DiskStation DS1525+

Even with the push for "branded drives" in a Synology, I'd be moving that way if I were you. I have a Synology 5-Bay DiskStation DS1525+ (Diskless) that I got off Amazon for $699 (Now $799) back in July of 2024. I populated it with 16Tb Ironwolf drives. Never been happier. I migrated all my Drobo 5S

Pulled this from a chat gpt response of what you said above... The simplest “best fit” build for your numbers 4 bay NAS + 4 x 10TB or 4 x 12TB drives in RAID5 (or Synology SHR). • 4 x 10TB in RAID5 gives about 27TB usable • 4 x 12TB in RAID5 gives about 33TB usable That lands right in your 20 to 24T

The Synology DS1525+ (V1500B quad-core, 8GB, 5x3.5" plus 2x M.2) with the H10 Mini 10GbE adapter is US$910 The TS-h666TX has one less bay but has dual 10GbE, TB4, PCIe slot, and the convenience of the front-mounted M.2/E1.S carriers. It slots under the TVS-h674-i3 (i3-12100 4C/8T) which is $1799. Th

I moved from plex and other tings running on an old windows pc to a synology ds1821+. If I had it to do again I'd do the same. For me the killer app is SHR allowing disparate drives to give redundancy. I love the rich user community - I had my apps all install on a local ssd before I added the cache