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How long should I expect a NAS to last? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First off, I'd normally ask this question on a datahoarding forum, but this one is way more active than those and I'm sure there's considerable overlap.

So I have a Synology DS218+ that I got in 2020. So it's a 6 year old model by now but only 4 into its service. There's absolutely no reason to believe it'll start failing anytime soon, and it's completely reliable. I'm just succession planning.

I'm looking forward to my next NAS, wondering if I should get the new version of the same model again (whenever that is) or expand to a 4 bay.

The drives are 14 TB shucked easy stores, for what it's worth, and not even half full.

What are your thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Yeah they're reds. Is there a way I can check how many hours they have on them? 10,000 is just over a year. They're a couple years old now.

I'm not too concerned about them failing, I can afford to replace one without notice and they're mirrored. And backed up in some other easy stores.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

smartctl

But 10.000 seems on the low side, i have 4 datacenter toshiba 10tb disks with 40k hours and expect them to do at least 80k, but you can have bad luck and one fails prematurely.
If its within warranty, you can get it replaced, if not, tough luck.

Always have stuff protected in raid/zfs and backed up if you value the data or dont want a weekend ruined because you now have to reinstall.
And with big disks, consider having more disks as redundancy as another might get a bit-error while restoring the failed one. (check the statistical averages of the disk in the datasheet)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't start worrying until 50k+ hours.

There should be a way to view SMART info and that includes an hour count.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

That info can be found in the smart data for the drives, but I didn't mean 10,000 hours, more like > 50,000

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I believe the synology DSM should have a feature for this. Try the storage manager app and it should tell you SMART info.