I’ve had this box for almost ten years now, so I’ve been thinking about getting something new. Looking at the market, the new systems don’t seem to be all that much more advanced, though. So my question is, should I get a new one or just keep the old box and swap out the drives? What can a new NAS do that my old one can’t? And what kind of drives should I get? I have 2 TB WD Red something, is that still a good choice? I’d move up to 4 TB, of course. This box is only used as backup for my home stuff and a small business, I’m primarily concerned with reliability.
Agreed, if the box works for you I’d look at cycling out the drives - 10 years is a long time for spinning disks to last and every day is another day closer to a failure.
So just swap new drives in one at a time, after backing your data up just in case. I upgraded mine to 4x10 drives 3-4 years ago, and its painless as long as you wait for the resilvering process to complete.
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Agreed, if the box works for you I’d look at cycling out the drives - 10 years is a long time for spinning disks to last and every day is another day closer to a failure.
So just swap new drives in one at a time, after backing your data up just in case. I upgraded mine to 4x10 drives 3-4 years ago, and its painless as long as you wait for the resilvering process to complete.