04-04-2023, 02:01 PM
Hi there! It sounds like you have a good setup with your DS1812+ and a mix of IronWolf and WD Red drives in SHR2. Based on your use case for home document storage, family photos, media server, and development server, it seems like you have a good balance of storage and performance. Even though Synology do not list bigger drives, you can still use them. If your NAS is still fast enough just get bigger drives. Otherwise, new 1821+ would be a nice upgrade for another 10 years.