TinCanFury
New Around Here
moving out of an apartment with housemates in with the girlfriend and need to pare down the media center servers to something that fits into our small condo space. Where I used to have a MythTV system and a DIY fileserver in the basement of the duplex, I'll be replacing with a Tivo Roamio (already purchased), and I'm now looking at a NAS. I'm looking for something that can run Sonarr/Couchpotato and a nzb downloader, can handle basic networked file needs, and something to take over Time Machine duties for our Mac's as we'll be using this to also replace my girlfriends older external storage devices, one use of which is for her Time Machine backups. I'm not too concerned with read/write speed as all the various devices seem to be more than enough for our needs. My concerns are more with being able to run the software on them and cost.
In doing some research I first discovered the Synology devices (specifically looking at the DS414J or DS414), which led to research on QNAP's offerings (specifically the TS-451), and now, most recently the Asustor devices. The Asustor offering seem a little more complex in making a decision on which model to get though.
My other option is to get the Mediasonic ProBox HF2-SU3S2, connect it to my router that is running OpenWRT, and get Sonarr, Couchpotato, and NZBGet running on it.
What I'm wondering is if there is any reason I should be wary of one of the Asustor devices that I'm looking at, AS-304T or AS-5004T, vs the Synology or QNAP? Also if anyone with experience running the programs I want to run on the NAS on their Asustor device can give me their thoughts?
thanks!
In doing some research I first discovered the Synology devices (specifically looking at the DS414J or DS414), which led to research on QNAP's offerings (specifically the TS-451), and now, most recently the Asustor devices. The Asustor offering seem a little more complex in making a decision on which model to get though.
My other option is to get the Mediasonic ProBox HF2-SU3S2, connect it to my router that is running OpenWRT, and get Sonarr, Couchpotato, and NZBGet running on it.
What I'm wondering is if there is any reason I should be wary of one of the Asustor devices that I'm looking at, AS-304T or AS-5004T, vs the Synology or QNAP? Also if anyone with experience running the programs I want to run on the NAS on their Asustor device can give me their thoughts?
thanks!