NAS for 'Dummies'

[gnomus]

I have been using a QNAP 210 NAS for a while. This device seems to exist primarily as a vehicle for receiving firmware and other updates. Today, I have been compelled to update the firmware again because of an odd issue - I'm getting a message telling me that the licence for MinimServer expired on 30 June 2018. Any attempt to do anything about this led to the machine saying it needed to be shut down and rebooted.

So I set off on this tedious process .... It has just finished updating the firmware (which took another age) and now it needs to reboot again! In the meantime I am getting older and older. And I don't yet know if this will fix the issue.

It occurred to me that I have had the 210 for ~4 years. I wondered what was now considered 'state of the art' in terms of storage. My NAS does need to sit in my living room, so it needs to be fanless (hence the 210). But other than that I'll consider almost anything. My music library takes up the best part of 1.6TB.

It would be nice to have a device on which the MinimServer updates can happen all by themselves - without giving me the opportunity to mess things up.

Any suggestions?