Goodday,

I just purchased an older HP Z840 for a good price and would like to have that setup as my Unraid Device.
The main goal for the Unraid device as of yet, is to be a workhorse and do more power intensive tasks that my Synogloy NAS can't keep up.

My NAS is currently the storage house and I would - for now - like to keep it that way. Therefore I would like to connect the Synology NAS and the UnRAID machine connected and that it will write / read files between the two.
The Z840 has 2 ethernet ports, so I was thinking I could maybe connect the two directly together for a fast(er) connection. So hence the following questions and guidance;

1. Is it possible to achieve a direct ethernet connection between the Z840 (UnRAID machine) and the Synology NAS?
2. How to setup the machines to work together, or what should I be aware of when I'm following this method?
   1. Primarly how to setup folders and stuff in UnRAID / Synology when installing apps, etc.
3. What are things to be aware of?

In the future I would like to have the UnRAID machine to take over the Synology NAS. But that future is not right now.
Thanks in advance!

4 hours ago, cazure said:

Is it possible to achieve a direct ethernet connection between the Z840 (UnRAID machine) and the Synology NAS?

It should be if you connect a network cable between both and manually set a different IP in the same subnet for both.

@JorgeB Thanks!
Is there anything else I should setup inside UnRAID or Synology to get this to work properly? Or is it litterally as easy as that?

Maybe, if someone knows or already has written an guide and could share that with me. That would be amazing!

Should not need anything else to connect the servers, then depends on how you want to transfer the data, you can use for example UD to mount the Synology shares.