QNAP 219P II vs Synology DS212 vs ReadyN0as Ultra 2?

[keyjey]

QNAP 219P II vs Synology DS212 vs ReadyN0as Ultra 2???

I am in the market shopping for NAS. My setup is below
1. Macbook air with limited space (128GB)
2. Windows laptop
3. PS3 for games and media streaming.

More than 2 TB of movies,music and photos. And photos I will be sharing with my family overseas. I also do a lot of streaming(netflix,hulu,vudu etc) and also need a space to save all my data.

Options I have
Netgear ReadyNas Ultra 2 - Intel single atom,1 GB ram, USB 3.0
QNAP 219P II - Marvell 2.0 ghz,512 mb ram, USB 3.0
Synology DS212 - Marvell 1.6 ghz, 256 mb ram, USB 3.0

Tried demo for all the above 3. Synology>QNAP>ReadyNas. But hardware wise its just the opposite.

What I am looking for is (preference in same order) - performance,feature,support

Again,mostly I will be using the NAS for downloading and streaming media. Any thoughts on performance of the above 3? Thanks,

 

[keyjey]

Guys,any help will be appreciated. Unable to make a decision

 

[stevech]

I scrutinized the two drive NASes in depth, on line demos from vendors. I quickly eliminated Netgear. Later, I chose Synology (DS212), largely due to USB3 and their DSM software. I've been very pleased. Sounds like you may want a step up, but DSM is the same.
Be sure to consider how you're going to back up this multi-Terabyte NAS (RAID is not a backup). That's why I chose USB3 and to use two independent 2TB volumes/drives. Worst case, this USB3 drive, being NTFS formatted, will read on Windows.

 

[keyjey]

I scrutinized the two drive NASes in depth, on line demos from vendors. I quickly eliminated Netgear. Later, I chose Synology (DS212), largely due to USB3 and their DSM software. I've been very pleased. Sounds like you may want a step up, but DSM is the same.
Be sure to consider how you're going to back up this multi-Terabyte NAS (RAID is not a backup). That's why I chose USB3 and to use two independent 2TB volumes/drives. Worst case, this USB3 drive, being NTFS formatted, will read on Windows.

I eliminated Readynas as well, there software is too outdated compare to QNAP and Synology. Now comes to QNAP 219P II and Synology 212. Latter has got an awsome software, compliments my Mac. But QNAP has a superior hardware more or less. Better processor,more RAM, eSATA. Both got USB 3.0. Tough call

 

[stevech]

I opt'd for DSM from Syology as my own judgement was that it was significantly better. But it is a close call.
A NAS doesn't take a great deal of CPU speed and RAM. I chose 1.6GHz or more in case I started using the web server in the NAS - that might take a bit more CPU for fast responses. But so far, I've not put content on it to serve out to the Internet to replace a web server I already had.

 

[keyjey]

Thanks much. Another option is Synology DS212+ which looks exactly same as QNAP 219P II hardware wise. Though its bit higher on price ~400

 

[stevech]

Thanks much. Another option is Synology DS212+ which looks exactly same as QNAP 219P II hardware wise. Though its bit higher on price ~400

Yeah, that was more than I wanted to spend. And I decided I didn't need that much CPU speed.