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Hello Folks,
I'm planning to step into the world of NAS for home use. It would be employed to:
So far I've narrowed my search to using either QNAP or Synology twin-bay products, with WD Red drives (which I would buy separately, as I read that this saves a little money). So far so good, but now I'm struggling to pick one! I'm considering one from the following:
Having looked on the net, the two companies seem pretty similar in many respects - each run native apps in addition to certain 'favourites' such as Plex etc...
I'm reasonably competent (technically, at least) and would just like a little feedback from any experienced users, in terms of whether:
Best regards,
RoyM
I'm planning to step into the world of NAS for home use. It would be employed to:
- store photographs (174GB)
- store movies (155GB)
- store ebooks (10GB)
- store music (144GB)
- host a time machine backup from our home MAC
- host our iTunes library
- allow access for our TVs to stream any of the content over the network
- as (7) for our iPads
- provide automated backup via RAID 1
- external access to media, whilst I am travelling, although this is not that important
So far I've narrowed my search to using either QNAP or Synology twin-bay products, with WD Red drives (which I would buy separately, as I read that this saves a little money). So far so good, but now I'm struggling to pick one! I'm considering one from the following:
- Synology DS215+
- Synology DS216
- Synology DS215J
- QNAP TS251
- QNAP TS251C
- QNAP TS231+
- QNAP TS231
- QNAP TS212P
Having looked on the net, the two companies seem pretty similar in many respects - each run native apps in addition to certain 'favourites' such as Plex etc...
I'm reasonably competent (technically, at least) and would just like a little feedback from any experienced users, in terms of whether:
- I only really need the entry level product in each case
- any specific product has a better software environment for my needs
- either companies offerings has a better hardware configuration, for ease of drive swapping or upgrading etc.
Best regards,
RoyM