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So I have alot of data that I save, mainly on DVDS, Bluray right now and I want to have it on my home network/ Obviously, when it comes to anything like this I am use to stuff at work, such as NetApp and carving out spaces to run 100's and 1000's of VM's......

I want something for my files at home, as well as transcoding videos to watch.
The main files I am backing up are, pictures (son plays alot of sports), music, movies, data backups of my home machine, laptop, and two other machines I have here locally.
I am really unsure which route to go.

Everytime I look at QNAP, I see something I don't like and go look at Synology. LOL....

I do know I want the following.
A min of 4 drives.
4k transcoding
Ability to create VM's etc....

The following I have in mind are
QNAP - TS-x53A
QNAP - TS-653A
Synology DS1515+
Synology DS918+

Thanks yall !!
 
what ever you pick, make sure you backup the NAS data on independent drives, preferably automatically. RAID is not a backup strategy.
 
what ever you pick, make sure you backup the NAS data on independent drives, preferably automatically. RAID is not a backup strategy.

@degrub totally agree with you, I've been doing this a while in the govt sector that if someone believes raid is a backup strategy they are going to find out the hard way.. LOL

Thanks ! I look forward to hearing back from others on this
 
just looking for some good quality opinions still... still torn between a few of these.. any help is more than appreciated !!
 
Synology likely has a better software package, but it depends on what you need. Read the posts in the Synology and QNAP forums for issues.

Otherwise, look for price or flip a coin.
 

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