2025-12-24 WE – my old DS1515+ lasted over 10 years from November 2015 till December 2025. It went through several support incidents, one warranty replacement and served amazingly well. Finally, on a Christmas eve, when we were on fasting in Canada I receive an email from Synology that communication with the unit is lost. Apparently, the electrical spice in the system killed the motherboard.
2025-12-29 MO – I opened a support ticket with Synology and they confirmed that if you can’t turn on the power, the unit is dead. I was able to use a broken transistor bypass truck (described here: Synology DS1515+ not powering on), but that only allowed to turn on the system a few minutes. I understood that I either need someone who can solder a replacement transistor, or I can just buy a new Synology.
2026-01-01 TH – I canceled the first order from 12-29 and re-ordered the DS1525+ from Amazon as price dropped from $913 to $799. In parallel, I was learning about the requirements and features. I continue to order memory (32GRB), Synology cache (400GB), UPS, external hard drive (20TB) for a backup. A cool total for everything was a few dollars short of $2000.
2026-01-07 WE – All the components eventually arrived by the evening, and I postponed the implementation till next morning so that not to turn sensitive equipment from the cold into a warm house air.
2026-01-08 TH – migration
7am – I moved all 5 disks from old unit into a new DS1525+ in the exact order and turned on the power,
8am – At 07:58 I heard the distinct “beep” and I can discover the unit in a ready to migrate status at this address:
http://synologynas:5000/web_index.html
After unit went through DSM update to the latest version, at 08:25 I can no longer connect to the unit. At 08:42 I was able to discover new Synology using find.synology.com address. I am now connects with my existing user and I can see all my data!
Next steps are a series of improvements and configurational changes:
– enable 2FA for better security
– my user can see their data after being 15 days down (from Dec 24)
– I record my S.N and my latest software version is DSM 7.3.2-86009
– enable UPS – no more spikes for this new expensive equipment
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