Well, this was a pretty myopic decision. You can't ever buy a NAS without having complete flexibility in drives, both in the short and long term, because the c

Well, this was a pretty myopic decision. You can't ever buy a NAS without having complete flexibility in drives, both in the short and long term, because the claims of hard drive manufacturers can't ever be trusted until verified individually, per drive model.. Western Digital lied about their drives having SMR instead of CMR as their RED drives were marketed for NAS usage: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-class-action-lawsuit-smr-hard-drive-us-canada https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-class-action-lawsuit-sm... Add to that how one model of a hard drive from a manufacturer will be invincible, while another model next to it will have huge issues. https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive-test-data https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive... I hear Synology has nice gear, it has always been pretty nice when I interacted with it. I own a different brand just through deciding to have a NAS with more flexibility that I could grow into if I wanted.