QUESTION: Did anyone buy one of those ASUSTOR RAID ARRAY boxes?
I added up the cost of the “12-bay” alone with RAM upgrade, M.2 upgrades, 12 NVME 4 TB chips… and I was up around $5000-$5500… my wife nearly had a cow when I suggested I’d like to replace my 2-bay Synology with it.
I guess I’m gonna upgrade to a Synology 5-bay box instead and re-use existing HDDs.
QUESTION: What kind of storage do YOU use… JBOD or RAID or local USB drives??
QUESTION: What do you use for backup? I have a friend who loves to tell me “RAID is not BACKUP”… so I finally got a huge external 3.5" HDD to “back the RAID ARRAY up” ever so often… which infuriates him… he’s a “tape backup guy” 
I should have asked – does anyone have a 5-8 bay Synology they want to sell ???
@jimdunn,
Curious, are you trying to run Virtualmin on this device?
(no, but that would be cool… : )
When I was replacing my aging Netgear NAS a few years back, I ultimately ended up building it myself.
Kept the drives but got everything else new.
Ended up just around $300 or so for the entire build.
I did do some rookie mistakes and don’t have enough SATA ports on my motherboard but apart from that I love it.
It uses a few more watts than a regular NAS but also much more capable (as it’s also part of my homelab cluster and for the NAS software itself I use TrueNAS virtualized).
I’d check this out before splurging thousands of hard earned dollars on Synology/QNAP whatever. 
8 Bay Synology in raid10 and a for back up Ill use a usb drive as its not something thats done every day.
Wow, impressive! I keep leaning toward an 8-bay… because I can’t find a bare 5-bay.