QNAP 659 or a Synology 1010+

[ric9887]

Im in the boat of working out which to buy. A QNAP 659 or a Synology 1010+.

I want to the device to do the following :-
Have 6 Drive Bays, 3 of which I will occupy with a RAID 5 set of 3 x WD20ERS or WD20EDS drives - I dont know if there are advantages or disadvantages of these drives with these NAS devices.
I want iSCSI support to present LUNs to a Vmware Server.
I want SMB file sharing.
I want to run a DNLA/uPnP streaming server application.

At the moment, the 1010 looks good as I can add another drive chassis to it to increase from 5 drives to 10. I can then add in all my unused drives when they are free'd up. The 659 also looks good, and from the little I've read, sounds good, it will have 3 unoccupied slots and I can then add my spare drives to that.

I understand I could build a server to do this function, and have the free Openfiler running atm which performs iSCSI / SMB functions, but I have it running as a VM right now, and would like to pull all the drives away from my VMware server and link them via iSCSI.

What to do? - read more forum posts I guess...

 

[thiggins]

The 1010+ expansion chassis is pretty expensive.

Be sure the drives you use are on the approved drive list for both NASes.

iSCSI isn't going to give you the performance you'll get from local drives.

 

[kokacawa]

Cost per drive

Seems to me that the cost per drive bay is measurably cheaper with the 1010+ at about $150 each compared to about $170 or more per bay (over $190 at amazon). Plus, the extra expansion capability is pretty convenient.

 

[thiggins]

Seems to me that the cost per drive bay is measurably cheaper with the 1010+ at about $150 each compared to about $170 or more per bay (over $190 at amazon). Plus, the extra expansion capability is pretty convenient.

Sorry, I'm not following you. You're comparing the DX510 with what?

 

[kokacawa]

Sorry for not being more precise. I should have specified that the combination of the 1010+ and the expansion together come out cheaper per drive bay compared to the 659 as best I can tell.

 

[thiggins]

Sorry for not being more precise. I should have specified that the combination of the 1010+ and the expansion together come out cheaper per drive bay compared to the 659 as best I can tell.

Ah. Thanks.
The thing to be careful of is the single eSATA channel to connect the expansion cabinet. I suspect a throughput bottleneck there and am still waiting for Synology to send a DX510 so that I can test.