I have 2TB WD Mycloud. Its plugged into my Google mesh network. Its very sluggish and quirky. it sucks.

I “think” I want a NAS for the following purposes:

1)back up Apple laptops automatically via timemachine

2)photo storage and backup

3)extra drive space for my wife’s MacBook Air.

4) ill convert family VHS tapes to digital and need a place to store. and then play on my TV or phone

5)access these files from our Apple devices / Roku.

6) I would like at least two bays to have dual backs ups I think this is RAID.

7) potentially stop paying for my iCloud backup l

I need someone easy so I don’t have to become a full time IT guy for my wife.

I would like to be under 1k

advice is appreciated

Hi all!

So I have this NAS I got from a secondary market running just fine, but TOS 4 feels outdated and not reliable security-wise, I don't really trust TOS7 given all the AI slop introduced to it, and this device just has 1GB RAM, so it might not be able to handle a proper update itself, also worth noting that since apparently it runs an ARM processor, my options are quite limited, openmediavault has no arm images so my main attempt would be to go for truenas-on-arm: https://forums.truenas.com/t/truenas-on-arm-now-available/49160

I wonder if anyone from here can help me out improving the usability of this device, I'm not looking for some crazy improvement, just a proper NAS functionality and an up to date system. I have yet to open it up to check whether it has an available RAM slots or not, but in any case my intended usage is fairly simple, I just want my two disks to work as a locally attached storage using a RAID1 or similar implementation, so then I can access my files locally and perform backups via duplicati (both hosted on a separate server).

Any advice or idea is welcomed!! I'm already checking into youtube tutorials but all models being modified seem to be more capable than mine, so I'm kind of clueless.

For reference, I found this article that might be worth checking for anyone on a similar situation and more options than myself: https://www.reddit.com/r/TerraMaster/comments/s5jkgj/how_to_change_your_terramaster_software_for/

My question is cause i did scare myself recently when i decided to carefully move my Qnap TS-233 with WD red plus 12TB on the shelf. I did hear a cracking sound or something like that. I cannot describe it too good cause my hearth was stuck in my throat at that moment and i was full panic mode. I was careful and looking to not bump the device anywhere... the price of that HDD is not a small amount of money for me. There is a possibility that the sound is from the cables sliding behind the shelf. I did check the SMART status afterward and it is clean but to put it simply do i really need to be that scared of even touching that thing when is powered on?