Yes, this NAS has dual-NICs, and yes, both of them decided to quit on the same day. More on that and the upcoming recovery in another post (at least the hard drives are still good)...
After a bit of research, a new NAS was selected, the Synology DS716+II:
After many years in RAID5, we are moving back to RAID1 (mirroring) using Seagate 8TB Ironwolf NAS SATA drives, with a local backup to a WD USB 8TB drive, as well as a cloud backup to Amazon (which is natively supported by the Synology). This will help keep the drive count down (as well as cost), will be easier to recover (if the chassis fails, only one drive to recover), and the local USB plus cloud backup should be more than ample for fault tolerance.
Setup went fine, and was fairly uneventful for out-of-the-box configuration. I will document the network configuration (link aggregation) as well as some Windows oddities in the next post.
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