Im currently looking at a new year tidy up and sorting out my storage once and for all.
I currently run WHS 2011 with extra raid cards and 2 additional PSU's to power all my drives, under my desk is a mess right now.
I want a NAS to store photo's (600GB) music (7TB) TV (6TB) Films (14TB).
Initially I was looking at the Synology DS1815+ but I have seen some very good reviews for the QNAP TS-853 Pro so Im stuck in the QNAP vs Synology debate now and I saw Anandtech mention the QNAP solution for media transcoding as it is hardware based.
What Id like my NAS to do
WHS can't handle more than 1 person streaming a movie at the same time, it hammers the disks, Im presuming because of JBOD so that is a key consideration for any solution I buy, bandwidth is not an issue, more than one user being able to watch a movie at the same time is key.
Being able to FTP files onto my NAS from external locations is important.
I never have, but maybe running a VM would be good, purely for experimentation/learning
I host a wordpress blog on my WHS server, I know I can continue to with sinology, but QNAP seems a bit more limited? How is QNAP for hosting simple websites?
My current set up hosts my photo's for lightroom, Id like this to continue.
Has or is QNAP catching up now as diskstation 5.1 is getting great reviews, what is the day to day usability of QTS 4.1???
Hardware media transcoding, as far as Im aware, Ive never needed it? How useful is it?
Synology have their own RAID solution which looks good, does QNAP have the same?
Thanks in advance
I currently run WHS 2011 with extra raid cards and 2 additional PSU's to power all my drives, under my desk is a mess right now.
I want a NAS to store photo's (600GB) music (7TB) TV (6TB) Films (14TB).
Initially I was looking at the Synology DS1815+ but I have seen some very good reviews for the QNAP TS-853 Pro so Im stuck in the QNAP vs Synology debate now and I saw Anandtech mention the QNAP solution for media transcoding as it is hardware based.
What Id like my NAS to do
WHS can't handle more than 1 person streaming a movie at the same time, it hammers the disks, Im presuming because of JBOD so that is a key consideration for any solution I buy, bandwidth is not an issue, more than one user being able to watch a movie at the same time is key.
Being able to FTP files onto my NAS from external locations is important.
I never have, but maybe running a VM would be good, purely for experimentation/learning
I host a wordpress blog on my WHS server, I know I can continue to with sinology, but QNAP seems a bit more limited? How is QNAP for hosting simple websites?
My current set up hosts my photo's for lightroom, Id like this to continue.
Has or is QNAP catching up now as diskstation 5.1 is getting great reviews, what is the day to day usability of QTS 4.1???
Hardware media transcoding, as far as Im aware, Ive never needed it? How useful is it?
Synology have their own RAID solution which looks good, does QNAP have the same?
Thanks in advance
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