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Been away from the NAS scence since dabbling with an LG nas a few years back, so looking to start again, small(ish) 2 bay NAS
Use is really only file storage, music shares for sonos, and streaming my movie collection to various devices, not too worried about transcoding, as I tend to store my films in something most of my devices can play.
Need to be able to sync with one drive, not too worried about resilience/redundancy, I’ll also be backing up to a separate DAS I have on my PC.
Kind of bouncing between the qnap and synology here, about to pull the trigger on the qnap as i can expand in the future with its addons, plus I can upgrade the ram if I need to, so feels more flexible.
The synology 218play, has a 64 bit processor, that’s a bit slower - so that’s made me think, is it that much better?
The 218 can allegedly transcode 4K, and while I won’t use it, it’s a nice to have for the same price as the qnap 231p2
I’m useless at deciding, can anyone tip me one way or the other?
Been away from the NAS scence since dabbling with an LG nas a few years back, so looking to start again, small(ish) 2 bay NAS
Use is really only file storage, music shares for sonos, and streaming my movie collection to various devices, not too worried about transcoding, as I tend to store my films in something most of my devices can play.
Need to be able to sync with one drive, not too worried about resilience/redundancy, I’ll also be backing up to a separate DAS I have on my PC.
Kind of bouncing between the qnap and synology here, about to pull the trigger on the qnap as i can expand in the future with its addons, plus I can upgrade the ram if I need to, so feels more flexible.
The synology 218play, has a 64 bit processor, that’s a bit slower - so that’s made me think, is it that much better?
The 218 can allegedly transcode 4K, and while I won’t use it, it’s a nice to have for the same price as the qnap 231p2
I’m useless at deciding, can anyone tip me one way or the other?