[Discuss] DIY NAS

[Daniel Barrett]

Matthew Kowalski <matt.kowalski at gmail.com> wrote:
>I've had success with the Synology DS1511+ units in the past....

When you say "success," do you mean your Synology has successfully
recovered from RAID drive failures?

My 5-drive Synology DS508 had a single drive failure last week, its first
in 4 years, and it took everything down with it. The RAID5 volume stayed in
a crashed state, even after replacing the bad drive and SMART-testing all
drives. Synology support was no help, except to tell me to use the "reset
to factory defaults" feature. I did so, and it turned the DS508 into an
expensive brick, unable to be accessed at all. Very disappointing....

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Dan Barrett
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