NAS suddenly broken column John Vanderaart

I have a QNAP NAS. A TS-699 Pro to be exact. One in which 6 hard drives can be placed. The thing is at least 10 years old and a certainty in my server rack. All these years I have used this NAS as the primary backup medium for what has been a coming and going of all kinds of web servers. At least once a month I checked the NAS, paying attention to firmware updates and the condition of the hard drives. I can tell you: “Always tip-top in order.” Recently I even managed to install a GitLab server on this QNAP and put all my repositories on it. “Also tip-top in order.” Only… This morning the NAS had given up the ghost. I could press the power button what I wanted: “Death.” And don’t let that happen. This specific type of NAS is (of course) no longer for sale. I’m not really interested in the NAS itself, I’m concerned with the data on the 24/7 hard drives configured with RAID5. I know a brilliant service technician from a white goods store here in Haarlem. I’ve already warmed him up for the job and he’s very curious. Me too!