a couple of weeks back, the power connector of my four year old synology nas came lose and eventually resulted in a partial contact situation which went unnoticed for a few hours. this was the end result https://twitter.com/0x/status/1391061873001472007

thankfully, data was still accessible. i had been thinking of a storage upgrade as the existing setup was about 75% full. i couldn't get 12tb wd red drives around here. i got two 8tb drives to backup my files. i use raid 10

12tb drives eventually arrived and i was like hmm ezra what do you think about an ssd cache? my ds916+ didn't support this so i had to upgrade the enclosure itself. got more ram while i was at it

final form

my current home network at 1gbps is already the bottleneck when reading or writing to the nas without the cache, but i guess i'm future proofing it towards when i upgrade to a 10gbps core and leverage link aggregation (device comes with two ethernet ports)

anyway, now i have a spare nas enclosure. will probably set it up as an offsite backup/mirror and keep with my isp (if they will allow it). hopefully, i don't get charged for on-net traffic