I had bought Netgear WNDR4700 lured by it's single bay HDD an year back. It took me a while to realise that cut-copy-paste is pretty much all that I can do with the files. So I find myself excited to buy an actual NAS.
I'm from India and the top 3 brands (QNAP, Synology and Asustor) are not available. So ebay Global buy is the only option. Customs and shipping have led me to a weird conundrum.
My options:
2 bay
QNAP 251 : 464 USD
QNAP 251+ : 532 USD
Asustor 5002T : 460 USD (with 2 GB RAM)
4 bay
Asustor 5004T : 532 USD (new but open box)
My use:
I'm buying it to play with it mostly. HTTP downloads are something I'll be using a lot. I'm going to start to use Git for my hobby programming. I'll play with virtualization too (although I don't know how much I'd benefit out of it)
I'll not use RAID for now. I will put 1 HDD and 1 SSD lying around in my house.
About QNAP 251: QNAP software is supposedly better since they're a PRO in this business. NAS is relatively cheap. Build is plastic. White looks bad.
About QNAP 251+: A remote (a might not be using HDMI at the moment so not really useful at the moment). Quadcore CPU (Does it make a difference??), Black color but again plastic.
About 5002T: Cheapest with 2 GB RAM added. Asustor is new in the business. Strong metal build but is OS Reliable?
About 5004T: Why buy 251+ if I can get 4 bay at the same price? But is buying 4 bay a better deal than buying a more mature QNAP?
Also worth mentioning, I have windows phone so asustor have 0 apps on it. But that's fine if the browser would work. So how much do QTS and ADM depend on third party plugins? Do they work with MS Edge? Does QTM require Java enabled browser? I've heard asustor's file browser does require Java.
Can someone help me solve this? 4 bay looks tempting since I can buy HDD and put in without pulling the two I have out of the house. But..
This has driven me nuts.
I'm from India and the top 3 brands (QNAP, Synology and Asustor) are not available. So ebay Global buy is the only option. Customs and shipping have led me to a weird conundrum.
My options:
2 bay
QNAP 251 : 464 USD
QNAP 251+ : 532 USD
Asustor 5002T : 460 USD (with 2 GB RAM)
4 bay
Asustor 5004T : 532 USD (new but open box)
My use:
I'm buying it to play with it mostly. HTTP downloads are something I'll be using a lot. I'm going to start to use Git for my hobby programming. I'll play with virtualization too (although I don't know how much I'd benefit out of it)
I'll not use RAID for now. I will put 1 HDD and 1 SSD lying around in my house.
About QNAP 251: QNAP software is supposedly better since they're a PRO in this business. NAS is relatively cheap. Build is plastic. White looks bad.
About QNAP 251+: A remote (a might not be using HDMI at the moment so not really useful at the moment). Quadcore CPU (Does it make a difference??), Black color but again plastic.
About 5002T: Cheapest with 2 GB RAM added. Asustor is new in the business. Strong metal build but is OS Reliable?
About 5004T: Why buy 251+ if I can get 4 bay at the same price? But is buying 4 bay a better deal than buying a more mature QNAP?
Also worth mentioning, I have windows phone so asustor have 0 apps on it. But that's fine if the browser would work. So how much do QTS and ADM depend on third party plugins? Do they work with MS Edge? Does QTM require Java enabled browser? I've heard asustor's file browser does require Java.
Can someone help me solve this? 4 bay looks tempting since I can buy HDD and put in without pulling the two I have out of the house. But..
This has driven me nuts.
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