Dead Synology DS1515+
So last March I purchased a Synology DS1515+ and wrote about it in one of my posts “Who Shall Control My Media? Part 4 - Backend Storage”and up until this weekend, it had been performing very well.
On Saturday we went to watch a video and after hitting “Play”, the indicator that it was loading just spun. Since playback is usually almost instantaneous, and we were spinning for about 10 seconds, I decided to make sure that everything was good with the network components. I looked in our little data closet and there were no lights on the Synology. I pushed the power button. Nothing. No flickering light, no beep, nothing. I didn’t really want to mess with it at that moment, so we just decided to watch something else on Netflix.
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