Lifespan of Synology NAS

[lyapounov]

(22-06-2020 17:07)Mike48 Wrote:  

(22-06-2020 14:01)lyapounov Wrote:  As for me, I watch carefully the number of bad sectors. As soon as one happens, I change the HD.

As for the backup, I have now 5TB of music... so it is not an easy thing !

That is exactly my plan -- to change out a disk as soon as it reports a bad sector or any SMART warning.

Regarding backups: Amazon offers inexpensive 8 Tb USB drives for <$200 (amazing). I use a USB drive and Syncovery software to mirror what's on my NAS. The initial mirror took a long time, but incremental mirrors are just a few minutes. I do one manually each time I add music to my library. It could be automated, but I've never bothered.

I chose another solution for backup: I have another synology at another place, and they are all synced together.

I used to have the unlimited Amazon plan at $70 per year, which they unsurprisuingly stopped a few years ago...

I also had the 10T OVH (Hubic) for 5€ per month, which again they stopped...

So now, it is NAS to NAS. Fortunatly, we have 1Tb/s bandwidth in France !