Hi everyone, I’m looking to see if I could get some suggestions or recommendations on an upgrade path for my NAS in my current home environment. I’m also unsure if this is the best place to ask, so please let me know if this question doesn’t fit in here.

My setup isn’t too sophisticated at the moment. I had purchased a QNAP TS-453A back in February of 2017 and have it loaded with four WD Red 8TB (WD80EFZX-68UW8N0) configured in RAID 5. It is solely dedicated to storage and nothing else; with the bulk of it used for media archive. It has proved a shockingly reliable little device. I have a headless Intel NUC6i7KYK that is dedicated to running a majority of the self hosted services I use.

In the next year I’d like to expand my network storage and initially I had planned on simply purchasing replacement Exos X18’s and go through the drive swap process but upon further thought, I figured I’d like to purchase an additional NAS and use my current one as a backup solution. I’m not particularly locked in to staying with QNAP and so any recommendations would be welcome. Admittedly, I have been looking at the TS-932PX-4G as I’m interested in adding in SSD caching to the array.

At any rate, thanks for any help or suggestions you may be able to provide! Or, if you can point me to a more appropriate place for this sort of question, I would also greatly appreciate it.