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BryzeyBryzey Member Posts: 260
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Hi All!

I am planning on getting a NAS for my birthday in a couple of months and am not to sure what to go for.

QNAP TS-220 2-Bay Turbo NAS [TS-220] - $259.00 : PC Case Gear

Synology DS213J 2 Bay NAS Server [DS213J] - $209.00 : PC Case Gear

They are the two options I am thinking and just putting 2 x 4tb drives in raid 1. That should be enough storage to keep me happy for a few years.

I plan to use it for storing and streaming all of my movies/TV shows/music to my TV and devices.

I also want to use it to backup all the devices on my home network.

Any thoughts or suggestions?
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  • Asif DaslAsif Dasl Member Posts: 2,116 ■■■■■■■■□□
    I vote for the QNAP, they have an awesome interface and they will be my next NAS, so I am a little biased!
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  • QHaloQHalo Member Posts: 1,488
    Flip a coin really. Both are great.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    HP Microserver + disks might give you more value for money. But I agree , both are great.
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  • TylerBarrettTylerBarrett Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    I've used the QNAP before. Awesome device for the price with a nice GUI. I'd buy one.
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  • CDRichardsCDRichards Member Posts: 84 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Currently have a HP Microserver N54L running the Synology OS (DSM - Xpenology), works great. Was wondering if there's a version of the QNAP OS / interface that would run on it? Would be nice to compare.

    As for the Synology interface, I have no complaints with it so far.
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  • JeanMJeanM Member Posts: 1,117
    I setup my own using asus mATX board , low power usage dual core celeron and 8 gigs of ram (overkill I know). Boots into unRAID (linux distro made for NAS) off usb and sata drives are used for data and parity.
    2015 goals - ccna voice / vmware vcp.
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  • CSCOnoobCSCOnoob Member Posts: 120
    Synology FTW!
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  • iBrokeITiBrokeIT Member Posts: 1,318 ■■■■■■■■■□
    I own a QNAP and love it
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  • gc8dc95gc8dc95 Member Posts: 206 ■■□□□□□□□□
    It depends on what you want...

    1) If you are looking for packaged solution....QNAP and Synology should both treat you well.
    2) If you are looking for something a bit more versatile...I would do a DIY NAS.

    For example.... My NAS
    -older dual core 3.0ghz intel
    -4gb ram
    -msi mobo that has 8 sata ports
    -4 gigabit NICs
    -FreeNAS 9.x
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  • gorebrushgorebrush Member Posts: 2,743 ■■■■■■■□□□
    I DIY'ed and highly recommend it.

    Mine's a powerful piece of kit though, I wanted to run VM's on it reliably...

    Intel i5 Haswell CPU 4570S
    16GB RAM
    4 x 2TB disks attached to HP SmartArray card
    4 NICs

    It's overkill for sure, but I'm never short of power. Idles at 60W too :)
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  • Cert PoorCert Poor Member Posts: 240 ■■■□□□□□□□
    DIY FreeNAS FTW. I'm learning so much about FreeBSD and ZFS in the process.
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  • DevilWAHDevilWAH Member Posts: 2,997 ■■■■■■■■□□
    I have a 1TB drive duct taped to a Raspberry Pi. :) not the most powerful NAS, but can stream to multiply clients at once, and can run any service I want like media server and Torrent client.

    Just need to get a Raid Array for it for redundency.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    DevilWAH wrote: »
    Just need to get a Raid Array for it for redundency.

    Connect two and use LVMs .. or

    RAID Pi – Raspberry Pi as a RAID file server

    :)
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  • tpatt100tpatt100 Member Posts: 2,991 ■■■■■■■■■□
    I just mirrored a couple of 2 TB drives in my Windows 8 box that I host files and video on at home.
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  • networkjutsunetworkjutsu Member Posts: 275 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Never used QNAP so I can't comment on that but I do love my Synology DS1812+. I've had it for over a year now and it's been great so far. Started with DIY NAS using Openfiler but at the time I couldn't figure out why my computer was rebooting by itself. When I turned that PC to be my main desktop I finally found the problem. Turned out I OC'd the RAM and it was causing instability.
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