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Hi there,

I have a basic Synology DS220J with a pair of 10TB drives in it - one for an SMB share, the other for backup snapshots of that share.

I've secured a couple more of the same 10TB drives and was hoping to run RAID5 or similar with a hot-spare - so I'm looking for a NAS in the UK currently on sale that ideally has:

- 4x 3.5" bays
- SSD cacheing (M.2 so that it doesn't use a 3.5" bay)
- 2.5GbE networking, (or 2.5GbE-compatible 10-Base-T networking)

I've read a few of your recommendations in FAQs and unfortunately most of the recommendations are no longer on sale. As someone who likely has a good knowledge of what's the best deals going in realtime, are you able to recommend anything?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

Yes, there are very few options. Soon Synology will release ds923+ that will have 10gbe upgrade slot and nvme caching.
In the meantime, you may consider Qnap TS-464 series with 2.5gbe and nvme cache.
DS920+ have been upgraded via USB 2.5gbe adapters before. Not sure this still works.


I hope this helps.