01-05-2025, 09:00 PM
I have a QNAP TS-251+. 6 yrs old. Original 1T WD Gold drives. 40k plus hours on drives and old QNAP technology.
-backup files, financial data, store movies, pictures, some music (not much), PLEX for home use and to share via internet with my kids. Also have one camera in place, planning for second - store recordings. My use isn't huge, but I want another six to seven years from a new NAS. I have 1 unused WD Gold 1T drive, two with data (mirrored set in the NAS). -two NVME's as new "drives"? or Sata SSDs? or WD Gold server level drives again? Would like to use my current drives until they die - or is that a bad idea? I have looked at Synology - old technology. QNAP - a little better hardware, used to the OS. UGREEN - too new, no PLEX support. Terramaster - still has software growing pains, but seems much better hardware for future proofing, but struggling software. I have built many PC's but no longer desire to spend hours messing with software configs. No self build
-backup files, financial data, store movies, pictures, some music (not much), PLEX for home use and to share via internet with my kids. Also have one camera in place, planning for second - store recordings. My use isn't huge, but I want another six to seven years from a new NAS. I have 1 unused WD Gold 1T drive, two with data (mirrored set in the NAS). -two NVME's as new "drives"? or Sata SSDs? or WD Gold server level drives again? Would like to use my current drives until they die - or is that a bad idea? I have looked at Synology - old technology. QNAP - a little better hardware, used to the OS. UGREEN - too new, no PLEX support. Terramaster - still has software growing pains, but seems much better hardware for future proofing, but struggling software. I have built many PC's but no longer desire to spend hours messing with software configs. No self build