G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I'm looking at 4 bay nas' and I've got it narrowed down to a couple from synology and qnap. I'm having some issues with my freenas server so what I'm looking to do is have freenas back up to the new nas and the new nas back up all the pc in the house. I'm also thinking about getting a couple 2 bays nas from my parents houses,1 for mom and 1 for dad, and have their pc back up to them and then use them for off site for the most important files I have.i know pare likes synology and I'm kind of leaning that way but wanted your guys opinions,experiences. Google didn't really give me what I was looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brian B Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Adam. I have qnap453 pro and a qnap ts253 along with an old thecus 4 bay. I have upgraded both of the qnaps to 8gb of ram. All have 3gb western digital reds in them running raid5. I also have all the network interfaces hooked up and teamed for maximum throughput. The 453 runs plex and a few virtual machines along with being a file server. I rsync to the thecus. I really like the qnap apps and some of their features. The app on the iPad and the myqnapcloud access from anywhere is very handy if you don't have lots of network and port forwarding experience. Qnap also seems to be spending some energy on their firmware and apps. I was on a webinar the other day where they showed a new firmware plate that seemed to have some pretty good features. All in all....I like my qnaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Geoff Galley Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I have a Qnap 4 bay the documentation that comes with the Qnap system is a little to be desired, Some of the problems I had were to do with permissions, which is fine if you have has Nas's before or even worked with a version of Linux, other than that it's a great unit. I have had it for about a year now and it hasn't missed a beat. From what I can understand the Qnap is based on a Synology based unit. In Australia they are roughly the same price as each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Why not RYO and get more functionality? WHS2011 licenses can still be had and you can run any number of roles, including backup with BMR, bandwidth- and time-saving WSUS, and of course media streaming to any device with Plex or the built-in WMC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 Jason Marsh I got a whs2011 disk with my microserver when I won it. I don't really like windows and have multiple is machines. Samba is a little slower than I like so I have NFS shares. I know they can be set up with windows. I have freenas running and 98% of the timenits fine. Every now and then ibrun intonissues with it. I'm going to setup nas boxes at my parent's houses and need something that's basically plug and play. My dad lives close to me but driving 3 hours to my momsbto fix something simple isn't worth it. Plus I need it as simple as possible for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 TeamViewer gives you easy remote access and can also provide a VPN, over which their machines could backup to the server. Or you could use Crashplan to negate need for a NAS at the remote locations. Or if you go with Synology you can setup remote sync between NAS boxes to backup their backups to your backup server. Got backup? Actually, they don't need NAS at their location to sync data back to a Synology. Just need Synology's software on their systems. There's a hundred ways to skin this cat, but I'm just throwing ideas at the wall and seeing if anything sticks. I used to run a NAS for local backups and also as centralized storage for music and other streamy bits, in addition to having WAN access to my stuff when away. That worked ok, but after a while I wanted more bandwidth on the LAN and more functionality. That's when I built my WHS box. As I added roles I upgraded the CPU once, and can't complain about it one bit. If I had it to do over again, I'd have built it sooner and started out with a Core i3 instead of Pentium. You don't have to "like" M$ to enjoy the simplicity and reliability of WHS2011, and since you've got a license already you should give it a whirl. Anyways, where dows one win a Microserver? Home Server Show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Your post is two days old and I've seen it a handful of times, which makes it really odd that I just scanned the first line as I was scrolling and read "I'm looking at 4 bananas." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 Jason Marsh I got it off eBay with 8gb ram, two 500gb drives,1tb drive and a 1.5tb drive and whs2011 for around $300.also added a quad port Intel nic for teaming. Mainly just because and at $40,why pass it up. I installed it when I got the box but install was extremely slow and doing anything once it was installed tool forever. Maybe since its a dual core neo maybe. I had it a xen test box but it wouldn't ever finish installing. I have windows server 2012(r2) from school if I build a windows server. Personally my Ubuntu file server is an easier setup,from the CLI or GUI. The couple nas I've looked at I'm looking into have dual NICs so they can team. Also considering just building another server with an i3 and either giving them my current servers or getting a dual bay nas and use the crash plan plugins. I have no problem with using multiple servers but if something happens and I can't get to it right away it's easier to talk them through fixing than a server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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