the initial set up without the extra memory. I was just wondering at what point should I install the m.2 drives and the extra ram. I probably don't need the extra ram and the 2 - m.2 drives right away, but I figured since I was making the purchase I bought everything at once. I'm just confused when I should install the extra's. Thanks in advance.

I upgraded the memory to 8 GB on my DS920+ for virtual machines And notice that My windows 11 virtual machine sometimes could not use the full 6 gigs because of system resources and so I had to reduce it to 5 GB. After a while, I decided to unofficially upgrade to 20 GB (16 GB stick + 4 GB built-in) made a noticeable difference allowing me to allocate 12 gigabytes to Windows 11 VM leaving a full 8 gigs for the system. I also have an Ubuntu VM which I allocated 8 GB. It's worth mentioning that I don't run them at the same time obviously.

In the description you noted the for 32GB ram, the "Kingston 32GB 2666Mhz DDR4 SODIMM Non-ECC KCP426SD8/32 - @t” will this work with the DS 920+? In the video, if I understood correctly, you mentinoed you tested a 32GB and it did not turn on. Just would appreciate some clarity, again, thank you. I appreciate your videos.

Just bought a ds920+ and just gone for Kingston 4GB 2666mhz etc. I realised that it’s only got 1 rack of chips ( only one side) and video recommends 2 rack. Is that only beneficial for the larger sticks of ram??

My god you are so damn helpful. Thanks!

The jump from 1GB to 2GB is significant but beyond that is not noticeable in my experience. I dont have a 10gb NAS though

Good advice. Could have used some diagrams of the different brands and how the memory is hidden or ways to access it.

So the Voltage has to be 1.35V for my TS-541+?
Is there a good page to find a list off all the types that might work?
I'm looking for 2 4GB RAM.

Memory is memory. Synology is clowning with their branded micron memory charging a premium.

Just put one of the Crucial 16GB DDR4 SODIIMM modules (CT16G4SFD8266) in to my DA1621+ after removing the 4GB Synology module that came with it. The NAS failed to boot when powered back up! Changed back to the original RAM and it booted fine. Anyone with any thoughts? Maybe a bad module? Guess I have time to return to Amazon.

@NASCompares Hello bro, I upgraded my DS220+ to 10 GB by adding crucial 8 GB memory module. Everything went ok and didn't have any problem with system stability. Just after upgrade, I can see gradually the "Cached" memory starts to increase in resource monitoring and almost after a week (even when I do a system restart) it reaches to 8.5 GB and this is causing free memory amount to be less than 1 GB, and if I check the swap memory I see system start using about 1.3 MB out of 7.7 GB. Is this a normal behavior? Why DS220+ doesn't empty cache memory to use it instead of using swap memory? Will this be fixed in DSM 7? Thanks for your hint ;)

can I ask your opinion on how to speed up the load times viewing image previews using adobe bridge or any software in general? The images are on the nas folder, ethernet, D920+ Synology; I use my laptop to view and work on the images. will ram help here, or adding cache drive?

So which is the best first upgrade for a 920+ Adding more memory or adding NvME caches?

I put this bad boy into my 920+ 6 months ago and it's very stable: Crucial CT16G4SFD8266 16GB (1x16GB) DDR4 SODIMM 2666MHz CL19 1.2V Dual Ranked 2Rx8 Notebook Laptop Memory RAM ~KVR26S19D8/16 Now have 20G of stable usable memory thanks to NAS compares

I have a Synology 920+, and added 16GB for a total of 20GB. The memory works fine, but was not used. I then swapped out the 16GB for 4GB to meet Synology's recommendations/requirements. I haven't seen the top 4GB get used. If I ever need more memory, I have it.

What we need is videos on installing memory on Qnap

Unrelated question:
Does anyone know if synology 920+ can run Samsung SSD 980 PRO ?

When I saw your video, I was thinking:
It’s too late, I already ordered kingston 16GB memory for my synology 920+, but thanks god you didn’t say anything against doing it 🙏🏻

Ram may work fine until the vendor updates OS. Keep original ram. May have requirement to revert during upgrade, then return to the better configuration... All part of the fun. (keep copy of data)

I've noticed that during regular file operations, my TS-h973AX running 8GB uses over half the RAM. My TS-h886 has 16GB, and also uses... half. So it's upgrade time. The TS-h886 runs ECC DDR4 UDIMMs and the TS-h973AX with the AMD proc looks like it uses any DDR4 SODIMM, ECC or not. However, the intarwebs recommend that when running ZFS (I am!), to use ECC. So 64GB for each for now, maybe 128 total for the TS-h886 if I add a storage expansion and fill it with surveillance drives in addition to running Plex.

Have a question not related to this (sorry).
For 2 Bay drives: shr is basically raid 1? It doesn't split it by 1gb slots?

I'm deciding 720+ vs 920+, however, I don't think I'll fill up 12Tb anytime soon.

Thanks!

My main problem was running a Plex Server without running out of Memory. My 4GB Ram Qnap had the tendency to cap out at 80% and start to Swap Files aggressively leading to the failing of the QTS User Interface. At that point I had to restart the NAS every evening until I disabled Plex. Now with an added 8 GB (Qnap Original) I only ran into that Problem once again with Plex taking whopping 7GB of Ram at that time. Maybe some memory leaks in Plex in that version or it did just use everything it got.
I have to say I was shocked when I saw QTS break down when the swapping threshold was reached.
I would rather have some extra Ram even for normal tasks now.

Second comment! 😁👍
Most notably is ZFS, that really puts a relatively higher strain on memory-utilisation.
Next is Thunderbolt 2/3 but indeed also not forgetting Surveillance Station.
But I have even gone so far of replacing the CPU (mostly the Intel in the -T version) for some QNAP's that were purchased in a time that only the "lighter" CPU's were offered by QNAP.
Not for the fainthearted nor when you still have warranty or have some sort of technical inclination :)
But expanding the memory can indeed be beneficial. Sometimes even beyond the "formal maximum" within certain limits.
But Robby already covered the "unofficial memory" in previous episodes indeed.