Which NAS?

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Hi,

I'm currently using a Thecus N1200 NAS. Generally it's fine, but i have 2 problems with it...

1) It's noisy!
2) It's connected via Gigabit Ethernet but the speeds are incredibly slow. (I've tried Jumbo Frames Disabled/4000/8000)

Now unless anyone knows the secret to getting decent read/write speeds with this NAS, can anyone suggest a decent NAS drive I could replace it with?

Ideally it would:

- be fast
- be quiet
- be able to download via torrent/FTP/HTTP/etc.
- not too big a footprint (ideally mounted on an edge)
- be fairly easy to use

What do most people have success with?
I remember hearing good things about Thecus, Qnap and Synology but i'm not sure what's best to go for?

Thanks.

 

[shaf]

Hi,

I recently purchased the Synology DS1511+ to replace my windows home server.

It's quiet.
It's fast, I get 90-100mb transfer speeds.
It has 5 bay.
The GUI is great.
Small footprint

It's expensive but worth it in my opinion.

 

[sedmonds]

Some of the higher-specced Synology devices are great, but can be expensive. I own a very old DS207 and the read & write speeds are pretty bad, wouldn't even saturate 100Mb connection let along the gigabit connection it has- I guess its down to the limited CPU/memory available on this one.

Personally, these days I use FreeNAS 8 on my own hardware (Intel E8500) with 8 gig RAM, I normally get around 400Mb/second and have installed my download applications.
Unfortunately this would most likely be a larger footprint to what you're requiring.