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 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.
 
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.
 
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