Lifespan of Synology NAS

[Snoopy08]

I have a 6 year old DS414 running Synology Hybrid Raid. Lost 1 disk 18 months ago and the system sent an alert. Silly me, left it for a few weeks when a second one went! Fortunately, I had a backup on my 9 year old DS211j.

So, cannot tell you when the NAS itself goes. And if it does, probably not worth it to repair. There are some limitations on HDD migrations, see section 3
https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledge...d_later#t3

My NAS is used for music and lots of files from family. I would not go for the J series given our usage patterns. My MinimServer with convolution is currently running on an NUC. Not sure whether I would get a high end NAS to run MinimServer or get a value series one?