QNAP or Synology?

Pretty happy with my QNAP TS-453 Pro. Bought mainly so I could ditch my ESXi server at home, I now run all my VMs on the QNAP.

It also supports increasing the size/type of a RAID set drive by drive without wiping/recreating volumes and data.
 
GodAtum said:
Funny story, in the past i used a NAS with a UPS. When there was a power cut I tried to gracefully turn it off. But I found I had no way of accessing it as my desktops had all died :rolleyes:
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Sounds like when I first set up a UPS with network shutdown and forgot to make sure it was also powering the switch :D

Regards the original question, we use a old QNAP at work and, whilst it does the job fine, it's time to upgrade and I think I'm going Synology.
 
CGrieves said:
Pretty happy with my QNAP TS-453 Pro. Bought mainly so I could ditch my ESXi server at home, I now run all my VMs on the QNAP.

It also supports increasing the size/type of a RAID set drive by drive without wiping/recreating volumes and data.
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Qnap 451 owner here as well. I bought it because of it's HDMI out and 7.1 sound over HDMI and Kodi installed :)

I did have a Synology but their support has gone down hill.
 
Upgraded my 415+ to 8GB of RAM as Crashplan was eating into the 2GB. Not the easiest of jobs but if you're used to taking things apart then it's possible. Just be careful with the clips. :)
 
You can do it with Synology too, just use SHR (Synology Hybrid RAID). It allows you to mix/match different drive sizes, add more drives later, pull a drive out and replace it with a bigger one etc.
 
Reply is a bit late but my vote would be for QNAP, have used a few from each company and found the Qnap devices to be better.

But, for what you are doing I would consider an unraid server. It has come along way in the last year. It's easy to use and very adaptable.
 
Synology have had far more serious security threats and exploits than QNAP... some of the most major happened very recently... I mean for goodness sake their OS was so open as to allow malware to completely lock down all data until a user paid to unlock, ransomware at its worst http://www.pcworld.com/article/2926...s-in-its-networkattached-storage-devices.html

QNAP in comparison have had nothing so bad in recent memory, and full volume encryption is a MUC better securuity solution than mere folder-based with only a 10% reduction in performance on the later models like the TS-453 PRO.

I'm not going to argue that Synology's software is prettier and more user-freindly, but QNAP's is also very mature and usable, and the features for the money (better CPU, full volume encryption, HDMI) are simply better on the QNAP's imo.

CGrieves said:
Pretty happy with my QNAP TS-453 Pro. Bought mainly so I could ditch my ESXi server at home, I now run all my VMs on the QNAP.

It also supports increasing the size/type of a RAID set drive by drive without wiping/recreating volumes and data.
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I'm about to buy this too. I take it that it streams everything you throw at it (including 4k MKV rips) to the TV without breaking a sweat?
 
S2KIP said:
The security flaws have always been patched very quickly.

Look at online reviews of both systems, they speak for themselves.
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Of course, after the damage was done and Synology users had already been burned. And yes of course reviews are good, I never said they weren't, but reviews of generally don't mention such things.
 
Well from what I read it was all blown out of proportion, plus a lot of so called 'holes' were reported to Synology privately and they were fixed before the public knew.
 
I have a Synology, it's my second. My first one crashed during one of the synology updates and never booted up after that. Synology replaced it under warranty. I sold it as i was disappointed in how easy it was to brick and than a few month later bought another, but went for a single disk cheap one. It is NAS and backup duties only now.

I would not suggest a 4 disk version, data recovery from a 4 disk SHR volume is a bit of a pain :(

I would recommend two 2 disk versions though, but then over that I'd seriously consider a HP Microserver too. It's a lot more flexible, but it really comes down to how techy you want to get with it. The Synology is so so easy.

QNAP - i'd really like to try one day too... they have a very nice TB/NAS box now, just out of my toy price range :(

Nox
 
If you look at the specs of the current NAS, plus the upcoming specs of the Synology 416, the QNAP's blow them out of the water. The current best price/performance NAS is easily the QNAP TS-453 with quad core celeron and HDMI.

The Synology 415 and upcoming 416 are in comparison much weaker... the new 416Play has some 3rd party dual-core CPU from AnnaPurna (never heard of it) and only 1GB of RAM... the QNAP has 2GB RAM and is very easily upgradeable to 8GB for cheap... not to mention quad LAN ports. Synology has nothing in the price category that can compare to that.

While I accept that Synology's software may be more refined, QNAP's OS is also incredibly mature and constantly improved (full disk encryption for the win), and in the end I think hardware really plays a bigger role in NAS longevity when you have software that is already of a good standard. If Synology don't get their act together in their highly unimpressive hardware stakes they are going to find themselves trailing badly for the next couple of generations.

I'll be picking up a QNAP TS-453 Pro and 8GB of RAM very soon and I am sure it will stream everything I throw at it (who cares about 4k transcoding, really) and last me a good while.
 
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the QNAP does not have anything like SHR. This makes it easier to recover data but disk upgrades will need more thought and likely be more costly. (you'll need to update every disk at the same time for extra space)

kinda hoping QNAP will introduce something like that as an option one day. I've always thought of the QNAP as the more professional/business device, and the synology as more suited to a home user/semi-techy

Nox
 
It is surprising given that SHR is simply LVM2 + MDADM with a custom gui and controls that partition the HDDs effectively to add the different sizes up.. Given you can do this on normal Linux distro's, Synology won't have a patent at all for this.
 
I have to admit, I do love the ability to just upgrade the drives and mix/match in my Synology. Recently gone from 4x3TB drives to 3x6TB and 1 3TB drives. Got another 6TB arriving today and the upgrade process has literally been plug and play except pressing the 'repair' button within DSM.
 
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