Home NAS with SSD cache

[Enquiries]

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

[ed]

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.