NAS vs. Microserver

[Prophet]

Went from HP microserver to synology 1813. The synology is amazing and no matter how much tinkering it won't be as good as the synology is. Great piece of kit.

And they are over £700, without disks... perspective is required here.

And then there is running the Synology OS on the MS... all the features at a fraction of the cost.

Very well put.

 

[Prophet]

Went from HP microserver to synology 1813. The synology is amazing and no matter how much tinkering it won't be as good as the synology is. Great piece of kit.

And they are over £700, without disks... perspective is required here.

And then there is running the Synology OS on the MS... all the features at a fraction of the cost.

Very well put.

 

[FrankJH]

So have Synology dropped the 3 year cut off for major version upgrades on DSM even when the hardware is more than capable of supporting it? If not I suspect the micro server owners will be having the last laugh, if you ask nicely they'll probably help you install a hacked DSM on your Synology product.

Personally I prefer un-raid, i've spent longer typing this on my phone than faffing with my un-raid installs over the last 2 years. It just works.

Interesting you mentioning Un-raid as Im personally thinking of moving away from it.

It was great when I first tried it (3 or 4 years ago), and now have just under 20TB of storage - but for me right now its a little too limitiing just having one parity / "raid" disk.

Thinking of going back to a decent 8 bay NAS with 5+TB disks and using the unraid as the backup until I can afford a 2nd NAS with same size disks.

While there isnt that much "upkeep" time on the unraid, there should be aboslutely zero on a NAS.


At this point of time I would personally find ony 4 hdd bays too limitiing - at least 8 for me at a minimum. You may well think you will never use that much storage, but in a few years time you may be regretting getting such a contrained chassis

 

[Euphoria]

Synology NAS's are a nice bit of kit and nice specs compared to the QNAPS, QNAPs seem to have gone extremely expensive for little. I would highly recommend if you do go NAS keep to the same company so you can swap out disks, upgrade with ease.

 

[Kreeeee]

I've gone from a server (essentially the same as a microserver) to a Synology NAS.

For me, Synology wins hands down.

Simplicity
Native NFS shares
Super low power usage
Native sql db

I found with a full blown server for my usage, I was fiddling too often.

Now I use my old server for about an hour a week to make a backup of my Synology

Absolutely no question, this.

I would never be without a Synology NAS.

 

[dhallam]

I have a N54L Hp Microserver and love it. Synology is excellent, but i am a server Administrator for my day job so had to go the server 2012 route on my microserver.

Ideally you need to look at you needs

Synology = excellent, stable and easy sharing
Microserver = Tech server for lots of extra features and playing about, but need config time and microsoft licences for server, or any free lynux flavour for free. Have also tested FreeNas in the early days but needed more

If you need any extra please ask
An also i run Media Browser Server which is super on all my HTPC's for your media

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

The HP Microserver is down to £120 now.
Glad I didn't buy it in March!