07-07-2024, 08:35 AM
Current solution Synology DS713+ (2014) & DX513 (2017) (2 + 5 bay). 1 volume across 4 drives using SHR with tolerance for 2 drive failure. Lots of photographs (large RAW files), personal ripped music, Apple Time Machine backups for 2 Apple Mac computers.
Very little IT skills - I value very highly the "set and forget" / "it just works" nature.
Experience of Synology is excellent - tech support helped me resolve an issue on July 2024 via email, despite devices being 10 yrs old.
System currently working fine, although just about to replace 2 of the 4TB drives and apparently need to "rebuild" the volume, having expended it in error to 5 drives with a recent drive swap.
System has DSM 7.1 and reports up to date, so perhaps is too old to work DSM 7.2.
Any future solution would be expected to work for 10+ yrs.
My son's review of the hardware on offer from Synology makes it look out of date and over priced, although I appreciate DSM software is where the "set and forget" value is. Hlp
Very little IT skills - I value very highly the "set and forget" / "it just works" nature.
Experience of Synology is excellent - tech support helped me resolve an issue on July 2024 via email, despite devices being 10 yrs old.
System currently working fine, although just about to replace 2 of the 4TB drives and apparently need to "rebuild" the volume, having expended it in error to 5 drives with a recent drive swap.
System has DSM 7.1 and reports up to date, so perhaps is too old to work DSM 7.2.
Any future solution would be expected to work for 10+ yrs.
My son's review of the hardware on offer from Synology makes it look out of date and over priced, although I appreciate DSM software is where the "set and forget" value is. Hlp