In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Mine is just over 5 years old. It's a DS1817+ with 4xGbE on board and an expansion slot. Lives under the stairs, runs 24x7 and has a stack of cameras feeding it via Surveillance Station. running the latest version DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 3

Touch wood it hasn't missed a beat.

Thanks!

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

Most of the + series (e.g. ds923+) can be upgraded to 10GbE networking.

Thanks - I've got a DS214+ which has run flawlessly for years, looks like I need to do some reading.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

No worries. Just a thought. I chucked a 10GbE expansion card in my Synology after the Samsung EVOs burnt thorough in the cache card.

8 spinning sets of platters still good enough to fill the pipe without it though and the card was pretty cheap.

i can't do that either, the NAs is a cheap Terramaster, which does what I need, saying that due to energy cost it is turned off unless I need it, I have hooked up a switch bot bot to it, so I can turn it on with Alexa when required.
When I get myself sorted and start doing some videos again it will come in useful for that.

Next month i haver to take some data off a late mate's computer, audio files for different people that he was working on before he passed away, It have been over two years and people are want their music which is right, so I will use the Nas to stick them on, all in one place instead of the multiple drives they are on now