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SMB-type NAS for community digital archive - Enquiries - 06-17-2025
Hello! We are a non-profit community-oriented digital archive in Philadelphia, the People's Media Record, and we are looking to replace our ageing DAS, which has had a bunch of drive failures recently, with a NAS, so people in our community can access their media collections--we already have an old QNAP rackmount, which has served us well, so I we are considering staying with QNAP but also looking at the Terramaster and UGreen options.
An 8 drive NAS would be ideal, especially with a RAID that would be able to deal with two drives failing at the same time. We have been looking at the QNAP TS-973AX and the TS-873AU. Would that kind of NAS be ok 7-10 years down the line? Would having SSDs be preferable for our purposes: limited-use database, read, write? Do SSDs really last longer?
The UGreen DXP8000 Plus and Terramaster T9-450 also look good, but the warranty is one year less, and I am concerned about the less powerful CPU, would either thing be an issue?
Thank you!