Looking to replace your 7 year old 214 play.

[LeeH]

Hi,

My 214 play with WD red drives is 7 years old now. Yep m looking to replace it with another Synology as I have 10 camera licences invested into it. It’s becoming a little slow and requires rebooting periodically.

I mainly use it for surveillance, photos, docs and the odd movie that’s stored on there.

Shall I try swapping out the HDD’s with SSD’s?

What model would be a decent upgrade?

Thanks.




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[degrub]

why not clean out the dust and replace the drives ?

 

[L&LD]

If your budget allows SSD's on your NAS, I would suggest you do a clean/fresh install of the NAS os on the new SSDs. It will be much faster and the clean install should take care of any bugs/glitches that have crept in.

Then, copy the data over to the newly created/set up NAS.

If you upgrade to a new NAS device, I would suggest the same thing (whether SSDs or HDDs used).

The only question is, do you have enough temporary storage to copy (do not move) the data off of the NAS right now to reuse the current NAS you have?

If you do have a large enough temporary storage available (or, you don't need to save all the data from the NAS), that is what I would first attempt. If the NAS continues to be buggy with a clean install of its os? Then you can always re-use the SSD's in the new NAS unit you buy. Just make sure to also do a full clean install on that unit too.