Choosing a NAS: Synology DS-107+ or Qnap TS-109 Pro

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I've been looking into getting a NAS box for the house and I've seen there are quite a few boxes that include download services/bittorent clients so you don't have to leave the PC on any more. Obviously, I'd like to do my bit to protect the environment (and my bank balance...) by not leaving a juice-guzzling gaming rig switched on while I'm at work :)

I'm not really interested in raid, and I don't have much room left on my desk so I've narrowed it down to 2 products:

Synology DS-107+ or the Qnap TS-109 Pro

I'm leaning towards the Qnap because it consumes a lot less power than the Synology, but the Qnap is only passively cooled whereas the Synology has a fan and I'm wondering if it's taking a risk - anyone reckon the Qnap box runs the risk of toasting itself?

I'd be putting in a WD 300GB 7200 RPM disk.
 
Thanks for that :)

I suppose any research carried out by the own manufacturers company would show their products in a positive light, but I suppose it's reassuring - I can't imagine they'd release a product that would end up nuking itself.
 
Rereading your first post, one more thing, the qnap bittorrent client is not particularly good at the moment for downloading torrents with lots of files in them.
This is apparently being changed soon but the current beta firmware doesn't contain a new client so I've no idea of when this will be.
 
In the end I went with the Qnap - a truly superb device so far :)

The case gets warm to the touch but it's not what I'd call 'hot'. Installation was a piece of cake - although I'd better mention that you have to run the installer/config program as an administrator under Vista, else you get nowhere.

I installed the new 2.0 beta firmware and the torrent client now achieves speeds of 400k up from 30k :)
 
kkbigal said:
In the end I went with the Qnap - a truly superb device so far :)

The case gets warm to the touch but it's not what I'd call 'hot'. Installation was a piece of cake - although I'd better mention that you have to run the installer/config program as an administrator under Vista, else you get nowhere.

I installed the new 2.0 beta firmware and the torrent client now achieves speeds of 400k up from 30k :)
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Yeah the new 2.0.0 beta firmware is pretty good, nice to see SMART information in there now as well. Only problem I have now is that my 500gb 7200.11 won't spindown in standby.
 
friend of mine got the Qnap TS 209 Pro that takes the 2 Drives in RAID.

He was having problems with the twonky media part of it, turns out it was re-indexing the media database repeatedly untill it ran out of ram, and then started chomping through the physical disks untill it nuked itself and the only thing to do was nuke the array and rebuild

He sent it back to the retailer and the 2nd one did the same thing. It got referred back to Qnap in taiwan, anyway their support people were remoting onto his Qnap at 10pm at night there time trying to fix it !. They spent days looking at it till silly o clock for him and even sent an e-mail apologising for not being able to look at this disk 1 day due to a hurricane !!

after seveal weeks they found out what was causing it, and the Qnap guy entered the linnux part of the Qnap using SSH, and sorted it, then duely explained the fix incase he needed to repeat it.

Qnap's support was nothing short of excellent.
 
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