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Interested in CDers input, easier setup and UI, support from manufacturer, etc.
I'm thinking of installing a 4 bay NAS for the office. Coming down to QNAP or Synology.
Sheesh. Reviews on line.
They both get good enough reviews, until a guy looks at the negative reviews ranting about some feature failure.
I wonder if I really need 4GB memory for backing up and sharing and remotely accessing documents and photos?
I don't intend to transcode video.
I just got the QNAS T-328 a few months back. It's the smallest NAS to support Raid 5 and I have it configured with 3x8TB WD NAS drives. Works very well. Synology are also highly regarded, but in the end Woot were knocking out the 328 for $165 which is a heck of a deal....
I have been using Synology 218j for about a year. No issues, good selection of apps, probably more than most anyone will ever need.
I got a RAID-0 set up using 2x 8TB WD NAS drives that I got out of standalone WD NAS drive Best Buy had on promo for $179 which a small portion were using the highend WD NAS drives in them (Red/White label with 256MB buffer, etc.)
I don't use it to its full extend and I got the a little slower model because I knew I would not be streaming from it but the device is still pretty zippy. Works really well using remote access and file sharing.
I am very happy and would recommend Synology. No experience with the other brand but I would think it'd work fine. Boils down to the features you need, and overall cost.
I have a QNAP TS-212 that's been running flawlessly for over 5 years. You can't go wrong with either brand so just pick the one that looks the coolest or flip a coin.
I assume you know that with RAID-0, if one of those drives fails, all your data goes bye bye. Hopefully you're not storing anything important or if you are, you're doing regular backups?
I have a QNAP 4 bay (if not the exact model linked, very similar). It works fine for my amateur use (storing my 135k photos).
My colleague is a mechanical engineering contractor and works for himself. He has synology and swears by it. If I needed my NAS for something that paid the bills (like he does), I would go with the synology. I don't, so I'm happy saving a few bucks on the QNAP.
I assume you know that with RAID-0, if one of those drives fails, all your data goes bye bye. Hopefully you're not storing anything important or if you are, you're doing regular backups?
I was reading your post and going "What the heck is he talking about? It is Disk mirroring after all! Then I realized I wrote RAID-0 instead of RAID-1, which I believe these 2-drive units use as their default configuration.
Some days I am really out of it when typing here, especially if I am at work and putting in a quick post.
Typos is one thing but goofs like this is another...
Why a local NAS versus using cloud storage? Depending on how you use the data it could be very competitive cost wise - AWS, for example.
I use both.
If you retrieve it periodically, NAS is faster and convenient.
If you are just looking for cloud archival storage, a solution like Amazon Glacier is cheap insurance at $4 a terabyte. But it’s not meant to be real-time and there are retrieval costs.
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