I'm working daily on my NAS, and it's sometimes tedious as it's very slow. I noticed that my Synology 2413+ is already over 10 years old and the disks running 24/7 inside are getting tired, I have again 1 which needs to be replaced due to UNC errors and failing tests, plus another one which gives me I/O errors since some time.

I also added 2 Zyxel 2.5Git switches to my network, and added 2 USB adapters for the 2 NAS which only support 1Gbit, the one on the 920+ works fine and I get now 2500 Mbps but I can't get the one on the 2413+ to be recognized properly, it shows in the list with the lsusb command, but it's nowhere reachable inside my network.

I finally decided to get everything new, sometimes there's need for a change, especially after 10+ years.

So I bought a DS2422+ as replacement with 12x8TB Seagate Exos Enterprise HDDs (please no comment now against Seagate, thanks @Harrison) and bought also straight away 2x32GB RAM for the NAS as it only comes with 4GB.

Anyone wanna buy the 2413+
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Very nice indeed. And nothing wrong with those drives. Same hardware as the Ironwolf drives but with helium to extend life. Were you not tempted by the 16TB drives?

At least I know you will be keeping all this rom collections safe.
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You mean 12x16TB?? That would be expensive. I got a great price for the 8TB Exos drives, 140€/piece. I bought 13 of them.

I was also looking at an 8-bay NAS with 16TB drives but as I like to keep everything in a Raid6 I would lose too much.
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My latest setup.

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That is quite mad. What's the total storage capacity?

And what are you storing? Rom collections obviously, movies?
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And there was me complaining that my 4TB IronWolf drive is getting full and needs upgrading.
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DS2413+ is 12x4TB, my oldest one, in Raid6.
DS920+ is 4x16TB, but non Raid, basically a backup of my stuff on the DS2422+
DS2422+ is 12x8TB also in Raid6, and has the DX1222 as expansion unit, which at the moment only has 3x8TB inside.

I would say most of it are ROM collections and everything related to games. But obviously also movies and some series.
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I really need to get a new NAS soon.

Max I would need is maybe 16TB What are the best NAS drives at the moment? Ironwolf, WD Red or other?
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I guess they're all good, uaed to buy the cheapest, but at the moment that's not really possible.

In my old NAS I still have Hitachi, they're running for over 12 years now, 24/7.

Then I bought Exos drives, the 8TB ones I paid 140? each at the time, wish I had bought more.

Now for the expansion I bought Ironwolf Pro 8TB, they were 285? each, so over double the price than the Exos at that time, but those were now the cheapest I found, the non Pro were only 5-10? cheaper. Exos were slightly more expensive.

The 4x16TB I have are also Exos drives.
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Mad ain't the word DC in terms of Storage capacity. WOW!

I got pissed off with Transfer speeds on Gigabit Network from Puter to NAS, so I ditched the NAS box & built a Home Server under my desk with 10G on the Mobo.
My Gaming Rig also has 10G so I ended up sacking the NAS & strapping several TB into the Server with a 10G connection between them and a 2.5G connection back to the Ubiquiti Dream machine SE Fibre box.

After a while, I realised I did all my downloading with the Server & didn't really need the 10G connection between the Gaming Rig & the Server. Adding to this, I run Win 10 Pro on the gaming rig & it is blisteringly fast for no going online getting f'ked up with Internet garbage.
The Server runs Win11 & can get f'kd up all it likes. My server is installed from nearly three years ago and is bloated on a 100GB partition with 46.2GB still free but my gaming rocks on the 14900KS 3080Ti (Just recently upgraded to 5080 & build still ongoing...) without the surfing shit dragging it down. <---- I can't emphasise how much surfing has an impact on any Windows based computer!

On top of this, I wasn't a great fan of hanging around waiting for the Qnap TS-412 getting on with things. Very slow & chuggy compared to something Linux based on a 11900K CPU. I dare say the TS-412 is very obsolete nowadays but for me and am probably comparing apples with pears, ....it was way way worse than having a Windows XP machine on a Pentium4 rig.

Bye bye shit speed NAS and hello Home Server! - Winner Winner...Chicken Dinner!

Aside from my ramblings DC, I love how your set up looks. - Eat your heart out NASA!
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