Can I have a minute's silence..................................or a simple 'Raise ya glass.", please. To my beloved Synology D416slim NAS.

It owes me nothing and has been a solid workhorse for over 10 years. I only use it these days for storage and not streaming music.

It is normally left off, and I only turn it on to add Flac files. About every 3 months, I add more files. I have 2 other external HDDs for storage of my 1.8tb of music. It fired up today, then poof, lights out. I tried another power supply, but no love.

Of course, the 416 is nolonger made. It holds 2.5 HDDs, which have little use these days. About $500+ to replace the NAS and buy new 3.5" drives.

I bought a 4tb HDD external from Amazon.AU for $195, so that will suffice. Surely 3 copies of my music library in a fireproof security box will do the trick. I have looked into the Cloud but opted out.

Oh how I love ye. :-(

xxxx

Regards Cazzesman

I do feel your pain. My DS713 karked it about a year ago, bought it back in 2013. Work horse indeed. I was waiting for this timebomb to kick in, so about 4 years ago, i got another DS218+ and ran them both in parallel. So all files were mirrored across the DS218+. Yeah people would say just get a large capacity USB HDD and just back up the DS713.. And so, early last year i decided to play with a QNAP TS464 and thats my workhorse atm. I have 2x 3.5HDDs as my backups, and most stuff run off the M.2 2280 PCIes x2 4TB SSDs. Plex movie hosting runs real smooth, no hiccups on my 2.5G network. So everything from the 218+ is archived onto the TS464 HDDs.