I had a pretty catastrophic failure on both drives (WD Red) in my DS216se yesterday. Well out of warranty on both the drives and the NAS.
I came into the office to hear the NAS beeping and both drives are showing as crashed with no options to repair either them or the storage pool.
I have everything backed up and can still access the drives in Explorer as well as the DSM software but I can't appear to do anything else to fix it.
I don't stream anything locally and don't use Plex. It's just file storage for my own and my wife's businesses and somewhere to store family photos and videos taken before Google Photos.
So do I just replace the drives and move on or should I consider an upgrade to the NAS as well ? I always think I'd use the functionality a better NAS would provide (and I'd be looking at a DS220+) but I never seem to get around to it.
I wonder if replacing it all is the easiest as I can use the old as a "snapshot" whilst I can still access the NAS and the drives.