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My Storage and Server Hardware

This page is all about my current home set up, and will be updated as I make changes. Got a couple of new builds I will do some write ups shortly! The main news is that I no longer have any Synology hardware!

Retired Hardware

As time moves on and I get the itch to upgrade I am keeping a bit of a log of the various Storage and “Server” hardware I have used..These are in order of when they were retired from use.

  • Synology 1821+ (Main storage retired 2025)
  • NUC 11 (Plex Server retired 2025)
  • NUC 8 (Plex Server retired 2024)
  • NUC 7 (Plex Server retired 2021)
  • Synology 1815+ (Main and backup storage retired 2023)
  • Netgear ReadyNAS (Used for Hard Drive Mining retired 2022)
  • WD Sentinel DS5100 (Used for Hard Drive Mining retired 2022)
  • Synology 412+ (Main storage retired 2015)
  • Synology 212+ (Retired 2014)
  • Synology 209J (First Syno Retired 2012)

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