My NAS is a Synology DS1010+, modded to think it's a DS1511+ and running DSM 6.2. The LAN lights and power lights blink, but no drive lights, and it doesn't respond to SSH, ping, or Synology assistant.

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Otherwise, any suggestions as to what's a decent, inexpensive NAS to support 12-14TB? I don't need containers or an app ecosystem, although it'd be nice. NFS, SMB and DLNA, mostly.

My 6.2 Synology drive (4 bays) was also more dying in spring time, but one of my disks inside it too. I lost half of my RAID and as a part of recovery I purchased new 7.x based Synology with 6 bays. I purchased two larger disks (14TB Iron Wolf each) and set another RAID. Moved all data to new NAS and reinstalled everything with full reformat, check of the disks...

The old still serves me, but I don't trust it so I put there only temporary data I don't want to keep on my computers. I purchased more HDD to new Synology and now I'm happy with 28TB of fully RAID 10 storage and newest platform. Old Synology was with me for about 10 years already.. that's good ROI. I hope new one will serve me well for similar timeframe too.

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The old still serves me, but I don't trust it so I put there only temporar data I don't want to keep on my computers. I purchased more HDD to new Syn and now I'm happy with 28TB of fully RAID 10 storage and newest platform. Synology was with me for about 10 years already.. that's good ROI. I hope one will serve me well for similar timeframe too.

I went through 2 of Synology DS1621+ in half a year. From NEW!

My third one is running stable for 2 years now. But it sure dented my trust in Synology. I actually still feel it can give up on me every moment, was even contemplating to add a backup same version which runs as a slave with the same data.

But I think I will upgrade to a newer one next year. And buy two at once to make the backup plan work. Wanted a hardware transcoding CPU since Im running Plex.

Lets see how I feel about it next year with the new line-up :P.

oP!

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I went through 2 of Synology DS1621+ in half a year. From NEW!

Reall?! Wow, that's suprising. They are pretty good NAS units over all.

When it went bad, what did you loose, just the NAS? Meaning all you had to do is move your HD's over.

What does the recovery process look like?

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I went through 2 of Synology DS1621+ in half a year. From NEW!

Reall?! Wow, that's suprising. They are pretty good NAS units over all.

Yes, I think I was majorly unlucky. Especially seeing the third model is performing awesome.

When it went bad, what did you loose, just the NAS? Meaning all you had to ni> is move your HD's over.

Only the NAS, no data loss at all. The downtime was annoying though because all my stuff runs on the dockers. Torrent, Plex, Mystic etc, so I was down for a week until the new unit came in.

The service initially wanted me to sent in the defective unit and check it before issueing the new model. I had to fight for receiving the new unit beforehand.

What does the recovery process look like?

Recovery was very easy, had to put in a fresh disk in the new NAS and started it to update the firmware. Then I swapped drives and it run like sunshine (at least for a bit). Same method for the third version.

oP!

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