Deciding Between Synology vs. QNAP

[thiggins]

Which article...
The OP & no other posts in this thread (that I can see) reference it.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-features/31592-deciding-between-synology-vs-qnap

 

[Scooterit]

Synology is great.
Stay away from Drobo...

 

[Kris404]

Synology is my personal preference. But 'Virtualization Station' may make me go QNAP next.

 

[wchpitt]

Tried and or Used all but Thecus

Tried the New ReadyNAS devices (terible UI)
Running Synology 1513 at the office
Running ReadyNAS Pro6 at home (OS4)
Have a QNAP TS-451 on my desk testing.
Buying a QNAP TS-653 with 8GB RAM to replace the ReadyNAS Pro6 as my primary home NAS (and will repurpose the old ReadyNAS as my backup)

My thoughts on the TS-451 and why I reached the decision I did here:
http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=19120

 

[htismaqe]

I went QNAP.

I did both online demos and didn't feel like there wasn't much disparity between the two. If anything, I probably would have given Synology a slight edge.

However, for what I wanted (single-bay diskless), QNAP simply had the better hardware. In particular, the QNAP had an eSATA interface and multiple USB3 interfaces.