Lifespan of Synology NAS

[Mike48]

Thanks, Snoopy and David. It seems likely the DS414 has years of life on it. The suggestion of keeping a spare drive on hand is a good one.

I installed four (3 Tb) HGST Deskstar drives in December, 2014, and haven't received a failure warning yet. Though HGST now is part of Western Digital, it's descended from Hitachi, whose drives have performed well for me -- though I don't have a statistically valid sample.

Considering the drives' age, I will not move them to a new NAS when I upgrade.