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  • OK, think I've settled on a Synology DiskStation DS1621+ 6 bay thing, will also need to spend ~£160 upgrading it to 32GB RAM (which gives me much more room for a few VMs on it). I'll punt the old QNAP to lessen the upgrade cost.

    That allows me to have 4 drives for my existing backup array, plus two bays free if I ever want a larger scratch area. Any more than that (I doubt I'll ever need it) and I can attach another 5 (or 10) drives using the DX517 expansion unit(s).

    (Have a 2-4 week cooling off period for purchases like this, just in case I think up something better...)

  • Since it has the capacity I'd highly recommend using an SSD for the OS. Obviously makes things a whole lot snappier and quieter.

    Notice it has NVMe support, but that's only useable as a cache as far as I can tell.

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