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Time to upgrade? - Velkro - 08-12-2025
Hi
I currently have a QNAP TS-453A-8G which has served me well (pun intended) for the last few years. Running 4 4tb seagate ironwolf drives. One of the drives has decided to start failing and I was going to replace all 4 as they are a good age now, however I'm wondering whether to just replace the whole system at the same time.
Main usage at present is as a media server for plex and a backup repository for phone and other desktops (win/lin). I was considering trying to use as a roon server but see on the roon page they tend to use nuc style systems for that with more ram and more capable cpu. Other new uses would be with home automation.
Things are a bit slow at the minute (navigating the nas through portal as is the maintenence of apps) and may improve with a refresh (maybe) however media serving atm is flawless.
I was considering something with a bit more kick and with m.2 availability, the ability to transcode would also be useful. I'm not sure I have the patience for DIY but it's not completely off the cards.
Cheers in advance
V