Anyone here with an old Synology NAS?

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I checked the age of my Synology NAS and it’s over 5 years old (Synology DS412+) with Western Digital 3TB red’s which where transferred out of another older Synology so they are over 6 years old.

At what point or age would replacing it be adviseable? Everything seems to be running ok and the drives still pass the monthly integrity checks.
 
The Nas potentially will be fine forever (only things like fans or the PSU are the things the can really fail on them).

The Drives will eventually fail, how long is uncertain though, some seem to last forever. Presumably you have another form of backup and the drives are in RAID10, in which case I would likely just wait until 1 fails and then replace.

5 years+ has definitely got the money's worth from the drive though, in a business or critical situation I would be replacing purely on age
 
The 3TB drives have been rock solid and got them in raid 5 using Synology shr hybrid raid. Also got an offline spare 3TB ready to replace one incase one fails.

In my other Synology NAS (DS916+) that is configured with 4 x 4TB reds in btrfs raid 5 and had two drive failures in that (not at the same time fortunately).

I’m thinking of replacing the DS412+ with a DS418play with 4 x 4TB reds.
 
I'm using a QNAP TS-412 amongst other NAS devices - its been under continuous heavy use for 5.7 years and I've had no problems until a few days ago.

I'd rate the PSUs in them probably good for about 10 years - at that point things like capacitors may start to be heading towards end of life - I'm definitely planning on replacing mine (despite the prices that seem to be ever going up) once it gets towards that age.

I'm having some fun and games at the moment with the HDDs in it - but I can't really complain having more than 5 years of heavy use out of what are just run of the mill drives.

Events of the last few days have reinforced the need for a robust backup solution though I've not actually lost any data yet - I've used RAID 1 mirroring internally for convenience with an external USB drive plugged in doing realtime replication of the RAID and additional USB HDDs I round robin to take monthly snapshots of the data and store securely elsewhere.

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Initially disc 1 threw up some reallocated sectors so I thought I'd stick a new drive in to replace it but then just as I was about to start work on that the 2nd drive just died or so I thought - so I was trying to replace that instead of disc 1 but something failed with no information when trying to replace the second drive in the array - then the RAID configuration just vanished and disc 1 started acting as a single drive (fully intact no data loss) and I can't migrate it back to a RAID array but meanwhile disc 2 (3rd slot) has come back to life.

Going to have to wipe the lot, get another new drive and start over from the backups by the looks of it.
 
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i bought my ds1812+ about 6 or 7 years ago. I originally bought it with 8 samsung 3TB drives. All but one of those drives have failed along the way, probably because they weren't designed to be 24/7 nas drives. Each one that's failed has been replaced with a WD red 3TB drive, and i'm happy to report (touch wood) that NONE of the WD drives have failed yet. I'm rather gutted i didn't do a bit more research when i bought the NAS in the first place....and bought NAS rated drives instead!

Oh well - the synology itself is great though. I only recently had the guts to update the DSM from 4.x to 6.x...works very nicely and fits all my needs. No need to upgrade in my opinion.
 
I had a Synology DS207+ which I replaced about two years ago with a HP Microserver with Win10 (hardware raid1, using the previous 2x2TB WD Red drives) as it was starting to struggle as content size and streaming of videos has increased massively. The spec was very low compared to modern ones - single core cpu with 128MB RAM. For general file storage and things it would have still been fine though.
 
Just bought a new Synology DS418play to replace the DS412+ with 4TB WD red's. When I was transferring the data from NAS to NAS directly one of the old 3TB red's failed in the DS412+ but luckily I managed to get all the data off it. Checked the dates again and the red drives are all Oct 2012 on them so over 5 years old.

Going to keep the DS412+ so I can access some external USB drives over my local LAN. I've got 3 working 3TB red's and was thinking if to sell them or put them back in use? I could create a small 3TB volume using two of them to be on the safe side. Should I go btrfs or raid1 on two drives? btrfs would stripe the data across the two drives I think whereby raid1 would just make a mirror copy.
 
Been using a DS214se for four years now, has a pair of 8TB drives in it, not expecting it to die anytime soon but if it does I will just buy another. PSU failure is a cheap fix on these usints as they are external.
 
I've got a DS1010+ which is still going strong bought in 2010.

Just this week bought a new DS918+ (very good it is as well). Bought a new one purely because the DS1010+ no longer receives software updates and hasn't done for a year or so now.

However, still works a treat and plan on keep using it.
 
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