Hey everyone. I’m in a bit of a dilema here about the NAS mentioned in the title.

I’ve narrowed down my list to just two:

  • Synology DS1522+ and
  • QNAP TS-435XeU-4G

Why I like the desktop Synology?

  • 5 bays
  • 8 GB RAM
  • ECC RAM
  • (from what I heard) less noise, given it has bigger fans

Why I like the rackmount QNAP?

  • ARM CPU (slightly less power consumption)
  • 4 core CPU (vs. 2 on the Synology)
  • network!!! 2x 2.5 GbE, 2x 10 Gb SFP+
  • I could mount it nicely in the rack cabinet I’m building

Both units have similar price, similar power consumption, similar level of noise (please correct me if I’m wrong - this will be sitting in my living room for the foreseeable future).

Anything I am missing? What else should I consider to make an educated decision?

NOTE: I never owned a NAS, I don’t know the software specs on the two. I am a software engineer, so I like something allowing as much control as possible, running in a private subnet on my network.

  • dr100@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    What else should I consider to make an educated decision?

    At first what you want to do with them? Do you want blazing fast network access for video editing? Do you want to run a Plex server? Nextcloud? Synology Photos (or anything else Synology offers for sync or something else)? Or photoprism/immich or similar? And so on …

    • victorbarbu@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Video/photo editing + large file storage. I’d just be interested to mount it as file system on my UNIX systems and use it just like a big drive.

  • doodlebro@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    1522 all day. QNAP fell victim to multiple ransomware attacks in recent years. They have a lot of work to do to build back trust.