[Not Drama] What up nerds! Question.

So I have probably 12TB of work photos and videos and a few TB of other data that needs to be backed up.

I used to have everything on LaCie 2Big drives but got lazy and I’ve lost a lot of data due to drive failures. Also FW800 isn’t very fast anymore.

I have cloud storage for all of my mobile devices, but want something local to back up my computers and archives and will also be quick to retrieve.

I was thinking my best bet is a Synology setup, with the added benefit of being able to run my Homebridge on it too and free up the RaspberryPi it’s running on for other things (chip shortages has made them go from like $100 to $300).

I also want something relatively futureproof.

So I was thinking of this: https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS1621xs+

It’s around $1600 empty. I know there’s a cheaper version for around $900 less, but it only has 1gb Ethernet vs 10gb on this one.

Right now my house has an Eero 6 Pro Wifi6 network, with eight access points hardwired via Cat6. I get around 900mbs down anywhere in the house or yard. While the Eero system maxes out a a gigabit, I’m sure I’ll upgrade in the future or appreciate the benefit of having to be able to connect directly if I ever get a computer with more than a gigabit connection.

I guess my question is, does anyone have any other recommendations for this price range? Am I stupid to pay almost twice as much for the better hardware and connections vs the regular DS1621?