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?
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Do you have any examples of a NAS case? I’m looking at possibilities for redoing my setup which is currently an old Ryzen PC stuffed with 9 or so drives running Windows, SnapRAID, and DrivePool. I’d love to scale it down horsepower wise to make it more efficient and reliable (Windows sucks for this) along with separating it from my general PC usage. Some sort of 8-bay drive enclosure that can directly connect to a thin client PC, and handle different capacity drives (6TB-14TB) would be ideal.
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Could you run open source software on something like a Synology if they stop supporting it?
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That sucks. Well, I still am fine with my purchasing decision. It’s a good stepping stone into learning out to network. In the future, I’ll definitely build it myself and get my own domain for remote access.
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Oh interesting. Links?
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