First off, I’d normally ask this question on a datahoarding forum, but this one is way more active than those and I’m sure there’s considerable overlap.
So I have a Synology DS218+ that I got in 2020. So it’s a 6 year old model by now but only 4 into its service. There’s absolutely no reason to believe it’ll start failing anytime soon, and it’s completely reliable. I’m just succession planning.
I’m looking forward to my next NAS, wondering if I should get the new version of the same model again (whenever that is) or expand to a 4 bay.
The drives are 14 TB shucked easy stores, for what it’s worth, and not even half full.
What are your thoughts?
I’ve got a DS416 that I’ve had for almost a decade, and its still going strong. Worst thing I’ve had to deal with is a shucked easystore drive that died, but the other 3 are running fine.
Were you able to swap in a new one and copy everything back over?
Its running RAID (SHR I think) so it just screamed at me for a while until I figured out what was going on. Once a new disk was obtained, I was able to power down, swap disks and resilver the array with no data loss. I turned off a number of services I run during the time I was down a spare disk to make sure I didn’t put to much stress on the array, but otherwise I was still able to run my NAS/media servers without much issue.